The protracted process of counting votes in Ireland’s General Election will begin on Saturday morning as an exit poll put the three main parties virtually neck and neck. Sinn Fein held 21.1% of ...

Kansas City Chiefs avoided a shock defeat as they hung on to beat the Las Vegas Raiders 19-17 and clinch a playoff berth. The defending Super Bowl champions let a 13-point third quarter lead disappear ...

England smashed 140 in the opening session to open up a lead of 111, reaching lunch at 459 for eight. Ben Stokes was 78 not out at the break, progressing steadily towards a first hundred in almost 18 ...

Experts trained Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel Labrador cross, to identify the highly destructive pathogen phytophthora ...

Amilah Hussain was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia last month and there is currently no match for her on the register.

At the event, more than £100,000 was raised in an auction hosted by former England rugby international-turned-broadcaster Martin Bayfield.

The TV presenter’s lawyers said it is ‘entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature’.

Southampton’s Cameron Archer had a goal controversially disallowed as his side shared the spoils with Brighton.

Joe Marler insisted Harlequins’ 48-24 Gallagher Premiership defeat by Bristol confirmed he had got the timing of his retirement right.

Judd Trump is relishing the next chapter of his emerging rivalry with Kyren Wilson after the pair swept into the UK Championship semi-finals in York on Friday. Trump compiled four centuries and 527 ...

The deal to cede sovereignty over the archipelago to the Mauritian government was announced earlier this year.