Some 250,000 mourners paid their respects to Pope Francis over a three-day lying-in-state, the Vatican said on the eve of his funeral. World leaders and dignitaries were arriving in Rome on Friday, to ...

Mark Williams and Hossein Vafaei are locked at 4-4 after a gruelling opening session of their own second round match that continues on Friday evening, while Zhao Xintong will take 5-3 lead into ...

England’s Josh Tongue picked up a second consecutive five-wicket haul at Trent Bridge as Nottinghamshire dismissed Sussex for 169 before ...

Albion suddenly have TWO specialist right-backs back in contention to play. How fit and ready Joel Veltman and Tariq Lamptey are could well dictate part of Fabian Hurzeler’s line-up to face West Ham.

Emma Raducanu’s hopes of another strong WTA 1000 run ended with a second-round loss to Marta Kostyuk at the Madrid Open. The former US Open champion reached the quarter-finals of one of the WTA Tour’s ...

A woman who stabbed a man to death in a racist and unprovoked attack had asked her care worker that she be sent back to hospital minutes before the killing. Hubert “Isaac” Brown, 61, was sitting on a ...

Some 150,000 people have passed by Francis’s coffin over the past three days as he lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica.

Cyriel Dessers is “very keen” to remain at Rangers next season amid the prospect of some big changes at Ibrox.

Bowen also rode Fairlawn Flyer (11-4 favourite) to what looked an unlikely success in the QuinnBet Highland National Handicap Chase for his father and brother, Peter and Michael, while Murphy employed ...

Ralph Beckett is not ruling out a tilt at the Betfred Oaks after Tattycoram opened her account in the bet365 ‘Wild Card’ Fillies’ Novice Stakes at Sandown.

Paul Antony Butler, 53, stabbed university lecturer Claire Chick, 48, in a frenzied attack outside her home in Plymouth in January this year ...