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Locals win fight to save mysterious, medieval Spanish chapel from oblivion
A mysterious, dilapidated and exquisitely painted Spanish chapel into which knights on horseback may have ridden centuries ago to receive a wet and most unusual blessing could be on the verge of salvation after a decades-long campaign by local heritage groups.
No one knows much about the crumbling and semi-subterranean …
Michael Penix Jr’s sterling debut gives Atlanta sorely needed hope. What took so long?
‘My whole body has been broken’: Davy Russell on bust-ups, Grand National glories and a life in the saddle
Davy Russell’s wife, Edelle, sometimes brings out a skeleton that resembles his battered body during her anatomy classes at school. The skeleton looks as if it has contracted measles because it is covered in red dots, with each dot marking a bone that Russell broke during his 21 years as …
Monday briefing: The mammoth task of rebuilding Syria – and how to achieve it
Good morning. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad two weeks ago, Syria’s de facto government inherited a failed state. The task for rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is formidable: rewrite the constitution, bring the country’s disparate armed factions to heel, persuade international partners that …
Syria’s disappeared: one woman’s search for her missing father
The last time Alaa Qasar saw her father, in 2013, he studied her face as if he was trying to memorise it. Moutaz Adnan Qasar had returned to her after his release by Bashar al-Assad’s security forces, who had arrested and questioned him after he had led his family out …
Brisbane AFL premiership player Aaron Shattock in hospital after freak excavator accident
Former Brisbane Lions AFL player Aaron Shattock has been praised by former teammates as he remains in an induced coma following a freak accident involving heavy machinery over the weekend.
The 44-year-old was crushed by an excavator when it rolled over while working on his own property on the Gold …
‘See-ball, hit-ball’: Sam Konstas to put pressure on Jasprit Bumrah in Boxing Day Test
Australia’s rookie opener Sam Konstas has a plan to combat Indian spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, but he doesn’t want to give too much away three days out from his likely Test debut on Boxing Day.
as a replacement for Nathan …Tyson Fury and the question of legacy after honourable Usyk defeat dims aura
In the end everyone runs out of road. It was probably necessary for Tyson Fury to say he was robbed in the Kingdom Arena on Saturday night. Boxing demands this level of irrationality. Logical multimillionaires do not willingly schedule a brain-jarring, soul-shredding half-hour beating from one of the most effective …
The former Manchester Labour MP Andrew Bennett, who has died aged 85, devoted most of his adult life to public service, as a school teacher and a councillor, before then spending 31 years in the House of Commons. He always put the pursuit of the political results he sought before …