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They say good things come to those who wait and after nearly three decades without a global tournament in their city, the people of Lahore saw their patience rewarded. A good number are too young to remember the 1996 World Cup but they will not forget Australia’s five-wicket win over …

Space engineers are set to launch an unusual mission this week when they send a probe built by UK and US researchers to the moon to map water on its surface. Lunar Trailblazer’s two year mission is scheduled to begin on Thursday when the probe is blasted into space from …

The triple crown belongs to Ireland. The champions’ grand slam attempt remains alive, and they are poised to claim a third straight Six Nations title. But the headline here was a simply sensational performance by Wales under their new interim head coach, Matt Sherratt, who had a meagre four training …

Britons might never again get the chance to buy an electric kettle made in the UK. Even a £150 kettle from Dualit, the company most famous for making its celebrated toaster in Crawley, West Sussex, is produced by Chinese workers 5,000 miles away.

Most consumers think the whereabouts of the …

Hamas released six Israeli hostages on Saturday, but Israel delayed the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in exchange, putting the five-week-old ceasefire agreement once more in jeopardy.

The government said the release would be delayed until after a scheduled meeting of …

A three-year-old girl has been killed in a collision between a tram and a van in Manchester.

Greater Manchester police officers attended the scene on Mosley Street, near to St Peter’s Square, after the collision on Saturday morning.

Officers said the girl was taken to hospital after the incident in …

To uncover the location of one long-lost pharaoh’s tomb is a career-defining moment for an archaeologist. But to find a second is the stuff of dreams.

Last week British archaeologist Piers Litherland announced the find of the century – the first

discovery of a rock-cut pharaoh’s tomb …

Born in Bristol in 1988, Shon Faye studied English literature at Oxford University and trained as a lawyer before turning to writing. She worked as editor-at-large at

Dazed

BMW Group has paused a £600m investment into a Mini car assembly plant on the outskirts of Oxford, amid a declining demand for electric vehicles.

In 2023, the German carmaker, which has owned Mini since 2000,

announced the investment to upgrade its Cowley plant

Finding a way to keep two groups with opposing interests happy is the sort of tediously mainstream ­manoeuvre that Nigel Farage has managed to avoid in his political career so far.

But Reform UK’s leader

and, until last week, majority shareholder