Didier Deschamps’ side were also helped by a Guglielmo Vicario own goal in a convincing performance without skipper Kylian Mbappe.

Ed Sheeran says his “permission” to use his vocals in the 40th-anniversary mix of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? was not given to the organisers. The Suffolk singer, 33, maintains he would ...

England’s white-ball tour of the Caribbean came to a soggy end as heavy showers in St Lucia led to an abandonment in the final T20 after just five overs were bowled.

Sir Keir Starmer has said “we need to double down” on support for Ukraine as it was reported Joe Biden has given the green light to Kyiv to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.

He will be the first British prime minister to meet the Chinese leader in more than half a decade when they hold talks in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut killed the Hezbollah militant group’s chief spokesman on Sunday, while an Israeli ...

Actor Daniel Portman has praised Glasgow’s booming film industry and said that Scotland “has the best storytellers in the world”. Portman described it as a “bucket list” dream to appear in Black ...

The 17-year-old lost the first two legs of the final but then reeled off 15 in a row before sealing a 16-3 victory.

Ashley Storrie joked that if her mother had been at the ceremony, she would have been ‘making it all about her’.

A young woman who was injured in a deadly roof collapse in Serbia earlier this month has died, bringing the death toll to 15, ...

Former Republic international Keane joked his daughter’s engagement to the Southampton defender is “not done and dusted”.

Wales head coach Warren Gatland says he is comfortable with “whatever the best decision for Welsh rugby is” as speculation about his future intensified following a 52-20 defeat against Australia.