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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 4th over: West Indies 20-0 (King 10, Carty 0) Impressive wicket maiden from Carse. Keacy Carty is the new batter and he blocks out the final delivery. His century on Sunday was somewhat overshadowed by Joe Root’s but, like the latter, […]

Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders quits government in dispute over immigration and asylum policy The Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has pulled his party out of the country’s four-party ruling coalition in a row over immigration and asylum policy, plunging the country into political uncertainty. Wilders, whose Freedom party (PVV) was the biggest in the […]

The Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has pulled his party out of the country’s four-party ruling coalition in a row over immigration and asylum policy, signalling the probable collapse of the Netherlands’ 11-month-old government. Wilders, whose populist, anti-Islam Freedom party (PVV) finished as the largest in parliament in the last elections, said on Tuesday he […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature First set: Sabalenka 3-4 Zheng* (*denotes next server) Last year at the French Open Sabalenka had her equivalent of Tottenham’s lasagne moment, losing in the quarter-finals to Mirra Andreeva after being laid low by a stomach upset. “I’m definitely not going […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Angela Rayner, deputy PM and housing secretary, arriving at Downing Street for cabinet today. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Share UK water industry needs ‘fundamental reset’, review finds The “deep-rooted, systemic” problems in the UK water industry are the fault of companies, the […]

Palestinians killed after Israeli military opens fire at aid distribution point Gaza’s civil defence agency said Tuesday that at least 15 people were killed in the south of the Gaza Strip – with Palestinian news agency Wafa putting the number higher at 24 – when Israeli troops again opened fire near an aid distribution point. […]

US private equity group KKR has pulled out of a deal to inject fresh equity into Thames Water, leaving the troubled supplier’s future in doubt and increasing the prospects of a temporary nationalisation. The UK’s biggest water supplier had picked KKR as its preferred partner, but the company has “indicated that it will not be […]

Adrian Lester transforming into Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfred Enoch taking on Henry V and a lauded reboot of The Forsyte Saga are part of a new Royal Shakespeare Company season its co-artistic directors say represents a bold “global” vision for the institution. Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey announced the latest productions on Tuesday, saying the […]

Waiting for the M49 bus to the zoo, Wolfgang, 82, peers down at the crumpled concrete and metal rubble below, the remains of a Berlin bridge recently demolished after wide cracks were discovered. Over the loud pounding of a hydraulic hammer crushing the concrete, the retired technician says he watched its construction about 60 years […]

Erin Patterson has told a court she wishes she never told her Facebook friends in a private group chat “this family I swear to fucking god” in relation to her in-laws, saying she felt ashamed but hoped that sharing her frustrations would mean she had a “big cheer squad” for her problems. Patterson also told […]