they have one foot in the next round after beating swiss side luzern 3—1. and if hibernian progress, they'll play aston villa next. the purple heather was popping on the walton heath course on day one of the final golf major of the year — and it's american ally ewing who is heading up the women's 0pen leaderboard. she found 11 of 15 fairways to help on her way to a round of 68, which included an eagle on the 16th, she's four under. five players are joined together on the leaderboard just one shot back, including 2019 us women's open champion jeongun lee. south africa's ashleigh buhai won at muirfield last year, but had a trickier start to her title defence, ending the day two over par. so it's exciting to get in, you know, the good first round. a long way to go from sunday. you know, it's great to put a good first round together. but major championship golf, you can never really lose focus. so i'll get some food and take, you know, get a good night's sleep and come back and take on the next day. nick kyrgios has withdrawn from the us open due to injury the

they've been drawn against hibernian or luzern in the europa conference league.h in the premier league last season under unai emery. manchester united defender raphael varane says players and managers are "not being heard" when it comes to new injury time and dissent rules. all but two efl fixtures went to 100 minutes over the weekend, to more accurately reflect stoppages in play, while players and managers have been warned they face tougher punishments for poor behaviour. varane says on social media that players have shared concerns for many years that there are too many games and it's at a dangerous level for players. he adds, "we just want to be in good condition on the pitch to give 100% to our club and fans. "why are our opinions not being heard?" henry slade will not be at the upcoming rugby union world cup. he has not been selected for the england squad, despite playing at the past two tournaments. alex domdrandt is also absent from the 33—man squad. england's first game is against argentina in marseille in just over a month's time. our rugby correspondent

one foot in the next round of qualifying for the europa conference league after beating swiss side luzerno matches at the women's world cup after picking up a red card in their win on penalties against nigeria. it means that james won't be available for the match against colombia on saturday — or the potential semi final either. but if england were to make the final — she would be back for selection. her team mate lucy staniforth feels the squad can still cope without her. she's a great player, but obviously, the squad's full of great players and there will be people ready to step in those shoes. i think the strength of our squad has always been the squad. we're not defined by one player. i think they'll be looking forward to the next game. welsh fire beat birmingham phoenix by six wickets in the men's hundred at edgebaston, and how about this for a catch. moeen ali was restricted to 17 runs for phoenix and was caught eventually after a bit ofjuggling by roland van de merwe. fire are third in the table with two wins from four. phoenix are yet to win a game and remain bottom. in the women'

hibernian are 3—1 up against luzern after last week's first leg at easter road.y will face aston villa in the play—off round. it's obviously a big game. the lads know that. there is a thrust mentally towards that big game. and, yeah, they know it's a stretch, so it's a different factor going into it. and i suppose you could say it's the fear factor, but actually that creates the sharpness sometimes because you expect the quality of deposition to be able to capitalise if you are not on it. hearts have a tougher task. they are home for the second leg of their tie against rosenburg, but are 2—1 down against the norwegians. the tie is alive, to— one. 90 minutes— the tie is alive, to— one. 90 minutes for— the tie is alive, to— one. 90 minutes for the boys. you know, in european _ minutes for the boys. you know, in european ties you have to prepare to maybe _ european ties you have to prepare to maybe go— european ties you have to prepare to maybe go the full and extra time as well and _ maybe go the full and extra time as well and even penalty kicks. we are prepared _

it�*s after they beat the swiss side luzern 5—3 on aggregate. farrell can get away with it, that�*s what they�*re going to do. brain injury charity headway has told the bbc the handling of farrell�*s case is an embarrassment for the sport. an independent committee will meet next week to decide farrell�*s fate. the outcome is likely to have implications notjust on england but for the sport itself. ben croucher, bbc news. he has travelled with the england squad to face ireland in a warm up match but he will not be playing ahead of the nervous wait for the decision and the appeal hearing next week. let�*s get a look at the weather with carol. we area we are a country of two halves today, northern half is dry with variable cloud and sunshine as you can see from this western —— weather watchers picture, at the southern half is murky and foggy. and we have a weather front fishing north—east, and then another one which is going to produce heavy rain. we have showers at the moment, some of them are heavy and we could see some large rainfall totals in a

one foot in the next round of qualifying for the europa conference league after beating swiss side luzernnder way and england's women will be without lauren james for tomorrow's quarterfinal against colombia, and the semifinal, should england make it that far, after fifa decided to extend her ban, following her red card against nigeria. jane dougall is in sydney for us. jane, a setback, yes, but it could have been worse. the dream scenario, england get to the final and she scores the winner. a bit of a setback for england, such as dynamic and exciting player, laurenjames. she set up three goals against china in the group stages and scored two goals. but it could have been a lot worse. we already knew she wasn't going to be playing this saturday for the quarterfinal match against colombia. a red card in the women's world cup is an automatic one match ban but fifa had the opportunity to increase it to three, and they are increasingly moving violent conduct bans to three games, so it could have been worse. you could argue that stepping on somebody on the deck is not violent but it was delibe

boyle's early double turned the tie. 6—1 it finished — leejohnson's side will welcome switzerland's luzern worst of the weather in the that women's teams dodged the worst of the weather hundred. alice davidson—richards stole the show for northern superchargers women as they beat birmingham phoenix by seven wickets to get their hundred campaign off to the perfect start. davidson—richards took three wickets forjust 11 runs from her 20 balls at headingley as well as taking two catches and claiming a brilliant run out. she and australian phoebe litchfield saw their side home with 22 balls to spare. the men 5 match was in the first innings when torrential rain hit the area with phoenix 84 for 5 after 62 balls. it's the third match to be abandoned for wet weather at this years hundred. today they are in southampton. i have looked, it is dry and fine and should be ok today. thank goodness for that. the james webb space telescope has captured new images of the end stages of a distant star's life — take a look at this! this doughnut—like structure is known as the ring nebula. it is around 2,600 lig