Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says the decision to remove Crystal Palace from the Europa League next season is “the biggest injustice in the history of football”. The Eagles were ordered on Friday to compete in the Conference League by Uefa for breaching multi-club ownership rules. American businessman John Textor owns a stake in Palace…
Summer tour second Test Japan (10) 22 Tries: Takeuch, Deans, Riley Cons: Lee 2 Pens: Lee Wales (21) 31 Tries: Adams, Hardy 2, Edwards Cons: Edwards 4 Pens: Edwards Wales held on for a first international win in 644 days as they ended their 18-Test losing run by defeating Japan in Kobe. The tourists levelled the series at 1-1 as they withheld a spirited second-half…
In her latest Wimbledon column, Sport analyst Naomi Broady – a former top-60 player on the WTA Tour – analyses where Saturday’s women’s final between Iga Swiatek and Amanda Anisimova will be won and lost. On one side, we have a five-time Grand Slam champion who has always had an uneasy relationship with the grass….
Ireland’s Katie Taylor beat Amanda Serrano for the third time in their epic trilogy, winning their bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden on a majority decision after a chess match of a fight. Two of the cards read 97-93 in favour of undisputed light-welterweight champion Taylor, with the third card unable to split them…
Warmer water at the seaside might sound nice for your holiday dip, but recent ocean heat in the Mediterranean Sea has been so intense that scientists fear potentially devastating consequences for marine life. The temperature of the sea surface regularly passed 30C off the coast of Majorca and elsewhere in late June and early July,…
It’s a dance, a viral meme, and now a trend among elite athletes. Over the last few weeks, social media feeds all over the world have been flooded with videos of a sunglass-wearing young boy in Indonesia, balancing on the tip of a long racing boat and doing what is possibly the world’s coolest dance. It’s being…
A small ceremonial fire has been burning for more than 1,300 days on a dusty stretch of Wangan and Jagalingou Country in central Queensland, the second largest state in Australia. The flame marks the site of a protest that has been going on for more than four years. It stands at the heart of a…
Pakistan police have arrested 149 people in a raid on a scam call centre, the country’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) said on Thursday. The agency told the BBC it acted after a tip-off about the network, which was operating in the city of Faisalabad. It said the centre was involved in Ponzi schemes…
A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: “If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.” And many Kashmiris insist it was written with Pahalgam in mind. The small town, nestled between tall Himalayan mountains with a gurgling Lidder River flowing through it, is…
0:16Air India plane descending moments before crash Investigators have made a chilling discovery in the preliminary investigation into the Air India Flight 171 crash which killed 260 people in June. Just seconds after take-off, both of the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the “cut-off” position, starving the engines of fuel and…
