CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: Kevin Pietersen was one of only four former England team-mates who did not participate in a video tribute to Alastair Cook this week.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The troubled Hundred format on which the England Cricket Board are placing so much importance is facing a critical fortnight.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: One of the longest contracts in sport is complicating the FA’s plan to bring the England players’ commercial operation in-house.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The Premier League are set to bankroll the Professional Footballers Association for another three years despite concern over Gordon Taylor's control.

CHARLES SALE - THE SPORTS AGENDA: A crucial meeting is scheduled for Friday to try and resolve the £150m impasse threatening to derail the Wembley sale.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: BBC are making significant changes to their flagship Sports Personality of the Year programme that turned into a shambles in Liverpool last year.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: FIFA remain remarkably confident that all the players named in their world XI will be present in London for the Best awards on September 24.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis will face serious questioning from fans on Sunday about the fiasco surrounding his future at the club.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is the intriguing name mentioned as a possible next chairman of the Premier League during informal discussions.

CHARLES SALE - THE SPORTS AGENDA: adidas invited all their English football clubs to their Munich headquarters last week to present future plans.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is understood to have been chiefly responsible for turning down an approach from Amazon for All or Nothing.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The most fascinating insight from a Ryder Cup pundit this week will be delivered by former European captain Ian Woosnam.

CHARLES SALE: The European Tour have thrown in the towel in their attempts to stop Ryder Cup stars ambush marketing timekeeper sponsors Rolex on the official team photographs.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: It has emerged on the eve of the Ryder Cup that European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley earned a salary of £2.78million last year.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: It has not gone down well at the Trianon Palace Hotel, where both teams are staying, that the Americans have brought their own chef.

CHARLES SALE: Sky's continued coverage of the Ryder Cup for the next two tournaments is by far the most crucial aspect of their new four-year deal with the European Tour, agreed on the eve of the event.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: Gary Lineker has infuriated the golf community by calling Justin Rose's popular caddie Mark Fulcher 'an absolute numpty'.

As yesterday’s special European Union summit made clear, this country’s divorce from Brussels is likely to be painful. It is a time when Britain needs a strong, clear-headed and resolute Prime Minister.

Britain’s National Health Service has plainly been carefully targeted by internet highwaymen looking for easy victims. They did not choose the NHS because it was impoverished.

We are in alarming, uncharted territory. Every vote counts as almost never before. The Mail on Sunday’s Survation poll now shows the Tory lead down to just one per cent.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The giant aftershocks of the EU referendum continue to run through British politics, shaking pillars that once seemed wholly firm, demolishing safe walls.

Unforeseen events have utterly transformed the political weather. First came the Election result. Then came the abiding, endlessly painful tragedy of Grenfell Tower.

It is hard to view Boris Johnson's Brexit outburst as anything other than a hostile act, coming less than a week before Mrs May sets out her own Brexit vision in a speech in Florence.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s camp threatens to destroy the fragile peace so recently achieved by the Prime Minister.

It  is grotesque that allegiance to the homicidal creed of Islamic State might be rewarded with a helping hand in the housing queue, writes THE MAIL ON SUNDAY.

If ever there was a time for a Prime Minister to take charge of events, still the storm and impose calm, this is such a time... and who better than vicar's daughter Theresa May.

Chief Constables are not hired to change the law. They are hired to enforce it. Mike Barton, the Durham Police chief, needs to be sharply reminded of this, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY says.

Many will have cause to be grateful in future for this necessary and compassionate move, for which The Mail on Sunday has been campaigning since the beginning of this year.

It is hard to justify the vast differences between the Western way of life and the conditions endured by those who live in the poorer parts of the world.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The tumult and the shouting may at last be dying away. The time for slogans and cheap jibes is over. Dogma is giving way to practicality.

The Mail on Sunday urges MPs to end the chaos and indecision, recover their good sense, and support the Prime Minister. Loyalty has never been so important.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Once again the country faces a moment of decision, but most of our elected, salaried politicians are not prepared to take that decision.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, today goes public to say Seumas Milne - Jeremy Corbyn's closest courtier- stands 'no chance' of passing Whitehall checks.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: If Mr Farage insists on pursuing his impossible dream of a perfect Brexit, he will not get it.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Boris Johnson is said to have been unhappy about imposing his lockdown on the country, and that his naturally liberal instincts are troubled by it.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Our hearts go out to the frontline staff in the NHS who face dangers as great as any endured by soldiers in battle.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Leaks from inside Whitehall suggest that senior Ministers, in the absence of Boris Johnson, are reluctant to take any major decisions.

The Grammy award-winning composer says the R&B superstar took her role as lioness Nala in the upcoming Disney remake 'very seriously' and he has hailed her new track Spirit.

The songstress, 37, sings about living a life of purpose as she kisses and cuddles her daughter at the foot of a majestic waterfall in the new video. Beyoncé's song Spirit was released on July 10.

She, along with Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland, were called out in the new track. And Lupita Nyong'o was excited when she heard her name in Beyonce's song, Brown Skin Girl.

Beyonce's seven-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter has made her singing debut in her new song 'Brown Skin Girl'.

Norma Kamali, 74, fresh off a plane from New York, is straight-backed and lithe-limbed, and her skin glows so brightly it could power the National Grid.

John Oliver, who plays Zazu in the new Lion King, confirmed speculations that Beyonce, who stars alongside him as Nala, was not actually present for the cast's official photo shoot.

Beyonce has been dominating the pop culture landscape for well over a decade now, but the busy performer still puts her children Blue Ivy, Sir and Rumi above all else.

In a new video promoting the plant-based program 22 Days Nutrition, the songstress revealed she weighed 175 pounds on the very first day of Coachella rehearsals.

Disney knows success when it sees it, and the mass media conglomerate is looking to lock that success down with bankable partnerships.

Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z, is celebrating a career first this week, as the song in which she is featured, Brown Skin Girl, has debuted on the Billboard Top 100.

The 37-year-old singer and actress took to her Instagram on Friday to share several snaps from a sultry shoot.

The photo was historic in its own right, as photographer Tyler Mitchell was the first-ever African-American person to shoot a cover for Vogue in its 125 years in print.

Sara Vahabi said in court docs that she attended the September 23, 2018 show- which was in their On the Run II tour - and left her purse at a tent for check ins prior to going into the venue.