Although it’s been nearly 20 years since more than 100 countries adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the rights and lives of those it is meant to protect remain under constant threat from compounding crises. Indigenous lands are battered by record-breaking storms, dessicated by drought,...
India close on victory against England as Bhatia and Ecclestone make history
India 285 & 341-7dec; England 170 & 130-6 Two women claim Test milestones at Lord’s India are poised for victory in the one-off Test at Lord’s after reducing England to 130 for six in their second innings, having spent the first two sessions of the day batting them out of...
RIP Bazball: McCullum’s philosophy burned bright but all too briefly
The sacked England Test coach reinvigorated an ailing team in 2022, but his super-aggressive style proved unsustainable Farewell, then, to Bazball, the approach defined upon its adoption by the Collins English Dictionary in 2023 as “a style of Test cricket in which the batting side attempts to gain the initiative...
Tuchel and Bellingham need to cool tension with England so close to history | Jacob Steinberg
The latest episode of Thomas versus Jude does not have to descend into a drama and team cannot afford to be distracted heading into the World Cup semi-final Thomas Tuchel lobbed a grenade into the mix. Jude Bellingham picked it up and threw it back. There was an explosion of...
‘This one means a lot’: Sinner savours Wimbledon win after French Open disappointment
Sinner recovers from Roland Garros with win over Zverev World No 1 faced only one break point in final Jannik Sinner described his triumph at Wimbledon as particularly special considering his painful defeat at the French Open, after he recovered from a difficult first set to secure his second Wimbledon...
World Cup 2026: Buildup to blockbuster semi-finals, Infantino hints at 64-team expansion – live
Latest news as final week of World Cup gets under way Power rankings | Sign up to Football Daily | Email us I mean, just look at him. In which regard, here are some words on the great man. Continue reading...
Fastest spider in the world? This huge, hairy-legged Australian arachnid may be the quickest on the planet
A brown huntsman is the quickest of more than 250 species analysed by scientists in the UK and Germany If arachnophobes were not frightened enough by the horrific ability of Australia’s huntsman spiders to drag dead mice up the sides of fridges, they now have another reason. They might be...
Young crescent moon to meet Venus in evening twilight
Alignment will be one of the prettiest naked-eye sights of the month, if the sky is clear Two celestial beauties line up on Friday when the young crescent moon meets brilliant Venus in the evening twilight. It will be one of the prettiest naked-eye sights of the month, so long,...
Mushroom trip: a mycologist’s tour of the Tarkine
On a three-day fungi workshop in Australia’s largest cool temperate rainforest, Alexis Buxton-Collins unearths an unexpected appreciation for the third kingdom of life Revered as one of Australia’s last true wilderness areas, Takayna/Tarkine is a place of legends. Freshwater crayfish that can reach almost a metre in length lurk in...