The great signifiers of spring: daffodils blooming, days lengthening, and Paris Saint-Germain embroiled in a sizeable crisis with the manager on the brink and the supporters tired of a bloated playing squad.
Russia has already accused the West of using its civilian space infrastructure to support the operations of the Ukrainian troops, including for combat strikes, and detecting the locations of Vladimir Putin's army and its movements.
The Austrian lender is now the most important Western bank in Russia, offering a lifeline to people and businesses there seeking to make international payments, but it is under growing pressure from Western officials and investors to quit.
Financial records appear to show shipments of laptops, mobile phones and microchips have been repeatedly sent from a business registered at the unassuming property in Enfield, North London, since Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine began last year.
Such has been PSG's direction since being bought by the Qataris over a decade ago, Ligue 1 has turned into something of a procession - certainly nothing for supporters or players alike to be enthused about.
NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen delivered a key message about the James Webb Space Telescope on Wednesday: It's going to deliver on its promise to see the universe in unprecedented depth and detail. Webb is already sending back proof of its prowess with a new alignment evaluation image that shows a gleaming star against a background of galaxies.
Since taking over the club at the outset of the 2011-12 season, Qatar Sports Investment (QSI) have overseen a transfer spend amounting to close to £1.5bn. The signings of Neymar and Mbappe caused great excitement at the time, but supporters this season have rounded on the wild spending.
They show that a large volume of high-end microchips, telecoms equipment and servers, which have the potential to support Russian infrastructure, have been shipped through other countries, largely China, avoiding sanctions.
ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) - Austria's government is monitoring the global banking turmoil although there are so far no signs of it spreading to the country's financial sector, Finance Minister Magnus Brunner said in an interview published on Saturday.
It's been a long road, and the image marks a triumphant milestone. "More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals," said Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Today we can say that design is going to deliver."
The star itself is beautiful to look at, but a highlight of the new image is the background and the array of galaxies and stars that appear there. It's a testament to the telescope's sensitivity that it can see so much in just this test image.
Webb is a complex beast. It uses 18 hexagonal mirror segments that had to be folded up for launch and then unfolded and aligned in space. We've been following the process and seeing increasingly sharper and more focused views of the telescope's target star leading up to this week's image release.
March 11 marked the completion of an alignment stage called "fine phasing." "At this key stage in the commissioning of Webb's Optical Telescope Element, every optical parameter that has been checked and tested is performing at, or above, expectations," NASA said.
There is no doubt that the club's production of youth talent has suffered as a result of their attempts at building a Champions League-winning team at the expense of a long-term project.
The ultras themselves have bemoaned as much this season.
The Argentine Messi has suffered a similar dip to Neymar. He was enjoying by far his best period in a PSG shirt prior to Qatar, scoring a goal every 138 minutes and grabbing a goal involvement (either a goal or assist) every 64 minutes.
Since the World Cup, those minutes have grown exponentially to 210 and 140.
Neymar's injury, suffered in a rousing comeback win against Lille in late February, did not help proceedings, but such has been the collapse in his stock among supporters that his absence was not mourned as one might expect.
And it turns out her day of fun in the sun, which included swimming, strolling and a relaxing massage, was just a warm up for another night behind the turntables as the guest DJ at the trendy LIV nightclub.
As pointed out by PSG's own supporters, the emphasis placed on winning the Champions League is such that when that does not transpire - and they have only ever once come close to realising that dream - the season feels as good as over.
The Webb team will take the telescope through more alignment steps over the next six weeks. The observatory will then go through a two-month process of preparing its science instruments before it's ready to tackle its mission in earnest. If all continues to go well, we could see Webb's first full-resolution imagery this summer.
Russia has already accused the West of using its civilian space infrastructure to support the operations of the Ukrainian troops, including for combat strikes, and detecting the locations of Vladimir Putin's army and its movements.
The Austrian lender is now the most important Western bank in Russia, offering a lifeline to people and businesses there seeking to make international payments, but it is under growing pressure from Western officials and investors to quit.
Financial records appear to show shipments of laptops, mobile phones and microchips have been repeatedly sent from a business registered at the unassuming property in Enfield, North London, since Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine began last year.
Such has been PSG's direction since being bought by the Qataris over a decade ago, Ligue 1 has turned into something of a procession - certainly nothing for supporters or players alike to be enthused about.
NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen delivered a key message about the James Webb Space Telescope on Wednesday: It's going to deliver on its promise to see the universe in unprecedented depth and detail. Webb is already sending back proof of its prowess with a new alignment evaluation image that shows a gleaming star against a background of galaxies.
Since taking over the club at the outset of the 2011-12 season, Qatar Sports Investment (QSI) have overseen a transfer spend amounting to close to £1.5bn. The signings of Neymar and Mbappe caused great excitement at the time, but supporters this season have rounded on the wild spending.
They show that a large volume of high-end microchips, telecoms equipment and servers, which have the potential to support Russian infrastructure, have been shipped through other countries, largely China, avoiding sanctions.
ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) - Austria's government is monitoring the global banking turmoil although there are so far no signs of it spreading to the country's financial sector, Finance Minister Magnus Brunner said in an interview published on Saturday.
It's been a long road, and the image marks a triumphant milestone. "More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals," said Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Today we can say that design is going to deliver."
The star itself is beautiful to look at, but a highlight of the new image is the background and the array of galaxies and stars that appear there. It's a testament to the telescope's sensitivity that it can see so much in just this test image.
Webb is a complex beast. It uses 18 hexagonal mirror segments that had to be folded up for launch and then unfolded and aligned in space. We've been following the process and seeing increasingly sharper and more focused views of the telescope's target star leading up to this week's image release.
March 11 marked the completion of an alignment stage called "fine phasing." "At this key stage in the commissioning of Webb's Optical Telescope Element, every optical parameter that has been checked and tested is performing at, or above, expectations," NASA said.
There is no doubt that the club's production of youth talent has suffered as a result of their attempts at building a Champions League-winning team at the expense of a long-term project.
The ultras themselves have bemoaned as much this season.
The Argentine Messi has suffered a similar dip to Neymar. He was enjoying by far his best period in a PSG shirt prior to Qatar, scoring a goal every 138 minutes and grabbing a goal involvement (either a goal or assist) every 64 minutes.
Since the World Cup, those minutes have grown exponentially to 210 and 140.
Neymar's injury, suffered in a rousing comeback win against Lille in late February, did not help proceedings, but such has been the collapse in his stock among supporters that his absence was not mourned as one might expect.
And it turns out her day of fun in the sun, which included swimming, strolling and a relaxing massage, was just a warm up for another night behind the turntables as the guest DJ at the trendy LIV nightclub.
As pointed out by PSG's own supporters, the emphasis placed on winning the Champions League is such that when that does not transpire - and they have only ever once come close to realising that dream - the season feels as good as over.
The Webb team will take the telescope through more alignment steps over the next six weeks. The observatory will then go through a two-month process of preparing its science instruments before it's ready to tackle its mission in earnest. If all continues to go well, we could see Webb's first full-resolution imagery this summer.