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The mood around England seems increasingly gripped by a sense of drift, a holding operation with Carsley as the front man while Tuchel strangely waits in the wings before taking charge.

He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and “got zen,” as he says.

Australian scientists have solved a mystery which has gripped Sydney: what were the sticky dark blobs which washed up on some of the city's famed beaches last month?

Since 2020, an extreme and exceptional agricultural drought has gripped northeast Syria and parts of Iraq.

While it is a significant development in a case that has gripped the nation, it is one step on what could be a long road.