BBC News The Hundred women’s competition, Utilita Bowl Southern Brave 127-6 (100 balls): Wolvaardt 45* (36); Graham 4-19 Welsh Fire 118-8 (100 balls): Voll 52 (39); Molineux 3-14 Southern Brave won by eight runs Scorecard. Table Southern Brave produced a remarkable fightback to begin their Hundred campaign with a hard-fought eight-run win against Welsh Fire […]

BBC News Rangers manager Derek McInnes has been given a four-game touchline ban, with one suspended, for describing as “disgusting” the decision to award Celtic a late penalty at Motherwell in May. The comments, made at the end of last season when McInnes was in charge of Hearts, related to a stoppage-time spot-kick for handball […]

BBC News To put it simply, the testing could help to combat micro-dosing. This is where tiny amounts of performance-enhancing drugs are ingested but are in and out of the rider’s system within a few hours, leaving only a short window for detection. If a rider knows they have a seven-hour window where they are […]

BBC News Lloyd’s of London’s former boss’s close relationship with another director breached compliance rules, the insurance market has said after an internal investigation. Former chief executive John Neal and former corporate affairs director Rebekah Clement’s relationship was “sufficiently close… that it could be viewed as creating a perceived conflict of interest”, the firm said. […]

BBC News New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who previously pledged to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the city, now says he does not have the “authority” to do so. In a video posted on social media, Mamdani instead called on US officials to act on the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the […]

BBC News Ecologist Angharad Owen, who started the petition calling for aerial support to tackle blazes in remote places like Rhinogydd, said they were “proven to be highly effective in managing and extinguishing wildfires swiftly”. “These resources can access remote and rugged terrains, dropping water and fire retardant directly on the fire’s critical areas, something […]

BBC News The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on […]

BBC News Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare forced the cancellation of a training session after he refused to leave the pitch. BBC Sport has been told the 25-year-old sat down and demanded the club let him move to Fiorentina. Wolves have rejected a bid from the Serie A side, having accepted an offer from Turkish club […]

BBC News The key point here is whether the transfers can be defined as a ‘swap deal’. One of the clauses in Uefa’s transfer regulations defining “player exchange transactions” is that such deals must be concluded within 45 days of each other. Clubs can still transfer players between themselves in that 45-day period, but those […]

BBC News She discovered she was fast, and her new records prove it. In the Women’s Standing Block category, where an axe is used to speed-chop through an upright, vertical block of wood, she cut through 9in (22.8cm) of white pine in 19.38 seconds. The previous record was 21.17 seconds. In the Women’s Underhand Chop, […]