France's far-right paid tribute to a writer and activist who shot himself dead i...

The San Antonio Spurs held off the late-charging Memphis Grizzlies to triumph 93...

Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abduct...

Leaders of recession-hit Europe take a fresh stab at fighting tax fraud and evas...

Bayern Munich are out to exorcise the ghosts of losing the 2012 Champions League...

A sweeping overhaul of the US immigration system took a major step toward viabil...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in Pakistan Wednesday for a two-day visit whe...

Japan on Wednesday posted its worst April trade deficit as a weak yen ramped up ...

Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb after ...

Andy Murray will miss the French Open with the back injury that flared up at the...

Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant pledged $1 million through his charitabl...

Justin Bieber's pet monkey, which was seized by German customs in March, officia...

Manager Tony Pulis has left Stoke after seven years in charge, the Premier Leagu...

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino presented a lush portrait of decadence and exc...

Microsoft staked a claim to the Internet Age living room with an eagerly awaited...

Sergio Garcia insists he has got over his collapse at Sawgrass but his row with ...

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will go back on trial after the nat...

Golf's ruling bodies on Tuesday announced that anchoring putters will be banned ...

Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its ...

The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after ...

Three cricketers were refused bail Tuesday after they appeared in court in New D...

Microsoft offers a glimpse Tuesday at a new-generation Xbox as videogame console...

British mobile phone giant Vodafone on Tuesday reported a 90-percent plunge in a...

Marissa Mayer has made her boldest move to date as chief of Yahoo! with the bill...

Israel's army and Syrian forces exchanged fire across the sensitive ceasefire li...

A Coen brothers comedy, a daring Chinese expose of exploitation and moral rot, a...

Thousands of New Yorkers -- including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn -- march...

An Australian zoo said Tuesday the birth of a southern white rhinoceros was a "s...

The 2012-13 Premier League campaign could not match its predecessor for suspense...

No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, nat...

Reinvigorated technology player Yahoo! unveiled a dusted-off design of its Flick...

Apple chief Tim Cook faced a grilling Tuesday by US lawmakers on "sham" subsidia...

Families returned to a blasted moonscape that had been an American suburb Tuesda...

Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their...

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It is impossible to predict the evolution of China's human H7N9 bird flu outbrea...

Jose Mourinho's three-year reign in charge of Real Madrid was finally brought to...

Hezbollah fighters poured across the border from Lebanon into Syria, a watchdog ...

Murder-accused South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius will not race this season,...

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and her partner, French actor and director Guillau...

The 2012 St Leger winner Encke is among seven horses to test positive for anabol...

Goldman Sachs is selling the rest of its Industrial and Commercial Bank of China...

New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori could return to action in the second Test aga...

US drugs company Actavis on Monday agreed to buy Irish peer Warner Chilcott for ...

At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twi...

Jose Mourinho will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season after a turbulent ...

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Arsene Wenger admits he is delighted Arsenal have proved the critics wrong after...

A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on ...

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced an overhaul of Iraq's security strategy ...

US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs said Monday it will start investing in...

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China's human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country's poultry industry mor...

Veteran rocker Rod Stewart notched his first UK number one album for 34 years as...

British Prime Minister David Cameron faces further dissent from within the ranks...

US President Barack Obama threw his support behind Myanmar President Thein Sein ...

James Anderson's position as England's key bowler heading into the Ashes series ...

Robin van Persie said Manchester United were already looking to the future after...

A US man who dug a handful of old lottery tickets out of his cookie jar was shoc...

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday wrote to leaders of oversees tax ...

Security forces and hardline Islamists fought street battles in Tunis on Sunday,...

Arsenal won the race for fourth place in the Premier League with a 1-0 victory a...

Carlo Ancelotti, who wants to quit Paris Saint-Germain and succeed Jose Mourinho...

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A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle confessed on Sun...

Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams underlined their French Open ambitions with con...

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The Indian and Chinese premiers pledged on Monday to finally resolve a border di...

AFP IS CLOSING THIS LIVE REPORT after Arsenal held on to clinch fourth place in ...

A Syrian government assault on the rebel bastion of Qusayr raged into a second d...

A number of mice and eight gerbils sent into space in a Russian capsule destined...

Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and "a...

Japan's earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping...

Opera houses the world over are scrambling to pay tribute to Richard Wagner, the...

Data released last week showed Greece entered its sixth straight year of recessi...

The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and th...

English football will witness the end of an era on Sunday when Alex Ferguson tak...

The party of former Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan secured victory in a repea...

Officials have opened an investigation into a rush-hour collision between two co...

One ticket-holder won a record Powerball lottery jackpot of more than $590 milli...

Twenty-year-old barefoot singer Emmelie de Forest was the toast of Denmark Sunda...

Oxbow won the 138th Preakness Stakes as heavily favored Kentucky Derby winner Or...

With the Beatles ringing in his ears and tears in his eyes, David Beckham said t...

Tens of thousands of people joined a union-organised march in Rome Saturday, pro...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of h...

Jonny Wilkinson showed trademark nerves of steel to kick Toulon to glory over Cl...

Rafael Nadal set up a potential Rome Masters final with Swiss rival Roger Federe...

Bayern Munich came from two goals down to seal a 4-3 win at Borussia Moenchengla...

World number one Serena Williams said she hoped to improve her game for the Fren...

Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival hailed a "moving" Japanese drama Saturday ...

The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women ...

Nigeria's military on Saturday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeaste...

Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro stars in French Cannes contender "Jimmy P. - Psych...

The day after Atletico Madrid ended 14 years of hurt to finally beat Real Madrid...

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview published ...

Tunisian security forces deployed in strength on Saturday after Salafist movemen...

Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being he...

North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japa...

Violence in Iraq on Saturday killed eight people including a police officer, his...

A new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Saudi Arabia where 15 ...