Andy Farrell’s side will bid to respond against Los Pumas after last week’s deflating 23-13 defeat to New Zealand knocked them off the top of the world rankings. Here, the PA news agency picks out ...

Gregor Townsend backed Tom Jordan to keep going from strength to strength after the new Scotland recruit agreed to join Bristol next season.

A deal to hire Yutaka Nakamura, who previously worked with Maria Sharapova and Naomi Osaka, is not yet signed off.

A Cabinet minister has attempted to ease concerns that a proposed law to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales could be rushed through Parliament. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill ...

Sara Sharif’s father had no answer as to how his daughter and another child suffered similar domestic iron burns and human bites, despite being the “common denominator”. For more than a week in the ...

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has denied multiple sex attacks on a woman and a teenage girl. On Thursday, the 49-year-old pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape, one count of ...

Claudio Ranieri has ended his retirement to return to Roma for a third spell. The veteran coach had been expected to walk away from the sport after he guided Cagliari to safety in May, almost 40 years ...

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Alex Samuel and Ben Muncaster are among 14 changes, with Stafford McDowell as captain and the untested Freddy Douglas among the replacements.

Rory McIlroy claimed a share of the lead on day one of the DP World Tour Championship to further tighten his grip on a sixth Race to Dubai title. McIlroy carded six birdies and a solitary bogey in an ...

Shortly after 9am, a man presented himself at hospital with a stab injury, his condition was assessed as non-life threatening. No arrests have been made as police enquiries into the circumstances ...

England are playing to avoid a fifth successive defeat when they host the all-conquering back-to-back world champions.