If Sabalenka is the title favourite, then French Open champion Gauff is one of the few players who can truly disrupt and frustrate her. An outstanding mover, Gauff can get every ball she faces back, extending the rallies and drawing the errors out of the big hitters like Sabalenka. Wimbledon was where Gauff broke through...
Plymouth will begin their return to League One with the visit of Barnsley to Home Park on Saturday, 2 August. The game will be the first for new head coach Tom Cleverley since taking over earlier this month after Miron Muslic left the club. The Pilgrims will be reunited with former manager Steven Schumacher –...
Deutrom added that Ireland being awarded Test status is “the most significant achievement I’ll look back on with pride”. He added: “While the absolute highlights of the role are too numerous to mention, the most powerful memories I’ll take with me are of our Irish cricket family – the good people, the kind people, the...
Sippy Films Sholay featured an all-star cast led by Amitabh Bachchan (right) and Dharmendra (left) Fifty years after it first exploded on Indian screens, Sholay (Embers) – arguably the most iconic Hindi film ever made – is making a spectacular return. In a landmark event for film lovers, the fully restored, uncut version of Ramesh...
Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare Getty Images Before the land reform programme, Zimbabwe had about 2,500 white farmers owning 4,000 farms A quarter of a century after their land was seized during a chaotic land reform programme that made global headlines, a small group of white Zimbabwean farmers have accepted a controversial compensation deal from...
Axiom Space Axiom-4 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Jubilant Indians have been celebrating the successful launch of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission which has taken off with a multi-country crew, including an Indian astronaut. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who’s piloting the mission, has become only the second Indian to travel to space....
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. It’s been three years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an odious Supreme Court ruling that has unleashed a veritable crisis of rights, health, and safety for people who can become pregnant. Since the Supreme Court overturned...
A court in Japan has sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year. Lance Cpl Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked the woman in her 20s, choking her from behind and attempting sexual intercourse, the court ruled. The case is one of a...
Rachel Grant BBC Scotland News Sothebys International Realty The castle was commissioned by a New Zealand-born adventurer in 1911 Eighty years after a mother walked into a London estate agency and bought a Hebridean island she had never seen in a bid to leave the city, her family is selling their historic home. The Island...
U2 guitarist David Howell Evans, known as The Edge, has become an Irish citizen at a ceremony in County Kerry. The 63-year-old was born in Essex in England, and is the child of Welsh parents, but has lived in Ireland since he was one. Sporting a tricolour clip on his lapel, the musician had Irish...
Getty Images Statues of Michael Jackson appeared at landmarks around the world to promote his album HIStory In June 1995, a giant statue of Michael Jackson provided a surreal sight in the heart of London when it was floated on a barge down the River Thames. This 32ft (10m) pop colossus was just one of...
Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney ABC News/Declan Bowring Terry Harper is retiring after half a century in the building Since the Sydney Opera House opened over 50 years ago, countless musical stars, world leaders and awestruck patrons have visited its iconic halls. The outside forecourt has been blanketed by thousands of bare bodies in the...
Alaina Beresford Alaina Beresford was 12 years old when her bottle was dropped into the North Sea A Scottish schoolgirl’s message in a bottle has finally received a reply more than 30 years later – after being discovered in Norway. Alaina Beresford, from Portknockie in Moray, sent the message in 1994 when she was 12...
Daniel Sandford UK correspondent Reporting fromInner London Crown Court Police entered Zhenhao Zou’s London flat in January 2024 A Chinese PhD student who is “one of the most prolific predators” in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years. Zhenhao Zou, a Chinese national, drugged and raped three women...
Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News EPA The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. That’s the stark warning from more than 60 of the world’s leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of...