When Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers are on song, there’s not much the opposition can do. And if Chris Gayle joins the party, the captain at the other end runs out of options pretty quickly. Gautam Gambhir and Kolkata Knight Riders learnt that when Royal Challengers Bangalore handed them a nine-wicket thrashing at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on ...

Barcelona have protected their Liga title after a hat-trick from Luis Suarez secured a 3-0 victory over Granada on Saturday. Real Madrid’s victory away to Deportivo La Coruna was not enough as Barca sealed a comfortable victory to achieve a final points tally of 91 – one more than their fierce rivals – and claim a 24th top-flight crown, GOAL ...

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam posted the flag of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group on his Facebook page three weeks before the attacks, Belgian website RTBF reports. Authorities were aware of the flag but did not act upon it, it added. IS militants staged bomb and gun attacks on several targets in Paris on 13 November, murdering 130 people ...

Around 12,000 people have been urged to leave Canada’s oil sands camps near the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray as a resurgent wildfire heads towards them. A regional official told the BBC that 8,000 people were given precautionary evacuation orders late on Monday, in addition to some 4,000 who had already been advised to leave. More than 80,000 people fled ...

China’s state-run media has said the country can never allow a repeat of the “error” of the Cultural Revolution. The editorial in Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily is the first official comment following Monday’s 50th anniversary of the start of the unrest. The campaign to “purge” society of Mao Zedong’s political opponents ushered in years of bloodshed and turmoil. ...

The president of the European Council has said the only alternative to the EU is “political chaos” and labelled Boris Johnson’s recent comments “absurd”. Donald Tusk said he was speaking out to defend his “vision of Europe”. He said he could not “remain silent” after Mr Johnson compared the EU’s aims with Hitler’s, and said the ex-London mayor had shown ...

Tight security is in place in Hong Kong for the visit of the most senior official from Beijing since large pro-democracy protests in 2014. Zhang Dejiang, the leader responsible for Hong Kong affairs, arrived amid discontent with alleged interference by Beijing. Mr Zhang said he was in Hong Kong “to listen to all sectors of society”. More than 6,000 police ...

Excavation work for a new metro line in Rome has unearthed a huge Roman barracks from the 2nd Century AD when Emperor Hadrian was in power. The find is so impressive that Italy plans to create Rome’s first “archaeological station” at Amba Aradam, on the city’s third metro line. The new station is being built while archaeologists brush dirt away ...

The cruise ship ‘Harmony of the Seas’ has the capacity to accommodate more than 8,000 passengers and crew in the most luxurious conditions. The world’s biggest-ever cruise ship, the 120,000-tonne Harmony of the Seas, capable of accommodating more than 8,000 passengers and crew in the most luxurious conditions, was set for delivery on Thursday from a French boatyard. At 66 ...

Sri Lanka’s government says the death toll from floods and landslides across the country has risen to eight, with eight others reported missing as a result of heavy storms in the past three days. The Disaster Management Center says in its report Tuesday that nine people are injured and about 30,000 people have been evacuated to safe locations as heavy ...