24 h. ago George Mills wins 3,000m silver at European Indoor Championships

The 25-year-old Briton, who is the son of former England footballer Danny Mills, finished runner-up to Jakob Ingebritsen.

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29 h. ago Jeremiah Azu wants 2025 to be ‘year of my life’ after European Indoor title

Azu thanked his partner Terri, who gave birth to his son Azaire last week

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30 h. ago Welsh sprinter Jeremiah Azu wins European Indoor gold as he smashes personal best

The Cardiff sprinter clocked a personal best in the 60m and claimed gold for Great Britain

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43 h. ago Jeremiah Azu wins European Indoor gold for Britain in men’s 60m

23-year-old takes title one week after becoming father‘It’s a huge moment becoming a European champion’It took 6.49sec of staggering power and fluency for Jeremiah Azu to win the 60m European Indoor gold for Britain. And about the same time again for him to have a packed crowd in Apeldoorn eating out of his hand.For no sooner had he been asked for his thoughts on his victory, the Rotterdam-born Azu began to speak in fluent Dutch: “I am here, I am in the building!” Having been foot perfect on the track, the 23-year-old proved to be word perfect off it too. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Georgia Hunter Bell misses out on 1500m gold after ear infection woe

Favourite is fourth at European Indoor ChampionshipsAgathe Guillemot wins as Hunter Bell has late slumpGeorgia Hunter Bell was such a huge favourite for 1500m gold that a £50 bet on her to win at the European Indoor Championships would have returned just one pound of profit. She was Britain’s banker. A cast-iron certainty. And then, with 100m to go, it all went horribly wobbly.At that point, the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist was leading and looked to have everything under control. But just when everyone expected her to switch on the afterburners, her legs turned into spaghetti – the result, it later transpired, of an ear infection. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Georgia Hunter Bell misses out on 1500m gold after ear infection

Favourite is fourth at European Indoor ChampionshipsAgathe Guillemot wins as Hunter Bell has late slumpGeorgia Hunter Bell was such a huge favourite for 1500m gold that a £50 bet on her to win at the European Indoor Championships would have returned just one pound of profit. She was Britain’s banker. A cast-iron certainty. And then, with 100m to go, it all went horribly wobbly.At that point, the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist was leading and looked to have everything under control. But just when everyone expected her to switch on the afterburners, her legs turned into spaghetti – the result, it later transpired, of an ear infection. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Chess returns to the screen on Monday with Chess Masters: The Endgame

The new programme on BBC Two will be very different from 42 years ago when the eighth and final series of The Master Game was never shown due to industrial actionFour decades ago, the eighth and last series of BBC Two’s much-admired chess programme The Master Game was never screened in the UK, because of industrial action by technicians. Tony Miles defeated Anatoly Karpov in the 1983 final, the Englishman’s second victory over the then world champion after his stunning 1 e4 a6 win at the 1980 European Teams.It was the end of an iconic programme, first launched in 1975 in the wake of the Fischer-Spassky boom. The Master Game’s innovative production made it appear that the players were speaking their thoughts on the game while it was in progress. Nigel Short, later a world title challenger, competed aged 11, in 1977, when his opponent Bill Hartston asked: “Has nobody told this boy never to accept pawns from strange men?” Short went on to win the event in 1981. An entire generation of ...

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3 d. ago Fenerbahce 1 Rangers 3: Barry Ferguson masterminds stunning win over Jose Mourinho's men on European debut

The 42-year-old says he is proud of his side's performance that gives them a big advantage heading into next week's second leg

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4 d. ago Real Sociedad’s Alex Remiro: ‘With United it feels like something always goes wrong’

The Real Sociedad and Spain goalkeeper on old teammates, new challenges and how Manchester United inspired himSometimes it’s the detail that stays with you. Alex Remiro can’t remember the brand, but he can still see the colour, the way they looked, how much he liked them. “When I was a kid, if you became a goalkeeper it was because you were an Iker Casillas fan, because you were the biggest, or because no one else wanted to do it,” he says. Or because one day in Cascante, Navarre, a friend turns up with a pair of gloves: brand new, grey and very, very cool. “I was like: ‘Hey, let me have a go.’ I went in goal and, well, I never left again.”Now he is a European champion with Spain; a Copa del Rey winner with Real Sociedad, their first trophy in 34 years, albeit one won in an empty stadium and a year late, a sadness to the celebration they had to have without the fans and with a single family member each; and no one in La Liga has kept more clean sheets this season. And the way he tel...

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4 d. ago Real Sociedad’s Alex Remiro: ‘I like United but it feels as if something always goes wrong’

The Real Sociedad and Spain keeper on old teammates, new challenges and how Manchester United inspired himSometimes it’s the detail that stays with you. Alex Remiro can’t remember the brand, but he can still see the colour, the way they looked, how much he liked them. “When I was a kid, if you became a goalkeeper it was because you were an Iker Casillas fan, because you were the biggest, or because no one else wanted to do it,” he says. Or because one day in Cascante, Navarre, a friend turns up with a pair of gloves: brand new, grey and very, very cool. “I was like: ‘Hey, let me have a go.’ I went in goal and, well, I never left again.”Now he is a European champion with Spain; a Copa del Rey winner with Real Sociedad, their first trophy in 34 years, albeit one won in an empty stadium and a year late, a sadness to the celebration they had to have without the fans and with a single family member each; and no one in La Liga has kept more clean sheets this season. And the way he tells i...

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4 d. ago Scrubbing up well! Britain has more women doctors than men for the first time in more than 165 years, figures reveal

For the first time in the history of the General Medical Council's official UK-wide register, female doctors outnumber their male counterparts in both the workplace and medical school.

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4 d. ago Female doctors in Britain outnumber men for the first time in 'significant milestone'

General Medical Council announces women with a licence to practice have overtaken men in number, following a generational shift toward female doctors since the 1970s

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5 d. ago Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it | Owen Jones

Splurging the cash is not the answer to Europe’s security jitters. Let’s ignore the hyperbole and decide what’s actually neededBritain is now on a “war footing”, we are told. Earlier this year, Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, demanded that European nations start hiking defence spending at the expense of pensions, health and social security. Fail to do so, he warned, and the only recourse would be to “get out your Russian language courses or go to New Zealand”.In this increasingly feverish atmosphere, it becomes ever more difficult to ask for a bit of perspective, but it is necessary. European elites are panic-stricken after Donald Trump hit the accelerator away from US hegemony, a trend already long under way. Meanwhile, Labour figures openly brief that this could be Keir Starmer’s “Falklands moment”, using Ukraine’s agony to transform the government’s calamitous polling, speaking to a grubby political opportunism. Britain’s current trajectory could raise a much graver menace ...

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5 d. ago Unai Emery singles out Aston Villa hero for tribute after huge Champions League win

Aston Villa have one foot in the quarter-finals of European football's premier club competition after a 3-1 win over Club Brugge in Belgium, with the second leg at Villa Park to come next week

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7 d. ago Three men 'plotted to murder career criminal convicted of Britain's largest cash robbery' after 'snatching Ming dynasty antiques from Swiss museum'

Convicted armed robber Paul Allen was paralysed for life after two bullets were fired through the kitchen window of his rented home in Woodford Green, East London, on July 11 2019.

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8 d. ago European football: Isco stuns former club Real Madrid in win for Real Betis

Real Betis recover to claim 2-1 victory over championsJosé Mourinho’s four-match suspension halvedReal Madrid stumbled in the three-way race for the La Liga title as Isco guided Real Betis to a 2-1 comeback win over the defending champions on Saturday. The former Madrid player delivered a corner kick that was headed in by fellow midfielder Johnny Cardoso in the 34th minute, canceling out Brahim Díaz’s opener for Madrid. Isco then put Betis ahead from the penalty spot in the 54th minute after he passed to Jesús Rodríguez and the Madrid defender Antonio Rüdiger knocked the Betis forward down in the area.Kylian Mbappé was back starting for Madrid after missing one game because of a dental problem. Their head coach Carlo Ancelotti substituted him with 15 minutes left, possibly looking ahead to Tuesday’s Champions League round-of-16 game against Atletico. “We weren’t able to keep our initiative and the result got away from us,” Ancelotti said. “This is a hard blow, and we have to react. ...

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9 d. ago European football: Coman seals comeback win for Bayern at Stuttgart

Bayern now 11 points clear of second-placed Leverkusen Robin Gosens’ winner moves Fiorentina up to sixthBayern Munich fought back from a goal down to maintain their place at the top of the Bundesliga with a 3-1 victory at Stuttgart.The win keeps Bayern comfortably atop the Bundesliga with 61 points, 11 more than Bayer Leverkusen, though they have played one match more. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Danny Welbeck nets Brighton winner against fellow European hopefuls Bournemouth

With both sides dreaming of qualifying for continental football next season, substitute Welbeck rolled home a 75th-minute winner.

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1 week ago JD Vance responds to Trump's refusal to endorse him as his successor... and issues new warning to woke European leaders in our uncensored West Wing interview

A month into Trump's new administration and J.D. Vance has the swagger of someone who has been in the job for years. Lounging in his office, Vance reveals he's just got off the phone with his boss.

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2 w. ago Apple cheers Trump with $500bn US investment plan; UK defence firm Chemring ‘targeted’ by private equity firm – business live

One of the world’s largest private equity investors has made an approach to buy Chemring, the FTSE 250 defence group, Sky News reportsGerman election live: Merz says priority is to make Europe independent from US on defence as coalition talks to beginShares in some European weapons makers are rising in early trading too.German tank maker Rheinmetall jumped 3% at the start of trading, while in London BAE Systems are up 1.7%.‘’A dose of more certainty has been injected into European politics, with the Germany’s Conservatives winning the elections. It comes at a crucial time for the continent. Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, high stakes deal making between the US and Russia continues, Ukraine is out in the cold and the outcome will have huge implications for security in Europe.There is a dawning realisation that European nations will have to pull together and present a more united deterrent force, and Friedrich Merz, the CDU leader, is reading from that script. He has pled...

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