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English cricket bosses believe that it will be “almost a no-brainer” to expand the Hundred in the future after raising more than £520m by selling a stake in each of the competition’s eight teams.

The England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Thursday that the eight bids had placed a …

The BBC has snubbed a world record attempt by the Olympic star Keely Hodgkinson on its main terrestrial channels in favour of showing a film it aired as recently in October 2024 and a repeat of Flog It!

It had been hoped in athletics circles that the BBC would grant …

Brendon McCullum has defended England’s training schedule after criticism of his side’s work ethic during their 3-0 one-day international series defeat by India.

England’s practice, or lack of it, was questioned on commentary by Ravi Shastri and Kevin Pietersen during

the final ODI

The

Dallas Mavericks

It’s a Tuesday night outside of downtown Los Angeles and I’m in a half-empty Galen Center on the University of Southern California campus. The whole place smells like movie-theater popcorn, sticky spilled soda, and, vaguely, sweat. The cheerleaders jumping up and down on the court, attempting to amp up the …

Good morning.

Amid a years-long housing crisis, the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has brought the Labour government’s housing policy to the forefront of the political agenda, including an announcement on

Wednesday of an additional £350m to fund affordable housing

If, at the end of last year, you had asked Labour insiders to choose Keir Starmer’s defining decision as prime minister, they might have said

means testing winter fuel payments

Now, however, many believe Starmer’s most consequential move …

“I live in Germany’s oldest city, founded by the Romans over 2,000 years ago,” said Gregor, 59, from Trier, a town of about 110,000 inhabitants in the country’s affluent south-west and part of the world-renowned Moselle valley wine region. A short driving distance away from the borders of Luxembourg, Belgium, …

China’s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analysis that found continuing approval of coal-fired projects in 2024 undermined the “unprecedented” surge in clean energy production.

The analysis of China’s 2024 energy production – released on Thursday by two thinktanks, the …

Philadelphia Eagles

The pop star was in New Orleans to support her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, as

his Kansas City Chiefs lost …