A Brazilian fan was killed Friday night after being struck by a toilet bowl hurled in clashes following a second division game, local media reported, just 40 days before Brazil hosts the World Cup. Santa Cruz, based in the northeastern coastal city…
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Defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan eased into this year’s World Championship final with a 17-7 win over Barry Hawkins on Friday. Such was the scale of victory achieved by O’Sullivan, aiming for a third successive world title and sixth in all, he gave…
Monaco qualified directly for the Champions League group stages without even playing on Friday as Lille drew 1-1 at Bastia. That result left third-placed Lille seven points behind the Principality club with just two games left. It will be Monaco’s first…
Karl Hopfner was voted in as Bayern Munich president Friday, succeeding Uli Hoeness who could be welcomed back by the German giants once he has served a prison sentence for fraud. The 61-year-old Hopfner received the backing of 1,593 club members at…
Marouane Fellaini said Friday he’d been saddened to see David Moyes sacked as Manchester United manager. The Scot was fired just 10 months into a six-year contract after it became mathematically impossible for the faltering English champions to qualify…
Nine clubs remain at risk of punishment for over-spending under UEFA’s financial fairplay rules, the European governing body announced Friday. Although the identity of the teams was not revealed, big-spending Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain…
A car bombing at a bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital killed at least 19 people and injured 80, an official said Friday, just weeks after Boko Haram Islamists attacked the same spot. Duration: 00:46
A copy-cat bombing in Nigeria’s capital that killed 19 people and wounded scores more raised fears on Friday of Boko Haram’s growing strength, just days before Abuja hosts a major world summit. A car bomb at the Nyanya bus station on the outskirts of…
Australian journalist Peter Greste on Friday said his detention and that of his Al-Jazeera colleagues in an Egyptian jail had become a powerful symbol of press freedom worldwide. In a statement from his prison cell on the eve of World Press Freedom…
Manchester United caretaker manager Ryan Giggs admitted on Friday that his future role at Old Trafford will be reviewed at the end of the season. Giggs has taken temporary control of first-team affairs at United after David Moyes was sacked last month…