Alex Corbisiero insists the “heart-breaking” personal sacrifice to miss a rugby tour of New Zealand would certainly be eased a little by a collecting an English Premiership winners’ medal at Twickenham on Saturday. The British and Irish Lions forward…
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One of Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspapers on Wednesday published a picture showing the bare bottom of Prince William’s wife Kate, refusing to follow a “ridiculous” ban imposed by the British media. The image was taken during the royal couple’s hugely…
Disgraced British fashion designer John Galliano, little-seen since being sacked by Dior in 2011 for making drunken racist tirades, reappeared in Moscow Thursday as creative director of a Russian cosmetics chain. The L’Etoile chain, which has some 850…
Vodafone’s annual net profit rocketed to £59.25 billion, boosted by the enormous sale of its stake in US joint-venture Verizon Wireless, the British mobile phone giant said on Tuesday. Earnings after taxation surged to the equivalent of $100 billion…
Britain’s Ministry of Defence on Monday said that a spy plane sent to help in the search for the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamists had been grounded en route due to a fault. “A technical fault which has delayed the Sentinel aircraft on its…
British-born Jill Ellis, unbeaten in two stints as interim coach of the US women’s national football squad, was named Friday as the team’s new full-time coach by US Soccer president Sunil Gulati. The 47-year-old American served as an assistant on the…
Laura Massaro, who has unexpectedly developed into the biggest threat to Nicol David’s long-term supremacy of the women’s game, carried her defence of the British Open title tenaciously into the semi-finals. Massaro, the only English woman ever to be…
Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal will have to wait until next week before being appointed as Manchester United’s new manager, British media outlets claimed on Thursday. Newspaper reports earlier in the day had suggested that the Dutchman’s appointment…
Two British journalists were recovering in Turkey on Thursday after being shot and beaten by rebel kidnappers while covering the Syrian conflict, the Times reported. Times writer Anthony Loyd was shot twice in the leg while being held captive and photographer…
British hate preacher Abu Hamza clashed angrily with a US prosecutor at his New York terror trial on Tuesday, denying claims that bomb-making plans had once been found in his prison cell. Taking to the witness stand for a fourth day, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa…
French President Francois Hollande said Monday he had invited US and British officials to attend a Paris summit this weekend focusing on the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. “I asked the…
The lack of English players in Manchester City’s first-choice team is “pretty depressing”, according to Football Association chairman Greg Dyke. “It’s been a great league this year. I think the Premier League has been brilliant,” Dyke told several British…
Though anti-EU outsiders UKIP might top the polls at the European Parliament elections in Britain, a eurosceptic streak runs through all the mainstream parties they stand against. The United Kingdom Independence Party of Nigel Farage, which is fixed…
British, U.S. ‘experts’ arrive to help in Nigeria ‘“Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in…
Nigeria’s president for weeks refused international help to search for more than 300 girls abducted from a school by Islamic extremists, one in a series of missteps that have led to growing international outrage against the government. The British Foreign…
Extradited British millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani is due in court in South Africa Monday on charges of ordering his Swedish wife’s murder during their 2010 honeymoon in Cape Town. After losing a three-year extradition fight in Britain, Dewani…
US and British experts have arrived in Nigeria to help in the hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls whose abduction last month by Islamists prompted universal outrage. The US embassy in Abuja told AFP Friday that a team of American experts had arrived…
Young Briton Adam Yates won the Tour of Turkey after compatriot Mark Cavendish claimed victory on Sunday’s eighth and final stage around Istanbul. The 21-year-old Orica-GreenEDGE rider claimed his first major professional victory with Estonia’s Rein…
British star Amir Khan won a unanimous decision over former champion Luis Collazo in his first fight after moving up to the welterweight division. The 27-year-old Khan, who was fighting for the first time after a 12-month layoff, knocked Collazo down…
Italian football giants Napoli have blasted as “dumb” and “vulgar” a British media report which described their city as an Italian “mafia stronghold”. Napoli have complained to The Guardian over a story which linked the club with a transfer bid for…