Brazil briefly held its breath when Neymar went down clutching his right ankle in training on Monday, but the incident turned out to be nothing more than a momentary scare. The fact that the 22-year-old forward went down when none of his national team…
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A Saudi special court jailed 33 people for up to 30 years after finding them guilty of “forming a terror cell” among other charges, state news agency SPA reported Monday. The 33 are part of a group of 71 people who have been on trial since Sunday for…
Everybody knows someone who likes to say these words every four years, right? “I only watch soccer when the World Cup is on.” If that description accurately describes you, your time has arrived. We’re counting down to the start of the 2014 FIFA World…
Australia captain Mile Jedinak believes his side’s early arrival in Brazil will stand them in good stead once the World Cup begins in earnest. Australia were the first team to arrive in Brazil and played a friendly against Croatia in Salvador last Friday…
Britain’s defending champion Chris Froome of Team Sky made it two wins in two days when he won Monday’s second stage of the Criterium du Dauphine ahead of Spanish arch-rival Alberto Contador. After victory in Sunday’s opening time-trial stage, Froome…
Clashes broke out in Nigeria’s second-biggest city on Monday as hundreds of supporters of the newly appointed emir of Kano battled with backers of his main rival for the key post. An AFP reporter in the ancient city said people turned out in force wearing…
Kevin-Prince Boateng and Jerome Boateng will be one of several pairs of brothers to line up at the World Cup finals, but unlike the others they will be on opposing sides. Even more unusually, just as in 2010, they will face each other in the group stage…
Brazilian workers are racing to complete the stadium that will host the World Cup’s first game, wiping seats, checking beams and installing wiring just days before the opening whistle. As night fell on Saturday, helmeted workers were still toiling away…
Argentina inflamed their rivalry with England on the eve of the World Cup, unfurling a banner claiming sovereignty of the Falkland Islands before defeating Slovenia 2-0. Goals from Ricardo Alvarez and skipper Lionel Messi on Saturday ensured a winning…
Rafael Nadal clinched his ninth French Open and 14th career Grand Slam title on Sunday with a brutal 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 victory over a battling Novak Djokovic. The world number one also became the first man to win five Roland Garros crowns in succession…
Dustin Brown scored midway through double overtime on Saturday to lift the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-4 win over the New York Rangers in game two of the NHL finals. Brown positioned himself eight feet in front of the Rangers’ net and deflected a slap…
Three prisoners, deemed extremely dangerous by police, have broken out of a Canadian jail in a helicopter, local media reported, the second such daring jailbreak recently in Quebec. In March 2013, two inmates were lifted on a hijacked helicopter from…
Wimbledon champion Andy Murray sprang a surprise as he appointed Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach on Sunday. Murray’s management team announced in a statement that Mauresmo will initially work with the Scot for his grass-court campaign,…
Coach Philippe Saint-Andre on Sunday forecast team changes as France seek to keep their three-Test series alive against the Wallabies in Melbourne next weekend. Les Bleus were outclassed by a rampant Australia 50-23 in the opening Test in Brisbane on…
Jozy Altidore broke his goalscoring drought as the United States beat Nigeria 2-1 in the Americans’ final World Cup warm-up on US soil before heading to Brazil. Sunderland’s much-maligned striker — without a goal in 2014 — on Saturday netted in the…
A new TV channel soon to launch with US financial backing in northern Nigeria aims to counter the growing influence of radical Islamist groups like Boko Haram, the US State Department said Saturday. The project started last year and is set to begin…
All the news we’ve heard about Amazon’s rumored smartphone has been kind of on the crazy side – mainly the idea that it’s going to employ multiple front-facing cameras to track users’ faces and provide glasses-free 3D visuals. But a new report…
Norwegian Ronny Deila has been appointed manager of Scottish champions Celtic on a 12-month rolling contract, the club announced on Friday. The 38-year-old former defender takes over from Neil Lennon, who left the Scottish champions two weeks ago after…
The new Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, will tomorrow unveil the new strategies to be adopted by the bank under his leadership. A statement, signed by Mr. Isaac Okoroafor for the CBN Director, Corporate Communications, and made available to newsmen in Abuja, said that the new governor officially assumed office 03/06/2014. Emefiele is the 10th indigenous CBN governor, the statement said, adding that Emefiele arrived at the apex bank premises in Abuja at 7.30a.m and was welcomed by the four deputy governors and staff, led by Dr. Sarah Alade, whose tenure as Acting CBN Governor…
The reign of terror by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria is forcing 800 people to flee every day and has claimed over 3,000 lives in the last year, a report showed on Thursday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that a total…