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'We've nothing to lose - it's the opportunity of a lifetime'

Four-time Olympic champion is relishing the biggest challenge of his career: toppling New Zealand to win Britain's first America's Cup

Colwill reaping benefits of leaving the Cobham bubble

Moving back to the family home in Southampton has motivated the defender to star for club and country.

Grealish thanks Carsley for trusting in his abilities

Jack Grealish has said he is grateful for the trust Lee Carsley has placed in him after being left out of England's Euro 2024 squad, but predicted that the interim head coach could suffer from sleepless nights as he attempts to fit into one team all the talented players at his disposal.

Greenwood targets win against 'world best' Barcelona

Manchester City face huge test of mettle at Joie Stadium during their first appearance in the group stages

Ramírez rises to the occasion as Real fail to stop Blue tide

A 3-2 defeat of Real Madrid ensured Chelsea cruised to a 10th unbeaten home group game, as they began their first campaign under new manager Sonia Bompastor at Stamford Bridge.

'I would have liked to have played until 90'

Andrés Iniesta brings curtain down on his glorious playing career after more than 1,000 matches across 22 years.

‘It's tough’ Duckett expected to be fit to bat

England are monitoring the fitness of Ben Duckett after the opener sustained a suspected dislocated thumb on his left hand while fielding on the second day of the opening Test against Pakistan, forcing him to sit out the start of his team's first innings.

Crawley and Root rebuild after another day of toil and mishaps for England

For the best part of two days England toiled in the field, hours of perspiration and very occasional inspiration in which Pakistan accumulated a score that many opponents - though perhaps not these, who beyond their general proclivity to positivity have won the last two games in which they had conceded more than 500 - would find completely daunting. England kept calm, kept trying, pushing, working, making occasional inroads but very few mistakes. And then, in the space of just a few minutes, that all changed.

Beijing slaps tariffs on brandy in escalating trade row with the EU

China has imposed tariffs on European Union brandy imports in an escalating trade row with Brussels over extra levies on Chinese-made electric vehicles.

China to lead rollout of renewable energy capacity this decade

China is expected to account for almost 60% of all the renewable energy capacity installed worldwide between now and 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.

SFO reaches settlement deal in legal tussle with Kazakh firm

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Kazakh mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation have agreed a settlement to end one part of a years-long legal battle.

Profit alert wipes £1.2bn off value of homebuilder Vistry

More than £1bn was wiped off the value of the homebuilder Vistry yesterday after it said building costs on some of its projects had been \"understated\" and issued a profit warning.

Shein profits double in UK after 40% leap in sales

The online fast fashion retailer Shein doubled profits at its UK arm last year as sales jumped almost 40% to £1.5bn - making it about the same size as its rival Boohoo.

Channel 4 chiefs accept hefty bonuses as revenues fall by record 10%

Channel 4's bosses accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds in bonus payments last year, despite the broadcaster suffering the steepest fall in revenues in its 41-year history.

Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest run of airstrikes since coup

Myanmar's military last month launched some of its heaviest aerial campaigns since the 2021 coup, killing at least 26 people in seven airstrikes.

Beer cans binned by mistake at museum are an artwork

A Dutch museum has recovered an artwork that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin.

Beijing wins library of the year award for 'spectacular' green design

Beijing library has the world's largest climatised reading space and a 'nature-infused design'

‘Bands put Iceland on the map’ Tourism forces music venues to close

Tourism forces music venues to close

Orbán would celebrate a Trump win with 'bottles of champagne'

Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orbán said he will open \"several bottles of champagne\" if Donald Trump is re-elected to the White House next month.

More European countries join cold-case push to identify dead women

Police have expanded a cold-case campaign aimed at identifying dozens of women who were murdered or who died in suspicious circumstances across Europe, taking in three new countries and more than doubling the number of cases.

Mexican city's mayor beheaded in attack days after taking office

Mexico's new government has been shaken by the murder of a city mayor who was attacked and beheaded just days after taking office.

Harris promises Medicare to cover long-term care at home

The Democratic US presidential nominee, Vice-President Kamala Harris, has announced a plan for long-term, at-home care services through Medicare, the public health insurance programme for Americans older than 65.

Trump secretly sent Covid test machines to Putin, reporter claims in book

Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 testing machines to Vladimir Putin in the early stages of the pandemic when such resources were in short supply, the veteran reporter Bob Woodward claims in an eagerly awaited new book.

Disgraced surgeon's colleague raised concerns 20 years ago

A colleague of the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns about him carrying out \"incomplete\" breast cancer operations two decades ago, an inquest has heard.

Eyes on the £1m prize: AI glasses on dementia shortlist

With thick plastic frames and wide arms, the chunky glasses look like 3D specs handed out in a 1990s cinema - not the kind of technology you associate with 21st-century science prizes. But put them on, and the real world takes on a new dimension.

Building HS2 to Euston and Crewe could pay for itself, analysis finds

Building HS2 all the way to London Euston and Crewe could save the government money by enabling it to lease the line out for much more, rail industry leaders have told ministers, as the Treasury weighs up whether to fund tunnels to central London.

Grieving family of poet denied entry to council flat to retrieve his work

The family of a council housing tenant who recently died fear losing his life's work because bureaucracy has barred them from entering his flat.

Art review Turbine of dripping goo too low on energy to be disgusting

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commission is always a daunting prospect for an artist.

Two pioneers of AI win Nobel prize in physics for work on machine learning

Two researchers who helped lay the foundations for modern artificial intelligence - although one later warned of its potential harms - have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physics.

Climbers tell of being stranded in Himalayas after losing kit

A British mountaineer and her American companion who were stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food have described the long silence between them after most of their equipment plunged into a ravine.