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Merry Betwixtmas, everybody! I’ve a great fondness for this final stretch of December, the weird dead time when Boxing Day obligations to extended family have been fulfilled, and the new year’s party still seems impossibly far in the future. It’s a truly philosophical period, raising questions of mortality, renewal and …

• North Korean troops deployed in Russia’s Kursk region are suffering heavy losses and being left unprotected by the Russian forces they are fighting alongside, according to Ukraine

  , while the US says Russian and North Korean generals see the soldiers as “expendable”. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that said …

On 8 March 2023, International Women’s Day, Russian soldiers were handing out tulips and boughs of mimosa to women and girls in the city of Melitopol, southern Ukraine – a move designed to promote friendly relations between the occupiers and the inhabitants.

But the night before, someone had been discreetly …

The 2002 World Cup had been a gruelling rollercoaster for the Republic of Ireland. Nine days before the team’s first match in the tournament, hosted by Japan and South Korea, its captain and talisman

Roy Keane was on his way home before a ball had been kicked

In a competition for attention between Australia’s first cricketing couple, Alyssa Healy has implored fans to watch the historic women’s Ashes Test at the MCG rather than her husband’s men’s Test in Sri Lanka.

This summer’s women’s Ashes starts with ODI and T20 matches next month, and ends with the …

Syd Hynes, who has died aged 80 after a short illness, gained notoriety by becoming the first player to be sent off in rugby league’s Challenge Cup final. Hynes was captaining Leeds against Leigh at Wembley in 1971 when he was dismissed for allegedly headbutting Leigh’s player-coach Alex Murphy.

The …

A severe weather warning is threatening to put a dampener on Hogmanay plans across Scotland as the nation braces for 48 hours of heavy rain.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering all of Scotland apart from Orkney and Shetland on 30 and 31 December, …

What looked likely to be a duel in the fog turned into more of a rout in the gloom at Kempton on Friday, as Nicky Henderson’s Sir Gino made one of the more memorable debuts over fences in recent years, and established a strong claim to be the best two-mile …

There will be those at a sold-out Twickenham on Saturday who will be sick of the sight of Handré Pollard. The 30-year-old fly-half returns to the stadium with Leicester six weeks after his accuracy from the tee kept the Springboks

out of reach against England

The disappearance of four boys in Ecuador after they came into contact with the armed forces is posing a severe challenge to President Daniel Noboa’s

“war on drugs”

The four – all black, aged between 11 and 15, and residents of Las Malvinas, a poor area in …