Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is happy to play Bacary Sagna and Lukasz Fabianski in Saturday’s FA Cup final against Hull City despite uncertainty over their futures, he said on Wednesday. The contracts of France right back Sagna and Poland goalkeeper…
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Global wine consumption fell marginally in 2013 and the United States outstripped France as the top consumer, the International Organisation of Wine and Vine (OIV) said Tuesday. Consumption dipped 1 percent last year to 238.7 hectolitres of wine in…
France coach Didier Deschamps on Tuesday left Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri out of a young 23-man squad for this year’s World Cup in Brazil. Neither 26-year-old Nasri, who has won 41 caps, nor Monaco captain Eric Abidal, capped 67 times, feature…
Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny signed a new long-term contract with the Premier League club on Friday. France international Koscielny has been rewarded with the improved deal following an impressive campaign at the heart of the Gunners defence.…
An urgent international effort to help Nigeria find more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist militants is focused on providing intelligence as experts try to locate the hostages. Amid global outrage over the kidnapping, the United States, France and…
Hackers have stolen the personal data of 1.3 million customers of French telephone company Orange, in the second major breach of its kind in a matter of months. In the latest incident, which was detected on April 18, the hackers acquired names, email…
Tour de France champion Chris Froome retained his Tour of Romandie title by winning Sunday’s final stage time-trial. Froome began the 18.5km individual time-trial around Neuchatel just one second behind yellow jersey wearer Simon Spilak but the Team…
Guingamp lifted the French Cup for the second time on Saturday when they beat French football’s great under-achievers Rennes 2-0 in an all-Brittany final at the Stade de France. Nicknamed ‘The Farmers’, Guingamp dominated from the outset to the delight…
Angola’s long-serving President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos met his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Tuesday on a rare official visit abroad after years of frosty ties caused by a damaging bribery scandal. The two-day visit by the onetime rebel leader…
France’s unheralded Alexander Levy fired an incredible 10-under-par 62 at the Volvo China Open Friday, but teen whizz Guan Tianlang missed the cut and PGA champion Jason Dufner only scraped through. Levy’s flawless round, which included eight birdies…