After months of post-election deadlock Madagascar’s president named a new prime minister Friday, tapping the relatively unknown doctor Roger Kolo for the post. The announcement came in a statement from president Hery Rajaonarimampianina’s office. It…
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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…
Cardiff City have sacked one staff member and are set to discipline another over claims their team to play Crystal Palace was leaked to the London club, Britain’s Press Association reported Friday. Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer earlier dismissed…
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…
Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois will be free to face his parent club Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, UEFA claimed on Friday. European football’s governing body said that any provision in Courtois’ loan agreement preventing his…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday he was “very confident that signals detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were from the aircraft’s blackbox. “We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very…
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…