Sports,Cricket
Top-order batter Shubman Gill has been named the new Test captain of the India men's team.The 25-year-old succeeds Rohit Sharma as captain, with the 38-year-old having retured from Test cricket earlier this month. Gill, who has scored 1,893 runs in 32 Tests, will lead a depleted India team...
Sports,Tennis
This year's French Open is going to feel rather strange to begin with.It is the first Roland Garros since Rafael Nadal - the man who won 14 singles titles and is synonymous with the tournament - retired.His abdication means there is a chance for a new 'King of Clay' to be crowned.Spain&#...
Sports,Football
Scott McTominay has become a hero at Napoli after scoring a spectacular scissor-kick volley to help Napoli beat Cagliari and take the club to their fourth Serie A title.With second-placed Inter Milan leading 2-0 at Como, Napoli had to win to finish top of Serie A, with their supporters creating a se...
World
A UK Special Forces officer personally rejected 1,585 resettlement applications from Afghans with credible links to British commandos, newly released documents say.The files, disclosed by the Ministry of Defence in court on Thursday, show the unnamed UKSF officer rejected every application referred ...
Harvard is suing the Trump administration after it revoked the university's ability to enrol international students, escalating a dispute between the White House and one of America's most prestigious institutions.In the suit filed in Boston, the university called the administration's act...
World,Business & Commerce
US President Donald Trump has said he is recommending a 50% tariff on all goods from the European Union being imported to the United States."Our discussions with them are going nowhere!" he wrote in a post on social media on Friday. He said the new tariffs will kick in on 1 June.The announ...
The second Grand Slam of the year begins on Sunday, with players heading to Paris for the French Open.The total prize money for the French Open is is 56.352m euros (£47.5m) - an increase on last year of 5.21%.The men's and women's singles champions will win 2.55m euros, with the runner...
Tottenham ended their 17-year wait for a trophy as Brennan Johnson's first-half goal was enough to beat Manchester United in the Europa League final.Victory means under-fire head coach Ange Postecoglou has fulfilled a promise to deliver silverware in his second season at Spurs.Postecoglou, who s...
Iga Swiatek's recent dominance at the French Open - and the tournaments leading up to it - has led to a regal nickname: the Queen of Clay.The 23-year-old Pole has won four of the past five Roland Garros women's singles titles and arrives in Paris as the three-time defending champion.But this...
The wait to break the Premier League's goal involvement record goes on for Mohamed Salah.But on his 400th Liverpool appearance, he really should have been celebrating equalling the tally.Quite how the Egyptian side-footed Cody Gakpo's low cross wide of an empty net from just yards out in Mon...
World,Front Page
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has ordered residents of Khan Younis to evacuate as it prepares to launch an "unprecedented attack".People were ordered to move towards al-Mawasi in the west of the strip, in one of the largest evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military in recent month...
Two people have been killed and at least 19 others injured after a tall Mexican Navy training sailing ship crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.Police said the Cuauhtémoc, with 277 people on board, lost power on Saturday as the captain was manoeuvring the vessel, forcing it to hea...
Novak Djokovic says his decision to appoint former rival Andy Murray as his coach was "a surprise to everyone" but is "exciting for tennis".Britain's three-time Grand Slam champion Murray, who retired from tennis in August, will work with Djokovic in the off-season and in the...
Sports
Growing up in extreme poverty in a small village in western Kenya, Emmanuel Wanyonyi's daily life was marked by hardships.Forced out of school aged 10, he worked long hours herding cattle. Sometimes he earned less than $2 (£1.58) a month.Wanyonyi endured exploitation, switching jobs regula...
World number two and five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek has accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance.The 23-year-old reigning French Open champion tested positive for a heart medication, trimetazidine (TMZ), in an out-of-competition sample in August 2024, ...
Rebel forces in Syria have taken control of the "majority" of the country's second-largest city, Aleppo, according to the UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).Russia launched air strikes in parts of Aleppo overnight into Saturday for the first time since...
The Israeli military has warned Lebanese citizens not to return to 60 villages in the south of the country, three days into a ceasefire after more than a year of fighting with the Shia armed group Hezbollah.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a map showing a swathe of territory several miles d...
Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa's embattled Sahel region.Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it was time for his country to "assert its full sovereignty".Th...
Riot police in Georgia used pepper spray and water cannon against protesters who turned out on the streets of Tbilisi after the government suspended moves to join the European Union.Forty-three people were arrested at the demonstrations in the capital on Thursday night, the government said.Crowds tu...
Three Americans detained in China were released in exchange for three Chinese prisoners in the US, after the Biden administration negotiated a prisoner swap.Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung are on their way back to the US, a spokesperson for the National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement...
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