Image caption Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, remain in hospital Russian former spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition after being poisoned by a nerve agent, doctors have said. Salisbury District Hospital said Mr Skripal is responding well to treatment and « improving rapidly ». Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter…

The pensioner arrested on suspicion of murdering a suspected burglar after he cornered him in his own home has now had that home boarded up due to fears of reprisal attacks after he was released without charge. Police were at the scene as workers unloaded large boards to secure Richard Osborn-Brooks’ London home where suspected…

A young man in his late teens and a 16-year-old were found with stab injuries near Whitgift Shopping Centre in Croydon this afternoon (Twitter/TruthLogical)Two men were stabbed near a shopping centre in Croydon on Friday afternoon.  Animal rights activists leave graffiti at entrance to Birmingham zooPolice were called to reports of a male in his…

Masters 2018: Tiger Woods battling as Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth set clubhouse lead – BBC Sport ]]> ]]> Summary Leader: -7 Reed (10) Selected: -5 Leishman (12), Hoffman (9) 4 McIlroy (18), Spieth (18), Stenson (11); -3 D Johnson (18) -2 Finau (18), Fowler (18), Oosthuizen (18), Rose (18), Watson (11) -1 Kuchar (18).…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump first tried to disarm Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago with smooth talk and hospitality. A year later, he’s resorted to hardball and found that Xi is willing to throw it back. The growing acrimony over trade is deepening mistrust between the two governments and roiling global markets. But…

Ten years later, riding over controversy, embracing change, the leading T20 league in the world is back a richer, bigger and better-represented tournament. And yet it is the closest it could be to the original product. After the self-brought trials and tribulations by two teams, we are back to the eight cities that played in…