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Months ago, experts had predicted the damages China’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy could cause. Now, it looks like they were correct. The country’s industrial output has decreased 2.9% from a year ago in April, while retail sales fell 11.1%, less…

MIKE BROWN: Eddie Jones tried to be clever with his team selection but it backfired... what England need right now is consistency to breed confidenceEddie Jones made wholesale changes against France but it did not pay…

Former England batter Andrew Strauss may not have too many fond memories of his duels with Australian cricket great Shane Warne on the cricket pitch. Warne, who recently died of a suspected heart attack in Thailand, had some memorable duels…

Sporting events are often used to make political statements. In some cases, the sporting event can itself be a statement - like it is with the Winter Olympics and the 1936 Olympics organised by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich in Munich. In some…

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One of the world's largest pension funds has announced plans to dump some €15 billion ($17.5 billion) in fossil fuel holdings. The decision by ABP of the Netherlands comes ahead of the upcoming COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, and…