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On Friday, the South Korean columnist Yang Sung-hee

asked

Yang’s question, asked in the Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper, …

Standing under the shade of trees outside the Cook Islands parliament this week, Fe’ena Syme-Buchanan questioned a controversial deal signed with China that has sparked concern across the Pacific country.

The photographer from Rarotonga feels mixed emotions about the agreement

prime minister Mark Brown struck with …

In recent times the Calcutta Cup has morphed into the “Scottish play” the English would rather not mention by name. One Red Rose win in seven attempts and four consecutive victories for Gregor Townsend’s side has certainly been an uncomfortable sequence for those who, for decades, regarded death and taxes …

Sometimes it takes a fresh pair of eyes. Matt Sherratt, newly installed as Warren Gatland’s replacement, however temporarily, has picked his first Wales team. No one is expecting much more from it than a 15th consecutive defeat when Ireland come to Cardiff for round three, but there is at least …

England have vowed to show their nasty side against Scotland on Saturday with the captain Maro Itoje calling on his team to buck the trend of recent history by clinching the Calcutta Cup for the first time in five years.

Buoyed by their one-point victory over France last time out, …

Among the many questions hanging over the 132nd Calcutta Cup, the hardest to answer might just be exactly how many times you need to beat the English before they stop thinking of themselves as favourites for the next game. Since Gregor Townsend took over as head coach, Scotland have been …

Saudi Arabia’s attempts to seize control of boxing have been relentless but not even its massive wealth and swaggering certainty can overrule the harsh vagaries of life. Boxing is an extreme and unhinged version of real life and it is always subject to bedlam and disruption. And so, on Thursday …

In contrast to the drawn-out 50-over World Cup and its T20 equivalent, the Champions Trophy is a pretty cutthroat affair, with one slip-up in the group stage manageable but two pretty much terminal. Jos Buttler called it a “brutal” format before England’s opener against Australia in Lahore on Saturday, while …

Is Donald Trump a feminist?

There was a time when anyone asking such a question could reasonably expect to be laughed out of the room. Yet, just three weeks into Trump’s second term, the man responsible for stripping women in the US of the right to an abortion was declared …