A bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border
Jonathan Head and BBC Burmese BBC News Watch: The insurgent Arakan Army video of their capture of the barracks The end, when it came for the BGP5 barracks, was loud and brutal. First, a crackly speaker calling out for their surrender; then, a thunderous barrage of artillery, rockets and rifle fire that tore chunks out […]
Rio 2016 Paralympics: Dame Sarah Storey and Hannah Cockroft win gold
13:00 – Defending Paralympic champion Natasha Baker in equestrian’s dressage Grade II individual championship test final 13:00 – Jeanette Chippington in Para-canoeing women’s KL1 final 13:08 – Ian Marsden in Para-canoeing men’s KL1 final 13:16 – Four-time world champion Emma Wiggs in Para-canoeing women’s KL2 final 13:34 – Nick Beighton in Para-canoeing men’s KL2 final […]
Congress passes immigration crackdown in early win for Trump
The US Congress has passed a bill requiring undocumented immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial. The bill, named after Laken Riley – a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man – passed the House of Representatives a day after it was approved […]
Paralympics 2012: Josie Pearson wins discus gold for Great Britain
GB’s 4x100m medley relay team won silver in the pool, while the men’s and women’s table tennis teams won bronze. It is a first Paralympic gold for Pearson, who switched to disability sport following a car crash in 2003 which claimed the life of her boyfriend and left her with a broken back. The Bristolian […]
GB wheelchair basketball coaches depart roles
Great Britain women’s wheelchair basketball coach Garry Peel has left his role after seven years in charge. His departure follows that of men’s coach Murray Treseder, who resigned last month after defeat in the bronze medal match at the London Paralympics. The women’s team were bronze medallists in the 2007, 2009 and 2011 European Championships. […]
Track Cycling World Cup: GB’s Katie Archibald & Manon Lloyd win madison gold
Britain’s Katie Archibald fractured her wrist as she and Manon Lloyd won the inaugural women’s madison at the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow. The duo collided with Russian and Belgian riders on lap 18 of the 80-lap race, which sees the riders hand-sling each other into the action. A visit to hospital then revealed […]
Women’s Sport Week: Nicole Cooke on fair pay & corruption
For some, of course, success and the money it brings overrides fairness. So if it’s life-changing wealth and the greed it generates that corrupts fairness, does a lack of money equate to cleanliness? And in that case, would we be better advised to keep women’s sports impoverished to ensure clean competition? The answer is more […]
Dina Asher-Smith: British sprinter calls for greater exposure of elite sporting females
Dina Asher-Smith wants the sports industry to consider “who we elevate, and why” in order to help young girls grasp what they are capable of. The world 200m champion, 25, believes too many marketing messages featuring women focus on aesthetics. She feels some girls may learn to prioritise looks over sporting success. “With men, it […]
World Athletics Championships 2017: Eilidh Doyle named GB captain
Men 100m: James Dasaolu, Reece Prescod, CJ Ujah 200m: Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Danny Talbot 400m: Dwayne Cowan, Matt Hudson-Smith, Martyn Rooney 800m: Elliot Giles, Kyle Langford, Guy Learmonth 1500m: Josh Kerr, Chris O’Hare, Jake Wightman 5,000m: Andrew Butchart, Mo Farah 10,000m: Mo Farah 3,000m steeplechase: Rob Mullett, Zak Seddon 110m hurdles: David King, David […]
The subtle magnificence of the Rolling Stones’ drummer
Mark Savage BBC music reporter Reuters Charlie Watts was the solid, dependable backbone of the Rolling Stones One night in 1984, Mick Jagger made a mistake. Worse for wear in an Amsterdam hotel, the Rolling Stones frontman phoned up Charlie Watts’ room and demanded, “Where’s my drummer?” Twenty minutes later, Watts appeared at his door, […]