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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ‘kidnapped’, allies say
Reeves mulls deeper cuts to public services as borrowing costs soar
Cuts, tax rises and doing nothing: Rachel Reeves’ options to tackle economic woe
The UK government has come under pressure from a bond market sell-off and the tumbling pound, heaping pressure on the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to reassure investors about Britain’s economic and financial position.
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Stuart Hogg was a world class Scottish rugby player who now has to relocate his moral compass | Robert Kitson
Scotland has not always been blessed with rugby players of genuine world class but prime-time Stuart Hogg was a rare exception. At the height of his powers he was the Six Nations Player of the Year in successive seasons in 2016 and 2017, mixing acceleration and attacking intent with a …
RMT union boss Mick Lynch announces retirement
Mick Lynch has said he will retire as general secretary of the RMT union, after four years during which he became perhaps the most recognisable presence on picket lines amid the biggest rail and tube worker strikes for decades.
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said …
‘Phenomenal’ Zoe Aldcroft named England women’s rugby union captain
Zoe Aldcroft has been installed as England women’s captain for 2025, taking over from Marlie Packer, and is set to lead John Mitchell’s side into the World Cup this year.
Aldcroft, who was named World Rugby’s women’s player of the year in 2021, has undertaken the role on a number …
Money or the starter’s gun? AFL and NRL riches remain a lure for Olympic hopefuls | Nicole Jeffery
Teenage sprint prodigy Gout Gout has taken the headlines but Australia had an equally promising and even younger prospect at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima last year. A Sydney schoolboy was the youngest medallist at the event, just 15 when he leaped a personal best of 7.80m to …
The wrong trousers: how sporting dress codes can create an image problem | Emma John
Wallace and Gromit is a festive TV staple in many a household – but it wasn’t their wrong trousers that scooped the post-Christmas headlines. That honour belonged to Magnus Carlsen,
disqualified from a chess tournament
in New York for wearing jeans.The orld No 1 – who …
‘It’s our Olympic opening ceremony’: Dynamo, David Hockney and more unite for Bradford city of culture
Slathered in mud, the magician formerly known as Dynamo emerged from a five-tonne mound of earth. It was 2022 and Steven Frayne had just buried himself alive, a magic trick that even Houdini never successfully performed. In the coffin-sized pit he dragged himself out of, Frayne left behind the weight …
Murray ready to be on the end of any Djokovic outbursts at Australian Open
Andy Murray says he would be absolutely fine with receiving any angry outbursts of emotion or venting on-court from Novak Djokovic, his new coaching charge, as the two former longtime rivals prepare for their first tournament together on the same team at the Australian Open.
“Of course, I’ve thought about …