World No 2 hits double bogey after playing under peel McIlroy five-under after third round at Royal Melbourne The luck of the Irish has deserted golfing superstar Rory McIlroy, with Royal Melbourne tossing up a banana peel in the latest obstacle to his second Australian Open title. The world No...
World Cup draw reaction with fixture schedule to come – matchday live
⚽ Reaction to the draw and pre-match news ⚽ Fixtures | Tables | Read Football Daily | Mail us Another key moment from the draw yesterday was Donald Trump receiving… an award. The President of the United States was named the first winner of the newly created Fifa peace prize,...
Norris’ date with F1 destiny arrives as he aims to keep Verstappen and Piastri at bay
He has a 12-point lead before Sunday’s Abu Dhabi GP but the British driver vows to ‘crack on’ if the title goes elsewhere The atmosphere at a season-deciding finale in the Formula One world championship is like no other. The paddock positively hums with a febrile, pulsing excitement and sense...
Sale blow 14-0 lead and slump to home defeat by Glasgow in Champions Cup opener
Sale 21-26 Glasgow Alex Sanderson’s injury-hit side in worrying slide Losing is in danger of becoming a habit for Sale after a stellar ÂGlasgow side headed back north with a Âbonus-point win in this Champions Cup opener. Alex Sanderson’s hosts, beaten here by Exeter a week ago and already off...
Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day three – live
Hosts pull away to 177-run first-innings lead at the Gabba Ashes top 100 | Get the Spin newsletter | Email Rob 74th over: Australia 379-6 (Carey 47, Neser 15) Stokes starts around the wicket to the left-handed Alex Carey. Two slips in place. The first ball is defended for a...
Five years on: rugby’s brain damaged players wait and wait for the help they need
In 2020 Steve Thompson revealed he could not remember winning the Rugby World Cup and since then his case and others have been caught up in a warren of legal argument The Royal Courts of Justice are a warren. They were built piecemeal over 125 years of intermittent construction, wings...
BBC showing tennis’s new Battle of the Sexes will just offer up opportunity to belittle women’s sport | Barney Ronay
The match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios opens up a direct channel between the BBC of old and a world of toxic internet hatred It’s always best to take a sceptical view of the constant flow of BBC-bashing newspaper stories, which are often simply bogus outrage expressed for commercial...
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis What is polygenic embryo screening in IVF and does it work? Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ,...
Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’
Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause...
JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web
Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, hacked together the technology in a 10-day marathon while working at Netscape. Today, JavaScript is used by an estimated 98.9% of all websites – although......