Arsene Wenger has challenged his Arsenal players to use Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final against holders Wigan to lift their shattered spirits. Wenger’s side head to Wembley with their confidence in tatters after a miserable run ended their hopes of winning…
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Everton manager Roberto Martinez has warned his players not to underestimate struggling Sunderland when the Toffees look to maintain their push for a top-four finish at the Stadium of Light on Saturday. The Black Cats are at the bottom of the Premier…
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has no complaints about the way in which the Reds have reached the top of the Premier League table ahead of Sunday’s showdown with big-spending Manchester City. City, bankrolled by Sheikh Mansour, won the Premier League…
After months of post-election deadlock Madagascar’s president named a new prime minister Friday, tapping the relatively unknown doctor Roger Kolo for the post. The announcement came in a statement from president Hery Rajaonarimampianina’s office. It…
Reigning champion Fabian Cancellara’s main lieutenant Stijn Devolder has pulled out of Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix race due to a variety of injuries. Belgian Trek rider Devolder, the 2008 and 2009 Tour of Flanders winner, crashed three times in this year…
Cardiff City have sacked one staff member and are set to discipline another over claims their team to play Crystal Palace was leaked to the London club, Britain’s Press Association reported Friday. Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer earlier dismissed…
Lukas Podolski is confident Arsenal can put their stuttering league form behind them when they face holders Wigan in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley on Saturday. Arsenal haven’t won a major trophy since 2005 and their season is now threatening to…
Manchester City striker feels the club’s experience of winning the title in 2012 will give them the edge in this season’s race for the Premier League crown – a race that could go down to the wire according to a large number of Betfair fans. The Montenegro international has been restricted to just two starts in his debut season in the Premier League due to injury, scoring seven goals in all competitions for City but so far failing to live up to the hype that surrounded his arrival from Fiorentina. The return of Jovetic has been a huge boost to…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday he was “very confident that signals detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were from the aircraft’s blackbox. “We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very…
Winning the Masters has been a family affair for Bill Haas and his ancestors since his great-uncle, Bob Goalby, captured the green jacket in 1968. “It has been a special place in our family since then,” Haas said of Augusta National. So it’s no wonder…
Comic Stephen Colbert will succeed TV icon David Letterman as host of the “Late Show” next year, CBS said Thursday, the latest move in a changing of America’s late-night old guard. The announcement came after Letterman said he will step down next year…
Italian champions Juventus proved too strong for a spirited Lyon in the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday, while Sevilla and last season’s runners-up Benfica also clinched their places in the last four. Juve’s main focus is on retaining the Serie…
Wearable tech is moving beyond a small group of early adopters and going mainstream. That’s the conclusion of market tracker IDC, which predicted sales of wearable tech items would triple this year to 19 million units worldwide, growing to 111.9 million…
Favorites Adam Scott and Rory McIlroy both made strong starts to the 78th Masters at Augusta National on Thursday. Scott, the defending champion from Australia, was three under at the turn and joint leader out on the course after opening with a birdie…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday drew up a list of urgent recommendations aimed at breathing life into the flagging preparations for the 2016 Olympics. Rio’s Olympics have come under fire recently over construction delays which…
The outlook for the crisis-battered eurozone brightened Thursday as Germany’s leading economic think tanks raised their growth forecast for Europe’s top economy this year and next year. Greece, one of the hardest-hit euro members, also returned to the…
South Africa’s workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published Wednesday. “The majority of work places are still ‘lilly white’…
As Manchester United’s players trudged from the pitch at Bayern Munich, it was with the knowledge that they will not experience the Champions League again for at least 17 months. United are seven points below the top four in the Premier League, and…
The Facebook Messenger app has been around for a long time, but it’s not been necessary for chatting with your contacts on your mobile device. To do that, you could simply jump into your regular Facebook app and hit the messages tab—easy peasey.…
Google Glass may be still in the “explorer” stage, limited strictly to only those who Google deems worthy enough to get one of the early pre-production ready units. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t doing some pretty incredible things with…