1 hour ago South Africa win World Test Championship after completing stunning comeback against Australia – as it happened

Aiden Markram scores 136 runs as South Africa defeat Australia by five wickets at Lord’s to lift the World Test Championship title60th over: South Africa 218-3 (Markram 106, Stubbs 0) So it is Tristan Stubbs to the middle. Starts at the non-striker’s end, but immediately gets strike as Markram guides a single. Lots of pressure on Stubbs, more a white-ball player but one of huge talent, who Shukri Conrad has backed in this team. Small target, plenty of time, and in a short-form game he might knock off these last 64 runs in five overs. But this is different. Hit on the pad early, Hazlewood appealing but it’s going down leg. Two slips and a gully, but the second slip is Webster and the gully is Green, so effectively four slips and two gullies. Cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket up closer. Deep point and deep backward square saving boundaries. Stubbs defends his first five balls.59th over: South Africa 217-3 (Markram 105) Oh, there it is! The first tremor? South Africa’s captain battled ...

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19 h. ago Australia learn cricket’s oldest lesson as South Africa turn the tables in WTC

An Australian win looked inevitable after setting 282 to win, but Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma defied the oddsRight from the start of the day, there was an inevitability that this match was Australia’s. They started 218 runs in front, in the third innings, walking back onto a Lord’s field where 28 wickets had fallen in the previous two days. They had the four-star bowling attack, their opponents had the shooting-star batting order, one that had flashed and vanished in its first sighting. Soon this would be compounded by Temba Bavuma’s hamstring injury. The lead as it stood looked a chance to be enough, and first would come the chance to increase it a smidgen more.The sense of inevitability only grew as that smidgen broadened into a big dirty smudge. There is nothing more galling for a cricket team than a long tenth-wicket partnership. Every ball is more annoying than the one before. Things had started right, Kagiso Rabada in his second over of the day trapping Nathan Lyon with onl...

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24 h. ago What Florian Wirtz transfer means for Man City as Liverpool set to smash record

Manchester City at one time were looking to purchase Florian Wirtz until the finances of the deal took him out of their price range

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28 h. ago The £140m example that showed why Liverpool had to sign Florian Wirtz

The Premier League champions agreed to smash their transfer record to buy the Germany international but, in the case of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, there is a case for paying over the odds for the best

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69 h. ago Kagiso Rabada lets his bowling do the talking — but Australian seamers have telling say

South Africa (43/4) trail Australia (212) by 169 runs: Back from a drugs ban, Rabada starred with a five-for on the opening day of the World Test Championship final before Australia exposed their batting frailties

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3 d. ago Harry Kane smashes another England record as star goes from strength to strength

Harry Kane has broken another England record under Thomas Tuchel despite the Three Lions' slow start against Senegal on Tuesday evening

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7 d. ago Liverpool make huge new Florian Wirtz offer in bid to strike British record transfer

Liverpool have lodged a fresh offer for Florian Wirtz in a bid to sign the Bayer Leverkusen star in a deal which would smash the current British transfer record

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8 d. ago Haunted couture: dressing like a ghost has captured the zeitgeist

From Dior and Chloé to Australia’s runways, a spectre is haunting fashion. But is it a sign of resignation or rebellion?“The look of the summer is going to be kind of haunted,” wrote fashion editor Rachel Tashjian in her newsletter, Opulent Tips, this April. Without a crystal ball – or holding a seance – she couldn’t have known Dior’s Resort 26 collection would be made up of spectral gowns and accompanied by a film featuring ghosts called Les Fantômes du Cinéma. And yet, here we are.In Rome, for her final show with Dior on 28 May, Maria Grazia Chiuri issued female attendees an all-white dress code (men were asked to dress in black), then each look on the runway at the 18th-century Villa Albani Torlonia was more ethereal than the last. The final three: a white tulle gown that was only half there; a high-necked dress beaded so it moved like snakeskin; and another in embellished silver as resplendent as Tolkien’s mithril. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago BREAKING Arsenal 'in talks' to sign wonderkid as Mikel Arteta eyes new record transfer

Arsenal are in talks to sign Greek wonderkid Konstantinos Karetsas from Belgian side Genk, in a deal that would smash the Greek transfer record

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9 d. ago Arsenal 'in talks' to sign wonderkid as Mikel Arteta eyes new record transfer

Arsenal are in talks to sign Greek wonderkid Konstantinos Karetsas from Belgian side Genk, in a deal that would smash the Greek transfer record

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1 week ago People are only just realising how long parmesan can last as age record is smashed

A giant wheel of parmesan cheese has smashed a record after spending almost 30 years sitting on a shelt maturing. The 36kg behemoth is still edible after being made in 1998 and is apparently 'out of this world'

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2 w. ago This gig was full of people on their phones – I could have been angry but then I realised why

'Almost everywhere, glaring phone screens in the air with sweaty thumbs clumsily smashing the record button'

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2 w. ago Brit who broke the record for running across Australia by FOUR DAYS faces claims he cheated

Controversy was already swirling over whether the run should have been considered as a legitimate world record attempt in the first place well before William Goodge reached the finish line

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2 w. ago Lando Norris takes pleasure in Charles Leclerc pain after Monaco GP record smashed

Charles Leclerc thought for a moment that he had secured pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix, only for Lando Norris to produce a record-breaking lap to deny him

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2 w. ago Lando Norris first comment after Monaco GP pole says it all amid qualifying struggles

Charles Leclerc was denied Monaco Grand Prix pole by Lando Norris who smashed the track record in the process and found himself feeling grateful to his McLaren colleagues

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2 w. ago BREAKING: Lando Norris smashes Monaco GP record to deny Charles Leclerc pole

Charles Leclerc had dominated practice raising hopes for Ferrari that he or Lewis Hamilton might be able to snatch pole from Max Verstappen or the McLaren drivers

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2 w. ago Lando Norris smashes Monaco GP record to deny Charles Leclerc pole

Charles Leclerc had dominated practice raising hopes for Ferrari that he or Lewis Hamilton might be able to snatch pole from Max Verstappen or the McLaren drivers

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3 w. ago William Goodge: Male model set a world record by running from Perth to Sydney in memory of his mum

William Goodge has been hit by stunning allegations less than a week after he ran from Perth to Sydney in just 35 days, averaging more than 100km every 24 hours.

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3 w. ago BBC Breakfast host forced to ask 'you still there?' as guest blunder cuts off interview

BBC Breakfast hosts Jon Kay and Sarah Campbell were seen speaking to runner William Goodge on the show on Tuesday, but he was interrupted by a phone call

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3 w. ago Woman who lost the ability to walk due to rare condition smashes cycling world record

Sarah Ruggins cycled the length of the UK and back in five-and-a-half days

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