The beeping of old dialysis machines at the National Kidney Center in Kathmandu never stops. Nurses in dark blue scrubs rush around tending to the 55 people having their blood cleaned at any given time while cleaners squeeze by carrying stained sheets and buckets of bloody catheters. The facility, located...
Football’s fight club: which players have fallen out on the pitch with a teammate? | The Knowledge
Plus: long waits to play at a World Cup, champions being thrashed and title-winners with a negative goal difference Mail us with your questions and answers “Idrissa Gueye’s red card for slapping Michael Keane at Old Trafford made me wonder – which other players have put hands on a teammate...
Undercooked England will not play for a year until Rugby League World Cup
Coach insists more opportunities needed for team Executive knocks back idea England will not be ready England’s rugby league team will go into next year’s World Cup without playing a fixture for almost an entire year after it was confirmed there was no room in the 2026 Super League schedule...
England have no plans to reward Borthwick with new deal despite winning run
Head coach’s current deal runs until 2027 RFU annual report shows net loss of £1.9m The Rugby Football Union has no plans to begin talks with Steve Borthwick over extending his contract beyond 2027 “for the foreseeable future” despite England’s 11-match winning streak and autumn clean sweep. Borthwick’s contract runs...
Cristiano Ronaldo clear to start World Cup after Fifa suspends two games of his ban
Portugal forward was sent off against Republic of Ireland He missed Armenia game so is free to play at tournament Cristiano Ronaldo has been cleared to play in the opening matches of Portugal’s World Cup campaign after he was handed a suspended sentence for his red card against the Republic...
World Cup 2026 draw to adopt tennis-style system for the four top seeds
Spain, Argentina, France, England will be top seeds Fifa says measure will ‘ensure competitive balance’ The four highest-placed teams in Fifa’s rankings have had a pathway cleared to meet in the World Cup semi-finals after tennis-style seeding measures were introduced in the name of “ensuring competitive balance”. Spain, Argentina, France...
England can’t change now: Bazball approach must be seen through to its conclusion | Taha Hashim
This four-year experiment has produced exhilarating cricket – it is worth seeing the whole thing through before casting judgment Travis Head’s latest masterpiece is three days old, the postmortems are complete and England supporters have done their pained vox pops in Australia. And somehow we’re still more than a week...
Aubameyang fires Marseille to win as Newcastle fail to heed Howe’s warning
Newcastle cannot complain that they were not warned. Eddie Howe had cautioned his players that Pierre‑Emerick Aubameyang was “as good as ever” and would need to be “controlled” but, ultimately, the visitors proved powerless to prevent the 36-year-old transforming both the match and Marseille’s Champions League ambitions. While Aubameyang fulfilled...
Grimaldo and Schick shock understrength Manchester City in Bayer Leverkusen win
You had to go back to September 2018 for the last time Manchester City lost a Champions League group match at home, when Pep Guardiola was in the stands because of a ban, and Nabil Fekir’s winner gave Lyon a 2-1 victory. Guardiola stood down all but one of the...
Roman amphitheatre older than Colosseum gets accessible facelift for Winter Paralympics
Verona venue to host Milano-Cortina opening ceremony Critics see changes to 2,000-year-old arena as blasphemy A 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre is to be made fully accessible to people with disabilities before the Winter Paralympic Games in Milano‑Cortina, as organisers prioritise legacy with 100 days to go. The conversion of the Arena...