Ben Duckett hit a magnificent 84 as England scored their highest T20 score at home to ease to a 37-run victory against West Indies and secure a 3-0 series win in Southampton. Read full article at source...
The era of the ‘Big Three’ may be coming to an end – but the threat has not disappeared. Players born in the 1990s were restricted to just two Grand Slam singles titles between them as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic diced up the major prizes for more than two decades. Two players...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. The Yurok people have lived, fished, and hunted along the...
Wilson, who was then at Liverpool, became Wales’ youngest ever male international when he was handed his chance in a 1-1 draw in Belgium in 2013. Twelve years on, Wilson is a senior figure for Wales and one of their most influential players, but still holds the record as his nation’s youngest senior international. “At...
Luis Enrique wept tears of joy and emotion as Paris St-Germain delivered the performance of a lifetime to win the Champions League for the first time on a remarkable night in Munich. And, as PSG outclassed Inter Milan for a historic 5-0 victory, brilliant teenager Desire Doue confirmed his status as one half of a...
Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Reuters Tamara Lanier, pictured in 2018, has waged a 15 year battle with Harvard over the photos Harvard University has agreed to hand over a set of historic photos believed to be among the earliest depicting enslaved people in the United States. The agreement ends a long legal battle between...
A brand new statue of of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile, an adviser to President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it. More than three years on from Russia’s full-scale...
Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley BBC News, west of England Richard Mansell said he was “immensely proud” of his daughter for making the team A 16-year-old girl and her dad have made history after becoming the first father-daughter duo to play for their football club. Richard Mansell, 39, plays for Gloucester City AFC’s men’s senior team, having made...
“I’ve experienced it all at this club, all of the ups and downs, but this up is the most special one. It’s very emotional for me.” That’s Ulrich Swetz – a lifelong Arminia fan and football commentator at Radio Bielefeld who has covered the club since 1994. Those ups and downs include eight promotions to...
Juna Moon and Tessa Wong BBC News Reporting fromSeoul and Singapore BBC Korean Han Tae-soon had spent decades looking for her daughter Kyung-ha The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. “I was going to the market and asked Kyung-ha, ‘Aren’t you...
Indian writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq has scripted history by winning the International Booker prize for the short story anthology, Heart Lamp. It is the first book written in the Kannada language, which is spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, to win the prestigious prize. The stories in Heart Lamp were translated into English by...
The month before Sampdoria’s play-off exit Pirlo was called “a key part of the project” by the club’s owners, but three games into the current campaign he was dismissed following two defeats and a draw. Andrea Sottil replaced him and oversaw a Coppa Italia penalty-shootout victory against Genoa in the first Derby della Lanterna in...
May Day 2025 in the United States came amid the most aggressive assault on U.S. workers in a century. The federal agencies that provide some minimal protection against corporate power — the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and many more — are being systematically destroyed. On May 1, hundreds of...
Chelsea have an “opportunity to be a part of history” if they finish the Women’s Super League season unbeaten, says manager Sonia Bompastor. The champions are aiming to be the first WSL team to record an ‘Invincible’ season in a 22-game campaign. They face Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in their final league match on Saturday...
Exeter’s historic Underground Passages have been 3D laser scanned, giving a fascinating insight into what lies beneath the surface of the city’s streets. A short animation – made by Benchmark Surveys – shows just where the passages are in relation to their above-ground locations. Benchmark recently carried out the survey using high-tech 3D...