Aryal ran a race full of promise on his debut at Lingfield at the start of the month and normal improvement should make him difficult to beat in the BetVictor Cheltenham Festival Antepost Pioneers Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Kempton today.

Communist rebels withdrew a blockade of Nepal’s highways today but gave the country’s political parties a two-day deadline to begin the process of rewriting the constitution, their leader said.

NEPALESE police opened fire yesterday on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who defied a curfew and marched toward the capital, killing at least three and wounding dozens more.

Nepalese police opened fire today on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who defied a curfew and marched toward the capital, killing at least three and wounding dozens more, witnesses and hospital officials said.