The Luis Rubiales case has dominated headlines around the world this week after the president of the Spanish Football Federation’s non-consensual kiss on national team player Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup. Rubiales has been suspended by FIFA while the case works its way through both the sports and criminal courts in Spain, with the soccer executive facing a possible charge of sexual aggression after the Public Prosecutor's Office opened a preliminary investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, Rubiales is refusing to resign from his position despite increasing calls for him to step down and protests in the streets over his conduct in Australia.
Elsewhere, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has updated its list of most-wanted fugitives in response to the fentanyl crisis sweeping the country. In a reflection of a new era in the war on drugs, the cartel capos that have traditionally been at the top of the DEA’s list of priorities have been replaced by the leaders of criminal organizations involved in the trafficking of the opioid.
Elon Musk has been causing a stir in his birthplace, South Africa, where the owner of X and Tesla has become embroiled in a debate over the use of an anti-apartheid song by political parties. Musk has accused the leftist party Economic Freedom Fighters, led by Julius Malema, of “openly pushing for genocide of white people” by using the song ‘Kill the Boer’ at rallies, despite a ruling by the Johannesburg Equality Court that it is not discriminatory and does not incite violence.
And finally, new research has led to the conclusion that the first device designed for breathing underwater predates Edmond Halley’s 1691 invention of an apparatus for diving by seven decades. According to experts, a copper plate recovered from the wreck of the Spanish galleon ‘Santa Margarita’ that was originally believed to have been used for cooking, is in fact the upper part of a diving bell used in a salvage operation to recover the wealth aboard ‘Santa Margarita’ launched by Francisco Núñez Melián in 1625, who may have commissioned the device for that purpose.
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