Cristiano Ronaldo’s 97th minute penalty sent Real Madrid through to the Champions League semi-finals, crushing a devastated Juventus who fought back from their three-goal first leg deficit. 

A former Colombian rebel commander has been arrested on US drug-trafficking charges, in a shocking development that heaped more pressure on the stumbling peace process with the demobilized Farc guerrillas. 

Seuxis Hernández – a blind former peace negotiator better known by his alias Jesus Santrich – was detained early on Monday and awaits probable extradition to the United States, where prosecutors in New York accused him of conspiring to ship 10,000kg of cocaine.

 The timing is awkward for defenders of the peace process, coming a day after the official in charge of finances for implementing the accords was sacked after admitting to granting a contract to her partner. Prosecutors are currently investigating wider mishandling of funds, with 10 intermediaries suspected of embezzling money allocated for the peace process. 

Last month, the UNHCR said it was “more and more worried” about the rise in killings and threats against rights activists along Colombia’s Pacific coast.

Most victims belonged to Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups, it said.

Earlier this week, the defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said authorities are working to bring those responsible to justice.

Across the Americas, rights activists are being increasingly targeted, the UN has said.

Last year, three out of four recorded murders of human rights defenders worldwide took place in the Americas, it said.

Bike riders swarmed through rush hour traffic on Friday in protest against the ban and clashed with police who fired teargas.
Bogotá’s ban also applies only to men, leading some to worry that vulnerable women will now be drawn into street crime.

The city’s motorcyclists claim they are unfairly stigmatised. Many work as couriers and delivery, where narrow potholed streets and labyrinthine one-way systems often cause heavy traffic.

“Just because we have a bike doesn’t mean we are thieves,” one rider told the EFE news agency. “We work on our bikes and they are our livelihood.”

Despite the disruption, many Bogotanos sympathised with the protesters, blaming the rise in street muggings on poor policing. “Maybe if the police did their jobs we wouldn’t need stupid rules like this,” said Diego, an Uber driver.

Another larger rebel group, the Farc, demobilized under a 2016 peace deal with the government. It is now known as the Revolutionary Alternative Common Force political party. 

And she wasted no time in showing how determined she is to succeed inside the squared circle as she made Stephanie McMahon tap out to her excruciating arm bar submission hold.
“I’m absolutely ecstatic,” she said, speaking alongside Angle to WWE Network.

“After y wedding day, this is the most favourite day of my life I think,” she added before pausing to wipe away her tears of joy.

Angle, who famously won wrestling gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, believes Rousey will now go on to further success in the WWE.

“That was her first match and she blew the roof off the joint,” he said.