Fall

How did league champions Liverpool and Club World Cup winners Chelsea fall so far?
Should we have seen this coming?Liverpool: Not at all. Hindsight offers a few portents, such as the extent of last summer’s upheaval and Arne Slot’s insistence that it was...
‘Half the peloton is ill’: cowpats blamed as cyclists fall sick after race in Belgium
Several cyclists, including riders due to start the Giro d’Italia on Friday, fell ill after a Belgian one-day race, with cow manure on the roads suspected to be the...
As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the ‘adults in the room’ line again | Aditya Chakrabortty
Some big questions will be asked this weekend – about how Labour fell so far so fast, about when Keir Starmer goes and who takes his place – but...
Arsenal see off Atlético Madrid and feel gnawing fear of failure start to fall away
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Arsenal, having failed to capitalise on so many opportunities over the...
HSBC profits fall amid $400m fraud-related charge and Iran war
HSBC has taken a $1.3bn (£961m) hit to profits, amid the fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran and fraud in the troubled private credit sector.The London-headquartered bank said...
GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details
GameStop’s shares fell more than 10% on Monday as questions emerged about how the company would finance its surprise $55.5bn bid for eBay.In an interview with CNBC, Ryan Cohen,...
‘Don’t fall!’: foil boarders describe hair-raising shark chase caught on video off California coast
Ron Takeda and Tavis Boise were a few miles off the coast of Santa Barbara when they noticed the large mass trailing behind them.“Tavis, is it a dolphin?” asked...
Stephen Fry sues tech conference organisers for £100,000 over fall from stage
Stephen Fry is suing two companies that organised a tech conference where he was injured in 2023 after falling off the stage, high court documents show.The actor and presenter...
The moment I knew: The banana bread was terrible but seeing him baking made me fall for him
In 2007 I’d been single for a few years and had just returned from a year volunteering in a village in Bangladesh. Six months after arriving home in Sydney...
Conteh review – the dazzling rise and bruising fall of a 70s boxing great
Don King is singing the praises of his new signing. The boxing impresario, played by Zach Levene with an extravagant bouffant, sees something special in John Conteh, the light-heavyweight...