For now, Léon Marchand walks in relatively anonymity around campus at Arizona State. Come July, he'll be the face of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Stock markets are ending a strong quarter on the front foot, with the FTSE 100 index back near the 8000 threshold, despite tech disruption earlier today. JD Sports Fashion is among those reporting today, while the Lloyd’s of London insurance marketplace has posted the best results in its recent history. Today’s developments also include the funding crisis at Thames Water and confirmation that the UK entered recession at the end of 2023 with GDP figures unrevised.
Marking one year since the Wall Street Journal reporter was falsely detained, Justin Welby says: ‘Journalists around the world should be protected, free to hold people and power to account without fear of reprisal’