Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo on Tuesday broke the record for the most goals in a European Cup or Champions League season in his side’s semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich. Ronaldo got his 15th of the campaign to put the Spanish side 3-0 up…
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Rory McIlroy has confirmed his participation in next month’s BMW PG Championship at Wentworth, outside London, seeking to win the European Tour’s flagship event for the first time. The Northern Irishman, a two-time major winner, has bounced back to…
Jacques Burger can lead Saracens to European Cup glory, according to fly-half Owen Farrell. The 30-year-old Namibia flanker produced a man-of-the-match effort of 27 tackles during Saracens’ stunning 46-6 semi-final demolition of French club Clermont…
Samoa’s Kahn Fotuali’i produced two fine pieces of skill as Northampton beat English rivals Harlequins 18-10 on Friday to keep alive hopes of a European Challenge Cup and Premiership double. In this Challenge Cup semi-final, scrum-half Fotuali’i set…
Bayern Munich must repeat the passion they showed at Real Madrid for Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final, second-leg, to keep alive hopes of defending their European title, coach Pep Guardiola said on Friday. Bayern host Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga…
ABUJA (Water Resources Ministry Report) – Member – States of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) as well as the…
Tottenham Hotspur strengthened their push for a European place and kept Fulham trapped in the Premier League relegation zone with a 3-1 home victory on Saturday. Fulham midfielder Steve Sidwell cancelled out Paulinho’s 35th-minute opener for Tottenham…
US Secretary of State John Kerry left Wednesday for Geneva for high-stakes talks on Ukraine, armed with the threat of more sanctions against Moscow if diplomacy fails, as tensions on the ground escalated sharply. The US and the European Union will hold…
The United States is coordinating “additional steps” with its European allies to slap more sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, a US official said Tuesday. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone with his French, German and British counterparts…
Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin confronted one another in telephone talks Monday as a standoff over Ukraine escalated after the CIA chief visited Kiev and a Russian war plane “buzzed” a US destroyer. Washington said it was consulting European…
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied involvement Monday with pro-Russian insurgents gaining ground in eastern Ukraine, but an unconvinced European Union expanded its sanctions on officials accused of trying to break up the ex-Soviet country. Putin…
Tottenham Hotspur head coach Tim Sherwood has insisted his team “will get what they deserve” in their quest to secure European football for next season. A dramatic injury-time Christian Eriksen strike rescued a point for Sherwood’s side as they fought…
Leaders of the Group of Seven industrial powers will meet in Brussels for two days from June 4, the European Council said Friday, after the meeting was moved from Russia due to the crisis in Ukraine. The meeting had been due to take place in the Russian…
Manchester United manager David Moyes is backing his side to safeguard their Champions League legacy by eliminating holders Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s quarter-final, second-leg to reach the semi-finals. Having drawn the first-leg 1-1 at Old Trafford…
Everton struck a huge blow in the battle to qualify for the Champions League with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Arsenal at Goodison Park on Sunday. Strikers Steven Naismith and Romelu Lukaku both scored for Everton in the first half, while Arsenal midfielder…
Munster outplayed four-time champions Toulouse to reach the European Cup semi-finals Saturday but Ulster slumped to a controversial defeat to Saracens after being reduced to 14 men inside four minutes. Munster, themselves former two-time title holders…
Space technicians were preparing Thursday for the launch of the first satellite in an ambitious European project to monitor Earth for climate change, pollution and deforestation and help disaster relief. Sentinel-1A, a satellite designed to scan the…
Two-time European Cup champions Munster will give captain Peter O’Mahony till Thursday to prove his fitness for Saturday’s home quarter-final with France’s four-time winners Toulouse. The 24-year-old flanker — capped 23 times by Ireland and a member…
The face of national team football has been altered this week by UEFA, and it may be just the beginning of sweeping changes designed to improve the sport immensely. The UEFA Nations League, which will look to start in September 2018 for the European…
Frederic Michalak put on a masterclass Saturday as he scored 27 points in Toulon’s 32-28 French Top 14 win over Toulouse. The maverick fly-half scored the second of the European champions’ two tries and played a major role in the first. His trusty boot…