Michael Vaughan believes it would be “amateurish” if England maintained plans to rest key players from a practice match ahead of the pink-ball Ashes Test in Brisbane in a fortnight.

England captain Ben Stokes admitted he was left “shellshocked” after Australia crushed his side in two days at Perth, the fastest Ashes defeat in over a hundred years.

Fact To File saw off Spillane’s Tower and his dual Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning stablemate Galopin Des Champs in an enthralling edition of the Kildare track’s early-season feature last year, and it is ...

Sir Keir Starmer is meeting with allies of Ukraine at the Johannesburg G20 summit on Saturday to seek to “strengthen” a plan secretly drafted by the US to end the war with Russia.

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US legislators have criticised Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for what they describe as “silence” amid their probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

Opener Head scored the second-fastest Ashes century from 69 balls as Australia claimed an eight-wicket victory.

Robert James Purkiss, 38, appeared in a London court earlier this month to declare he does not consent to his extradition to the African nation, after the Kenyan director of public prosecutions said ...

More than 300 children and 12 teachers have been abducted by gunmen during an attack on St Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said.

Boris Johnson has dismissed the inquiry report that found chaos in his government, and that a failure to take Covid-19 seriously cost 23,000 lives in the pandemic’s first wave, as “muddled”. The Covid ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a loyal supporter-turned-critic of US president Donald Trump, has said she is resigning from US congress in January. In a video posted online, the Georgia representative said ...

Lando Norris ticked off another box in his bid to win the world championship by mastering a wet qualifying session to secure pole position for the Las Vegas Grand Prix. In treacherous conditions on ...