The women’s world-record holder, Ruth Chepngetich, and the reigning champion, Peres Jepchirchir, have withdrawn from the London Marathon, organisers said on Friday, less than two weeks before the race. Kenyan Chepngetich broke the women’s record in Chicago last year, running 2hr 9min 56sec to become the first woman to break 2:10, and had hoped to … Read more
“‘I still believed in myself but it was quite soul-destroying out there,” Kyren Wilson says in a back room at Barratts Snooker Club in Northampton. The world champion once worked here as a barman because he had lost his place on tour after his first season as a professional in 2011. He was still only … Read more
What is Aryabhata? Named after an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer (5th Century), Aryabhata was India’s first satellite. Launched from Kapustin Yar with the help of the Soviets on April 19, 1975, the launch of this indigenously-built satellite marked the beginning of India’s space age. The successful launch meant that India became just the 11th … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news Oxford United (4-2-3-1): Cumming; Long, Helik, Nelson, Bennett; Brannagan, Vaulks; Placheta, Matos, Goodrham; Harris. Subs: Ingram, Phillips, Romeny, El Mizouni, Rodrigues, Leigh, Kioso, Bradshaw, Mills. Leeds United (4-2-3-1): Darlow; Bogle, Rodon, Ampadu, Firpo; Tanaka, Gruev; Gnonto, Aaronson, Solomon; Piroe. … Read more
Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, scored a low-key triumph on Monday when he won the Paris leg of the $3.75m Freestyle Grand Slam by defeating his old rival and world No 2, USA’s Hikaru Nakamura, by 1.5-0.5 in the final. It was patient attrition over the two games, worthy of a place in the Carlsen-David Howell … Read more
For a large portion of this match – pretty much the bulk of the first half, in fact – any spectator would have been hard-pressed to identify the Premier League-destined team on the cusp of an all-time Football League record for clean sheets. Not only did Watford find the rarest of routes past James Trafford, … Read more
The Montemurro-Slegers connection The former Arsenal manager Joe Montemurro, who left the club at the end of the 2020-21 season, returns to the Emirates Stadium when Arsenal host the eight-time European champions Lyon on Saturday in their Champions League semi-final first leg. Montemurro, who led Arsenal to a first Women’s Super League title in seven … Read more
Bedlam, pandemonium, ecstasy and simply wow: Manchester United’s three-goal, six-minute (and 34 seconds) blockbuster extra-time comeback from 4-2 down is one for the ages, and a thrilling advertisement for the heart-stopping drama football can generate. Yet if the Harry Maguire header that KO-ed Lyon was a last, heroic act of a pell-mell, childhood-like jumpers-for-goalposts victory, … Read more
The Easter racing programme saw a major shock at Newcastle on Good Friday as Heavenly Heather, a 200-1 chance ridden by 3lb claimer Amie Waugh, became the longest-priced winner of the year so far with a half-length success in the seven-furlong Fillies’ and Mares’ Championships Handicap. Waugh’s mount had failed to win any of her … Read more
Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic spaceflight onboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday (April 18, 2025). Mr. Singh … Read more