A man who stabbed his housemate in the side of the head and neck while shouting "I will kill you" has been jailed.
Yehya Mahdi told police he drank 12 cans of beer and armed himself with a bread knife before the attack.
They were both asylum (...)
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza refused to write off his side's chances of qualifying for the World Cup semifinals despite a 48-run loss to reigning champions Australia at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
"I think still you never know," Mashrafe told (...)
France's Caroline Garcia recovered from a set down to beat Croatian Donna Vekic 2-6, 7-6(7-4), 7-6(7-4) and win her first title of the season at the Nottingham Open grasscourt event on Sunday.
Top seed Garcia, the world No.28, who had finished off (...)
Second seed Donna Vekic reached the semifinals of the rain-plagued Nottingham WTA event on Friday after playing her quarter-final on two different surfaces, outside and indoors.
Vekic, the 2017 champion at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament, started (...)
New Zealand coach Gary Stead said he saw no advantage to his team's World Cup group stage match against India being abandoned due to rain on Thursday, despite the Indians looking like the team to beat after their opening wins over South Africa and (...)
Former West Indies fast bowler Joel Garner has said the current side stand a decent chance of winning the Cricket World Cup — 40 years since he helped them last lift the trophy with a record five-wicket haul in the final.
Jason Holder's Windies side (...)
India's fielders have been razor-sharp in their opening World Cup games but fielding coach R Sridhar said on Thursday that they cannot afford a drop in their intensity against arch-rivals Pakistan on Sunday.
Pakistan looked sloppy in their defeat by (...)
Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant will join the India team before Sunday's clash with Pakistan as cover for opener Shikhar Dhawan who will miss the next three to four games with a hand injury, assistant coach Sanjay Bangar said on (...)
New Zealand's steady supply of left-handed batsmen will come in handy in Thursday's World Cup match against an Indian team without that variety in their top order, senior Kiwi batsman Ross Taylor said on the eve of the match.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan's (...)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday defended not scheduling reserve days for group matches at the rain-marred World Cup and blamed the disruptions on "extremely unseasonable weather".
A record three matches have already been either (...)
A hand injury suffered in the match against Australia has thrown Shikhar Dhawan's further World Cup participation into doubt but the in-form opener will remain with the team, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday.
Dhawan was batting on 24 (...)
New Zealand cannot afford to squander even half-chances against a team of India's caliber in Thursday's World Cup match at Trent Bridge, Kiwi fast bowler Lockie Ferguson said.
The right-arm paceman will be spending much of his 28th birthday trying (...)
Mitchell Starc saw plenty of positives after his five-wicket haul helped Australia to a 15-run World Cup win over West Indies on Thursday but it could have been a different story.
The fastest man to take 150 wickets in 50 overs cricket dismissed (...)
Fast bowler Mitchell Starc's five-wicket haul and a defiant 92 by Nathan Coulter-Nile helped Australia beat West Indies by 15 runs at Trent Bridge on Thursday to secure their second consecutive win at the Cricket World Cup.
Chasing 289 for victory, (...)
West Indies captain Jason Holder is playing down his team's traditional rivalry with Australia ahead of the Cricket World Cup match between the sides at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
West Indies beat Australia in the first World Cup final in 1975 and (...)
Pakistan shocked England by 14 runs at Trent Bridge on Monday as they ended a long losing streak in One-Day Internationals despite two centuries for the World Cup host nation.
Joe Root (107) and Jos Buttler (103) were guiding the tournament (...)
England's Jason Roy hit a superb century and Ben Stokes carried them home as they beat Pakistan by three wickets at Trent Bridge on Friday, surviving a middle-order wobble to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
Babar Azam's century helped (...)
England amassed a world record one-day international total of 444 for three as they crushed Pakistan by 169 runs at Trent Bridge on Tuesday to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
Jos Buttler struck the last ball of the innings for (...)
England's Liam Plunkett smashed the last ball of the match for six to earn his team a dramatic tie with Sri Lanka in the first One-Day International here Tuesday.
The host, chasing 287 for victory, collapsed to 82 for six before Jos Buttler made 93 (...)
Top seed Karolina Pliskova saved six set points to take the first set on a nail-biting tie-break on her way to clinching the Nottingham title Sunday.
The Czech made it a fifth WTA crown — but a first on grass — with the hard-fought 7-6 (10/8), 7-5 (...)
Caroline Wozniacki lost in her second match since coming back from injury, falling to Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday at the Nottingham Open.
The former top-ranked player from Denmark, seeded third, was playing at a tournament (...)
Scientists in Britain said they've identified a previously undetected layer in the human cornea, a finding that could help surgeons treating eye diseases, UPI reported.
Researchers at the University of Nottingham said the discovery could improve (...)
Side-effects caused by quinine, a drug to treatment of malaria, could be controlled by what patients ate, UPI quoted researchers in Britain as saying.
Study leaders Dr. Simon Avery and Dr. Kang-Nee Ting of the University of Nottingham in Britain and (...)
England raced to a series win over West Indies with a nine-wicket victory on the fourth day of the second Test at Trent Bridge Monday after being set a modest target of 108.
Captain Andrew Strauss (45) and Alastair Cook (43 not out) took England (...)
England's bowlers tore through the West Indies' top order on day one of the second Test at Trent Bridge, reducing the tourists to 84-4 at lunch.
James Anderson took 2-22 and Stuart Broad 2-34, leaving West Indies to rue its decision to bat after (...)