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Richard Braine is elected Ukip leader replacing Gerard Batten

Richard Braine (pictured), the chairman of the party's West London branch, won 53 per cent of the vote and becomes Ukip's sixth permanent leader in a turbulent three years.




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Premiership Rugby clubs BLOCK plan to allow Saracens Itoje to play on loan at Racing 92 next season

Maro Itoje has had a one-year loan move to French side Racing 92 blocked by Premiership Rugby clubs after Saracens relegation from the English topflight.




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CHRIS FOY: Newcastle suddenly facing a fight to survive

CHRIS FOY - WORLD OF RUGBY: It is up to the RFU and Premiership Rugby to provide some urgent clarity so the Newcastle Falcons can save themselves.




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MARTIN SAMUEL: World Rugby election presents chance to stop shameless plundering of the Pacific

COMMENT BY MARTIN SAMUEL: It's known as the Brawn Drain. The depressingly predictable exit of the best rugby talent from the Pacific Islands to the biggest, richest nations.




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Premiership Rugby 'facing huge drop in value of TV rights' due to the coronavirus crisis 

Premiership Rugby is facing a huge drop in the value of its broadcasting rights because it failed to agree a new deal with either BT Sport or Sky before the coronavirus crisis.




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Rugby is facing Olympic boot amid discrimination claim at the World Rugby elections 

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: The World Rugby elections were rocked last week by allegations of homophobia and discrimination against Fiji Rugby Union chairman Francis Kean.




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Rita Ora sets pulses racing as she leaves almost nothing to the imagination in nude Instagram snap 

The singer, 29, looked nothing short of sensational in the photo where she covered her modesty with well-placed strawberry emoji's as she posed in front of the mirror.




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Rita Ora sets pulses racing as she shares sizzling snaps in her lingerie and a sheer lace bodysuit

The blonde bombshell was lent back on a leather sofa in the snap and left very little to the imagination in a sheer lace bodysuit and nothing else




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Rita Ora sets pulses racing in dance rehearsal video of new single How To Be Lonely

Filmed in London prior to the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis, the singer, 29, looked sensational in a white co-ord ensemble.




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GLEN KEOGH speaks to Thomas Cook customers facing travel chaos in Ibiza 

Worried Britons who flew to Ibiza on Thomas Cook package holidays yesterday said staff carried on as normal despite the likelihood of the 178-year-old firm going bust today.




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Being ostracized: Virus leaves its mark for UK's elderly

LONDON (AP) - From resounding applause to ostracization and isolation. That's essentially the journey Lt. Cmdr. Robert Embleton, who served 34 years in...




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Motor racing-Ricciardo expects a bit of chaos when F1...

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Daniel Ricciardo cannot wait for Formula One to get back to racing in a COVID-19 blighted season, and when it does he reckons the...




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Georgia man's death raises echoes of US racial terror...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Many people saw more than the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery's life when a video emerged this week of white men armed with guns...




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Motor racing-F1 without a crowd leaves Hamilton with an...

By Alan BaldwinLONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Six-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton says the prospect of a home British Grand Prix without...




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Jay Leno says Gabrielle Union is 'great girl', remains silent on racist America's Got Talent joke

The 68-year-old comedian was seen leaving his special set at The Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California on Sunday night.




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Simon Cowell lawyers up after becoming embroiled in racism storm

Simon Cowell has reportedly hired longtime Hollywood litigator Larry Stein to represent him. It comes after Gabrielle Union, 47, claimed she was told her hairstyle and clothes were 'too black'.




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Reading and Cardiff to launch investigation into alleged racial and homophobic abuse

Both Reading and Cardiff City will be launching an investigation after alleged racial and homophobic chanting at their FA Cup tie at the Madejski prompted a stadium announcement.




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Chloe Ferry sets pulses racing in sultry snap as she poses in lacy lingerie

The reality star, 24, left little to the imagination as she displayed her surgically-enhanced assets in the lacy white underwear.




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Vicky Pattison discusses embracing her figure, her cheating ex fiancé and her year from hell

The former Geordie Shore star, 32, discusses embracing her figure, her cheating ex fiancé and moving on from her year from hell.




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Rory McIlroy returns to world No 1 spot for first time in five years after replacing Brooks Koepka

The four-time major winner officially took the world No 1 spot again on Monday, ending Koepka's 38-week reign at the top since winning the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black in May.




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Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Vardhan

New Delhi, May 9 () The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment and management, also stressed on the need to take concrete action to check the use of non-smoking tobacco and prohibiting spitting in public places which shall help in preventing the spread of the infection, according to a statement. During the high-level meeting with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Vardhan appreciated the dedication of all the states




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Senator Lindsey Graham lashes out at Colin Kaepernick, calling him 'un-American' and 'racist'

A defiant Lindsey Graham appeared on Fox News on Sunday and pulled no punches when asked about some of the president's fiercest critics, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.




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Climate change is causing a 'sudden and dramatic shift' in the Pacific Arctic, experts warn

A new study reveals the Pacific edge of the Arctic Ocean underwent a 'sudden and dramatic shift' from 2017 to 2019' that experts fear is irreversible and may be 'a sign of what is to come.'




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EVGENY LEBEDEV: It's NOT racist to say China's vile markets are to blame for coronavirus

EVGENY LEBEDEV: It is not 'racist' to confront the medieval beliefs of so-called traditional medicine around the world. If China fails to act, the rest of the world should take steps to force its hand.




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Mayor Bill de Blasio appoints his wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he believes it will take more than 20 months to fully rebuild New York City and announces different councils that will focus on reopening the Big Apple.




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Off-duty NYPD cop, 34, killed on his way to work after 'drag racing' BMW rear-ended his motorcycle

Richard Holt, 34, (pictured) died after he was thrown from his Harley Davidson Motorbike when a 'racing' car clipped the rear of his bike on Saturday evening in Bayside, Queens, New York City.




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Christian Coleman's attempt to label his critics racist was an insult to our intelligence

COMMENT BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: To hear Christian Coleman in the early hours of Sunday morning was to feel bemused by the brazenness of it all,




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Cyclist shares pictures of his emaciated legs following ten-month doping ban and battle with bulimia

Slovenian cyclist Janez Brajkovic, 35, posted the pictures of his incredibly lean legs after returning to the track following a ten-month doping ban for testing positive for methylhexaneamine.




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Dillian Whyte DROPPED as mandatory challenger to Deontay Wilder... with Tyson Fury replacing him

Although Whyte has not been banned, the WBC decided to suspend his status as 'interim' champion. Therefore, Tyson Fury has been installed as the new mandatory challenger.




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Russia facing ban from 2020 Olympics and European Championships

Russia could be set for a new ban from major international sporting events like next summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games over claimed inconsistencies in anti-doping data.




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Don Trump Jr and Ted Cruz called racist over Obama cookie

President Trump's eldest son and the senator from Texas posed with the cookie on Sunday night in Dallas restaurant Le Bilboquet, where they were celebrating a mutual friend's birthday party.




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Donald Trump lashes out at Barack Obama for condemning leaders who 'normalize racist sentiments'

Donald Trump struck back at Barack Obama's condemnation of rhetoric he's used, arguing he's the 'least racist person,' and used an edited quote from a 'Fox & Friends' host to back up his point.  




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Donald Trump Jr claims his father can't be racist because he let him hang out with Michael Jackson

Donald Trump Jr's new book touches on his relationship with Michael Jackson while hitting out at his father's rivals, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (inset). Don Jr and his father are seen above.




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Trump tweets racially-charged attack on Biden showing fake Obama watching his VP speak nonsensically

President Donald Trump tweeted a campaign ad on Monday that contained a racially-charged attack on Joe Biden and features former President Barack Obama.




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Comedian Jim Davidson faces 'racism' claims

Comedian Jim Davidson has vowed never to visit London again after accusing the capital's mayor Sadiq Khan of having 'f***** up' his home town.




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Sadiq Khan brands Donald Trump a 'poster boy for racists'

The Mayor said it was 'remarkable' the President was 'amplifying a racist tweet'. It comes after Trump said Khan was a 'national disgrace destroying London'.




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Rafael Nadal beats Juan Ignacio Londeiro in fourth round as hunt for 12th French Open win continues

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT ROLAND GARROS: Rafael Nadal cruised into the French Open quarter finals after a good old fashioned clay court dust up on Philippe Chatrier.




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French sport minister Roxana Maracineanu casts doubt on major events amid coronavirus pandemic

The Tour de France and French Open have come under doubt after ministers stated they would only be held if fans can attend. Events in France gathering 5,000 people have been banned until September




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PIERS MORGAN: Blackface Justin Trudeau should demand his own racist head on a plate

Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada and arguably the most woke, virtue-signalling and PC-crazed leader in the history of Mankind turns out to have a rather cracked halo?




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Leo DiCaprio suits up for North American premiere of E-racing documentary And We Go Green at TIFF

The handsome star, 44, turned up at the city's Ryerson Theatre with Academy Award winning director Fisher Stevens, 55, and co-director Malcolm Venville, 57, on Sunday.




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Leonardo DiCaprio reunites with Martin Scorsese and Al Pacino at Santa Barbara Film Festival

Leonardo DiCaprio reunited with his longtime collaborator, director Martin Scorsese, and his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Al Pacino at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.




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SAG Awards: Brad Pitt celebrates win with pals Al Pacino and Leonardo DiCaprio

The screen star, 56, rang in his triumph with close pals and co-stars Al, 79, and Leo, 45, at the 2020 Netflix SAG afterparty, held at Los Angeles' Sunset Tower on Sunday evening.




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What I learned about older men by dating AL PACINO

Meital Dohan, 40, split up with Al Pacino, 79, in February this year. Meital said she dumped the Oscar-winning movie icon because he 'didn't like to spend money' and only bought her flowers.




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Atletico Madrid facing up to £88m loss of Champions League cash

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Atletico know it's unlikely but they have to cling to something. The horizon will look very dark for them otherwise - they would stand to lose around £88m from missed revenue




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North Korean mother facing jail for saving children from fire instead of portraits of Kim family

A mother-of-two from North Korea is under investigation by the Ministry of State Security after she saved her children from a fire but failed to rescue portraits of the country's leaders.




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Camila Cabello sets pulses racing as she joins Katy Perry on stage at KIIS FM's Jingle Ball

Camila Cabello looked incredible as she joined Katy Perry on stage at the star-studded KIIS FM's Jingle Ball in Inglewood, California on Friday night.




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Phoebe Burgess announced as 2020 Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival ambassador

She's the former NRL WAG who never puts a foot wrong when it comes to fashion.




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Annastacia Palaszczuk says State of Origin could be cancelled because of coronavirus

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she doubts the NRL's showpiece event can be played during a pandemic, but said she had her fingers crossed for December.




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Bella Hadid sets pulses racing in patterned cut-out one-piece

She was spotted partying alongside pals Kendall Jenner, her sister Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio on Wednesday.




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High-flying nightclub identity facing 12 years in a Bali jail over drug offences

Melbourne club promoter William Cabantog, 36, was arrested on July 9 for alleged cocaine possession at Lost City Nightclub in resort precinct, Canggu.