Host of The Claudia Winkleman Show was ‘just too nervous to enjoy it’When the BBC revealed that Claudia Winkleman was to be given her own chatshow, she deployed her trademark self-deprecation to note that it “might be excruciating”. Yet after just one series, it is the presenter – rather than the audience or…

It was a statistically weird game for Argentina’s talisman against England, full of outliers. It didn’t matterThomas Tuchel will have prepared for every eventuality before England’s match with Argentina. He will have considered how his team could prosper in attack while remaining solid in defence. What to change…

Rachel Menitoff praised for her professionalism as giant insect lands on her during piece to cameraViewers of a now-viral video are sharing their amazement at a TV reporter who maintained her composure during a live broadcast after a huge flying cockroach unexpectedly landed on her mid-report.Rachel Menitoff, a…

Giovanni Castellucci among 32 people convicted over the 2018 Morandi Bridge collapse, which killed 43Thirty-two people, including the former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator, have been convicted over the 2018 collapse of a Genoa bridge in which 43 people died.In a hushed courtroom on Thursday in the…

The tournament’s mascot came to herald the ubiquitous, commercial aims of a growing international spectacleDeep within a dark warehouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, there sits a severed head. Encased in plastic, perfectly preserved and seemingly begging to be reanimated, it belongs to an American soccer…