After trailing his brother Alex of Gresini Racing for a significant portion of the race, Ducati’s red-hot Marc Marquez finished in the top two once more, while Franco Morbidelli of VR46 Racing came in third.
Pole-sitter Marc held on to the top of the MotoGP riders’ championship standings with a 16-point lead over Alex in the season-opening Grand Prix in Thailand, having also won the weekend’s sprint.
After resuming his reign in Argentina for the first time since 2019, Marc, with the exception of one mistake, who made Alex move up, before the elder sibling ruthlessly won the title once more and never looked back.
The Marquez brothers have won the MotoGP twice in less than two weeks, despite not having two brothers finish first and second for 76 years.
The 32-year-old also won his 90th race victory on Sunday, matching Angel Nieto’s legendary victory, and the Spaniard wore a racing wreath with the words “Gracias Angel” pointing up the heavens.
“Super happy to have Angel Nieto as our hero because he was a champion.” Super significant for the Spanish motorcycle community, Marc declared.
“Today, I had a few issues with my confidence in the rear,” he said. Alex was advancing, and I could tell he was controlling the race.
I said, “OK, P2 today will be OK.” However, with the used tire, it eventually became better and better. Your brother won’t be as difficult to attack.
Francesco Bagnaia, the Italian who twice placed fourth, is currently 31 points adrift of his new teammate Marc Marquez.
For VR46 Racing, Fabio Di Giannantonio placed fifth.
The Americas MotoGP will take place in Austin, Texas on March 28 through March 30 as the next competition in the 22-round season.
On March 16, 2025, Ducati Lenovo’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez and BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP’s Spanish rider Alex Marquez celebrate taking home first and second places, respectively, at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit in Santiago del Estero.
St. Patrick’s Day, a global holiday rooted in Irish tradition, arrives in March with the vibrant greens of spring.
Historiography doesn’t much about St. Patrick despite his significant influence on Irish culture. Patrick, who was born Maewyn Succat in the fifth century, was completely different from Irish. He is thought to have been the son of a Roman-British official and was born in Wales.
When he was a teenager, he was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. He escaped and was brought back to Britain after six years of being imprisoned.
Later, Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary and tried to convert Irish pagans to Christianity. He came by the Latin name Patricius at this time.
By the tenth century, evidence of St. Patrick’s growing cult following was beginning to emerge in Ireland. His legacy was only officially recognized in the first half of the 17th century, though.
The Catholic Church successfully persuaded an Irish priest to designate March 17 as a day of St. Patrick’s Day.
The day was historically a solemn occasion in Ireland and closely related to religious observance. However, as the day progressed, it gradually became a lively, multicultural celebration, welcomed by Irish and non-Irish revelers alike.
Katie Price’s heartbreaking update on her mother’s health revealed that Amy is struggling with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and is unable to continue doing what she used to do. A source now says OK! that the 46-year-old has a special desire to marry boyfriend JJ Slater sooner than later due to her mother’s ongoing health issues.
Katie wants to marry JJ as soon as she can. Before it’s too late, her mother should accompany her at the wedding and walk her down the aisle. Katie has slowed everything down and panicked because of her poor health, they said. In 2017, Amy Price, the mother of Katie, her older brother Daniel, and her younger sister Sophie, was given the diagnosis of the lung condition IPF.
Amy, Katie’s mother, has the life-limiting lung condition IPS (INSTAGRAM).
Amy and the family share a very close relationship.
Amy was told at the time that she had only five years to live because of the illness, which causes scarring in the lungs and makes breathing more difficult. She now has both good and bad days, but she underwent a lung transplant in 2022 in the hopes of improving her condition. Katie has been dealing with the thought of losing her mother, which hasn’t been simple due to Amy’s illness.
Amy said in 2023, “I went into cardiac arrest and they had to “pump” me to bring me back,” recalling how she temporarily died on the operating table during her transplant. That’s something I didn’t know. Amy was asked how many times she died on her podcast, The Katie Price Show. Amy responded, “I believe it was only that once. I reportedly yelled, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, they’re killing me.”
People need to understand what my mother’s delicate health is like because her brain is still so active and activated, Katie said in a recent interview about her mother’s delicate health. She is frustrated because she is unable to perform the tasks she once did. Katie continued, “Now here’s an example, because I am a patient person, but when my mother teases me and says, “Let’s go look at the Isle of Wight, shall I take my walker or wheelchair,” in an interview with her podcast. and I say, “No, we’re taking your wheelchair because I’m not taking an hour.”
Amy, 73, who has appeared in several of the star’s reality TV shows and has served as her pillar of strength over the years, is a well-known figure in Katie’s close relationship with her. Katie’s romantic partners have reportedly been given the seal of approval by Amy, who has also been “ruthless” with Amy.
According to a source, Katie wants to “get married to JJ in a low-key affair” (PA) with JJ.
JJ rose to fame on the 2023 series of Married At First Sight UK, while Katie is well known for her modeling and TV appearances. When he began dating Ella Morgan, who had been matched with another groom on the show, he stirred up a conversation. However, after she contacted him on Instagram, their relationship ended. Later that year, JJ met Katie.
In December of that year, the two men began dating before declaring their romance. Katie has been married three times, being the mother of Harvey, 22, Junior, 19, Princess, 17, Jett, 11, and Bunny, 10, respectively. She wed Alex Reid in Las Vegas in 2010 and then Kieran Hayler in the Bahamas in 2013. She first tied the knot with Peter Andre in 2005. And she hasn’t made it known that she wants to re-do the aisle.
She declared, “I’d love to get married again!” in December of last year. Because JJ is so over the top, he hasn’t even put a ring on my finger yet. Time is getting shorter now, according to our source, as Katie watches her mother’s health decline. She wants her mother to see that she is content and show her that she has found a good partner, they say. Given that Katie would be Katie’s ninth child, JJ will need to come up with a creative proposal.
Carl Woods, Kris Boyson, and Leandro Penna were among her ex-partners. Katie has had her fair share of wedding extravagance, most notably wearing a £45, 000 dress to wed Peter Andre’s first wife in a lavish castle ceremony despite not having the ability to get married to those former lovers.
However, this time around, it will be a private gathering of close friends, our source claims, more so than the glitz and glamour of a lavish wedding. And their children, according to them, will also be playing a special part in the wedding. “Harvey will be very involved and probably a pageboy,” he said. He and JJ get along really well. A modest wedding won’t be a big deal. The size of her wedding will be significantly smaller than Peter’s wedding, which she did not.
She simply wants to avoid being a tourist and spending time with JJ. Although Katie is aware of this, she will have an outrageous up her sleeve! But she quickly becomes determined to become JJ’s wife.
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Spencer Matthews, the Made in Chelsea star’s son, was raised as the son of Eden Rock hotelier David Matthews, and his recent revelation that he wouldn’t pass down his wealth to his three children has been labelled as “hypocritical” by Kerry Katona.
Spencer, who has three children with wife Vogue Williams and their children Theodore, Gigi, and Otto, said to the Mirror: “It’s not a good idea to give it all to your kids. They are being greatly harmed by it. Kerry said in her weekly column, “Spencer Matthews says he won’t be passing on his fortune to his children because he thinks it’s no point doing well to give it to your kids, but I disagree.” I give my kids everything I have, and that’s the whole point of working so hard for them.
With wife Vogue Williams, Spencer has three children named Theodore, Otto, and Gigi.
The former Made in Chelsea star claims that passing his wealth to his family would be a “disservice” (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images).
Since he received a wealthy upbringing, it’s a little hypocritical. However, I sometimes worry that I’ve given my kids too much because he makes his kids work for their money. I enjoy giving my kids what it’s like to have nothing, but they don’t know what it’s like.
Kerry is a proud mother of five, having two children, Lilly Sue, 22, and Molly, 23, with her first husband Brian McFadden, and Heidi, 17, with Mark Croft, the youngest DJ, 10, and George Kay, the late husband’s son.
Spencer admitted he’s heard comedian Jimmy Carr discuss “trust fund kids,” but Spencer said he didn’t want his kids to be given everything and that he thought it was just a “very unfortunate” situation.
Spencer, who wed Vogue Williams in 2018, is the son of multimillionaire David Matthews (voguewilliams/Instagram).
Kerry, who has five children, says “everything she does is for them” (Instagram/ @kerrykatona7).
You might not ever understand the need to work because you have what you think you want, and you may not ever feel proud of yourself if you’re a young man or young woman who has just given everything. You won’t ever feel accomplished.
Theodore has recently joined his neighborhood Parkrun, perhaps in response to Spencer’s ultramarathons, and Spencer is already ensuring that his kids have challenges. Theodore is now starting to run, according to Spencer. The other day, he ran two kilometers. Because the child completed two laps, which some kids do after one lap because they were given that choice, I was so proud of him. They will become weaker as a result of the comfort you offer them.
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Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has stated that he will discuss ending the Ukrainian conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
Trump claimed that “a lot of work” had been completed over the weekend while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday.
Trump said, “We want to see if we can put an end to that war.” “Maybe we can, perhaps we can’t, but I believe we have a very good chance.”
When asked what concessions were being discussed during the ceasefire talks, Trump claimed that land and power plants would be the subjects of the discussions.
He said, “I believe we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Russia and Ukraine.”
“We’re already discussing that, including splitting up some assets,” he said.
Trump made the remarks shortly after a senior Russian official was quoted in a local media report as saying any peace deal would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko claimed that Moscow would require “ironclad security guarantees” in an interview with the Russian outlet Izvestia.
“Only by establishing these guarantees can regional security be improved overall and lasting peace prevail in Ukraine.” According to Grushko, these guarantees should include a neutral status for Ukraine and NATO nations that refuse to accept it as a member of the alliance.
This provision was actually precisely outlined in the drafts of the agreements cited. Discussions are not currently taking place because no negotiations are currently taking place.
Trump’s special representative Steve Witkoff announced to CNN earlier this week that the two leaders planned to engage in a “really good and positive discussion.”
Following last week’s discussions in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Washington is trying to persuade the parties to accept a proposal for an immediate 30-day truce.
Putin has yet to say he supports the plan beyond saying he supports it in principle, despite the fact that Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, has accepted it.
The Russian leader last week claimed that the initiative would primarily benefit Kyiv because Russian forces were improving and that he had “serious questions” about it.
Before agreeing to a ceasefire, Zelenskyy on Saturday accused Moscow of not wanting to end the conflict and of “improve their situation on the battlefield.”
The important dates for Saturday, March 16 and Sunday, March 16 and 17, are listed below.
Fighting
According to Dnipropetrovsk governor Serhiy Lysak, a Russian missile struck a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, injuring 11 people, including two children. According to Lysak, several apartment buildings, homes, and a building housing multiple businesses were damaged.
After serving four war crimes in Ukraine, Russian far-right paramilitary operative Yan Petrovsky was found guilty of four crimes and given a life sentence by a Finnish court. He killed a soldier, according to the court, and he shared degrading photos of the victim.
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy provider, claimed Russian strikes in Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa had caused “significant” damage to the country’s energy infrastructures. Due to the attacks, some residents of the areas reportedly lost power.
Moscow launched 178 drones overnight, according to Kyiv’s air force, of which about 130 were shot down, and 38 went missing and failed to reach their targets.
In an overnight attack targeting the Volgograd and Voronezh regions on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that its forces shot down 126 Ukrainian drones. Following Moscow’s rejection of the American-proposed immediate ceasefire, this occurred.
47 of 90 Russian drones were killed overnight, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Apparently, electronic warfare caused the loss of another 33 drones.
The western Kursk region’s villages of Rubanshchina and Zaoleshenka were reclaimed by the Russian Defense Ministry’s troops. 14 children were among the 371 civilians who were safely evacuated from these areas, according to Alexander Khinshtein, the acting regional governor.
Early on Monday, according to Ukraine’s air defense units, Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv overnight. Additional information was not made available.
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Donald Trump, the president of the US, said he would discuss ending the Ukrainian conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
Putin demanded that Kursk-affiliated Ukrainian soldiers give up, claiming that they would be assured of “life and dignified treatment.” He claimed that he made the call after Trump called him to “spare” the lives of Ukrainian soldiers out of “sympathy.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated that any ceasefire would be primarily concerned with territorial control. He claimed that Ukraine would not recognize its occupied areas as belonging to Russia.
Putin is accused of not being serious about pursuing peace talks by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who said Russia would need to discuss it sooner or later. The world is watching as Putin agrees to a ceasefire and stops his barbaric attacks on Ukraine, he said.
Zelenskyy also alleged that Russia had no desire to end the conflict, citing Kyiv’s ongoing hostilities.
In upcoming peace talks, he appointed an official delegation to represent Kyiv. Andriy Yermak, the president’s chief of staff, was appointed leader of the delegation, which included Yermak’s deputy Pavlo Palisa, the defense minister Rustem Umerov, and foreign minister Andrii Sybiha.
According to Umerov, Zelenskyy also appointed Major-General Andrii Hnatov as the new commander of the Ukrainian forces.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Umerov met with his counterparts in Italy and the Czech Republic to discuss military assistance, defense cooperation, and needs for the battlefield.
Russian President Emmanuel Macron claimed that Russia would not have a say in the deployment of foreign troops to Ukraine.
Trump changed Keith Kellogg’s position from that of special envoy to Ukraine and Russia to envoy to Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, refuted claims that Russia wanted Kellogg to be turned down for its pro-Kyiv position in the wake of his pro-Kyiv position.
The next steps in the war-torn talks were discussed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The diplomats “agreed to continue working toward restoring communication between the US and Russia,” according to Tammy Bruce, a State Department spokeswoman.
Russian media outlets were informed by deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko that Moscow would seek “ironclad security guarantees” to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
