The parallels are imperfect but, as with Michael Vaughan’s Ashes winners, hyper-aggressive cricket with a tweaked approach in the second Test is the 2025 cohort’s only chance of winning Twenty years on, a montage of the 2005 Ashes still tingles the spine. Close your eyes and you can probably make...
Australia name unchanged squad for second Ashes Test with Pat Cummins still out
Fast bowler deemed not ready to return for Gabba day-night Test Opener Usman Khawaja retains place in 14-man squad The opportunity that England squandered in Perth has presented itself once more after Australia opted to play it safe with Pat Cummins and name an unchanged squad for next week’s day-night...
Aston Villa see off Young Boys in win marred by away fans fighting with police
Donyell Malen has a cut to the head and two more goals to his name after leading Aston Villa to the verge of automatic qualification for the last 16 of the Europa League against a backdrop of more crowd violence from Young Boys supporters. The Netherlands striker exemplifies Villa’s strength...
Kalimuendo strikes in Nottingham Forest’s nostalgic European win over Malmö
“Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that,” came the chant as Nottingham Forest supporters, not for the first time, enjoyed getting one over on Malmö. A lot has happened since Trevor Francis’s stooping header clinched the European Cup in Munich in 1979 but Forest still, rightfully, cherish those days. A...
NFL Thanksgiving games: Love powers Packers over Lions; Cowboys and Bengals win
Packers sweep Lions and strengthen division tiebreaker Prescott and Davis feature as Cowboys beat Chiefs Burrow helps Bengals spoil Ravens’ Thanksgiving Jordan Love converted a pair of fourth downs with touchdown passes in the first half and finished with a career-high-matching four TD throws, leading the Green Bay Packers to...
Defiant Arne Slot vows to ‘fight on’ after meeting with Liverpool sporting director
Head coach insists he has support of the club’s hierarchy Admits to ‘very difficult’ 10 minutes in PSV defeat Arne Slot has vowed to “fight on” at Liverpool and insisted support from the club’s hierarchy has not wavered following the alarming Anfield defeats by Nottingham Forest and PSV Eindhoven. The...
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Cherries fans wait on word of Semenyo, Gueye’s red card could leave Everton blue and Nuno needs new plans With Thomas Frank, Bryan Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa, Christian Nørgaard and Mark Flekken leaving Brentford in the summer, the Bees looked the established club most likely to go down, thereby allowing a...
Is it the beginning of the end for animal testing? – podcast
Patrick Vallance, the minister for science, research and innovation, recently unveiled a plan to cut animal testing through greater use of AI and other technologies, with the eventual aim of phasing it out altogether. To understand how this will affect research and what could be used in place of animal...
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance In the early hours of 28 May 2005, Isabelle Dinoire woke up in a pool of blood. After fighting with her family the night before, she turned to...
Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge
Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming. The architects of...