Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. ★★☆☆☆ String quartets are mysterious entities, self-sufficient and enclosed. If they look grumpy, it doesn’t mean they are grumpy. If they ...

An obscure tax on insurance premiums now raises £4.8 billion a year, despite little evidence of its impact on consumer behaviour. The insurance premium tax, a levy on general insurance premiums ...

1. DON’T BOWL TOO SHORT There can be a tendency to get carried away with the bounce in Australia and that means sometimes they bowl too short. England’s bowlers shouldn’t have to adjust ...

The programme is out today for the 71st Venice Film Festival – generally the place where the Oscar drums start beating for the autumn.

There has not been an Irish-trained winner of the King George VI Chase since Barry Geraghty drove the Tom Taaffe-trained Kicking King to victory when the race was run at Sandown in 2005.

Cameron Norrie walked off Court 6 at Roland Garros yesterday having played, in his words, the best tennis of his life to win his first match here, and yet still he felt a sense of disappointment.

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Warren Gatland is not making the same mistake again. Having allowed the Cardiff-born wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso to slip through the net and represent England from Exeter Chiefs, Gatland has moved ...

We cut through the noise to the stories that matter - but sometimes the best stories are the ones behind the scenes. Let's not forget that news is often something that someone, somewhere, doesn't ...

2) Does that mean there is no longer sports news in the smartphone and tablet seven-day news apps? You’ll still be able to read all your favourite sports news in our seven-day news apps and ...

Journalist: “Could you ever see a day when United are underdogs in this fixture?” Sir Alex Ferguson: [pause] “What time is it? I think it’s time for me to leave.” [He rises from his seat ...

With three quite grown-up children, I’m trying to please one shopper, one skateboarder and one adventurer — and my wife, who wants to stay mainly in one place. The intersection of all these is ...