From Germany’s new teenage hero to why time must watch for the EU. Your weekly round-up of offbeat tales from all over the world.
No leg to face on
Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma is not any shrinking violet.
However he acquired so carried away complaining to the referee throughout Sunday’s crunch Nations League showdown with Germany that he left his objective broad open for Jamal Musiala to attain into an empty internet.
The weird fail value Italy a spot within the semi finals, and had hundreds of thousands of German followers toasting quick-thinking ball boy Noel Urbaniak who noticed the distracted keeper off his line.
The 15-year-old rapidly threw the ball to Joshua Kimmich for a nook, who handed to Musiala for a simple tap-in.
Donnarumma’s fury on the referee rapidly turned to embarrassment, together with his supervisor blasting a “lack of maturity”.
However the ball boy was hailed as “world-class and unbelievably sensible” by German supervisor Julian Nagelsmann. Kimmich even gave him the ball and his shirt after the match.
There’s a monster
A babysitter in Kansas attempting to reassure a toddler who thought “there was a monster beneath the mattress” discovered a person lurking there.
“When the sufferer tried to point out the kid there was nothing beneath the mattress, she got here face-to-face with a male suspect who was hiding there,” Barton County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
A 27-year-old suspect, who was barred from the handle by a restraining order, was arrested the subsequent day for battery and kidnapping.
One thing lacking
A United Airways pilot failed to hold out one quite essential pre-flight test earlier than taking off from Los Angeles to Shanghai. They forgot to pack their passport.
So the Boeing 787 with 270 individuals aboard needed to divert to San Francisco whereas the airline tried to seek out one other pilot with journey paperwork.
The airline lastly arrived in China the subsequent day, six hours late.
Not fairly legit
Former French president Niclolas Sarkozy has been accused of plenty of jiggery-pokery since he left workplace in 2012.
However at his newest graft trial, the place he’s accused of taking marketing campaign finance from former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi – a person Sarkozy later helped depose – issues acquired actually surreal.
Police burst into the courtroom to arrest a “faux lawyer” who had been attending the Paris trial for a minimum of two days after she was allegedly caught attempting to steal an actual lawyer’s robes.
French media stated the “lawyer” had beforehand turned up at different courts within the capital.
Sarkozy – who’s carrying an digital tag after being jailed for a yr in one other case – denies illegally accepting money from Kadhafi, saying, “You’ll by no means ever discover a single euro, a single Libyan cent, in my marketing campaign.”
No time to waste
With the clocks set to go ahead an hour in lots of nations on Sunday, Europe is inching in direction of an enormous time revolution.
The European Parliament has already voted to eliminate daylight saving – one of many few issues on which it agrees with US President Donald Trump – however the wheels of change flip slowly in Brussels.
The 27 EU member states must vote earlier than it comes again for remaining approval.
Irish lawmaker Sean Kelly stated “the time has come to say bye-bye” to shifting the clocks ahead in spring and again in autumn as a result of it’s “dangerous for human well being, dangerous for animals, dangerous for highway visitors…”
The Polish EU presidency stated it’s on board, however “because the clock is ticking, we are going to take our time to evaluate the scenario”.
Neighbours Lithuania are in a rush, nevertheless, with an official insisting it would waste no time to make the change a precedence when it takes the presidency… in 2027.
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By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse
