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“I’m enjoying the time that I’ve got with these guys and we’ve made some progress from when I took over to where we are,” he said. “We’re not the finished article, but we’ve definitely improved as a cricket team. We’ve had an identity about us. “Now’s the time for us …

Siobhan MacGowan almost looks surprised as she remembers. “It went very, very quickly. Even the first year went really quickly. Two years… you know,” she tails off. The 24 months since her brother Shane died have flown by in one sense, but it’s clear that the family’s grief has barely …

Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent AFP via Getty Images Zagreb’s Christmas market was voted the best in Europe three years in a row Christmas markets are not just tradition across Europe, they are big businesses that give cities a huge economic boost every December. For Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, it …

England’s Bazball regime is in tatters as yet another Ashes in Australia was lost in three Tests. The tourists were defeated by 82 runs on the fifth day of the third Test in Adelaide to go 3-0 down and extend a winless run in this country to 18 matches. Australia …

Watch: Moment German engineer becomes world’s first wheelchair user to go into space An engineer from Germany has become the world’s first wheelchair user to go into space. Michaela Benthaus, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, had reached out to a retired …

England are on the brink of an Ashes series defeat after Australia’s Nathan Lyon broke their resistance late on the fourth day of the third Test in Adelaide. Off-spinner Lyon removed a reverse-sweeping Harry Brook, bowled Ben Stokes and, crucially, had Zak Crawley stumped to move the home side within …

Maroof Culmen Biryani in Lucknow is cooked on a low, slow heat, with the pot’s lid tightly sealed with dough Mouth-watering kebabs, fragrant biryani and whipped cloud-like desserts. The northern Indian city of Lucknow has always been a food lovers’ paradise, with locals and visitors swearing by its cuisine. Last …

Jake KwonSeoul correspondent BBC/Hosu Lee Many among South Korea’s anti-government youth protesters are taking cues from the American right’s Maga movement The line for a selfie with South Korea’s disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol stretched around Seoul’s iconic Gwanghwamun gate. Except Yoon wasn’t there; it was just a picture …

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The Trevi Fountain is one of Rome’s key attractions with around nine million visitors this year Tourists in Italy’s capital Rome will soon have to pay a €2 (£1.75) entrance fee if they want to see its famed Trevi Fountain up close. The new barrier for visitors to view …

Reuters Hundreds of thousands of guns were handed in across Australia during the last major government buyback scheme It was a Sunday afternoon in April 1996 when a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles killed 35 people in the Australian tourist town of Port Arthur. The massacre almost 30 years …

Captain Ben Stokes is “knackered” but still “fit to bowl” despite not taking the ball on day three of England’s crucial Ashes Test, according to assistant coach Jeetan Patel. Stokes employed five other bowlers as Australia moved to 271-4 in their second innings, a lead of 356 at the Adelaide …

PA Bradford 2025 hosted about 5,000 “big, bold and brilliant” events, organisers say As Bradford ends its UK City of Culture tenure, it is estimated the year-long celebration cost around £51m and generated audiences of three million people. Bradford 2025 hosted about 5,000 “big, bold and brilliant” events, organisers said, …

Police in Sri Lanka have arrested three men for allegedly burning a wild elephant with flaming torches while trying to chase it away, local media reported. A video of the incident, which took place in a village in the country’s north, triggered fierce backlash as it circulated on social media …

Thailand says it has bombed a “logistics centre” near the Cambodian town of Poipet, known for being a major casino hub and the biggest land crossing between the two countries. The bombings come as renewed border clashes show no sign of abating. Cambodia’s defence ministry said Thai forces dropped two …

England’s batters have another day to forget as Australia dominate with the ball on day two of the third Ashes Test, with the tourists closing on 213-8, still 158 runs behind Australia’s first innings total of 371, with the home side closing in on an Ashes series victory with two …

England’s Ashes hopes are vanishing after they were overwhelmed by Australia amid more Snicko controversy on the second day of the third Test. In temperatures that touched 41 degrees at the Adelaide Oval, England crumbled to 213-8 in blameless batting conditions. They are 158 runs adrift of Australia. This was …

Getty Images The writer said he went to Newport with an open heart and mind An award-winning travel writer has declared Newport to be the best city in Wales, saying he would rather have a weekend there than in New York. Ben Aitken’s latest book is a love letter to …

Qualifications: experience working with children, stocky build, own big, white beard an advantage. But may need to tighten their belt. Santas taking up their seasonal roles in garden centres, stately homes and farm parks across the country will be checking their pay clauses, twice, after news that average rates have …

South Africa has accused the US of using Kenyan nationals who did not have work permits at a facility processing applications by white South Africans for refugee status. Seven Kenyans were arrested after intelligence reports revealed that people “had recently entered South Africa on tourist visas and had illegally taken …

Cormac CampbellBBC News NI south east reporter BBC The entrance to the chamber, known as Calliagh Berra’s House, is closed to the public For thousands of years people have scaled Slieve Gullion on the winter solstice to watch light from the setting sun flood into the chamber of what’s known …