Browsing: Friday

The ACT Brumbies hung on to defeat the Queensland Reds 23-20 and consolidate their lead in the Super Rugby Australian conference in Brisbane on Friday. The Brumbies led 20-3 after 31 minutes but the Reds doggedly fought their way back in the second…

The United Nations ripped the United States on Friday for denying Mexican death row inmates access to their homeland’s diplomats. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for human rights, condemned Wednesday’s execution of Mexican citizen…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni Arab areas of northern and western Iraq killed nine people on Friday, the latest in a surge of bloodshed ahead of a general election. The shootings and bombings, which also wounded dozens more, came with campaigning…

US fast food giant McDonald’s said on Friday it was temporarily shutting its three stores in Crimea following the Ukrainian peninsula’s annexation by Russia. McDonald’s said in a statement posted on its Ukrainian website that the decision was taken “…

Europe’s main stock markets pushed higher on Friday as jobs data showed the recovery in the US economy is back in form after catching a winter cold. London’s FTSE 100 index climbed 0.56 percent compared with Thursday’s closing value to stand at 6,686…