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…
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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…
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposed hourly minimum wage of $25 — which would have been the world’s highest — in one of the planet’s priciest nations, a polling agency said. Only 23 percent of Swiss voters came out in favour of introducing a…
A Chinese national was killed and 10 others were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria, a police said on Saturday. “Boko Haram Islamists attacked a camp…
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…
Singapore billionaire Peter Lim, the new owner of Valencia, has realised a long-held dream by buying a top European football club — and will hope for better fortunes than some of his fellow Asian investors. Publicity-shy Lim, a fishmonger’s son who…
The 2014 FA Cup final headed into extra-time after Premier League rivals Arsenal and Hull City finished all square at 2-2 after 90 minutes at Wembley on Saturday. Underdogs Hull, in the first FA Cup final in the club’s 110-year history, put themselves…
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…