Ryan Giggs announced Monday he was retiring from his career as a player following his appointment as assistant manager to newly-installed Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal. The 40-year-old one-club man revealed his decision in an open letter to…
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Police said on Monday they had foiled a second suicide car bomb attack in Kano, after a blast ripped through a busy entertainment spot in Nigeria’s second city, killing four. The authorities said it was too early to say who was behind the first blast…
Britain’s Ministry of Defence on Monday said that a spy plane sent to help in the search for the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamists had been grounded en route due to a fault. “A technical fault which has delayed the Sentinel aircraft on its…
A man accused of sending sexually explicit and violent messages to the Labour MP Stella Creasy on Twitter is due to stand trial on Monday. Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow in north London, received abuse on Twitter along with campaigner Caroline Criado…
The English Premier League is to hold a meeting Monday where it will discuss the conduct of a chief executive caught up in a sexism row. Last week Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper published leaked private e-mails sent by Premier League chief executive…
Australia said Monday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new icebreaker ship to bolster its claim over large areas of Antarctica and replace an ageing vessel. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said two Europe-based firms had been shortlisted…
France’s foreign minister offered China his country’s help on Sunday in locating 10 workers feared kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, as African leaders joined forces to fight the terrorist group. “We have already told our Chinese friends that we were…
Get ready Africa (and the United States) because Abubakar Shekau, the still-somewhat-shadowy, thirty-something leader of Bobo Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that kidnapped 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, has a role model: the late and unlamented Osama…
Video News by NewsLook Nigeria and four neighboring countries vowed to wage “war” against Boko Haram at a security meeting with U.S. and European Union officials in Paris.
Japanese figure skating world champion Mao Asada will sit out competitive figure skating next season but will take part in potentially lucrative commercial ice shows in the coming months, a report said Monday. Asada won her third women’s world figure…
Four people were killed, including a young girl, in a suicide car bomb attack in the north Nigerian city of Kano, the city’s police commissioner said. “At about 2200 (2100 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered…
Inmates at a maximum-security prison in northeast Brazil, who had taken four guards and more than 100 visiting relatives hostage during a riot, released all the captives Sunday, officials said. Negotiators secured the remaining hostages’ release just…
Like mother, like son. Mrs Hazard used to play as a striker, in Belgium’s women’s first division. Now Eden is making a pretty decent stab of maintaining that maternal tradition at first Lille and now Chelsea. The Belgian international, whose younger…
Osasuna and Valladolid were relegated to the Spanish second division on Sunday, but the final round of La Liga matches was overshadowed by the collapse of a barrier which injured 49 fans at Osasuna’s El Sadar stadium in Pamplona. The Navarran Red Cross…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has encouraged his players to use their 3-2 FA Cup final victory over Hull City as a springboard to further success in the years ahead. Arsenal’s hopes of ending a nine-year trophy drought appeared slim after centre-backs…
Murat Yokus may have escaped Turkey’s deadliest mine explosion, but he is unable to erase the memories of his friends falling one by one to the ground, suffocated by thick fumes that engulfed the tunnels where they were trapped. “I had step on the bodies…
The English Premier League chief at the centre of a sexism row came under fresh pressure to quit his post on Saturday. Last week Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper published leaked private e-mails sent by Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore…
Mexican film star Salma Hayek and French actress Julie Gayet branded signs saying #BringBackOurGirls on Cannes’ red carpet Saturday, joining global calls to free 223 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria. Hayek and Gayet posed with…
Arsenal have a gilt-edged opportunity to end their increasingly burdensome nine-year trophy drought on Saturday when the underachieving English giants meet Hull City in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Not since 2005, and an FA Cup final success on penalties…
A single daily pill may help prevent HIV. And in America, gay men who have lost countless loved ones to AIDS can’t stop fighting about it. Much of the debate has played out on the Internet and social media as tempers flare over promiscuity, erratic…