Jermaine Jenas has spoken about the explicit text messages that led to his sacking from the BBC, saying his marriage was already in crisis before the scandal erupted.

Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the war&s end, a source close to the militant group said yesterday, as medics said Israeli strikes across the territory had killed scores more people.

Firefighters battled a blaze yesterday on the island of Crete that scorched forests and olive groves and forced over 1,000 people to evacuate, while a fresh conflagration near Athens threatened homes, highlighting Greece&s vulnerability to wildfire risks.

Russian president Vladimir Putin told US president Donald Trump in a phone call yesterday that Moscow wants a negotiated end to the Ukraine war but will not step back from its original goals, a Kremlin aide said.