The Women’s Ashes is over after Australia wrapped up a multi-format whitewash to take a 16-0 series sweep. Here, the PA news ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...

Gavin Cromwell’s Hello Neighbour ensured that Willie Mullins would be unable to repeat his clean sweep of Dublin Racing Festival Grade Ones when grimly holding on to win the Gannon’s City Recovery & ...

Aston Villa are close to agreeing a loan deal for Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, the PA news agency understands. The 27-year-old has been frozen out at Old Trafford under new boss Ruben ...

A man from Southend has been charged with burglary and fraud offences in Rayleigh. Paul Chambers, 30, of Prittlewell Street in Southend was arrested last week and has now been charged with burglary, ...

The plan backfired, though, as he could not live with Nicky Henderson’s Arkle favourite and such was the manner of the defeat, Ballyburn now steps back up to the distance over which he was so ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered in central London with a march in support of Tommy Robinson and a separate counter-demonstration.

England are resigned to drawing a line under Harshit Rana’s controversial appearance as a concussion substitute after he helped India take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the T20 series.

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard. President of Ireland Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Longley’s ...

United head into Sunday’s Premier League match at home to Crystal Palace on the back of three successive victories.

Willie Mullins began the Dublin Racing Festival in the best possible fashion when Final Demand displayed plenty of stamina in winning the Nathaniel Lacy & Partners Solicitors Novice Hurdle at ...

A Russian missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Poltava killed at least five people and injured 13 more, including three children, Ukraine’s emergency services reported.