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Jakub Mensik causes one of the biggest upsets of 2025, defeating former world number one Novak Djokovic in Florida.Czech teenager Jakub Mensik upset childhood idol Novak Djokovic in straight sets, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/4), both decided by tiebreaks, to win the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium. The 19-year-old, ranked 54th in the world, claimed his first title on the ATP Tour and denied Djokovic his 100th professional title. Djokovic, 37, had hoped to join Jimmy Connors (109) and Roger Federer (103) as the only men in the Open Era with 100 or more career titles but could not match…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Europe urgently needs to make its capital markets more attractive or risk having all its technology companies list on US stock markets, Sweden’s prime minister has warned.Ulf Kristersson was speaking after his country lost out on listings by a series of homegrown tech companies. Spotify, the music streaming service, listed in New York in 2018, while Klarna, the fintech pioneer, has chosen New York over Stockholm for its forthcoming IPO. Einride, a driverless truck start-up, is also looking at the US rather…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Billions of pounds will be at stake for banks this week as the UK’s highest court hears an appeal against a judgment that stunned car finance providers by ruling many of the commissions they paid to motor dealerships were unlawful.The Supreme Court hearing, which starts on Tuesday, has wide-ranging legal ramifications stretching beyond the auto market to many areas of consumer finance. Its outcome will determine whether lenders are flooded with consumer claims seeking vast sums in compensation.Last November, the Court of…

President Donald Trump said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to back out of a rare earth deal with the U.S., adding if he does that he is going to have “some problems.””I think Zelenskyy, by the way, he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal, and if he does that, he’s got some problems – big, big problems,” Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday. “We made a deal on rare earths, and now he’s saying, ‘well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal.’ He wants to be a…

Warning: This story contains disturbing details.A Honduran illegal alien accused of murdering a Georgia mother of five in a random attack earlier this month, faces additional charges including rape and necrophilia.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, has been the subject of a deportation order since July 2023.Earlier this month, he was charged with capital murder in the death of Camilia Williams, a 52-year-old mother of five and a grandmother. Her body was dumped in a wooded area in Cobb County, Georgia, authorities said.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RELEASED BY BIDEN ADMIN CHARGED WITH KILLING GEORGIA GRANDMOTHER IN RANDOM…

Can the Yankees win the World Series this year? | Breakfast Ball The New York Yankees are coming off a World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as losing Juan Soto in free agency. Craig Carton, Danny Parkins, Greg Jennings, and Yankees manager Aaron Boone discuss the expectations for the Yankees this year. Several New York Yankees used redesigned bats during the team’s season-opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers. The new design places the barrel closer to the hands instead of the more standard placement toward the end of the bat. Brewers closer Trevor Megill took issue with…

Bendigo’s Dyson Daniels has continued his outstanding season with Atlanta, setting a new franchise record for most steals in a single NBA season.

MANDALAY: Hopes were fading Monday (Mar 31) of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand. Rescue efforts were less active in the central Myanmar city of more than 1.7 million people early Monday, but conditions are difficult – with temperatures expected to reach around 40 degrees Celsius. The sticky heat has exhausted rescue workers and accelerated body decomposition, which could complicate identification. A desperate scene unfolded at a collapsed apartment block in Myanmar’s second biggest…

Quakers in Britain are reeling from what they say is an unheard-of violation of one of their places of worship by police officers who forced their way into a meeting house in London and arrested activists gathered there to plan Gaza war protests.“No one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory,” Paul Parker, the recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said in a statement issued after the raid.But on Thursday evening, the pacifist group said, more than 20 uniformed police officers, some armed with tasers, forced their way into the meeting house in Westminster, breaking open…

2/23: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” the president’s mission to shrink the federal workforce intensifies, and his foreign policy dealmaking reaches a critical juncture. We’ll speak with President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On