The tourists were forced into an eleventh-hour rethink after wicketkeeper Jordan Cox was ruled out of the series with a broken thumb.

Two Britons are missing after a tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea off Egypt, the PA news agency understands. Consular support is being provided to “a number of British nationals and their families” ...

More than 200 members of the Irish Defence Forces returned home on Monday morning after six months serving with Unifil in southern Lebanon.