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Toke Makinwa broke down in tears as she appreciated God at her thanksgiving service.   An emotional Toke thanked God for not looking at her or judging her the way the world judges her. She said God saw her through a divorce at a time when she thought she was going to d!e.     Toke got married to fitness …

History-maker Fallon Sherrock will compete at her fifth PDC World Darts Championship in December after qualifying from the Women’s Series Order of Merit. In 2019, Sherrock became the first female player to win a match at the Alexandra Palace tournament. She went into Sunday’s sixth and final Women’s Series double-header in Leicester £2,100 ahead of Japan’s Mikuru Suzuki and when …

Watch as Great Britain’s Josh Charlton wins silver in the men’s individual pursuit, as Italy’s Jonathan Milan breaks the world record to win gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Copenhagen. WATCH LIVE: Track Cycling World Championship – day three Available to UK users only.

Wales have learned their opposition at next year’s Rugby World Cup in England. Ioan Cunningham’s side have been drawn in Pool B along with Canada, Scotland and Fiji. Wales were grouped with Six Nations rivals Scotland in the 2022 tournament, with Keira Bevan kicking a dramatic winning penalty. They are also familiar with Canada having played them in a friendly …

Lionel Messi scored his 10th international hat-trick as Argentina thrashed Bolivia 6-0 in World Cup qualifying. The 37-year-old Inter Miami forward, who also set up two goals at Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, moved level with Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo for the most hat-tricks in men’s international football. Argentina are three points clear of Colombia at the top of the South …

Pressure can do strange things in sport. It can provide clarity – Trent Alexander-Arnold can calmly slot in his penalty against Switzerland to book England’s place in the semi-final of the European Championships, or Keely Hodgkinson can time her race to perfection for Olympic 800m glory. Or it can provide chaos, which was the unfortunate outcome for England’s cricketers at …

Italy’s Jannik Sinner has enjoyed the most successful – and eventful – season of his career, having dominated the men’s game while the case investigating his two failed doping tests rumbles on. The reigning Australian Open and US Open champion, who won his seventh title of the season in Shanghai on Sunday, tested positive for clostebol in March. An independent …

Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich broke the world record to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. The 30-year-old clocked a time of two hours, nine minutes and 57 seconds to surpass Ethiopian Tigst Assefa’s previous record by nearly two minutes. Chepngetich is the first woman to run a marathon in under two hours and 10 minutes. Assefa set the previous record with …

The curious scheduling of this World Cup meant England came into this fixture having not played since a seven-wicket win over South Africa just under a week ago. England captain Heather Knight acknowledged her players had filled the days outside of training on the golf course and in coffee shops. So this was a useful encounter to rediscover their match …

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.”   In 1956, local Hibakusha associations, along with victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific, formed the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations. …