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A lengthening afternoon, an Adelaide Test, and two South Australians batting together in the sunshine. Something felt very right about that, as Travis Head and Alex Carey took Australia towards a first-innings lead of 157 against India through much of the second session of day two. The old scoreboard ticking, …

Storm Darragh has knocked out power for thousands of homes, cancelled events, disrupted travel networks and forced the Cabinet Office to urge 3 million people to stay at home, as

bracing winds and heavy rains

A red warning for wind, …

Long before he started making guns with a 3D printer, Viljam Nyman was a kid who was bullied. In a document police later found on his computer, titled “The life story of how I became a far-right extremist”, Nyman described his childhood in Lahti, a city in southern Finland, being …

Momentum has returned to the Gaza peace talks and an agreement is possible before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Qatar’s prime minister has said.

Speaking at the annual Doha forum, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said the two key issues were whether there was willingness to have a …

Gus Atkinson is a man of few words but so far in his first year as a Test cricketer, the deeds have pretty much spoken for themselves. Even capping off what has been a sparkling 2024

with a Test hat-trick

From the outside, Drew Petersen is living the dream. As a professional skier, he is paid to travel the world, ski powder, and make turns in front of a camera. It’s the life kids dream of, but it isn’t the full truth.

Petersen, 30, has fought a lifelong battle with …

The event began with an opening dance, then the “debutantes lined up for a waltz with their fathers” before being “passed on to their cavaliers”. “Family and other guests sat at tables in golden chairs and took it all in, as the chandelier ceiling dripped with decadence.”

Those sentences were …

European military aid to Ukraine may eventually need to be doubled if Donald Trump cuts off US funding, European diplomats fear, but Ukraine is confident with already announced US aid this year that it has the military and budgetary support to keep fighting through 2025.

The former EU foreign affairs …

Moammar Ali has been searching for his older brother for 39 years.

In 1986, Syrian soldiers arrested the university student Ali Hassan al-Ali, then 18, at a checkpoint in north Lebanon. Moammar has not heard from him since.

He spent the next three decades visiting different security branches in Syria, …

In Gaza, where despair is everywhere, hope is the vital currency offered to children and their families by Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, the psychiatrist in charge of running Gaza’s biggest mental health charity.

“Without hope, we cannot pass anything on to those families, to those children,” says Abu Jamei, who …