Ben Stokes says he wants to carry on as England captain and has backed coach Brendon McCullum despite concluding the Ashes series with a 4-1 defeat to Australia. England lost the fifth and final test of a deeply disappointing series at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday and the loss will do little to dampen […]
Manchester City and Aston Villa missed the chance to make significant inroads into Arsenal’s Premier League lead on Wednesday as managerless Manchester United were held at lowly Burnley. Elsewhere on a frantic night of action, 10-man Chelsea went down 2-1 at Fulham in front of new boss Liam Rosenior and Antoine Semenyo scored a fairytale […]
Manchester United’s Benjamin Sesko scored twice as his team kicked off the post‑Ruben Amorim era with a familiar sense of frustration in a 2-2 Premier League draw at lowly Burnley on Wednesday. United, with interim manager Darren Fletcher in charge, would have climbed to fourth in the table with a win but slipped to seventh […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday strongly rejected allegations that it facilitated terrorism, saying the party has consistently held that terrorism is a national menace and must not be politicised. The remarks were made at a press conference in Islamabad by PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, senior leader Salman Akram Raja and former National Assembly […]
Ali Tareen has announced he will not take part in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise auction, as the tournament prepares to expand to eight teams ahead of its 11th edition. The decision comes on the day the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to auction two new franchises at the Jinnah Convention Centre in […]
Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London is investigating attacks on YouTubers Adil Raja and Shahzad Akbar in Chesham and Cambridge, which are believed to be “coordinated attacks”. On December 24, 2025, Adil Raja’s home in Chesham was broken into by two men wearing dark clothing. The property was empty at the time, and police are treating […]
Australia won the final Ashes Test against England by five wickets on Thursday to seal a dominant 4-1 victory after a gruelling series, sending the retiring Usman Khawaja out on a high. The nervy hosts saw wickets tumble as they chased their 160 target, which they reached after lunch on day five with Cameron Green […]
Australia batsman Usman Khawaja admitted he found it hard to control his emotions after playing the final Test of a distinguished 88-Test career on Thursday. The 39-year-old was given a guard of honour by the England players when he walked out to bat for the final time at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with visiting captain […]
A US immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis on Wednesday during an immigration enforcement surge, according to local and federal officials, the latest violence in President Donald Trump’s nationwide crackdown on migrants. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey adamantly rejected the Trump administration’s assertion that the agent fired in self-defense, saying […]
A convoy of Tehreek Tahaffuz Aain Pakistan (TTAP), an alliance of opposition parties, departed from Islamabad for Lahore on Thursday to express solidarity with the sisters of jailed PTI founder Imran Khan. Led by TTAP chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, the convoy included around 70 vehicles carrying senior leaders of the movement as well as opposition […]