International football star Dani Alves can be conditionally released from jail after he paid bail of €1m (£853,000). Alves was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison last month, after a court found him guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022. On Monday, the court in Spain gave the former Barcelona and Brazil footballer permission to leave jail pending his appeal, after he made the stated bail. The 40-year-old has been held in pre-trial detention since January 2023. "We...

International football star Dani Alves can be conditionally released from jail after he paid bail of €1m (£853,000). Alves was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison last month, after a court found him guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022. On Monday, the court in Spain gave the former Barcelona and Brazil footballer permission to leave jail pending his appeal, after he made the stated bail. The 40-year-old has been held in pre-trial detention since January 2023. "We...