Ricky Ponting insisted there is “absolutely no reason” why Joe Root cannot become Test cricket’s all-time top run-scorer after he was leapfrogged to second on the list by the Yorkshireman.

Bafta-nominated actor Micheal Ward has been charged with rape and sexual assault. The 27-year-old, who has starred in Blue Story and Top Boy, is accused of offences against one woman in January 2023, ...

Oscar Piastri secured a dominant pole position for Saturday’s sprint race in Belgium as Lewis Hamilton qualified only 18th. McLaren’s Piastri, who holds an eight-point lead over championship rival ...

Veteran jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, famed for her scat singing style, has died at the age of 97. Nicknamed the First Lady of Jazz, she was a leading figure of the British jazz music scene along with ...

Local authorities with the greatest proportion of homes owned outright tend to be in coastal areas or away from cities.

Keaton Muldoon, 23, was cleared of murdering Alana Armstrong after a trial, but admitted causing her death by dangerous driving in May.

Phone notes made by a transgender doctor following a dispute with a nurse had been edited, a tribunal has heard. An employment tribunal was told on Friday that NHS Fife did not commission a forensic ...

Joe Root moved up to second on the all-time list of Test run-scorers, going past three greats of the game in one fell swoop following a majestic century for England against India.

The defendants, who cannot be named, boarded the bus 20 minutes later each armed with identical machetes hidden in their clothes.

Ahead of Staya at Royal Ascot was Charlie Clover’s Flowerhead, who outran huge odds of 100-1 to finish first of those on her side of the track and second to Aidan O’Brien’s True Love. She is another ...

Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed around 27 times in the attack that lasted around 14 seconds as he travelled on a route 472 bus ...

Crispin Odey is suing the Financial Times for libel and is separately being sued by five women over denied claims of alleged misconduct.