Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger defended his side following comments by former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes that the Gunners are a “million miles away” from competing for the Premier League title. Last week Wenger’s 1,000th game in charge…
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Players from Championship club Leeds United on Friday agreed to defer part of their wages for March after the club failed to pay them on time. Non-playing staff have received their full salaries, but following a meeting with the club’s hierarchy and…
Arsenal remain in contention for this season’s Premier League title despite recent setbacks, Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini said Friday. Arsenal’s last two league matches have seen them thrashed 6-0 by leaders Chelsea and held to a 2-2 draw…
Fullback Jason Woodward scored a club record 27 points as the Melbourne Rebels upset Australian Super 15 conference leaders ACT Brumbies 32-24 on Friday. Woodward could do little wrong, amassing a try, two conversions and six penalties as the Rebels…
German automaker BMW said Friday it plans to invest up to $1 billion (730 million euros) by 2016 to expand output of its X-series all-wheel drive SUV vehicles at its US factory. “This will increase annual production capacity by 50 percent up to 450,…
England exile Kevin Pietersen’s career as a freelance cricket for hire is set to take him to the West Indies after the star batsman announced Friday he’d entered the draft for this year’s Caribbean Premier League. Despite being England’s leading run…
Gunfire and explosions rocked Kabul Friday as Taliban militants attacked a guesthouse used by an anti-landmine aid group, the latest violence to hit the city ahead of next weekend’s presidential election. At least three Afghans were wounded in the attack…
Two Islamic courts in northern Nigeria have secretly released on bail seven men on trial for allegedly breaking the law on homosexuality, a prison official and a court clerk said on Friday. The seven were among a dozen men formally charged by the Bauchi…
Mexico’s lower house of Congress approved legislation to impose up to four years in prison for fan violence at sporting events, days after football aficionados fought police at a game. Thursday’s bill calls for prison terms ranging between three months…
Joyous shouts of “Allahu akbar” echoed across the headquarters of the Philippines’ biggest Muslim rebel group as a pact to end four decades of bloodshed was signed, but there were also fears war clouds had yet to pass. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front…