News Headlines - 08 March 2016

▽Maria Sharapova failed drugs test at Australian Open - BBC Sport

Former world number one Maria Sharapova has revealed she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open... The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said the five-time Grand Slam champion would be provisionally suspended from 12 March.

▽Nike and Tag Heuer cut ties with Maria Sharapova | The Guardian

Nike and Tag Heuer have become the first major sponsors to cut ties with Maria Sharapova after the tennis star revealed she had tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, with Porsche also suspending promotions with the player.

▽Spain’s Socialists Play a Risky Coalition Game - WSJ

Seven weeks after an inconclusive election, Socialist party leader Pedro Sanchez will start formal talks Monday with the radical Podemos party and several smaller regional parties over the creation of a left-wing coalition. His goal is to emulate Portuguese Socialist leader António Costa, who in November managed to seize the reins of power at the head of a similarly unlikely coalition despite a distant second finish in the general election.

▽Neo-Nazi party makes an electoral breakthrough in Slovakia - FT.com

In one of the biggest surprises of Saturday’s election, more than 200,000 Slovakians cast ballots for the neo-Nazi People’s Party Our Slovakia (L’SNS) — including 23 per cent of first-time voters.

▽100 years of BMW: in pictures - Cars

BMW celebrates its centenary on March 7th 2016. In this gallery we look back at some of the most significant moments in the German company's history.