Aston Villa are close to agreeing a loan deal for Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, the PA news agency understands. The 27-year-old has been frozen out at Old Trafford under new boss Ruben ...

England are resigned to drawing a line under Harshit Rana’s controversial appearance as a concussion substitute after he helped India take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the T20 series.

The plan backfired, though, as he could not live with Nicky Henderson’s Arkle favourite and such was the manner of the defeat, Ballyburn now steps back up to the distance over which he was so ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered in central London with a march in support of Tommy Robinson and a separate counter-demonstration.

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard. President of Ireland Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Longley’s ...

A Russian missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Poltava killed at least five people and injured 13 ...

Serbia’s students will lead mass demonstrations and blockades of three bridges over the Danube river in the northern city of Novi Sad to mark three months since a concrete canopy crashed down at a ...

Willie Mullins began the Dublin Racing Festival in the best possible fashion when Final Demand displayed plenty of stamina in winning the Nathaniel Lacy & Partners Solicitors Novice Hurdle at ...

United head into Sunday’s Premier League match at home to Crystal Palace on the back of three successive victories.

German hunters have sought to convince the jury at a national stag calling championship that they can imitate a bellowing red deer. The unique tradition goes back hundreds of years and was initially ...

Mourners at the funeral of singer Linda Nolan have been told she would have “loved all the fuss”, by her sister Denise Nolan-Anderson. The singer’s pink sparkly coffin was carried from St Paul’s ...

Australia completed an historic clean sweep with an innings and 122-run victory in the day/night Test in Melbourne.