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England slumped to an embarrassing defeat by an innings and 122 runs in the one-off Test in Melbourne, handing Australia a 16-0 clean sweep in the Women’s Ashes. Australia were bowled out for 440 in their first innings after England impressed to take the last five wickets for nine runs in the first session, but…

A Revolutionary War pension – credit: National Archives On the occasion of America’s quarter millennium, the National Archives has launched a project inviting volunteers to help transcribe and digitize historical documents written in cursive. The Archives contains millions of documents that have never been transcribed into modern typeface. Written in longhand, many Americans today might…

Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner removes Sophie Ecclestone with a surprise bouncer in day three of the Women’s Ashes Test. Source link

Ichiro Suzuki in 2011 – CC 3.0 Keith Allison It’s a good thing that the 394 ballots cast in this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame elections were anonymous. If not, one voter would have seen the city of Seattle forever closed to them. That’s because Seattle Mariners all-star Ichiro Suzuki was inducted into the Baseball…

England’s Sophia Dunkley is dispatched by “beautiful” bowling from Alana King on day three of the Women’s Ashes Test. Source link

Photo shared on X by @shimonoseki_aq How do you cheer up a lonely fish? Wait, fish don’t get lonely. Or do they? It’s difficult to know for sure, but one aquarium in Japan seems to think, in fact, they just might. The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, southern Japan closed on December 1st, 2024 for renovations.…

“His passing had been completely unexpected,” Enzo Raiola tells BBC Sport. “Even when he was sick, all our attention was on helping him get better. “Nothing was in place, and we didn’t think we would need to reorganise everything while grieving – it was extremely difficult.” Mino died aged 54 in Milan in April 2022,…

103 years ago today, Lehman Caves National Monument was enshrined by presidential decree, protecting the longest-known cave in Nevada which had been used as a refuge by Native Americans. 68 years later, Lehman Caves suddenly found itself lying at the center of 77,000 acres of the newly made Great Basin National Park and was included…

A variety of stories feature on Saturday’s front pages. The Financial Times leads with the news that pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has cancelled a £450m manufacturing plant in the UK after “months of wrangling over state support for the project”. The paper says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wanted to reduce the £90m in public money…