Harlequins secured a place in the semi-finals that will decide the champions of England after edging past Bath 19-16 to climb above their opponents into fourth place on the final day of the regular Premiership season. Saturday’s win was Harlequins’…
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Dutch coach Huub Stevens quit as Stuttgart boss on Saturday having succeeded in his mission of saving the 2007 Bundesliga champions from relegation. “I am leaving for personal reasons and above all I need a holiday,” said the 60-year-old after his side…
Bayern Munich celebrated their 24th Bundesliga title, which they secured on March 25, with a closing win on Saturday while Hamburg’s hopes of remaining in the Bundesliga now hinge on the play-offs. Bayern rounded off their Bundesliga campaign with a…
Inter Milan on Saturday announced a pre-season friendly with La Liga giants Real Madrid has been moved from Phoenix, Arizona to California. Inter’s opening clash of their US summer tour will be held on July 26 and is part of the Guinness International…
South Korea’s Park Sang-Hyun struck a four-under-par 68 while rival Park Jun-Won shot 70 to share the third-round lead at the $1 million GS Caltex Maekyung Open on Saturday. The pair sit ten-under in the OneAsia tournament at the par-72 Namseoul Country…
Former Olympic 100-metres champion Justin Gatlin on Saturday said he would give Tyson Gay a run for his money when the fellow US sprinter re-enters competition after a one-year doping ban. Last week Gay, the triple 2007 world champion, said he would…
The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria was an “unconscionable act” of terror against the education of girls, US First Lady Michelle Obama said Saturday. Speaking in her husband’s place during President Barack Obama’s weekly Saturday morning address…
Several Red Cross members whom rebels said they had detained in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have been released, an official from the organisation in Kiev told AFP Saturday. “An emergency response team from the local Red Cross and one member…
Extradited British millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani is due in court in South Africa Monday on charges of ordering his Swedish wife’s murder during their 2010 honeymoon in Cape Town. After losing a three-year extradition fight in Britain, Dewani…
Wigan were left frustrated as QPR ground out a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final at the DW Stadium on Friday. There was little goalmouth action in a tense battle between two sides desperate for promotion 12 months after…
U.S. advisers arrives in Nigeria to aid in search for the kidnapped schoolgirls. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports.
First Lady Michelle Obama is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic militants when she gives the weekly presidential address instead of her husband, the White House said Friday. White House deputy spokesman…
Over the last few months, we’ve gotten rumor after rumor about a potential Nexus 8 tablet coming from Google. First we heard it’d hit in April. Then we heard it’d hit in July. Since then, rumor-mongers stopped bothering with giving us specific…
The Dow closed at a fresh record high as US stocks rallied Friday, with investors shrugging off mixed earnings reports and uncertainty over the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 32.37 points (0.20 percent) to 16,583.34…
Irish international Jonathan Sexton kicked seven penalties from seven attempts to give Racing-Metro a 21-16 win over Toulouse in the French Top 14 quarter-final play-offs on Friday. Sexton’s perfect display handed Racing a first ever semi-final date…
The 2013-14 Premier League season concludes on Sunday with a number of issues, including the destination of the title, still to be decided. Here, AFP Sports poses 10 questions that will be answered on the final day: 1. Can Manchester City hold their…
Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny signed a new long-term contract with the Premier League club on Friday. France international Koscielny has been rewarded with the improved deal following an impressive campaign at the heart of the Gunners defence.…
US and British experts have arrived in Nigeria to help in the hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls whose abduction last month by Islamists prompted universal outrage. The US embassy in Abuja told AFP Friday that a team of American experts had arrived…
Elizabeth Smart, a former child abductee turned activist, talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Lee Hawkins about more than 200 girls who are missing in Nigeria and reveals what she would tell them if she could speak with them now. Lee Hawkins reports.…
Boko Haram attacks have shifted the focus at the World Economic Forum hosted by Nigeria, CNN’s John Defterios explains.