Barcelona’s Champions League title defense suffered a big blow in rainy London in midweek, and the Spanish club’s hopes of a fourth successive La Liga crown were all but ended in similarly wet conditions on home turf on Saturday.

Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde was convicted Monday of negligence related to the collapse of his nation’s banking system, but he was cleared of three other charges and will face no punishment, a court official said.

The dramatic fall from grace of a man so close to the top of China’s hierarchy is “very positive” for the country’s political development, one prominent China expert has argued.