A consortium led by Amanda Staveley has reached an agreement to buy a ‌25.1% stake in West ⁠Ham after Vanessa Gold ⁠agreed to sell ⁠her ​family’s shares in the Championship club ...

Stoppage-time goals secured Aberdeen a 2-1 win against Hearts, while Killian Phillips’ double gave St Mirren a 2-0 win at Falkirk in the Scottish Premiership ...

August 1954 The final made history as the first race in which two athletes ran under four minutes ...

The EU is using a currency redesign as an opportunity to be less neutral and try some finely balanced identity-building ...

Falling in love with a novel motivated these five travel writers to immerse themselves in locations from the Yukon and Kyrgyzstan to the Côte d’Azur Inspired by Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient ...

Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes The government’s housebuilding agenda is hitting the stark reality of a lack of water ...

The Roman Colosseum at the Puy du Fou theme park in France. The French company hopes to win planning approval for a £600m site in rural Oxfordshire. Photograph: Nathaniel Noir/Alamy Exclusive: Puy du ...

Some blame social media and the behaviour of world leaders for a perceived decline in honesty When a cricket team in North Yorkshire became the centre of a cheating scandal that made headlines around ...

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy ...

Shift from Westminster risks weakening scrutiny as regional titles battle hostility, big tech and ‘news deserts’ ...

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader ...

Police chief say shooter found dead after ‘very chaotic scene’ near busy shopping area in Twin Falls ...