Barcelona begin the defence of their La Liga crown on Sunday amid doubts over the strength of their backline, Neymar’s adaptation to European football and how new coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino will perform.

Hollywood moms Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner continued their campaign to keep paparazzi away from the children of celebrities on Tuesday, appearing at a legislative hearing in California to urge passage of a bill that would increase state penalties for harassing children.

New world 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah brushed the sleep from his eyes and forced his tired legs around 15 laps of the track to qualify for the 5,000 final on a warm, sunny Tuesday morning at the Luzhniki.

Nasa’s only identical twin astronauts are planning to serve as guinea pigs for studies investigating the genetic impacts of long-duration space flight.

Actress Leah Remini, who recently left the Church of Scientology, has filed a missing person report with Los Angeles police for the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, a source close to the actress said on Thursday.

A historically important letter from Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist whose efforts to save Jews from the Holocaust were made famous in the 1993 Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List, is among

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will buy the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in a surprise deal that ends the Graham family’s 80-year ownership and hands one of America’s most influential publications to the tech entrepreneur.

Tiger Woods eased to a seven-shot victory at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday, earning his 79th win on the PGA Tour and sounding an ominous warning to his rivals ahead of next week’s PGA Championship.

American rock group Bloodhound Gang has been barred from a music festival in Russia, the Russian culture minister said, after a band member shoved the country’s flag into his underpants during a gig.

A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world’s first lab-grown beef burger.