At last month’s Lakmé Fashion Week in India, conversations about making fashion more sustainable took centre stage. But are the country’s designers ready for this? The four-day event – organised jointly by beauty company Lakmé, billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Brands and the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) – is one of Indian fashion’s biggest
Daniil Medvedev reached the semi-finals at the ATP Finals and Carlos Alcaraz kept alive his own hopes on his debut by beating an anguished Andrey Rublev. Wimbledon champion Alcaraz had lost to Alexander Zverev in his Red Group opener but the Spaniard returned to beat Rublev 7-5 6-2 in Turin, Italy. Rublev hit himself so
Tiger Woods’ teenage son Charlie Woods has won a high school state team championship – achieving something his father never managed to do. Charlie, 14, shot rounds of 78 and 76 to help his team earn its fourth state golf title as his father, a 15-time major winner, watched in Florida. He finished fourth out
ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 final: India v Australia Venue: Ahmedabad Date: Sunday, 19 November Time: 08:30 GMT England’s Richard Illingworth and Richard Kettleborough have been chosen as the on-field umpires for Sunday’s Cricket World Cup final between India and Australia in Ahmedabad. It will be the second time Kettleborough is in the middle for the showpiece occasion, with
Pakistan are moving on from Babar Azam as captain in all three formats following their failure to reach the World Cup semi-finals. The 29-year-old batter announced he had resigned, but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) later said he had been relieved of the white-ball captaincy. They added he was asked to stay on as Test
The Kremlin has launched a wide-ranging campaign to force Ukrainians in occupied territories to become Russian, an investigation has found. Ukrainians are being denied healthcare and free movement unless they take up Russian citizenship, evidence suggests. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), an alliance of public service media, interviewed refugees for the investigation. They spoke of
Nearly 20,000 men have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the war to avoid being drafted, the BBC has discovered. Some have swum dangerous rivers to leave the country. Others have simply walked out under cover of darkness. Another 21,113 men attempted to flee but were caught by the Ukrainian authorities, Kyiv confirmed. After Russia’s
Last month the German government announced an additional €370m (£320m; $390m) in funding for nuclear fusion research and development. This brings the total budget earmarked for the next five years to €1bn. So is Germany about to take a leap forward in fusion engineering? “We want to create a fusion ecosystem with industry, so that
It was while visiting an Italian city for work that Silvia Ombellini and her husband Simone Riccardi dreamt up the idea to set up a website dedicated to sustainable tourism. Mr Riccardi was working for an Italian university at the time, 10 years ago, and had to go to the city of Potenza in the
Superhero film The Marvels made just $47m (£38m) in its first weekend, in the US, making it the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lowest opening. In contrast, Avengers: Endgame made box office history in 2019 by taking a record-breaking $1.2bn (£980m) in global ticket sales in its opening run. The Marvels, starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani and Teyonah Parris,
