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Just over an hour before kick-off, the gates outside the Johan Cruyff Stadium open and a thousand fans rush in. Some rush to the turnstiles. Others wait patiently at merchandise stalls, eager to buy a shirt, a scarf, a commemorative trinket.The longest and most crowded line, however, forms outside a booth that offers fans the chance to take a photo with their heroes. Within a couple of minutes, it winds its way to the entrance, populated by doting parents and enthralled preteens hoping to get there in time.They came to see the most dominant women's soccer team on the planet. Barcelona Femení have been champions of Spain every year since 2019. They have not lost a league match since last May, a run in which eight of their players also lifted the Women's World Cup. On Saturday t...

In its lawsuit accusing Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, of being an illegal monopoly, the Justice Department drew on a series of internal communications that offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at the industry.The Justice Department argued in a sweeping complaint filed Thursday that the 2010 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster had harmed competition, hindered innovation and resulted in increased ticket prices and fees for consumers. He asked for the company to be dissolved.In response, Live Nation, which is also the world's largest concert promoter, said it was not a monopoly and denied it had unilateral power to raise prices. Contrary to the government's arguments about its great power, Live Nation says it now faces more competition than...

Egypt has agreed to allow the transfer of fuel and humanitarian aid from its territory to Gaza through Israel, the White House and the Egyptian presidency announced on Friday, reopening a vital channel for aid into the devastated Palestinian enclave.The agreement was reached on Friday during a phone call between President Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, according to the White House readout, which states that fuel and humanitarian aid will be able to enter Gaza through an Israeli canal. managed crossing, Kerem Shalom, which is located at the crossroads of Egypt, Gaza and Israel. For months, Kerem Shalom was one of two main crossings into Gaza through which desperately needed food, medicine and fuel could enter the enclave. The other, between Egypt and Rafah, Gaza's ...

Countries around the world have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unite the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, overcoming the nationalist ethos that emerged during Covid-19.The deliberations, which were expected to form a central point of the weekly meeting of the World Health Assembly starting Monday in Geneva, aimed to correct inequalities in access to vaccines and treatments between richer and poorer nations that have become evident during the Covid pandemic. .While much of the urgency around Covid has disappeared since treaty negotiations began two years ago, public health experts are still keenly aware of the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens, familiar threats such as avian influenza and disease, and once eradicated diseases s...

If all goes well, Bayer Leverkusen will end this season with one record, two trophies and only three disturbing existential questions. They will all return on Wednesday, to Dublin, to the Europa League final, and they will all take on exactly the same, disastrous form: what if?What if Exequiel Palacios had seen Ademola Lookman coming? What if Granit Xhaka hadn't given the ball away? What if Edmond Tapsoba had extended his leg? Could the final have been different? Could Leverkusen have recovered to beat Atalanta? Could Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso have led his team to an undefeated treble?Of course it's cruel that things go this way. After all, Leverkusen has lit up the European season like no other team. He won his first German championship, after 120 years of trying. Th...

Kabosu, a Shiba Inu whose “very wow” face helped launch one of the biggest memes of the last decade and inspired the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, died Friday. He was 18 years old.She "crossed the rainbow bridge" on Friday, her owner Atsuko Sato said on social media, adding that she died without pain and while Ms. Sato caressed her. She died at her home in Sakura, a city east of Tokyo, Ms. Sato said in an email Friday.In the Animal Hall of Fame, Kabosu's sudden rise from ordinary dog ​​to global meme can only be described as "astounding." Sent to an animal shelter with a group of other Shiba Inu dogs after her breeder went out of business, she was adopted in 2008 by Ms. Sato, a kindergarten teacher. Ms. Sato began posting photos of Kabosu enjoying life and playing at home on her blog.Bu...

For weeks, the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, Rafah, was one of the few places where desperate Gazans could find some aid and food. Bakeries sold bread; fuel powered generators; markets were open, if expensive.But since Israeli forces began an incursion in the city this month — effectively closing the two main crossings where aid enters — Rafah has become a place of fear and dwindling supplies. Bakeries have shuttered. So have malnutrition treatment centers. The price of the firewood that many people now use to cook has doubled. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers have grown so expensive that they are sold by the piece, not by the kilogram.Families hide what canned goods they still have. They eye their emptying sacks of flour, calculating how long they will last.“There’s always something miss...

A panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly Thursday that a new blood test to screen for colon and rectal cancers is safe and effective and that its benefits outweigh its risks.But the group warned that the blood test has limitations and added that they are supporting it with the hope that it will increase the abysmally low number of people who are routinely screened for this cancer.The FDA typically follows the advice of its expert committees.In the United States, about 150,000 people are diagnosed with colon and rectal cancers each year, and about 53,000 are expected to die this year. Most people screened for the disease receive a colonoscopy or stool test. The FDA approved these methods long ago, and research has shown they are more accurate than ...

Pope Francis has paved the way for an Italian teenager to become the first millennial saint by crediting him with a second miracle, the Vatican announced Thursday.The teenager, Carlo Acutis, is often called the patron saint of the Internet among Roman Catholics because of his computer skills, which he used to share his faith. He died of leukemia in 2006 when he was just 15 years old.Carlo was born in London to Italian parents and moved with his family to Milan when he was a child. His passion for Catholicism blossomed early, his mother, Antonia Acutis, told the New York Times in an interview in 2020. At age 7, he began attending daily Mass. His faith inspired his mother to rejoin the church, he said.He was called to serve, finding ways to help the less fortunate and donating to those wi...

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over claims it illegally maintained a monopoly in the live entertainment industry.In the lawsuit, which is joined by 29 states and the District of Columbia, the government accuses Live Nation of using its vast empire to dominate the industry by tying venues into exclusive ticketing contracts, pressuring artists to use its services and threatening its rivals with financial backing. remuneration.These tactics, the government claims, have resulted in increased ticket prices for consumers and stifled innovation and competition across the industry. The lawsuit asks the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to order "the divesti...