The Guardian Articles

On January 14, 2025, His Excellency Turki Alalshikh posted a message on social media that read, “MAKE BOXING GREAT AGAIN.”

That’s a noble goal. And the Saudi Arabian General Entertainment Authority has signaled its willingness to spend billions of dollars to achieve it.

But we should not lose sight of …

It didn’t take long for Jerry Jones to turn the Dallas Cowboys’ head coach search into a circus.

Perhaps that’s just how he likes it. In the middle of the NFL playoffs, with the Cowboys long out of the postseason picture, up pops Jones to push his team back to …

Emma Raducanu says she sent Andy Murray a long conciliatory message in the aftermath of her withdrawal from their scheduled

mixed doubles match at Wimbledon last year

Good morning. After more than 460 days of conflict since Israel’s invasion of Gaza began in response to the October 7 attacks, a new ceasefire deal

has finally been agreed

Announcing the agreement last night, the Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, said he hoped …

Slowed down by a sore back, swirling wind and a supremely talented ball-striker who robbed her of rhythm, all Emma Raducanu could do was fight with all the energy, intelligence and conviction she could rouse as her presence at the Australian Open hung in the balance.

Across two testing, uncomfortable …

The seeds lie in wait for Alex de Minaur, who strode through his second round match at the Australian Open on Thursday, defeating American qualifier Tristan Boyer 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 in just under two hours on Rod Laver Arena.

Australia’s main hope of breaking a 49-year drought in the men’s …

Conor McGregor is facing a new civil lawsuit filed by a woman accusing him of sexual assault during the 2023 NBA finals in Miami.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the US district court for the southern district of Florida, also names the Miami Heat and Basketball Properties LLC, which …

Israel began bombing Gaza on 7 October 2023, after Hamas crossed the border, killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage to Gaza.

When ground operations began a week later, most observers inside the country and beyond expected the fighting to last weeks. Instead, it extended for 15 months …

Zoe ­Aldcroft, the new England captain, says the Red Roses want to be “unstoppable” and have “massive room for improvement” despite being on a 20-game winning run.

England are in formidable form, having last lost a game in 2022 in the

Rugby World Cup final against New …

Jonathan Liew’s insightful article concludes that a unilateral boycott of the Champions Trophy would be a limited gesture in response to the Taliban’s oppressive gender-apartheid regime (

Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket, 7 January

Two additional points come to …