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Manchester United, Ryder Cup and Lions tour: 12 sport storylines for 2025
Hamilton’s new challenge
Next season one narrative will surely dominate F1 when Lewis Hamilton dons his new scarlet race suit and climbs into a Ferrari for the first competitive session at the opening race in Australia. His move from Mercedes after 12 seasons and six titles was a huge shock …
The Spin | Let the Ashes mind games begin: gazing through a crystal ball at cricket in 2025
January
The final game between Australia and India at the SCG, the Aussies’ last home Test before they face England in Perth in November, features every single member of Pat Cummins’ side becoming complicit in what is interpreted within the England camp as a significant escalation in Ashes mind games. …
‘Why not us?’: Welsh language trio on their forthcoming double album
The idea of releasing a 23-track double album of pop and rock songs written entirely in
Cymraeg
– the Welsh language – might daunt some artists. But notAdwaith
, a post-punk group from Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales.“Well, I mean, if Beyoncé and Taylor Swift can do double …
Wednesday briefing: The people, policies, places and pop culture that could define 2025
Good morning – and happy new year.
Whether you are reading this on the way home from a
very
late night or feeling refreshed after tucking yourself in at precisely 00:01, welcome to 2025. While technically it may be just another day, it’s hard to avoid the feeling of …Sam Konstas’ stunning Australia debut not his ‘blueprint’ for Test series decider
The impact of young opener Sam Konstas on the Boxing Day Test surprised fans as much as the India bowlers, and Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey says even he underestimated how much of a difference the 19-year-old would make.
Australia trained today in Sydney ahead of Friday’s fifth and final Test …
Top Venezuelan pianist urges music world to snub youth orchestra linked to Maduro
One of Venezuela’s most celebrated musicians, the pianist Gabriela Montero, has called on concert halls and music promoters to cut ties with her country’s world-renowned youth orchestra as a result of Nicolás Maduro’s alleged theft of this year’s
.The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela …
25 for 2025: unmissable sporting events over the next 12 months
Ecuador confirms incinerated bodies belong to missing ‘Guayaquil Four’ boys
Ecuador’s attorney general’s office has confirmed that incinerated bodies found on Christmas Eve belong to the four children missing since early December, in a case posing a severe challenge to President Daniel Noboa’s “war on drugs”.
The four boys – all black, aged between 11 and 15, and residents of …
Great Guinness heist: thieves stole truck carrying 20,000 pints
Israelis banned from competing in World Indoor Bowls Championships
Israeli players have been banned from next month’s World Indoor Bowls Championships in Norfolk after a campaign by pro-Palestinian groups.
The decision was widely condemned by Jewish groups and the local MP, Rupert Lowe, who called it a victory for “the mob”.
Three Israelis were expected to compete in the …