Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant notched his 40th straight NBA game with 25 points or more, but it wasn’t enough to hold off the Houston Rockets. Houston’s James Harden scored 39 points, grabbed nine rebounds and handed out seven assists to lead the Rockets…
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Almost every day for the past 30 years through Crimea’s turbulent recent history, Natalia Yudenkova has climbed behind the wheel of her number 52 trolleybus. She drives the trolleybus from the peninsula’s main city Simferopol to the Black Sea coastal…
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday vowed America would stand by its security commitments to Tokyo, after Russia’s intervention in Ukraine raised concerns in a region plagued by its own territorial disputes. Hagel, on a two-day visit to Japan…
Manchester City defender Aleksandar Kolarov believes the attacking philosophy adopted by manager Manuel Pellegrini has also helped his side become tighter at the back ahead of their Premier League clash with Southampton on Saturday. City are the second…
Jose Mourinho will attempt to revive Chelsea’s campaign after a disastrous week that has damaged their ambitions in both the Champions League and the Premier League. The Blues find themselves in the unfamiliar position of trying to avoid a third successive…
After a damaging loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, Chelsea will seek to resurrect their creaking title challenge in the Premier League against Stoke City on Saturday. Jose Mourinho’s side went down 3-1 at the Parc des Princes in the…
Wayne Rooney is a major doubt for Manchester United’s Champions League showdown against Bayern Munich after being ruled out of Saturday’s clash at Newcastle with a toe injury. Rooney sustained the bruised toe during the second half of United’s 1-1 draw…
France’s top football league sold domestic television rights for 2016-20 for a record sum of nearly one billion dollars a year, officials said Friday. The new deal saw Ligue 1 sold for 726 million euros ($994 million) a year and the second division…
England manager Roy Hodgson has promised his team will go on the offensive at the World Cup after being criticised for a cautious approach at Euro 2012. Hodgson’s side kick off their World Cup campaign against Italy in Manaus on June 14 in a rematch…
Sunderland manager Gus Poyet insists there is no reason why his club should fear further punishment for fielding Ji Dong-won when the South Korea striker was ineligible. Ki made four Premier League appearances and one in the League Cup for the Black…
Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is to take up a teaching post at Harvard, the prestigious US university said Friday. Ferguson, 72, whose coruscating “hairdryer” rants at players were infamous in the football world, will lecture senior…
Arcade Fire, Kasabian, Pixies, Jack White and Dolly Parton are some of the major acts playing Britain’s Glastonbury festival this year, according to the first official line-up poster published Friday. Elbow, The Black Keys, Robert Plant, Blondie, Massive…
The United States added a modest 192,000 jobs in March as the economy emerged from a brutal winter, while the unemployment rate held steady, Labor Department data showed Friday. Job growth in the world’s largest economy was a shade below analysts’ average…
Inter Milan owner Erick Thohir offered his backing to coach Walter Mazzarri but called on his stuttering side to get back to winning ways after claiming only two points from their last three outings. Inter, who missed out on Europe this season, are…
Swiss cement group Holcim announced on Friday that it is in merger talks with building supplies giant Lafarge. Shares in the Swiss company surged by over 4 percent and Lafarge stock climbed by 6 percent late on Friday on rumours ahead of the announcement…
Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka suffered a shock defeat to unheralded Kazakh Andrey Golubev in the Davis Cup quarter-finals on Friday. The world number three was stunned 7-6 (7/5), 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5) by 64th ranked Golubev as Kazakhstan…
The UN accused Chadian soldiers Friday of carrying out an unprovoked attack when they opened fire in a crowded market in the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui, killing at least 30 people. The damning findings came a day after Chad — under fire…
Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders scrambled on Friday to find new sources of energy after Russia hiked its gas price by 80 percent in response to the overthrow of Kiev’s pro-Kremlin regime. The crisis-hit nation saw the amount it must pay for 1,000 cubic…
French actor Lambert Wilson, best known for his role as The Merovingian in two Matrix films, is to host the opening and closing ceremonies at this year’s Cannes film festival. Wilson, 55, will introduce president of the jury Jane Campion on stage at…
Italian number one Fabio Fognini overcame a sluggish start to beat James Ward 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 and give the hosts a 1-0 lead over Britain in their Davis Cup World Group quarter-final on Friday. British eyes will now be on number one Andy Murray, who…