Sinner wins 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-2 British No 1 struggles physically against top seed After navigating the most important two weeks of his blossoming career with formidable ruthlessness and self-belief, Jack Draper walked on to Arthur Ashe Stadium for the biggest match of his career fully aware that the challenge […]

The band take home the £25,000 prize for their debut album, This Could Be Texas, beating artists including Charli xcx and the Last Dinner Party The Leeds indie band English Teacher have won the Mercury prize for their debut album, This Could Be Texas. Formed in 2020, the four-piece formed […]

Jenny Hastings, who ‘loved the water’, failed to return from Wardie Bay in Edinburgh The wife of Scott Hastings, the former Scottish international rugby player, has gone missing after going swimming in a Scottish estuary. Jenny Hastings, “who loved the water”, failed to return from Wardie Bay in Edinburgh on […]

Russian-born billionaire detained last month in France denies app is ‘anarchic paradise’ The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, under investigation in France, has said that French authorities should have approached his company with their complaints rather than detaining him, calling the arrest ‘“misguided”. Durov, writing on his […]

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from siting in upper chamber The government is proposing to banish all remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords in the biggest shake-up of parliament in a quarter century. The UK’s 92 remaining hereditary peers – who […]