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This is not the first time in recent years that a Lord’s pitch has been questioned.Questions were also raised during the 2025 World Test Championship final after 14 wickets fell on each of the first two days.By contrast, just a month later England and India played out a thrilling Test that went five days, but this year’s pitch could lead to the match finishing inside three days.The batters’ struggles were exemplified by a delivery from New Zealand seamer Matt Henry that barely bounced above ankle height and cannoned into the stumps, giving England’s Jacob Bethell’s no chance.”This is a really…
England head coach Thomas Tuchel says reports about the state of the pitch for his team’s friendly against New Zealand will not influence which players are involved.The Daily Mail, external said the playing surface for the match at the Raymond James Stadium, home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was a ‘plug and play’ pitch laid just a week ago.Several pitches for World Cup matches are being played in stadiums that usually have artificial surfaces but which have been relaid with grass.Travelling ground staff from the Football Association were reported to be liaising with the venue over the pitch which…
Trump seeks to shore up support among rural voters hard hit by tariffs, economic fallout of war with Iran.Published On 5 Jun 20265 Jun 2026United States President Donald Trump has sought to reassure farmers hard-hit by tariffs and the economic fallout of the US-Israeli war with Iran during a visit to Wisconsin.The stop in Chippewa Falls on Friday for a farming roundtable comes months before the midterm elections in November. Trump was seeking to bolster support for Republican US Representative Derrick Van Orden, who has been targeted by Democrats hoping to take control of the chamber.Recommended Stories list of 3…
Iran players get visas 10 days before their opening World Cup match against New Zealand in Los Angeles on June 15.Published On 5 Jun 20265 Jun 2026Iran’s World Cup football players have been granted visas to enter the United States, according to a White House official, just 10 days before their first match in Los Angeles amid a conflict between the two countries.Iran’s ambassador to Mexico, Abolfazl Pasandideh, said late on Thursday the squad had still not received their US visas, but these were granted overnight, the White House official said.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listUS Ambassador to…
LAYUP: The New York Knicks are in the NBA finals, and politicians can’t seem to get enough of it. They’re hosting invite-only watch parties as an excuse to butter up the political press and cash in on the cultural cachet. They’re deploying taxpayer-funded staff to film and edit Knicks-focused social media clips of themselves, fit with music, multiple shooting locations and a whole lot of hype. And they’re even mocking up government documents in an effort to spread good vibes — and good publicity — around New York’s basketball team. It feels like Empire State’s electeds are jumping at every…
Anthony Head, the actor best-known for playing Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died aged 72.“He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family,” his daughters Emily and Daisy Head said in a statement.“It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed first-hand the impact both he and his work have had on so many.”As well as playing the mentor to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character, Head had a recurring role in David Walliams and Matt Lucas’s BBC sketch show Little Britain, appeared in…
French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound foreign aid flotilla accuse Israeli forces of abuse and torture.Published On 5 Jun 20265 Jun 2026French anti-terrorism prosecutors say they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected “torture” and “war crimes” over Israel’s alleged mistreatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month.The probe was opened on Friday following a referral from the foreign ministry late last month, said the national counterterrorism prosecutor’s office (PNAT), after activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla accused Israeli authorities of severe mistreatment during their detention.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of…
Available for 29 daysOne of the biggest artificial intelligence developers, the US firm Anthropic, has proposed a coordinated global slowdown on building advanced AI systems, saying that the latest large language models could escape human control. Also: President Putin delivers a keynote address at an annual economic forum in St Petersburg, insisting that the Russian economy remains strong. The director-general of the World Health Organisation says significant challenges remain around the development of a vaccine for the new species of Ebola. Prosecutors in El Salvador say leaders of the infamous MS-13 gang currently on trial will be sentenced to thousands…
England have a golden opportunity for victory in the first Test against New Zealand despite a chaotic collapse of four wickets for one run in 11 balls on the second day at Lord’s.After 16 wickets fell on day one, another 17 came on Friday on a devilishly difficult surface for batting – an alarming amount of uneven bounce has been added to the sideways movement.At the end of it all, New Zealand are 36-3 in pursuit of a victory target of 254. Captain Tom Latham was out to the third ball of the chase and, crucially, Kane Williamson was palpably…
Alongside Ukraine and Moldova, six nations wish to join the European Union, including Montenegro, which hosted EU-Western Balkans summit.Published On 5 Jun 20265 Jun 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that the European Union plans to initiate a gradual integration process for six Western Balkan countries wishing to join the bloc.“The clear message of today is, and will remain: We want you. And we want this region, and the states within it, to become members of the European Union soon,” Merz told reporters in the Montenegrin coastal town of Tivat, after a summit between the bloc’s leaders and their Western Balkan…