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In years gone by, the two members of the House of Lords had been political enemies, running the headquarters of rival parties during hotly contested general election battles. In October, however, they stood side by side to pay their respects to the former president of Azerbaijan.

A wreath laid at …

Game of the week

Pittsburgh Steelers (10-4) v Baltimore Ravens (9-5)

The battle for the AFC North nears its climax with two bitter rivals gutting it out for hallowed home-field advantage in the playoffs. If the Pittsburgh Steelers continue their hot streak and earn a fifth successive win …

Tom Ilube has stepped down as the chairman of the Rugby Football Union due to the executive pay and bonus scandal that has engulfed the game.

Ilube, who took up the role in 2021, admitted in a brief statement that “recent events have become a distraction from the game” amid …

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, had a rapturous reception from Indian fans when he flew back to Chennai after ­deposing China’s Ding Liren for the world title 7.5-6.5 by winning their 14th and final game in Singapore.

It was an occasion which, in Indian terms, could have been surpassed in intensity only …

Good morning.

Dominique Pelicot, described as one of France’s worst sex offenders, has been

sentenced alongside 50 other men

On a recent Sunday afternoon in an upmarket neighbourhood of Nairobi, Daniel Badu was rapidly pressing the screen of his mobile phone, headphones wrapped around his head, his elbows resting on a pillow.

Badu and his four teammates in the Aura 233 team, all decked in black-and-yellow kits and …

Cricket Australia is advising fans to prepare themselves for hot weather at the MCG on Boxing Day, as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts the temperature reaching 40C in Melbourne on the first day of the fourth Border-Gavaskar Test.

CA’s chief of cricket James Allsopp said the forecasts had been changing, …

The name of a cricketer before his time now adorns a contest of yesterday. The men’s domestic 50-over competition was renamed the Dean Jones Trophy on Friday following a fan vote and recommendation from the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame committee.

The Victorian –

who died of …

Rachael “Raygun” Gunn

The Australian Olympic breaker said on Thursday “we’ve come to an agreement” after a “wild ride” meaning the show could proceed with a different name and poster.

Fast bowlers are the Formula One engines of a cricket team: purringly powerful when they want to be, painfully vulnerable when bits fall off. When a partnership works, and sticks – Lillee and Thompson, Ambrose and Walsh, Wasim and Waqar – they carry the team on their shoulders. When that …