Month: May 2025

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature There’s plenty of live sport going on around Europe today. Here are our other offerings, plus the Champions League final buildup. Share The FIA’s clampdown on the flexing of front wings has dominated all the preview talk in Barcelona. Let’s see […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Pegula makes it through, winning the final set a little easier than the rest of the match, beating Markéta Vondroušová 6-3 4-6 6-2 Share No third set bagel/beigel for Lahecka, as Sinner is pegged back to 2-1, though he has already […]

Israel threatens Hamas with ’annihilation’ as Trump says Gaza ceasefire ‘very close’ Israel has said Hamas must accept a hostage deal in Gaza or “be annihilated”, as Donald Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement was “very close”. It comes amid dire conditions on the ground, with the United Nations warning that Gaza’s entire population was […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 139km to go. Dries De Bondt (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) eases away from the bunch to take this intermediate sprint. That looked like he had the blessing from Pedersen to go and take those points. De Bondt is a long way […]

It goes without saying, but Taylor Swift has scored a lot of victories in the past few years. There was, first and foremost, the blockbuster Eras Tour, which became the bestselling concert tour of all time and a certifiable cultural era in itself. She released the bestselling concert film of all time, with a distribution […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Luis Enrique: “It has been a very difficult journey, with some really high-level matches since the very beginning of the competition,” said the PSG manager in yesterday’s pre-match press conference. “We’re used to playing these kinds of matches, and I think […]

Along a sun-dappled canal towpath in picturesque Hertfordshire countryside, a grey-brown bob rises and falls with the effortless bounce of a lithe, spectacled figure gliding her way past dog-walkers and afternoon ramblers. There is a watch – one of those smart-technology devices capable of producing all sorts of unnecessary metrics – on Sarah Roberts’s wrist, […]

Next month’s spending review must be an “economic reset” based on a bold wealth tax and higher public investment, the former cabinet minister Louise Haigh is to argue, as Keir Starmer faces renewed pressure from within Labour to change course. Haigh’s comments come as Andy Burnham called for Labour to “re-establish itself unequivocally once again […]

Poles will cast their votes on Sunday in the closest presidential runoff since the fall of communism, in an election that pits two different visions of the nation against each other. In Poland’s previous election in 2020, the conservative populist incumbent Andrzej Duda narrowly won the second-round vote against the pro-Europe mayor of Warsaw, Rafał […]

Within days of Russia launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Olaf Scholz announced a Zeitenwende, or historical “turning point”. The then German chancellor promised a security transformation by increasing defence spending, sending more aid to Ukraine, taking a tougher approach to authoritarian states and rapidly reducing Germany’s dependence on Russian energy. It was […]