🇺🇸 A light passenger plane made an emergency landing on a busy Pennsylvania highway.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Beginning in the 1980s, the share of China's publications in the world's leading science journals grew from 0% to 32%.

At the same time, the US share dropped from 60% to 24%.

While the United States continues to lead in the field of medicine, China's best domains are applied physics and chemistry.

🇺🇸 Sysco, America's infamous largest provider of food and other goods to restaurants and other foodservice providers, announced that it has a deal to acquire Restaurant Depot for $29.1 billion in cash and stock.

Restaurant Depot is a leading source of products for mostly independent restaurants and other businesses. It operates 166 large-format warehouse stores in 35 states that generate $16 billion in annual revenue.

The deal gives Sysco access to a crucial customer base of independent restaurants. Restaurant Depot serves about 725 000 such operators every year - representing a very big share of restaurants, who intentionally tried to avoid dealing with Sysco for years.

🇺🇸🇪🇸 African American tourist decided that celebrations of the Catholic holiday of Semana Santa in Spain were the Klan's rally.

🇪🇸🇺🇸 Spanish newspaper of record El Pais held a poll to identify world leaders who are seen as bigger global threats by residents of the country.

Donald Trump came first with 63% of respondents choosing him as 'a big threat', ahead of Vladimir Putin of Russia and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

🇮🇹 An Italian council has bought a villa where Benito Mussolini spent his summer holidays, partly to avoid the property falling into the hands of “fascist nostalgics”.

Daniela Angelini, the leftwing mayor of Riccione, a town close to Rimini along Italy’s Adriatic coast, said the acquisition of Villa Mussolini through an auction was “an act of love and vision” and that bringing it back into public hands was a victory for the entire town.

Riccione’s council had fended off competition from a private buyer who was a former member of the Italian Social Movement, the neofascist party founded in 1946 by Mussolini’s lingering supporters.

The villa has a long and, unsurprisingly, controversial history. Built steps away from the sea in 1893, it was bought by Mussolini’s second wife, Rachele, in 1934. The fascist dictator would arrive by seaplane and often used the villa for government business during his stays. The Mussolini family expanded the property to include a third floor, 20 rooms and a tennis court.

🇷🇺 Military contract enlistment for Russia’s war effort has fallen short of targets this year, prompting authorities to increase pressure on businesses and universities to supply recruits, according to the new report by the project “I Want to Live.”

The initiative said that 409,000 people are expected to be enlisted in 2026. However, recruitment has lagged behind projections: instead of the anticipated 1,100 to 1,150 contracts per day, the first three months of the year averaged just over 940. If the current pace continues, the shortfall could exceed 16 percent — or roughly 65,000 people.

In North Ossetia and Dagestan, less than 8 percent of the annual target has been met so far. Across North Caucasus, overall performance remains weak, with Chechnya accounting for a significant share of enlistments, in part by drawing recruits from other regions.

As interest in military service declines, the proportion of so-called “special contingents” - including convicts and debtors - has increased.

🇷🇺 A man recently sentenced to life in prison for the 2024 ISIS-organized Crocus City Hall terror attack in Moscow just committed suicide in own cell.

While medics arrived swiftly, they either failed or didn't try to do enough in order to save the inmate. He was ruled dead few hours later.

🇺🇸 In the Wisconsin Supreme Court election this Tuesday, voters will choose between liberal Chris Taylor and conservative Maria Lazar in the state’s third spring high court election in just four years.

But unlike the last election - which drew more than $100 million in spending and attracted major national attention - this year’s contest is barely even resonating with voters inside Wisconsin.

Statewide elections in Wisconsin have often been decided on razor-thin majorities in recent years. But liberal candidates have romped in the last three state Supreme Court races, taking control of the court in the process. It’s left Republican voters and donors in the state de-energized, some operatives say.

Then there’s the fact that, unlike last year, this election won’t immediately decide which party moves into a majority on the court. A conservative victory would merely keep the current 4-3 liberal majority from widening.

🇺🇸 Dean Roy, who is just 14 years of age, is running for governor in Vermont, which has no age restrictions for public office candidates.

Roy's platform focuses on affordability and smaller government in Vermont. He promises to lower taxes for families and small businesses, implement housing reform and reject incumbent Vermont Gov. Phil Scott's EV mandate, a policy to slash greenhouse emissions by requiring that 35% of vehicles delivered to car dealers in Vermont be zero emission.

Roy also promises "no new restrictions of any kind on guns, construction, or farming" in his platform, and emphasizes his focus on residents' "personal freedoms."

The teen is not running as a Democrat or Republican, but is launching a third-party candidacy as a member of the Liberty and Union Party.

🇪🇺🇨🇳 Share of Chinese cars among new cars sold in the EU reached 9.3%.

At the same time, in the United Kingdom, that figure became as high as 20.6%.

🇵🇦 Fuel tankers exploded near the crucial Panama Canal bridge, leading to it being temporarily closed.

Multiple people are injured. One individual is missing, meaning that he probably burnt to the extent it is hard to locate remains.

🇺🇸 The Michigan Wolverines won this year's NCAA Division I basketball title defeating Connecticut 69:63 in the final game.

Michigan have demonstrated extremely dominant play against all the major favorites, consecutively defeating each of them in play-offs.

The win ends the 26-year title drought for one of the strongest United States college basketball conferences, The Big Ten.

🇹🇷 Skilled Turkish cop armed with a gun demonstrates peak professionalism, proceeds to shoot leg of an ISIS militant, who tried to kill him using an assault rifle. Then eliminates the target.

🇬🇧 The UK's Department for Work and Pensions has paid out £850million in benefits to deceased individuals since 2021.

The payments stem from approximately 2.6 million separate errors, involving a combination of mental health support, unemployment benefits and the state pension.

Fewer than half of the overpayments have been recovered, raising concerns about the department’s ability to safeguard public funds.

🇪🇬 Italian energy giant ENI and Egypt have announced a significant natural gas discovery in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Preliminary estimates point to around 2 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Temsah field off Egypt's Mediterranean coast. ENI operates it with a 50% working interest alongside BP, which holds the remaining 50%, through their joint venture Petrobel.

The timing could hardly be more pressing. Egypt's natural gas supplies from Qatar and Israel have been severely disrupted since the Iran war escalated, forcing Cairo to introduce a raft of energy-saving measures - among them a business curfew, higher fuel prices and slower government spending.

🇬🇧🇨🇻 More than 1,700 Brits have now joined the legal action against travel company Tui after becoming ill while on holiday in the Cape Verde islands. Since 2022, Tui has taken more than one million holidaymakers to Cape Verde.

At least eight Britons have now died after holidays there in recent years. In February, UK health officials warned Britons over travel to the West African archipelago following reports of stomach bugs.

In February, an investigation by the UK Health Security Agency found that since October 2025, there had been 112 reported cases of shigella and 43 of salmonella linked to travel to Cape Verde.

Shigella and salmonella are gastrointestinal infections which can cause diarrhoea, stomach cramps and fever.

Lawyers say they have been gathering evidence of issues at some hotels in the country. Footage seen by the BBC and Sky News shows what appears to be undercooked food, buffets surrounded by flies and mould in rooms.

🇺🇸 A classified CIA technology called “Ghost Murmur” has come into focus after it was reportedly used to locate and rescue a downed US airman in Iran, according to the New York Post.

The system is designed to detect the faint electromagnetic signals generated by a human heartbeat, even across long distances.

It combines quantum magnetometry with artificial intelligence to isolate a person’s unique biological signal from environmental noise, making it possible to identify an individual in remote and hostile terrain.

The tool includes sensors built using microscopic defects in synthetic diamonds. These sensors can pick up extremely weak electromagnetic fields, such as those produced by the human heart.

US President Donald Trump later said the pilot was detected from “40 miles away,” while CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed that the agency had verified the airman’s survival before the rescue operation began.

🇺🇸 Republican Clay Fuller is projected to have won Georgia's runoff election to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a once-staunch ally of Donald Trump who resigned earlier this year after breaking with the president.

He is a Trump-endorsed candidate who won against Democrat Shawn Harris, and whose victory keeps the strongly conservative district in Republican hands.

The win shores up the party's razor-thin 217-214 majority in the House of Representatives.

Fuller, a lieutenant colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard, will serve out the rest of Greene's term, which ends next January.

Initially, a special election was held on 10 March where Harris performed marginally better than Fuller, in part because a crowded Republican field split the vote. No single candidate won a majority that night, requiring Tuesday's run off election.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Chevron now imports the equivalent of 250,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil per day, on average, says Andy Walz, president of downstream, midstream and chemicals at Chevron.

"We think we can take that up another 50% so call it somewhere around 350,000 to 400,000 barrels a day of just the Chevron share of our position in Venezuela."

What Walz means by the US's "position in Venezuela" is that while Chevron is the only US company that has extracting capabilities in the country, others are buying Venezuelan oil from domestic producers.

Chevron is also not the only player when it comes to oil refining in the US. There are 132 refineries in the US that run on a mix of crude oils. And nearly 70% of US refining capacity runs most efficiently with heavier crude.

The US imports very little oil from the Middle East, roughly 8% in 2025. The increase in imports from Venezuela means there is more oil available, which should translate to cheaper gasoline prices for US drivers.

🇬🇧🇺🇸 This summer's Wireless Festival has been cancelled after headliner Kanye West was blocked from coming to the UK.

The government refused permission for West to travel to the UK after backlash to his planned set at the London festival this summer.

In a statement, Wireless Festival said it was cancelled and refunds would be issued to all ticket holders. It added that "multiple stakeholders" had been consulted ahead of booking West, "and no concerns were highlighted at the time".

It continued: "Antisemitism in all its forms is abhorrent, and we recognise the real and personal impact these issues have had.

The government announced that the decision to refuse Kanye a permit to enter the United Kingdom was made on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the public good.

Visitors to the UK need an ETA if they do not need a visa for short stays of up to six months, or do not already have a UK immigration status.