Juan Mata scored twice as he helped Manchester United warm up for a daunting trip to Bayern Munich with a comfortable 4-0 victory over Newcastle in the Premier League at St James’ Park on Saturday. The Spaniard curled in a brilliant free-kick to put…
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Morgan Amalfitano scored the only goal of the game as West Bromwich Albion won 1-0 away to Norwich City on Saturday to move five points clear of the Premier League relegation zone. The Baggies arrived at Carrow Road following the controversial fall-…
Chelsea returned to the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win at home to Stoke on Saturday in a timely boost ahead of their do-or-die Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain. Jose Mourinho’s side bounced back from their 3-1 midweek quarter…
Chelsea regained top spot in the Premier League thanks to a straightforward 3-0 win over shot-shy Stoke City at Stamford Bridge in Saturday’s late kick-off. Goals from Mohamed Salah, Frank Lampard and Willian were enough for Jose Mourinho’s side to…
Massimo Cellino has won his appeal against a Football League decision to block his takeover of Championship club Leeds. Cellino agreed a deal two months ago for the Miami-based Italian’s company, Eleonora Sport, to buy 75 percent of Leeds’ shares. But…
Leicester City clinched promotion to the Premier League without kicking a ball on Saturday as their two main rivals both lost. Nigel Pearson’s side had already beaten Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 on Friday to move within touching distance of a return to…
Manchester City kept up the pressure on Premier League leaders Liverpool with a 4-1 win at home to Southampton in Saturday’s early kick-off match. Victory saw City close to within a point of Liverpool with a game in hand and leapfrog Chelsea into second…
Guinea appealed for calm in the Ebola-hit south of the country on Saturday after international aid workers battling to contain an outbreak of the deadly virus were attacked by a mob. Doctors without Borders, which goes by its French initials MSF, was…
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame on Sunday once again accused France of “participating” in the 1994 genocide in an interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the killings. Speaking to the weekly Jeune Afrique, Kagame denounced the “direct role of Belgium…
Andy Murray relaunched Britain’s bid for a long-awaited place in the semi-finals of the Davis Cup after sweeping aside Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 in their postponed rubber to level the tie in Naples on Saturday. World number eight Murray had…
John Kerry’s high-stakes gamble that he could finally achieve the dream of generations and bring peace to the Middle East seems to be collapsing as easily as a house of cards. Despite a dozen visits to Israel and the West Bank since he became US secretary…
Olympic champion Sally Pearson battled strong headwinds to win a 12th Australian athletics title at the national Commonwealth Games trials in Melbourne on Saturday. Pearson continued to reassert her supremacy over national 100m record holder Melissa…
Afghan voters turned out in large numbers Saturday, braving Taliban threats, to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power as US-led forces wind down their 13-year war. Long queues formed outside…
Katie Walsh picked up a last minute ride in the world’s greatest steeplechase the Grand National on Saturday at Aintree racecourse, Liverpool, when she came in for the injured Michael Fogarty on outsider Vesper Bell. Walsh, part of an Irish racing family…
The 160th Boat Race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the River Thames in London on Sunday, an event rich in tradition — and well-worn accusations of professionalism. The Light Blues of Cambridge and the Dark Blues of…
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Cameroon, Italy’s foreign ministry and media reports said on Saturday. The attack occurred overnight in the north of the west African country, which borders violence-wracked…
Justin Welby, the leader of the world’s Anglicans, warned Friday that if the Church of England accepted gay marriage, it could prove “catastrophic” for Christians in Africa. The Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion…
A Chinese man, an Iranian and two Iranian firms were charged in the United States with conspiring to export devices to Iran that can serve to enrich uranium, an indictment says. Sihai Cheng, 34, was arrested on February 7 at London’s Heathrow Airport…
Two vessels were searching underwater for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Saturday, as air and sea missions failed to find any sign of the plane and the clock ticked on the signal from its black box. Up to 10 military planes, three civilian…
Malaysia has joined other Islamic countries in banning the Hollywood biblical epic “Noah” starring Russell Crowe, decrying it as irreligious and saying it violates Islamic law against depicting prophets. A home ministry official Saturday confirmed that…