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Annual celebration on 12 July enables social players and children to challenge some of England’s best On Sunday, 12 July, ChessFest, the game’s annual celebr...

The New Zealander was the right man to take on the job of persuading a group of jaded senior players to play brilliant cricket, but may not suit a rebuildWai...

‘There was that fall last summer. I knew it was over’Injuries hampered the final years of rider’s careerChris Froome, the four-time winner of the Tour de Fra...

The Blue Sharks will become the smallest nation in history to play a knockout match at the World Cup when they face Argentina on FridayThe Festival da Gamboa...

Egypt face Australia in a historic World Cup game on Friday and the manager has been keen to highlight president Al-Sisi’s role in the achievementAfter Egypt...

? All the latest news and reaction from the World Cup? Player guide | Bracketology | Knockout draw | Email usSome fine 1994 memories from Republic of Ireland...

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Weekend’s high temperatures and humidity ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, researchers sayThe scorching heat blanketing much of the US this week...

Carl Freedman Gallery, MargateWith snogging snails, conjoined lovers and her own pug Telly as Jesus, the ceramicist sculpts a mangled mythology of her own re...

With a punkish, antifascist take on the trad jazz sound of Duke Ellington, this noisy outfit are epic in every way. But how on earth do they make a living?Fe...

The right wants to paint Manchesterism in terms of north v south – but poverty everywhere is solved by prioritising the public purse over private pocketsWhen...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsVoyages through the Strait of Hormuz have more than quadrupled in the past week amid growing confid...