The last time the British & Irish Lions lost a Test series having taken an initial 1-0 lead was in Australia 20 years ago. They had smashed the Wallabies 29-13 in Brisbane and were 11-6 up at half-time in the...
Last week, as the country was hitting peak “pingdemic”, I met key workers, in places ranging from food plants to care homes, in Manchester. They had been clapped and thanked many times, including by the prime minister. But they told...
President Nasser announced last night that the Egyptian Government had decided to nationalise the Suez Canal company and to use the income from the canal of $100m a year to build the Aswan high dam. Last week the United States and Britain...
BREXIT will trigger an exodus of nations from the European Union, according to a poll after Lord Frost made one last stab at calling for re-negotiations with the bloc over the Northern Ireland Protocol. A huge 86 percent of voters...
The Chanel suit, an outfit typically associated with ladies who lunch, has an unlikely new set of fans – Generation Z. This month Olivia Rodrigo, the 18-year-old singer of hits including Driver’s Licence and Good 4 U, chose a pink and black vintage...
Russian authorities have restricted access to Alexei Navalny’s website and those of dozens of his close allies, the imprisoned opposition leader’s team has said. The action came as the government increased pressure on opposition supporters, independent journalists and human rights...
The world economy risks losing $4.5tn (£3.3tn) from highly infectious variants of Covid-19 spreading through poor countries where vaccination rates are lower, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Calling on rich countries to take urgent action to share at least 1bn doses...
Press groups have expressed alarm at the worsening intimidation of foreign media in China, often driven by government officials and organisations. As recovery and rescue efforts continue in Henan province after last week’s deadly floods, groups including Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and...
At least 57 people have died after a migrant boat capsized off the Libyan coast, taking the total death toll in the central Mediterranean in 2021 to almost 1,000 – four times as many as in the same period last...
As recently as a week ago no one could have imagined the British & Irish Lions would announce a matchday squad containing Alun Wyn Jones and Marcus Smith to face the Stormers on Saturday. Even Warren Gatland, who has made...
