Monday, May 30, 2022

Chelsea soccer club sold for $3.2B US to consortium led by Dodgers part-owner

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The fast-tracked purchase of English soccer club Chelsea for $3.2 billion US — the highest price ever paid for a sports team — was completed Monday by a consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/todd-boehly-consortium-chelsea-sale-premier-league-1.6470875?cmp=rss

Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack

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A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mona-lisa-painting-cake-louvre-1.6470569?cmp=rss

Hopes dim for finding survivors of Nepal plane crash, 20 bodies recovered

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Hopes were fading in Nepal on Monday of finding any survivors among the 22 people aboard a small plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside a day earlier, officials said, with just two people still to be accounted for.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-plane-crash-1.6470589?cmp=rss