The country’s greatest bowler on why his wife, Daniella, is still mad at England, how the game saved him from loneliness growing up and what could be next

“I’m not getting too dark here,” Jimmy Anderson says quietly as we return to a time when he was a solitary boy in Burnley, “but I remember sitting in my room thinking: ‘I wish I wasn’t me. I wish I was someone else.’ That’s not a great place to be at 14. I didn’t fit in at school or have a group of mates. The biggest thing for me then was the feeling of being lonely.

“I didn’t have close friends. We didn’t play cricket at school. I was seen as a bit of an odd person who liked cricket. Why would you like cricket when you can play football and these other amazing sports? I did play them, but obviously not to the same level as cricket. I just felt like an outcast.”

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Working long hours can lead to people having issues moderating behaviour due to ‘ego depletion’, research shows

If a hard day in the office leaves you crabby and uncooperative, you may have an excuse: scientists say exercising self-restraint can exhaust parts of the brain related to decision-making and impulse control, leaving you less able to manage your behaviour towards others.

The researchers say their results tie into the theory of “ego depletion” – a controversial idea in psychology that willpower is a limited resource that gets used up by effort.

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Former England striker will relinquish role at the end of the 2024/25 season, but will stay at BBC until 2026

Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, it has been reported.

He is believed to have signed an 18-month contract with the broadcaster that will cover the next Fifa World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico, but will step back from the BBC’s football highlights programme at the end of the 2024/25 season. BBC News reported that an announcement would be made on Tuesday.

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Exclusive: Target is 81% emissions cut compared with 1990, but activists say it must be backed by plan of action

Keir Starmer will announce a stringent new climate goal for the UK on Tuesday, the Guardian can reveal, with a target in line with the advice given to the government by its scientists and independent advisers.

The UK will pledge to cut emissions by 81% compared with 1990 levels by 2035, a target in line with the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee .

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Status of abortion in state has been contested since Roe was overturned, triggering the 175-year-old ban into effect

During heated oral arguments Monday morning, the Wisconsin supreme court appeared poised to find an 1849 law banning most abortions cannot be enforced.

The legal status of abortion in Wisconsin has been contested since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and ended the right to abortion nationwide, triggering bans across the country – including in Wisconsin, where a 175-year-old ban immediately went into effect.

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Transport secretary says figures will be shown on screens in effort to hold operators and government to account

Passengers will be shown how often their trains are delayed and cancelled on screens at stations under plans by the transport secretary to hold operators to account.

Louise Haigh promised to increase transparency by publicly displaying punctuality performance of train operating companies, including those run by the government, on screens at most stations.

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Prop 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude in prisons, fails in blow to criminal justice reform advocates

California voters have rejected a ballot measure to prohibit forced prison labor, in a major disappointment to advocates of criminal justice reform and many of the 90,000 people incarcerated in state prisons.

Proposition 6 would have amended the state’s constitution to ban involuntary servitude for people in prison. The proposition would instead have allowed people in prison to chose their jobs, with a related proposal that would have created voluntary work programs within the prison system.

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Victim reported being sexually assaulted by ‘several males’ and coerced into taking drugs on frat row, officials say

Officials at Cornell University have suspended one of the Ivy League institution’s Greek fraternities while police investigate an incident in which a victim was allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted by “several males” and forced into taking drugs.

The New York university’s police department said it received a report about an assault said to have taken place at an off-campus event in the city of Ithaca on the night of 25 October, the Times Union reported .

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Allegations against Karim Khan to be examined by outside body ‘to ensure fully independent, impartial and fair process’

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court will face an external investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, the court’s governing body has said.

In a statement, the president of the body that oversees the ICC said the inquiry would examine the allegations against Karim Khan, which related to his alleged conduct towards a woman who worked for him.

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