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.

Ministers have faced growing calls to recognise a Palestinian state immediately amid mounting global anger over the starving population in Gaza.

– Root climbed from fifth at the start of the Old Trafford Test to second as his score of 150 took him past India great Rahul Dravid, former South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis and ex-Australia ...

Nurse Sandie Peggie got into a dispute with Dr Beth Upton over her use of a female changing-room at work in Fife.

Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez told councillors that ‘dead bodies’ had been found in woodland near St Austell ...

Swindon Town will finish their pre-season slate on the road against National League side Eastleigh giving one last chance to figure things out ...

Police are appealing for information to locate a man wanted on suspicion of stalking. Aaron Stanton, 33, of Lacock, is wanted on suspicion of stalking. (Image: Wiltshire Police) Police are appealing ...

There were “failings” in the provision of care for former England cricketer Graham Thorpe in the months before he died, a coroner said, as he recorded a conclusion of suicide at his inquest. The ...

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 ...

However, Ekitike’s arrival in a £79m deal – and Liverpool’s continued interest in Alexander Isak, who has reportedly told Newcastle he wants to leave – could provide an escape route for Diaz if the ...

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 ...