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County cricket: Northants v Lancs, Yorks v Durham and more – live | County Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWorcestershire are 34 for 3 at Cheltenham! Matt Taylor has a quick brace...

Starmer says Labour changed trans policy in light of Scotland’s gender recognition bill – UK politics live | Politics

Starmer suggests Labour changed its trans policy in light of what happened to Scotland's gender recognition billCampbell reads out some questions on trans issues....

Ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra will return to Thailand next month, daughter says | Thailand

Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has spent more than 15 years in self-imposed exile to avoid legal charges, will return to the...

Women’s World Cup 2023: Spain v Zambia – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature19 mins: Susan Banda is on the deck and needs the physio. She...

Rishi Sunak’s only hope of a legacy is to govern as though he has already lost the election | Rafael Behr

British politics is shrinking. Partly that is a trick of perspective as an election comes into view and the ruling party flinches from long-term...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy issues fresh corruption warning; Russia raises conscription age limit | Ukraine

Zelenskiy issues fresh corruption warningUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he would tolerate no corruption or treachery in affairs of state while his...

Japan v Costa Rica: Women’s World Cup 2023 Group C – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe two teams are out and about warming up.Japan 5-0 Zambia match reportThe...

Spot the difference: why drongos are likely to clock African cuckoo eggs 94% of the time | Science

Cuckoos might be the ultimate avian con artists, laying lookalike eggs in the nests of other birds to avoid raising their own young, but...

Planks and wall sits best exercise for lowering blood pressure, study says | Health

For most people the very thought of doing a plank raises the blood pressure. But a study suggests it is actually the most effective...

Zambia’s Barbra Banda: ‘I was a pro boxer. I had no option but to go one way’ | Women’s World Cup 2023

When Barbra Banda scored successive hat-tricks at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, in Zambia’s 10-3 defeat against the Netherlands and a dramatic 4-4 draw...

‘It’s all about money’: women’s cycling boom opens up new gaps in peloton | Tour de France Femmes

Audrey Cordon-Ragot knows better than most how precarious a career in the women’s peloton can be. Racing in the Tour de France Femmes, for...

Six men guilty of murder over Brussels terrorist attacks in 2016 | Brussels attacks

Six men have been found guilty of murder and attempted murder for their part in the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks that killed 32 people...

Bryan Cranston leads actors’ strike rally in New York: ‘We will not allow you to take away our dignity’ | US actors’ strike 2023

Stars abounded at the Sag-Aftra rally in Times Square on Tuesday, as Hollywood actors continue their simultaneous strike with writers.Actors including Bryan Cranston, Christine...

‘It’s unsustainable’: can Hollywood survive without transformation? | Film industry

It was a pink mushroom cloud that even enveloped the White House. “Did you see Barbie or Oppenheimer this weekend?” a reporter asked the...

This England side will be remembered despite failure to regain Ashes | Ashes 2023

England couldn’t get the result they wanted from the fourth Test, but they did prove something to any remaining doubters. They fell 2-0 behind...

Earl embraces Kompany’s intensity with Rugby World Cup target in sight | England rugby union team

At 6ft 4in tall and with a frame strong enough to carry a Premier League title charge, Vincent Kompany would have fit right in...

Norway’s Graham Hansen angered by lack of Swiss role in World Cup draw | Norway women’s football team

The Norway winger, Caroline Graham Hansen, criticised the decision to start her on the bench in her side’s scoreless draw with Switzerland on Tuesday...

Naoya Inoue lays waste to Stephen Fulton to become four-division world champion | Boxing

Japanese boxing star Naoya Inoue bolstered his claim as the world’s best fighter regardless of weight on Tuesday when he laid waste to Stephen...

Tour de France Femmes: stage three updates on road to Montignac-Lascaux – live | Tour de France Femmes

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature82km to go: Kathrin Hammes has been caught by the bunch following her...

Stephen Fulton v Naoya Inoue: WBC/WBO junior featherweight championship – live | Boxing

Round 2Inoue cracks Fulton with a four-punch combination. Fulton remaining patient and composed but Inoue is on the attack, winning the exchanges with his...

‘It’s a miracle I’m alive’: the Pakistani policeman who survived June’s tragic Greek shipwreck tells his story | Global development

Usman Siddique, 27, from the city of Gujrat in the Punjab province of Pakistan, was on board the fishing trawler carrying hundreds of people...

County cricket: Somerset v Surrey, Hampshire v Essex, and more – live | County Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureI’ll have what Toby Roland-Jones is having… he’s picked up two Warwickshire wickets...

Gove says 2030 ‘immovable’ date to ban new petrol cars sales as MPs tell Sunak to halt ‘mixed signals’ on climate policy – UK...

Key eventsHouseholds in temporary accommodation in England up 10% in past year, hitting record at 104,510, figures showThe number of households in temporary accommodation...

Switzerland v Norway: Women’s World Cup 2023 – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature18 min: Haavi tries a back heel, potentially inspired by Brazil’s Ary Borges,...

Inflation drives up UK debt bill; Price rises boost Unilever sales – business live | Business

Introduction: UK set to incur "highest debt interest costs in developed world"Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets...

‘This will not be swept away’: the bamboo homes helping Pakistan’s post-flood rebuild | Environmental sustainability

A year ago, Shani Dana’s mudbrick house was swept away in the worst floods on record to hit Pakistan. More than 1,700 people were...

New Zealand v Philippines: Women’s World Cup 2023 – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe Philippines, thanks to a strong diaspora community in New Zealand (and being...

Obama’s personal chef dies while paddleboarding off Martha’s Vineyard | Massachusetts

Barack Obama’s personal chef died while paddleboarding near the ex-president’s home on Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend, Massachusetts state police said.Authorities recovered the body...

Israel protests: doctors announce strike amid mass demonstrations over judicial overhaul | Israel

Doctors across Israel are set to strike on Tuesday in protest against the passing of a key part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul, after...

Telegraph Media Group says it will soon reach 1m paying subscribers | Telegraph Media Group

The Telegraph’s parent company has insisted it will soon have a million paying subscribers – aided by the decision to buy Classic Boat magazine.Telegraph...

‘A dark day for Israeli democracy’: US Jewish groups denounce Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul | Israel

Jewish groups in the US have condemned the Israeli parliament’s vote to limit the power of the judiciary as a threat to democracy and...

Barbenheimer bonanza: how two films saved the summer box office | Barbie

The past weekend wasn’t the first time that two major films had been released simultaneously but the big screen blitz of Barbie and Oppenheimer...

Stokes and McCullum want to save Test cricket but we must look beyond Big Three | Ashes 2023

Cancel the open-topped bus parade. Stash the MBEs back in the drawer. Slap a half-price sticker on the basket of bucket hats. Manchester woke...

Remember Trevor Francis for what he achieved, not what might have been | Football

In December 1978, the 24‑year‑old Trevor Francis shambled on to the stage to receive the Midland Football Writers’ Player of the Year award from...

‘A near-death experience’: UK tourists describe escape from Rhodes wildfires | Greece

Dean Mason, 56, from Rothley in Leicestershire, described getting caught up in the Rhodes wildfires as a “near-death experience”.Mason arrived at a hotel in...

X marks the spot: the many fellow fans of Elon Musk’s favourite letter | Elon Musk

Elon Musk has replaced Twitter’s longstanding bluebird logo with an “X”, reflecting the company’s new name of X Holdings Corp and his vision of...

‘You need the glamour of a big opening’: US actors’ strike starts to bite on red carpet | US actors’ strike 2023

Margot Robbie’s global tour of Barbie outfits didn’t reach New York. A screening of Mattel’s doll-inspired would-be mega-franchise stood in place of a premiere....

Intelligent, courageous and charming: a tribute to George Alagiah | Television

The first BBC TV newsreaders were actors or announcers: a decision rooted in the fear that journalists might insert their views into bulletins through...

Barbie: the patriarchy, the existentialism, the capitalism – discuss with spoilers | Barbie

When the news first broke that Greta Gerwig would tackle a Barbie movie, excitement started to build long before anyone actually knew what that...

Wet Leg, Fontaines DC … Kylie? The weird world of post-punk superproducer Dan Carey | Music

Dan Carey’s studio is notoriously hectic at the best of times, but today takes the biscuit. The air is thick with hangovers, the tabletops...

Popp’s double helps Germany ruin Morocco’s Women’s World Cup debut | Women’s World Cup 2023

After an opening night upset and some unexpectedly close games so far in the Women’s World Cup, there was an open, albeit optimistic question...

Tour de France Femmes 2023: riders take on rolling hills to Mauriac on stage two – live | Tour de France Femmes

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature145km to go: As the road starts to rise, some riders are already...

Netanyahu out of hospital as thousands protest in Israel over judicial vote | Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has arrived at parliament for a key vote related to his government’s bitterly contested judicial overhaul, only hours after...

Paunch-free zone: why the Barbie movie’s body diversity message shortchanges Ken | Barbie

The Barbie movie’s great triumph is its heroine’s makeover. After a difficult history setting, and maintaining, unrealistic beauty standards, she has been reinvented as...

Germany v Morocco: Women’s World Cup 2023 – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMartina Voss-Tecklenberg speaks ...“I want to trust players to make decisions, to think...

Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a weather forecaster? | Mathematics

If you are reading this during your UK staycation, there’s a good chance it’s bucketing down. Or at least drizzling. If you are on...

TV tonight: The Unique Boutique is a joyous new makeover show | Television

The Unique Boutique10pm, Channel 4We have come a long way since the dark days of the body-shaming makeover shows of the 00s, such as...