Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale believes his side have recovered from two successive league defeats as they look to exact revenge on Borussia Dortmund for their Champions League semi-final defeat last season. Bale scored a double as Real responded from…
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The appearance of rambling letters said to have been written by Uzbekistan’s once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova has heightened the mystery over her astonishing fall from grace in the ex-Soviet state. At least four different letters said…
More than 40 activist organizations and companies called Tuesday for an overhaul of US government surveillance authority that goes beyond President Barack Obama’s proposal. The coalition said Obama’s proposal to end bulk collection of telephone data…
Two-time European Cup champions Munster will give captain Peter O’Mahony till Thursday to prove his fitness for Saturday’s home quarter-final with France’s four-time winners Toulouse. The 24-year-old flanker — capped 23 times by Ireland and a member…
France’s new Prime Minister Manuel Valls set about forming a new government on Tuesday tasked with the mammoth challenge of reviving a battered economy, as the EU warned Paris not to renege on its reform pledges. President Francois Hollande nominated…
When you think of handbags and fashion, you don’t typically think of technology, but that’s exactly what Uri Minkoff, CEO of Rebecca Minkoff, thinks about. Originally the founder of a software company, Uri thinks of ways he can utilize technology…
US Senate investigators have accused heavy equipment giant Caterpillar of hiding $8 billion in profits offshore in Switzerland to avoid US taxes. In a report released late Monday, investigators said the company took advantage of a special corporate…
A prominent hardline Muslim cleric in Kenya was shot dead in Mombasa on Tuesday, amid worsening religious tensions in the strategic port city and gateway to East Africa. Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, better known as Makaburi, was a vocal supporter of Osama…
Hundreds of people queued in the Philippines Tuesday to kiss the hair, bloodstained clothing and a cassock of the late Pope John Paul II, beseeching the soon-to-be-sainted Polish pontiff to perform miracles for them. “I am so happy. I am ready to die…
Turkish police fired water cannon at protesters in the capital Ankara Tuesday complaining about irregularities in Sunday’s local elections. More than 1,000 people demonstrated outside the elections authority in the city, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip…
Greetings, sports fans! Baseball season is officially underway! How was your Opening Day? Did you have baseball cupcakes? Hot dogs or fresh roasted peanuts? How did you celebrate? There isn’t a huge variety of events going on today, but there is plenty…
Relatives wept Tuesday as the names of the 96 Liverpool football supporters who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush were read out in court. Lord Justice John Goldring, the coroner presiding, said Britain’s worst sporting disaster was “seared…
Fortified by a faith in God and a Guinness stout — or a tot of something stronger — Ololade Rabiu reckons she must have dug hundreds of wells in her time. But the 46-year-old mother of six is a rarity in Nigeria, where forging deep into the red earth…
Toulon playmaker Frederic Michalak’s recent run of impressive form has left the former prodigy of French rugby eyeing an outing for France in the 2015 World Cup. The 31-year-old has come and gone in the French line-up over the last few years, winning…
The chief executive of London’s Heathrow will stand down from the job later this year, the airport announced Tuesday. No immediate reason was given for the departure of Colin Matthews from the post, which he has held since April 2008. Matthews said…
Michel D’Hooghe, FIFA’s medical officer, has insisted there will be no re-vote on the controversial decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup finals. “There will be absolutely no re-vote,” D’Hooghe told the London Evening Standard on Tuesday, a day…
A superb strike from Dutchman Marcel Seip lifted Australia’s Central Coast Mariners above Beijing Guoan in their AFC Champions League group in Gosford on Tuesday. Seip powered home a first-time volley to give the reigning A-League champions a 1-0 win…
Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday applauded a court decision that Japan must halt its annual Antarctic whale hunt, but raised fears it could sidestep the order and begin whaling again under a new “scientific” guise. The United Nations’ Hague-based…
Greece will receive 6.3 billion euros ($8.7 billion) from its pending EU bailout fund at the end of April, Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday. “A first tranche of 6.3 billion euros at the end of April will allow Greece to meet its debt…
The greatest show on earth is looming ever closer on the horizon. The long awaited World Cup 2014 is due to begin 12 June when Brazil play Croatia. Football fans all over the world have a heightened sense of expectation given that this year’s finals are to be held in Brazil; progenitors of crowd-pleasing samba style football. Those fans lucky enough to have seen their national team progress through the qualifying stages have either been busy booking flights to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, or checking the TV schedules for the crucial matches. Nowhere is the anticipation as great…