Scotland captain Andy Robertson has been ruled out of Thursday's opening Euro 2020 qualifier in Kazakhstan.

The Liverpool defender had stayed behind in Glasgow when the squad left on Sunday night to have an operation on an abscess in his mouth.

Wallace George Lowe, CNZM, OBE (15 January 1924 – 20 March 2013), known as George Lowe, was a New Zealand-born mountaineer, explorer, film director and educator. He was the last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, during which his friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known people to summit the world's highest peak.

Barclays is to become the Women's Super League first ever title sponsor, in a deal the Football Association has called "the biggest ever investment in UK women's sport by a brand".

Britons are among the happiest people in the world - and are becoming more cheerful, according to an annual United Nations survey.

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British actress Jodie Comer has beaten her Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh to be named best female actor at this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) awards.

Sunderland striker Will Grigg has been ruled out of Northern Ireland's Euro 2020 qualifiers against Estonia and Belarus with an ankle injury.

Philip Andrew "Phil" Gartside (27 April 1952 – 10 February 2016) was an English businessman who was chairman of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.

On 23 April 2009, Gartside proposed a plan to his fellow Premier League chairmen about splitting the Premier League into two divisions of eighteen teams in each and allowing Scottish Premier League clubs Celtic and Rangers to join. UEFA have said they will not veto the proposed move.

A mother-of-three who drowned on a hen weekend in the Republic of Ireland is to be buried in her wedding dress.

Ruth Maguire, 30, went missing overnight on Saturday in Carlingford, County Louth.

In 2016, WrestleMania 32 surpassed WrestleMania III as the highest-attended professional wrestling event ever held in America, with 101,763 fans in attendance at AT&T Stadium. All editions of the event have been hosted in North American cities, with 32 in the United States and two in Canada.

Bolton Wanderers have been given two weeks to settle their debts and avoid a winding-up order, a High Court hearing in London has ruled.

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ (née Welch; born 20 March 1917), widely known as "the Forces' Sweetheart", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War.

She has devoted much time and energy to charity work connected with ex-servicemen, disabled children, and breast cancer. She is held in great affection by veterans of the Second World War to this day and in 2000 was named the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th century.

England v Czech Republic: Go with gut instinct when choosing country, says Michael Keane

Ben Woodburn's added-time winner saved Wales' blushes as they marked the return of international football to Wrexham with an unconvincing friendly win over Trinidad and Tobago.

In preparation for Sunday's opening Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovakia, manager Ryan Giggs rested almost his entire first team as Wales played in the north for the first time since 2008.

The doomed ocean-liner RMS Titanic sunk because of a little-known rule that insisted all ships turn right to avoid a collision - sending her straight towards a wall of ice, a new book has claimed.

Since the Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, historians have long pinned the blame solely on her striking an iceberg.

But journalist Senan Molony, who has been researching the disaster for 30 years, believes there is much more to it than this with a fire in a coalbunker, a shortage of fuel and the decision to turn right to avoid an iceberg all among the reasons for its sinking.

Kazakhstan v Scotland: What will Alex McLeish and his side face in Astana?

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Jockey Bryony Frost will miss next month's Grand National meeting after it emerged she broke her collarbone in a fall just four days after making history at the Cheltenham Festival.

Ryan Giggs says he understands why some Wales fans were disappointed that Gareth Bale was left out of Wednesday's friendly win over Trinidad and Tobago.

UK interest rates on hold amid Brexit impasse

2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.

2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.