Spain’s housing boom began in the 1960s

Prime minister, Múte Egede, says country is in the midst of ‘serious time’ as parliament unanimously backs proposal

Greenland will hold a general election on 11 March, its prime minister has announced, amid renewed interest from the US president, Donald Trump, in the Arctic territory.

The upcoming election campaign is expected to revolve around Greenland’s independence aspirations, the development of the island’s fragile economy and relations with Denmark and the US.

• Former Middlesbrough striker signs through 2028
• $22m fee is largest outlay for a player in league history

Atlanta United announced the splash signing of speedy Ivory Coast striker Emmanuel Latte Lath on Tuesday.

Atlanta reportedly paid an MLS-record $22m transfer fee to Middlesbrough, breaking the mark of $16.2m that FC Cincinnati spent in November to acquire forward Kevin Denkey from Belgium’s Cercle Brugge.

• Fide row escalates over world No 1’s Freestyle Grand Slam
• Arkady Dvorkovich ‘reneged on promise’ to step down

The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour head Jan Henric Buettner and the world No 1 Magnus Carlsen have called on the International Chess Federation (Fide) president Arkady Dvorkovich to resign after talks over an agreement about the new series fell through.

Last month, Fide warned the Freestyle Chess Players Club, which is co-owned by Buettner and Carlsen, that they should not brand the series as a “world championship”. Buettner said he negotiated with Dvorkovich until the early hours of Monday, only to hear from the president that the Fide council would not agree to a deal.

News comes after US secretary of state visited Panama to pressure the country over its ties with Beijing

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has welcomed Panama’s decision to let its participation in China’s global infrastructure plan expire, calling the move “a great step forward” for its ties with the United States.

Any move by Panama to distance itself from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents a win for Washington, which has argued that Beijing uses the scheme for “debt trap diplomacy” to cement its global influence.

The US agency distributes tens of billions of dollars’ worth of aid every year and is a key tool to promote soft power around the world

Donald Trump’s administration has confirmed plans to merge the US international aid agency USAid into the state department in a major revamp that would shrink its workforce and align its spending with Trump’s priorities.

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, declared himself the acting administrator of the agency and employees have been locked out of its Washington DC headquarters, while others have been suspended.

• 21-year-old made his USMNT debut in January
• Intra-league move is the second-ever made using MLS’s new cash transfer rule

Houston Dynamo FC acquired Philadelphia Union midfielder Jack McGlynn in the first cash-for-homegrown player trade in Major League Soccer history on Monday.

The Union will receive $2.1m in guaranteed money and also retain a sell-on percentage of any future transfer. The club also could acquire an additional $1.3m if McGlynn meets designated performance milestones.

• Lewandowski goal earns Barça 1-0 home victory
• De Vrij pounces in stoppage time at San Siro

Barcelona closed the gap on La Liga leaders, Real Madrid, to four points, but were reliant on Robert Lewandowski’s second-half goal to beat struggling Alavés.

The home side dominated possession with Alavés, who sit in 18th place, happy to sit back and defend. Barça almost scored near the half-hour mark when Manu Sánchez’s attempt to clear Raphinha’s cross went to Lewandowski, but the Polish striker put his shot wide.

Silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold at Stuttgart auction for highest amount ever made by a grand prix car

A streamlined Mercedes raced by the Formula One greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix car on Saturday, selling at auction for €51.15m (£42.7m).

The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one of only four complete examples in existence, was sold by RM Sotheby’s at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, on behalf of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).

Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh on trip that highlights reset of regional alliances after end of Iran-backed Assad regime

Syria’s transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh on Sunday in his first foreign trip as Syrian leader, in a sign of the major shifts under way in regional alliances.

Sharaa assumed power as transitional president last week, after leading a rebel campaign that ousted the longtime Iran-backed leader Bashar al-Assad, whose ties with the rest of the Arab world were strained throughout the nearly 14-year Syrian war.

Ukraine armed forces say 84 people were rescued or had medical help after strike in Russian territory that Kyiv holds

Ukraine and Russia have traded blame for a deadly missile strike that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school situated in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Ukrainian forces.

Some of the war’s fiercest battles in recent months have been taking place in the Kursk region that borders Ukraine, where Kyiv forces have held swathes of the land since staging a major cross-border incursion last August.

• England captain has most goals in 50 Bundesliga games
• Romero scores winner for Espanyol against Real Madrid

The Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich conceded three goals in the second half but beat Holstein Kiel 4-3 on Saturday, with Harry Kane scoring twice to set a league record for most goals after 50 games.

Bayern eased off in the second half and let in three goals in the last 28 minutes in a shaky second-half performance, but held on for the win that opened a nine-point lead at the top.