Kyren Wilson fell victim to the ‘Crucible Curse’ as he crashed out in the first round of the World Snooker Championship in a dramatic 10-9 defeat to China’s world number 39 Lei Peifan.

In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital Beijing on Saturday.

On the battlefield, Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that its forces pushed Ukrainian troops from the village of Oleshnya, one of their last remaining footholds in Russia’s Kursk region, ...

The long-serving 29-year-old started both legs of the quarter-final clash with the French champions on the bench.

Lando Norris labelled himself a “f*****g idiot” and said he had let himself down after crashing out of qualifying for the ...

Special pouches used to lock students’ phones during the day were introduced at Birchwood Community High School in September.

Six men have been arrested in connection with the death of a woman hit at a golf club by a van being chased by police. Suzanne Cherry, 62, of Aldridge, Walsall, died in hospital after she was struck ...

Alex Lees and Emilio Gay both scored unbeaten centuries as Durham piled on the runs against Yorkshire in the County Championship. Dom Bess was the final Yorkshire player out for 66 in a total of 307, ...

Four days on from falling agonisingly short in a pulsating quarter-final clash with Paris St Germain, Villa Park was rocking once again.

The vehicle hit a 47-year-old man on Stonyhurst Road, Woolton, at about 11:45pm on Friday, Merseyside Police said.

Police have launched an investigation after seven statues were daubed with graffiti before thousands of trans rights protesters marched through central London. The Metropolitan said its officers were ...