Sports
Fury bids for boxing glory
Fury (left) is the WBC champion and Ukraine’s Usyk holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belts
Another busy year for England’s cricketers
England beat Pakistan in a pulsating final in Melbourne to win the Men’s T20 World Cup in November 2022
Paralympic stars get ready for Paris
Hannah Cockroft (right) celebrates with team-mate Kare Adenegan after they won gold and silver respectively in the women’s T34 800m final in Tokyo
British stars eye golden Olympic Games
Tom Dean (right) won gold medals in both the 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympics
England favourites for Euro 2024 title
England’s Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham are two of the in-form players in Europe this year
A death that changed America- the NBA Draft star and his overdose
At the NBA draft of 1986, Bias was 22 years old. He was 6ft 8in and weighed 15st (95kg). Pundits had already labelled him the best prospect around – better even than 1984’s third pick, Michael Jordan.
Respected motorsport figure Gil de Ferran obituary
De Ferran helped Fernando Alonso in his Indianapolis 500 debut in 2017
Gil de Ferran was a fantastic racing driver: winner of the Indianapolis 500, two-time Indycar champion and holder of the world closed-course speed record.
The abandoned baby who became javelin world champion Fatima Whitbread
Fatima Whitbread spent the first 14 years of her life in children’s homes and went on to break the javelin world record and win world and European Championship gold
Nice’s Algeria defender Youcef Atal: given eight-month suspended sentence for inciting religious hatred
Algeria defender Youcef Atal has been handed an eight-month suspended sentence by a French court for inciting religious hatred in a social media post about the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
The Nice criminal court ruled that Atal must also pay a €45,000 (£38,886) fine for posting an antisemitic video on his Instagram account.