Новости за 17.07.2015

Mitchell Johnson took the chance to taunt England after another dominant day for Australia at Lord’s.

Stuart Lancaster has not decided how many players will be cut when England’s World Cup squad is reduced in the first week of August.

Chelsea are confident they will succeed in signing Everton defender John Stones, despite having an opening £20m offer turned down.

Chelsea are confident they will succeed in signing Everton defender John Stones, despite having an opening £20m offer turned down.

The Premier League will block any attempt by Tottenham to use Wembley and Milton Keynes while White Hart Lane is being redeveloped. They would also prevent Chelsea using Wembley during the three years it will take Stamford Bridge to be turned into what the Premier League champions are calling “a cathedral of football” if any fixtures are shifted from the stadium.

Michael Smith is a promising young striker. Sixteen goals in 44 matches isn’t a bad return, not least as two of them drove Swindon Town all the way to Wembley and the League One play-off final. But he cannot, it is official, “get me nut around” Channel 4’s matrimonial sociology experiment reality show Married At First Sight.

Isis militants claim to have killed at least 100 people, including children, with a car bomb in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, where people had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

At least 80 people, including children, have been killed by a car bomb in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, where people had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

Isis militants claim to have killed at least 100 people, including children, with a car bomb in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, where people had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

We moved from the town to the countryside after our parents divorced.

Who wants to work on weekends? Doctors certainly don’t. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, effectively declared war on the British Medical Association this week – warning them he was willing to impose a new contract on consultants that would see more of them working at the weekend to deliver the Government’s vision of a “seven-day NHS”.

To see him cycling through the streets of London, bearded, trousers safely tucked into bicycle clips, jacket allegedly from circa 1983, is surely to wonder whether somewhere, a school might be missing its head of geography.

To see him cycling through the streets of London, bearded, trousers safely tucked into bicycle clips, jacket allegedly from circa 1983, is surely to wonder whether somewhere, a school might be missing its head of geography.

English fans will be glad to see the back of him but there’s no denying Smith’s remarkable transformation

Calls to a helpline for victims of forced marriage and honour-based abuse have doubled in the past five years, The Independent has learnt.

As part of The Independent's series of articles on the tradition, here is the story of a British woman who escaped forced marriage and sexual abuse.

As part of The Independent's series of articles on the tradition, here is the story of a British woman who escaped forced marriage and sexual abuse.

In the past 10 years, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), the British public has become aware of many important facts of which we would otherwise have remained ignorant.

In the past 10 years, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), the British public has become aware of many important facts of which we would otherwise have remained ignorant.

The Government’s decision to launch a review of the Freedom of Information Act was widely condemned last night as likely to lead to “more secrecy, more mistakes and bad decisions”.

Ministers overruled advice from senior civil servants and handed a £3m grant to a controversial children’s charity that has been accused of financial mismanagement.

It was not only the England players who had some fun at Steve Smith’s expense when he last reached these shores with Australia. “He thinks he’s one of those good-looking roosters in our team,” his captain, Michael Clarke, reflected of him in a diary item early in the 2013 tour, something Smith self-evidently is not. The then 24-year-old’s mannerisms became well known at that time, too. “He has an itch with his left hand,” Clarke remarked, after watching Smith – the man they call “Smudge” – twitch... Читать дальше...

Plans to limit the amount paid for nursing care by Britain’s growing elderly population have been mothballed for at least five years after ministers were warned the move could lead to a “cataclysmic” collapse in services.

England's Ashes series lead is in jeopardy after Steve Smith's maiden double century, and a rush of early wickets for Australia's pace attack, put the tourists in control at Lord's.