Shane Richardson and Owen Jenner suffer fatal injuries 47-year-old in hospital and five others treated at track Two riders have died and another has suffered significant injuries following a “catastrophic accident” during a British Supersport Championship race at Oulton Park in Cheshire. Owen Jenner, 21, and Shane Richardson, 29, sustained...
Zhao Xintong beats Mark Williams to become China’s first snooker world champion
Zhao wins 18-12 in dramatic final session in Sheffield ‘It’s unbelievable. This is like a dream,’ says Zhao The Crucible has been home to some of the most significant moments in snooker history. Minds will spring immediately to Dennis Taylor’s dramatic triumph in 1985, or one of Stephen Hendry or...
Untameable darts crowds tell us about the future of sport – and maybe society too | Jonathan Liew
Booing and flashpoints are commonplace in a sport further along on a journey that others are taking to varying degrees Let me tell you the moment I realised Boris Johnson was fucked. It was late 2021 and there had been some talk about parties in Downing Street during Covid, but...
Radio, Ceefax and text: the history of cricketers being selected for England
Players feel the same emotions but the difference in how selectors communicate shows how society has changed From the 2025 Wisden Almanack Phil Tufnell saw it on Ceefax. Peter Such found out from a journalist who had called him for a quote. A hungover Phillip DeFreitas was told by the...
Ravens make ‘football decision’ to cut star kicker Tucker amid sexual misconduct claims
Ravens do not mention allegations in release announcement Tucker denies allegations by massage therapists The Baltimore Ravens announced on Monday that they have decided to release Justin Tucker, months after reports that he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by massage therapists. The Ravens did not mention the allegations when...
Maro Itoje’s chance of Lions captaincy grows with Caelan Doris set for surgery
Injury to Ireland No 8 looks ‘serious’, says Leinster coach Andy Farrell due to name tour squad on Thursday Maro Itoje’s chances of being named British & Irish Lions captain this week have been strengthened after Caelan Doris – one of his closest rivals for the role – emerged as...
How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast
Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific...
Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study
Survey of 164 primates in Rwanda shows how impact of being close to others is affected by group size and sex Human friendship groups are complex – and often fraught – but a study of mountain gorillas has found that their societies can also be head-scratchingly complicated. The study, which...
Online tests revealed I have a multitude of food sensitivity issues – but are they trustworthy?
Three different tests flagged up a long list of potential problem foods, but they failed to agree on a single one The list of foods I should consider cutting out is long and daunting. Meat, mushrooms, most nuts and seeds, milk products, soya beans and potatoes – all this would...
AMD patents hint at significant ray tracing improvements in future GPU architectures
Reddit user MrMPFR's analysis of AMD patents from the past year and a half reveals that the company is serious about treating ray tracing as the future of real-time graphics rendering. While Nvidia has driven most of the technology's progress over the last several years, Team Red might finally be......