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by Al Jazeera Staff and Associated PressPublished July 2, 2026July 2, 2026The penalty awarded to the Senegal national team in the final minute of Wednesday’s game against Belgium caused a huge controversy, leading to the Senegal national team being eliminated from the last 32 of the 2026 World Cup. It was a tough turn for the Teranga Lions, who went from leading 2-0 to losing 3-2.Honduran referee Said Martínez awarded a penalty after the second period of extra time following a VAR review after Senegal’s Lamine Camara challenged Belgian captain Youri Tielemans, leveling the score at 2-2 and sending the…
File photo: Microsoft Commercial Operations CEO Judson Althoff appears during an interview in San Francisco, January 27, 2017.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesmicrosoft has invested $2.5 billion in a new group focused on helping clients adopt AI, becoming the latest technology company to commit significant resources to helping companies understand and adopt emerging artificial intelligence technologies. In the new venture, called Microsoft Frontier Co., the software vendor announced Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients in a practice known as forward deployment engineering. This department includes existing Microsoft FDEs, technical consultants, support staff, and sales representatives…
How can your team reach the finals and win the 2026 World Cup? Click here to find out.Who: Portugal vs CroatiaContent: 2026 FIFA World Cup – Round 32Location: Toronto Stadium, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWhen: Thursday 7pm (23:00 GMT)How to follow: Get everything ready on Al Jazeera Sports from 20:00 GMT before the live text commentary stream.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listPortugal will play Croatia in Toronto in what could be the last game of the World Cup career for either 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo or 40-year-old Luka Modric, his former Real Madrid teammate and veteran Croatian midfielder.Croatia once again showed…
What you do after a job interview can have just as much impact on a candidate as what you do during the interview.Sending a strong thank-you message and follow-up is “the difference between someone getting a job and someone not,” says Beth Hendler-Grant, founder of career coaching firm Next Great Step. The company has advised more than 1,000 college students and recent graduates about internships and early career employment.This post-interview diligence is especially important in today’s tough job market for entry-level workers, according to Hendler-Grant. Many employers are cutting back on entry-level hiring. The seasonally adjusted average employment rate for…
On Thursday, Microsoft announced a new operating business called the Microsoft Frontier company focused on using Microsoft’s existing AI tools to drive successful enterprise AI deployments. The project will be supported by a $2.5 billion investment from Microsoft and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. In a statement announcing the venture, Microsoft Commercial Business CEO Judson Althoff pushed back against the Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) label often applied to these ventures. “This goes beyond what we call forward-facing engineering and will be the largest, most capable, results-driven engineering organization in the industry,” Althoff wrote. Nevertheless, this venture bears striking similarities to…
The Tesla brand logo can be seen at the automaker’s location in Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany, near Munich on May 28, 2026. Matthias Bork | Picture Alliance | Getty Imagestesla Elon Musk’s automaker reported second-quarter vehicle deliveries and production levels that far exceeded Wall Street expectations, as it looks to recover from a year of declines in auto sales. The important numbers are:Total vehicle deliveries in the second quarter: 480,126 units Total vehicle production in the second quarter: 451,758 unitsAnalysts had expected deliveries to be around 406,600, according to Street Account consensus. Tesla’s internal consensus announced last week was for deliveries…
Isha Sesay’s Instagram profile describes her as a “proud mother,” a “CEO,” and an “award-winning journalist.” But Sesay said many people still primarily know her as “the CNN girl.” Mr. Sesay spent more than 13 years as a prominent anchor on the network’s international channels. While at CNN, she interviewed world leaders, celebrities, and media figures, including former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, actor Matt Damon, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. She left the network in 2018 without publicly explaining why, sparking years of speculation. “People still stop me on the street…When…
Germany lost to Paraguay this week, missing out on advancing to the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup for the third consecutive year.And once again, instead of diagnosing and treating the root cause of the failure, the four-time world champion turned to the now familiar response: finding a scapegoat.Eight years ago, media figures and politicians from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) focused on and criticized two players, Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan, after the team stumbled in the group stages and failed to defend their 2014 title.The pair had accepted an invitation to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed questions about the staggering sums reported in his massive 2025 financial disclosure, saying investment decisions are being made by outsiders who are only profiting from rising stock markets.”I don’t get involved in personal matters. We have money to run our money,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews before boarding a jumbo jet gifted by Qatar that was converted into Air Force One.President Trump has been asked what message the American people should receive from his very lucrative first year back in the White House.”Well, I made a lot of money before I became…
Beijing — The man who crashed a plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper last week was a 66-year-old local resident who had expressed suicidal thoughts, Chinese authorities said Thursday, amid intense speculation about the pilot’s identity and motives. The crash occurred Friday night, when the small plane bypassed the world’s toughest aviation regulations and crashed into the 109-story China Communications Tower that dominates the capital’s skyline, killing the pilot and injuring 13 others. The incident was heavily censored in China, and it took authorities almost a day to acknowledge the crash. On Thursday, authorities released new details about the person flying…