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The Japanese word nadeshiko refers to a pink carnation found in the country’s mountains. It also describes a romanticised idea of Japanese womanhood: silent, still and picture-perfect. Somewhat incongruous, then, that nadeshiko is the nickname of the national football team who, eight years ago, were world champions.

To be compared to Lionel Messi, arguably the world’s greatest footballer, is heady praise for most athletes. But Estefanía Banini, the star of Argentina’s national women’s side, prefers a more personal approach. “I always say that it is a beautiful comparison, as I consider Messi the best player in the world,” she says. “I also always say that it would be n

To say that the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, the venue of yesterday’s much-hyped World Cup meeting between England and Scotland, is poorly located is something of an understatement.

Which footballer best embodies the Scottish women’s team? For the coach and former captain, Shelley Kerr, it is Erin Cuthbert. This may surprise some, given the Chelsea midfielder’s relative juniority but Kerr, the first UK woman to manage a senior men’s team, knows something about Scottish spirit.

Successful applicants would need to be able to peel 1.5kg of crayfish within half an hour.

The shift towards biometric technology should cut time passing through Heathrow by up to a third ALAMY Passengers travelling from Heathrow will be able to check in and board their flight without showing a passport from this summer. A £50 million project to install permanent facial recognition technology at Britain’s biggest airport is intended to reduce time spent passing through by up to a third as travellers will not need to show a boarding pass either. It is the biggest single deployment of

Pupils who skipped school to protest about climate change have said they will continue their demonstrations throughout the summer because they are “not about skiving”. Thousands of teenagers have formed networks to co-ordinate campaigns to demand action by politicians on climate change. They have held monthly strikes simultaneously with young people around the world, gathering in Westminster and city centres on Fridays. Some met Greta Thunberg, the Swedish girl aged 16 who started the movement,

Fitness trackers are underestimating distances by such a large margin that some runners in the London Marathon tomorrow would need to cover almost 40 miles before their device told them that they had finished. Analysis by Which? found wide variations when they tested 118 trackers and smartwatches from brands including Apple, Fitbit and Garmin. The Garmin Vivosmart 4 was the least accurate, underestimating running distances by as much as 41.5 per cent. It miscalculated the marathon by 10.8 mile

President Trump said that he considered sending immigrants to sanctuary cities to see “if they’re so happy.”

Comments throw a third US/North Korean summit into doubt.

Disney will undercut Netflix when its streaming service launches later this year as part of an “aggressive” strategy to challenge its rival.

The Dalai Lama’s health has been the source of speculation in recent years.

Thirteen members of staff were taken to hospital after the attack at Feltham Young Offenders Institution in west London.

The man in his 20s died at the scene in Manor Park, east London.

Parents are bringing in stationery, glue sticks, exercise books and boxes of tissues for their children. State schools are asking parents to donate hundreds of pounds a year to pay for salaries, buy textbooks and equipment and repair leaking buildings, a Times investigation has revealed. Grammars, comprehensives and primaries are increasingly relying on families to pay for essentials and in one case have asked for up to £1,200 per child each year. Others do not specify amounts but are rec

Three children were arrested and led away in handcuffs yesterday as a school pupils’ climate change protest halted traffic in Westminster. One pupil, dressed in school uniform, was led away with two others after buses and cars were brought to a standstill in the roads around Parliament Square. Thousands of children 60 towns were on strike from lessons for a day. They are campaigning against government inaction on global warming. Police warned the young protesters that they would be arrested if

President Tsai of Taiwan has criticised Beijing for “lacking democracy” in a Chinese New Year address to the public urging political change on the mainland.

The vast staircase outside Batu Caves, a Hindu temple site in Kuala Lumpur, has become a blessing for keen Instagrammers.

About 50 water-spraying drones were flown over Bangkok yesterday morning as part of frantic efforts to tackle surging air pollution levels.

When Robert Falcon Scott led his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910, one of his team saw something unexpected. A male Adélie penguin finished mating with his partner, dismounted — and swapped positions. George Murray Levick, observing, concluded with shock: homosexuals. After Levick recorded his observations, he crossed them out and rewrote them in Greek so that only educated gentlemen could read them. His paper on the penguins’ proclivities was deemed too controversial for publication.

Pupils at a school in China have been made to weigh themselves and threatened with stringent exercise routines if they overindulge during the holidays.

More than 150 pilot whales have died after being stranded on a beach in southern New Zealand

Academics at Birmingham University voted to withdraw services from its Dubai campus after the jailing of Matthew Hedges, pictured here with his wife, Daniela PA Lecturers at Birmingham University have voted for an academic boycott of its new campus in the United Arab Emirates as the Durham PhD student accused of spying starts his life sentence there. Following the imprisonment of Matthew Hedges, 31, who was conducting fieldwork in the UAE when he was arrested in May, they said the safety of...

Sixteen years ago, Jim O’Dell was just working a regular job in occupational safety and health when he first discovered the 2,000-year-old sport of dragon boat racing.