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The ratings were introduced to protect players and promote a fair contest between the bat and ball in Test matches. The standard of pitch is crucial in influencing the outcome of a game, with spin-friendly wickets potentially favouring one team, or a seam-friendly pitch helping the side with faster bowlers. …

The Ink Factory/BBC/Amazon/Des Willie It’s nearly 10 years since we last met Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine It looks like 2026 could give us some of the best TV in years, although with scheduling plans often only being made public weeks before transmission, it’s impossible to know whether some shows will …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DoorDash wants to help you decide where to eat, not just how your food arrives. The company has launched Zesty, a new artificial intelligence-powered social app built to make finding local restaurants faster and easier.  Zesty is now in public testing in …

Ben Duckett – 6 – Surely would have been glad to be back on the field after a difficult time off it. Another across-the-line dismissal in the first innings, but got England going in the second. Zak Crawley – 6 – Another under-pressure England opener who did well to get …

PA Media The King’s Christmas Broadcast was the most-watched TV programme in the UK on Christmas Day, overnight data has shown. Nearly 7m tuned in on the BBC, ITV, Sky News and GB News to watch King Charles deliver his annual message, this year recorded in Westminster Abbey. After the …

Kelly Ng,Singapore, Riana Ibrahim,BBC Indonesian, Jakartaand Raja Eben Lumbanrau,BBC Indonesian, Jakarta AFP via Getty Images People in Indonesia’s Aceh province are raising white flags as a call for international solidarity For weeks now, angry and distressed residents in Indonesia’s westernmost province have been raising white flags over the state’s slow …

Katie RazzallCulture and Media Editor BBC Listen to this article Christmas is a time when families get together if they can – and, until this year, the Murdochs were no different. With members of the media dynasty spread across the globe, full family gatherings were rare, although in 2008, according …

Journalists at STV are to strike over job cuts and major changes to news programmes. The action by the NUJ union will take place on 7 January and is likely to mean that news programmes will be badly disrupted or cancelled. The date was chosen to coincide with the launch …

Stephen Menonand Laurence Cawley,BBC London Investigations Getty Images The key to a good Christmas cracker joke is not whether it is funny but whether it can illicit groans around a dinner table, experts say “How much did Santa’s sleigh cost? Nothing, it was on the house.” The joke is met …

McAfee has a habit of outstaying its welcome. It’s possible that it came preinstalled on your laptop, or maybe you took advantage of a free trial. Either way, it tends to linger in the background, firing off renewal warnings and system alerts long after you’ve decided you’re done with it. …

Jake Weatherald – 2 – Quiet game after a promising start to his Test career. Would be a potential Australian weakness for England to exploit had the Ashes not already been lost. Travis Head – 8 – Any flicker of hope England might have had was snuffed out by a …

[ Visual abstract. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.48884 Big Health Inc, along with paid academic investigators, reports higher remission rates and lower anxiety symptom scores with their smartphone-delivered digital cognitive behavioral therapy, DaylightRx, compared with an online psychoeducation, also created by Big Health Inc. Generalized anxiety disorder involves …

[ Examples of healthy (top) and sick (bottom) face stimuli. Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106803 Most people have either been told that they don’t look well when they were sick, or thought that someone else looked ill at some point in their lives. People often use nonverbal …

US President Donald Trump has announced a $1,776 (£1,329) “warrior dividend” payment to 1.45 million US servicemembers – paid for, in part, by his tariffs. In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday night, Trump said “cheques are already on the way” and should arrive before Christmas. In the …

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Ukrinform/NurPhoto Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever is yet to be convinced that the money held in Belgium should be loaned to Ukraine (file pic) European Union leaders begin two days of talks in Brussels with a momentous decision to be taken on whether to loan …

The Academy Awards will begin airing exclusively on YouTube in 2029, the latest big change in Hollywood. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that it signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars until 2033. …

WhenWhen he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed …

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent, Santiago Reuters José Antonio Kast will be inaugurated as Chile’s president in March next year Chile has elected the far-right wing José Antonio Kast to be its next president, after an election campaign that was dominated by themes of security, immigration and crime. Kast beat the …

WWE via Getty Images The Last Time Is Now. It’s the name given to the tournament in which 16 wrestling giants have been competing to be the one opponent in John Cena’s final fight before retirement. And that final fight is now – Saturday night – in Washington DC, bringing …

Today, Apple officially released iOS 26.2 for iPhone 11 and newer devices, which includes new Lock Screen customizations for you to adjust the opacity level, as well as the ability to use AirDrop with people who aren’t in your contacts by sharing a one-time code with them instead. There are …