Donald Trump dug in on Wednesday as his comments about fallen soldiers spiralled into the second major dispute of his political career with a bereaved military family.
This was a regulation Manchester United victory pulled straight out of the José Mourinho playbook. His side were uneven yet in Marcus Rashford had a player of elevated class who dragged United to three consecutive victories in Group A with…
Lionel Messi scored his 100th European goal as Barcelona maintained their 100 per cent start in Champions League Group D with a 3-1 victory over Olympiakos at the Camp Nou.
The Football Association’s senior management were facing calls for multiple resignations after a calamitous day for the people running the sport when their failings in the Mark Sampson affair were brutally exposed and the chief executive,…
Parents say Joshua Boyle, Canadian man freed with his family after five years, is in therapy and that recent comments are ‘not the words of a man who is well’
Chelsea halted a losing run here but, even in the knowledge that their leadership of this group is maintained, Antonio Conte will not be hoodwinked by this result. There had been moments when his side gasped at the ferocity of Roma’s…
Celtic are becoming ominously accustomed to Champions League mis-matches. The margin of defeat here may not have been as harrowing as delivered by Barcelona and Paris Saint‑Germain in the past 13 months but the tale of a gulf in class was…
Edin Dzeko scored twice – one a wonder goal – but Eden Hazard scored a brace himself to rescue a point for Chelsea in a pulsating game that Roma dominated
Greig Laidlaw is the latest high-profile player from the home nations to be ruled out of the autumn internationals through injury after Clermont confirmed the Scotland captain has sustained a broken fibula and will be out for up to three…
Donald Trump is pursuing “dangerous” policies on crime that ignore a growing bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform, former attorney general Eric Holder said on Wednesday at a summit in Washington.
A trio of works staged in striking industrial settings blur the roles of dancer and audience – and raise compelling questions about the nature of performance
This week the American writer George Saunders, celebrated for his short stories, won the Man Booker prize with his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. He talks about brevity, empathy and how he sees writing as a form of activism
Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves across Germany have vanished in 25 years, with serious implications for all life on Earth, scientists say
MP calls for FA officials to resign after calamitous day; Martha Kelner: FA needs urgent change at the top; FA apologises to Aluko and Drew Spence over Simpson’s racial remarks
President suggests that the former FBI director had decided to exonerate Clinton before the investigation was done, after new documents released by FBI
In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go ... with no human help
Major parties running in Argentina’s midterm congressional election on Sunday have suspended their campaigns after a body, thought to be that a young protester who went missing more than two months ago, was found in a river.
The Canadian province is barring public workers from wearing the niqab or burqa and obliging citizens to unveil while using public transit or government services