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Tamara Zidansek
personTamara Zidansek beat Paula Badosa 7-5 4-6 8-6 at Roland Garros. The unseeded Slovenian becomes the first player from Slovenia to reach a Grand Slam semi. She will face the winner of the second quarter-final between Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina and experienced Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
personAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat doubles partner Elena Rybakina 6-7 (2), 6-2, 9-7. The 31st-seeded Russian will make her debut in the final four of a Slam. Novak Djokovic faces Matteo Berrettini in the other semifinal.
Emmanuel Macron
personMan appeared to slap French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday. Incident drew widespread condemnations across the country's political spectrum. French media widely reported that the president had been slapped. His administration described the incident as an attempted slap.
FBI
organizationFBI and Australian officials developed an encrypted device company which eventually gave them access to hundreds of criminal networks. Authorities involved in the international operation said they've dealt a huge blow to organized crime. Hundreds of arrests have been made across 18 countries as part of the investigation.
E. Jean Carroll
personE. Jean Carroll, a veteran advice columnist for Elle, made the allegation against Donald Trump in New York Magazine in 2019. She claimed that in the mid-1990s he pushed her against the wall of a luxury department store and assaulted her. Trump denied the allegations and accused Carroll of lying to sell books.
Chris Harrison
personMultiple websites went down in a widespread internet outage Tuesday morning. Media critic Pozner repeated her conclusion that racism has been baked into the DNA of the franchise.
Ratko Mladic
personU.N. judges reject Ratko Mladic's appeals and affirm his life sentence. The outcome caps 25 years of trials at the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal. The 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed more than 100,000.
Max Verstappen
personSergio Perez wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix in two-lap shootout. Red Bull's Max Verstappen crashes out with five laps to go. Lewis Hamilton finishes 15th for first time in 2018. Sebastian Vettel finishes second for Aston Martin. Pierre Gasly brilliantly held off Charles Leclerc.
Jordan Henderson
personEngland beat Romania 1-0 at the Riverside on Sunday. Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the game. Dominic Calvert-Lewin won a penalty but had it taken off him by Jordan Henderson. Roy Keane does not believe Jordan Henderson will be fit for Euro 2020.
Coco Gauff
personCoco Gauff beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur 6-3 6-1 at the French Open. The 17-year-old is the youngest woman to reach this level since Nicole Vaidisova in 2006. She will face Czech Barbora Krejcikova in the quarter-finals.
Biogen
organizationU.S. regulators gave the green light to the drug known as aducanumab. The drug is the first ever that US regulators say can treat the underlying disease and its memory-robbing effects.
Jeff Bezos
personAmazon founder Jeff Bezos to fly on first crewed space flight. Bezos will join the winner of an auction for a seat on the first space flight from Blue Origin. The seat is currently priced at $2.8m (£2m) FTSE 100 index is up 20 points, or 0.3%, at 7089 points.
G7
organizationG7 countries can expect to count an average GDP shrinkage of 8.5% annually by 2050 if existing climate change trends continue. The Spectator warns that the G7 tax deal is an unworkable mess.
Nayib Bukele
personNo national government currently recognizes Bitcoin as legal tender. The rollout would be handled by the mobile payments app Strike. Remittances from Salvadorans working overseas represent a major chunk of the economy.
Meghan Markle
personMeghan Markle gave birth to a baby girl called Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor on Friday 4 June in California. Her Majesty and the royals tonight said they were "delighted" at the news. Ellen DeGeneres and William Shatner among those congratulating the parents.
Prince Harry
personRoyal expert Duncan Larcombe claims the name is a'major olive branch' to the Royals. Lili is Harry and Meghan's 11th great-grandchild. She is eighth in line to the throne, just behind big brother Archie.
Serena Williams
personSerena Williams beaten 6-3, 7-5 by Elena Rybakina in French Open fourth round. American will now face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for a place in the semi-finals. Williams' defeat came hours after Roger Federer withdrew from the tournament.
Sussexes
personThe Queen, Prince William, and Kate Middleton have congratulated Meghan and Harry on the birth of their daughter, Lilibet Diana. Princess Eugenie congratulated her "dear cousins" on Instagram. Prince Charles and Camilla also sent their well wishes to the Sussexes.
Joe Manchin
personSen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced his opposition to the For the People Act on Sunday. The bill would enshrine certain voting rights on a national level. Manchin also announced he will also oppose any efforts to reform or eliminate the filibuster.
Lewis Hamilton
personSergio Perez wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix for Red Bull. Sebastian Vettel finishes second for Aston Martin while Pierre Gasly takes third for AlphaTauri. Race was red-flagged five laps from the end after a tyre blowout. Mercedes failed to take advantage of Max Verstappen’s tyre failure.