FLIGHT DIVERSIONS – Four Luxair flights were diverted to Liège and Brussels yesterday due to heavy fog at Luxembourg’s Findel airport. Services from Paris, Rome, Naples, and Enfidha were affected, with further delays expected.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT – According to rescue services this morning, one person was injured yesterday in a collision between two cars between Schumannseck and Pommerloch.
SKIING ACCIDENT – A 16-year-old Luxembourgish skier has been injured in the Austrian Tyrol region after being pushed off a slope by unidentified individuals. The teenager broke through a fence and collided with a parked bus at the Söll ski resort on Saturday. Police are searching for those responsible.
JAPAN ELECTION – Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has secured a landslide election victory, with her ruling party projected to win a two-thirds majority in the lower house for the first time. The result gives Japan’s first female premier a strong mandate to pursue her conservative agenda.
JIMMY LAI SENTENCING – Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for foreign collusion and sedition, marking an end to a high-profile national security trial that sparked international condemnation.
UK RESIGNATION – The chief of staff to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. Morgan McSweeney said the decision to appoint Mandelson, who has links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was wrong.
AMERICAN FOOTBALL – The Seattle Seahawks have won the Super Bowl in San Francisco, defeating the New England Patriots 29-13. The victory was buoyed by a dominant defensive display, and kicker Jason Myers’ five field goals – the most ever by one player in a Super Bowl. Bad Bunny performed the half-time show, singing entirely in Spanish in a Super Bowl first.
ATHLETICS – Luxembourg’s Patricia Van der Weken clocked a season’s best 7.08 seconds over 60 metres at an international meeting in Metz, while Vera Bertemes-Hoffmann and Ruben Querinjean set new national records over 3,000 metres.
FOOTBALL – Bayern Munich thrashed ten-man Hoffenheim 5-1 to extend their Bundesliga lead over Dortmund to six points, Manchester City edged Liverpool 2-1, and Inter Milan cruised past Sassuolo 5-0.
OLYMPICS – Austria’s two-time Olympic champion Anna Gasser will attempt to make history in today’s women’s snowboard Big Air final in Milan-Cortina, bidding to become the first woman to win three consecutive Olympic golds in the event. New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, who won silver at Beijing 2022, is the favourite.
It’s a cold, foggy morning, followed by cloudy daylight hours and only slightly less freezing conditions. Temperatures start from -1 to 1°C this morning, rising only a little to 2–4°C in the afternoon.
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