4 hours ago Kohli and Jaiswal put ruthless India on verge of crushing victory over Australia

Australia 104 and 12-3; India 150 and 487-6 decHosts suffer on brutal day in field and at creaseCricket probably doesn’t owe Virat Kohli anything. It has given him riches beyond imagination, influence beyond reason, recognition that has built into idolatry. But then, he has given cricket riches, both in the literal cash churned from his name and the intangible of what his story has added to the game. So if the game owed him anything, perhaps it was a lucky break, one generous chance at a century to ease the tension of a lean 18 months without one. Walking out with India two wickets down, 321 runs ahead, with Yashasvi Jaiswal immaculately set on 141 and Australia already wheezing, the game delivered one.The third day of this first Test saw the real Perth appear. Not the mild impostor of ...

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5 hours ago I'm A Celeb SPOILER: Coleen Rooney looks unimpressed during her first trial as her shrieking campmate Dean McCullough is covered in fish guts

He's had a busy week taking on nearly ever trial so far in the I'm A Celebrity jungle.

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5 hours ago The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassionMany of the 26 stories in William Saroyan’s 1934 debut collection – reissued this month with an introduction by Stephen Fry – take place in Depression-era San Francisco and explore the experiences of ordinary people trying to get by. California-born, the son of Armenians who fled the genocidal Ottoman empire, Saroyan draws on his own heritage. His narrators are often struggling young writers, such as the protagonist of the title story, who lives on a diet of “bread and coffee and cigarettes” and laments the lack of “weeds in the park that could be cooked”.Despite the focus on poverty, there is an ebullience to Saroyan’s punchy prose. Take...

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5 hours ago Man tried to help injured stag caught in fencing but this is the thanks he got

Kind-hearted Glen Wilkinson's good deed backfired when he came to the rescue of a stag in distress - but he was gored in the thigh by the furious beast and ended up with a hole in his leg

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6 hours ago Rare Harry Potter books set to sell for £100K at world's first auction dedicated to famous wizard

The copies of The Philosopher's Stone are among a collection of Harry Potter memorabilia expected to top £126,000 when it goes under the hammer.

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7 hours ago Philippines VP Sara Duterte publicly threatens to have president assassinated

Philippine vice president says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed

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8 hours ago England suffer major blow as wicketkeeper Jordan Cox ruled out of New Zealand series

Ollie Pope is likely to take over the wicketkeeping role in the first Test against New Zealand after Cox, who had been set to deputise for an absent Jamie Smith, broke his thumb in the nets

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9 hours ago The big picture: earthbound reality at the International Space Station landing site in Kazakhstan

Andrew McConnell’s shot of a young scrap collector at the remote spot where astronauts return from space captures a curious juxtapositionThe photographer Andrew McConnell first went to Kazakhstan in 2015, to witness what the Earth’s primary space portal looked like on the ground. A particular corner of the remote steppe-land, near a village called Kenjebai-Samai, was where, every three months, astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station fell to earth, having been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 400 miles to the south. McConnell had spent much of the previous years working in war zones and was keen to focus on something more life-affirming.He discovered a curious landscape that was both on the frontier of human exploration and unchanged for centuries. Over a dozen ...

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20 hours ago Warren Gatland admits to uncertainty over future after Wales suffer 12th straight defeat

A heavy defeat to South Africa condemned Gatland’s young side to a winless 2024

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