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IPL billionaires pay £60m for stake in the Hundred’s Oval Invincibles
The Ambanis, India’s wealthiest family and the owners of Mumbai Indians, have secured a 49% stake in Oval Invincibles after a landmark day for English cricket that saw the sale of the eight Hundred teams get under way.
The winning bid by Reliance Industries Ltd, chaired by Mukesh Ambani, is …
Ravens kicker Justin Tucker accused of sexual misconduct by massage therapists
Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker has been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior towards a number of massage therapists, according to the Baltimore Banner.
to six massage therapists at four spas and wellness centers around the Baltimore area. The accusations include claims that Tucker exposed …‘Did they learn nothing?’: Auschwitz survivor to return German honour over AfD vote role
A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor has said he will return his federal order of merit to the German president in protest over MPs passing an anti-immigration motion in parliament with the support of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland.
Albrecht Weinberg, whose parents were murdered in Auschwitz, told the Guardian he was …
Crowds greet militant leader Zakaria Zubeidi among prisoners released in Ramallah
As the line of white buses drew closer to the West Bank city of Ramallah at dusk, their most notorious passenger stood at the window of one of the buses and waved. Skinny in his grey Israeli prison tracksuit, his head shaved, Zakaria Zubeidi lifted two fingers to make a …
Couple jailed over ‘sexual and sadistic’ murder of Sarah Mayhew in London
A couple who killed a woman and dumped her dismembered body in different parts of south London have been jailed for murder.
Steve Samson was out of prison on a life licence for the murder of a taxi driver in 1998 when he and his partner, Gemma Watts, killed Sarah …
Ofcom delivers relief for Royal Mail at snail’s pace – too late to stop Czech takeover | Nils Pratley
What if Ofcom had cut Royal Mail some slack half a decade ago? What if the universal service obligation (USO), the requirement on the postal operator to deliver nationwide six days a week at a uniform price, had been tweaked before letter volumes fully fell off the cliff?
Would Royal …
Alleged Russian spy says she believed she was working for Interpol
A woman accused of spying for Moscow told the Old Bailey she believed she was working for Interpol after a man showed her a fake ID and told her he could enrol her at “police school in Wembley”.
On her first day of giving evidence, London-based Vanya Gaberova, a 30-year-old …
French rugby needs some Dupont magic to blow away clouds of scandal | Andy Bull
Antoine Dupont doesn’t do many interviews. “I don’t necessarily like to talk about myself,” he has said, “to do yet another interview where I talk about what I’ve done, how I’ve played, and how my game has evolved; honestly, it tires me more than anything else these days.” But after …
‘We’re not gonna be woke’: Middlesex chief risks ECB wrath over new diversity rules
Middlesex’s chief executive, Andrew Cornish, has risked antagonising the England and Wales Cricket Board by appearing to criticise a central element of the counties’ new diversity rules that come into force on Saturday.
At a club forum last week Cornish told Middlesex members “we’re not gonna be woke and just …
‘Disrupt or be disrupted’ mainstream parties warned as voters turn to populists
Voters in western democracies are turning away from mainstream political parties and towards populists because they are losing faith in their ability to implement meaningful change, a major report based on surveys of 12,000 voters has found.
The popularity of traditional centre-left and centre-right parties across major democratic countries has …