😙🌕 Harry Kane, the first English player to win the Ballon d’Or since Michael Owen in 2001 — 25 years later, in London.
English players who won the Ballon d’Or:
Stanley Matthews, Bobby Charlton, Kevin Keegan (x2), Michael Owen, Harry Kane.
Australian MP Helen Haines has had both legs amputated after being deliberately hit twice by a car outside her office. A man is charged, as fears grow over rising threats against politicians.
Al Jazeera’s Julide Ayger reports.
« Je pense fondamentalement que le peuple français n'a pas voulu la mort du roi » — Emmanuel Macron
➡️ https://t.co/kGVUMPFuyG
Macron va écrire un livre appelé Révolution et en même temps déclarer : « La Terreur a creusé un vide émotionnel, imaginaire, collectif : le roi n'est plus là ! »
Ne ratez pas le dernier épisode de L’Empire n’a jamais pris fin, par Pacôme Thiellement.
À retrouver en intégralité sur la chaîne YouTube de Blast
🚨Speak the truth at Manchester United and you’re gone.
Sacked. Terminated. Pushed out.
Players and managers take the blame while the board escapes responsibility.
Enough is enough. Hold the board accountable!
🚨🚨 Michael CARRICK 🏴 interrogé sur les critiques de Bruno FERNANDES 🇵🇹 concernant les consignes de pressing 👇 :
🗣️ « Quel que soit le système que vous utilisez, quelles que soient les tactiques, SI VOUS NE COUREZ PAS, si vous ne courez pas vers l’avant et si vous ne revenez pas défendre, VOUS NE GAGNEREZ PAS. 😤❌
Je suis frustré. Plus que frustré. Pour être honnête, JE SUIS VRAIMENT EN COLÈRE. » 😡
🎥 @BeanymanSports
🚨🗣️ Bruno Fernandes calling out Carrick & the backroom staff: "It's a decision from the staff to not press man to man and sometimes leave space behind and try to get the ball, wait for them, but sometimes when you give space to these teams they get confidence."
🗣️ Bruno on whether he is saying Michael Carrick got his tactics wrong: "That's on the manager and staff to see, not me. Sometimes you have to be more brave under pressure, take the risk of pressing high and making them uncomfortable. As you saw with them [Como], the centre-back was coming to mark me in my own half. We need to do that as a team but we were unable to."
🗣️ Bruno: "A team that plays through the middle with small connections, if you give them too much time and space then they can hurt you out wide."
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
Please welcome Kate Scott & Thierry Henry, our 2026 Ballon d’Or masters of ceremonies! We’re already looking forward to seeing them share the stage next Monday in London! 🌕
Find more here: https://t.co/ODxSNKeuDj
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Thierry Henry co-hote de la cérémonie du Ballon d'Or > https://t.co/YlmdMQa6GK
La légende d'Arsenal Thierry Henry sera comme à la maison : l'ancien attaquant sera maître de cérémonie de la 70e édition du Ballon d'Or à Londres, lundi 26 octobre, accompagné de la présentatrice sportive Kate Scott.
The pilot of FlyDubai Flight 1073 speaks on the alleged cockpit attack by his co-pilot and how he averted tragedy as the plane plunged toward the ground.
https://t.co/7xTdaInHIP
Aucune place pour la violence dans notre République.
Ceux qui ont cassé, attaqué les préfectures comme les commerces, pillé jusqu’à nos mairies, seront poursuivis et punis.
Aux forces de l’ordre, garantes du droit à manifester, je dis le soutien de la Nation.
Nous ferons tous bloc face aux semeurs de chaos, qui ne cherchent qu’à abattre nos institutions et empêchent ceux qui expriment pacifiquement leurs revendications de le faire.
Ce retrait de la candidature de Macky Sall intervient samedi 17 octobre, au lendemain d'un vote indicatif où les sept candidats encore en lice ont tous reçu au moins un avis défavorable d'un membre permanent du Conseil de sécurité, l'équivalent d’un veto. https://t.co/i4ey7sNk4s
À l’issue du vote informel du 16 octobre 2026 pour l’élection au poste de Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, et après consultations avec Son Excellence Monsieur Evariste Ndayishimiye, Président de la République du Burundi, Président en exercice de l’Union Africaine, et Son Excellence Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, Président de la République du Sénégal, Président en exercice de la CEDEAO, j’ai décidé de retirer ma candidature audit poste (…).