Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova begin their Roland Garros title defences on Mon...

England head coach Stuart Lancaster praised his exciting youngsters after they s...

Brazil's Tony Kanaan, frustrated after leading eight Indianapolis 500s without a...

Minerals found in craters on the Moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed ...

An audacious lesbian love story featuring hardcore sex, "Blue is the Warmest Col...

Nico Rosberg became the first son of a former Monaco Grand Prix winner to triump...

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US President Barack Obama offered solace and support to residents of Oklahoma on...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe criticises Nelson Mandela for being too soft ...

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Serena Williams buried the misery of her 2012 Roland Garros horror show to storm...

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the "mafias" that turned people into "slaves" a...

Syria's foreign minister said on Sunday that his government will take part in a ...

One of the suspects in the brutal murder of a soldier in Britain was arrested in...

A heavily-armed gang of nearly 300 Maoist rebels killed at least 24 people in an...

Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA), the single biggest operator of Boeing's flagsh...

AFP IS CLOSING THIS LIVE REPORT after Nico Rosberg became the first son of a for...

Four separate teams of scientists have said they were unable to replicate a high...

Two rockets hit Hezbollah's heartland in Beirut on Sunday as the Lebanese Shiite...

Sixty years ago this week two men became the first to stand on the roof of the w...

Riot police battled hundreds of troublemakers in Paris Sunday at the end of a la...

With a sale likely of a prominent group of US newspapers, the interest of a pote...

Stars paraded on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival one last time ahead ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Sunday to take steps to avoid a brewing ...

Fifty opponents of gay marriage were arrested in central Paris, police said, on ...

Thousands of runners and their supporters took to the streets of Boston to compl...

Roger Federer begins his 54th consecutive Grand Slam tournament at the French Op...

Carl Froch enjoyed sweet revenge by unanimously out-pointing Mikkel Kessler in a...

Match-winner Arjen Robben broke his finals hoodoo in style on Saturday as the fl...

A French thriller with graphic sex scenes won this year's independently-sponsore...

US credit card giants Visa and Mastercard sued retailers that rejected a multibi...

Three men were being held in custody Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder...

Arjen Robben scored a heart-stopping 89th-minute winner to earn Bayern Munich a ...

Thousands of Portuguese rallied in Lisbon on Saturday, calling for the resignati...

Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich both named their expected line-ups for Satur...

AFP IS CLOSING THIS LIVE REPORT AFTER Arjen Robben scored a dramatic 89th-minute...

Brazil said Saturday it plans to cancel $900 million (700 million euro) worth of...

China's Premier Li Keqiang has slammed the European Union for plans to probe the...

Cinema heavyweights Roman Polanski and Jim Jarmusch wrapped up the Cannes Film F...

An estimated 180,000 German football fans swarmed into London on Saturday as ant...

A suicide bomber identified as the widow of two Islamists blew herself up in Rus...

Tens of thousands of Catholic faithful attended a mass on Saturday putting on th...

Nico Rosberg claimed pole position for Sunday's 71st Monaco Grand Prix with a br...

After a day of explosions and gunfire, residents of Kabul woke up on Saturday mo...

A meeting of Syria's fractured opposition headed into an unscheduled fourth day ...

African leaders Saturday marked the African Union's 50th birthday against a back...

Two men arrested on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after fighter jets w...

Sixteen children and a teacher were killed when their school bus caught fire in ...

African leaders gathered Saturday ahead of extravagant celebrations for the 50th...

Having taken five Volkswagen Beetles and compressed them into spheres, artist Ic...

Former US midfielder Robbie Rogers has reportedly agreed terms with the Los Ange...

Britain's intelligence agencies came under fresh scrutiny on Saturday following ...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers voiced his family's relief after his footballe...

Toronto's embattled Mayor Rob Ford denied that he uses crack cocaine, despite al...

Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund fought traffic and driving rain as they got ...

A British zoo worker mauled in a tiger attack has died of her injuries, police s...

News Corp's board on Friday approved the break-up of the conglomerate into two i...

IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges but was named an "assisted...

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp has said his team face their "Everest" in S...

Borussia Dortmund centre-back Mats Hummels revealed on Friday that he is fit to ...

A smiling Jupp Heynckes played down talk of pre-match nerves ahead of his penult...

Syrian troops have captured much of the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, in central H...

AS Monaco have reached agreement with Porto to sign Joao Moutinho and James Rodr...

Leonardo DiCaprio is going to get closer to stars of a different kind as he head...

Explosions rocked central Kabul for several hours on Friday after Taliban gunmen...

Syria's most powerful ally Russia on Friday said the Damascus regime had agreed ...

Britain's intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how the...

The Pakistan government Friday repeated its view that US drone strikes in its te...

Top seed Novak Djokovic and seven-time champion Rafael Nadal were set on a Frenc...

The German economy, after starting the year weakly, looks set to gather momentum...

The European Commission said Friday that it will ban for two years beginning in ...

The International Energy Agency said Friday that Germany must shield its consume...

German business confidence rose unexpectedly in May, data showed on Friday, as b...

The 96th edition of the Giro d'Italia is facing a chaotic finale as wintry weath...

Heavy snow at altitude has forced the cancellation of the Giro d'Italia's 19th s...

Rain meant there was no play before lunch on the first day of the second and fin...

A massive undersea earthquake Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami war...

Syria's most powerful ally Russia said Friday that the Damascus regime had agree...

IMF chief Christine Lagarde's future was at stake Friday as French prosecutors g...

Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big s...

Buoyant consumer confidence and increased household spending is keeping Germany,...

European champions Toulon and beaten finalists Clermont face little rest after t...

European aerospace giant EADS has offered a $2.0 billion investment sweetener as...

The US International Trade Commission sided with Microsoft in a patent dispute w...

Micah Richards scored in the 90th minute to complete a stunning comeback from a ...

Cars were torched and police faced stone-throwing youths in Stockholm's immigran...

The Boy Scouts of America agreed for the first time to allow openly gay youths t...

President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a ...

Venezuela and Russia formed a joint venture to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a ...

Thieves have made off with a diamond necklace worth 2 million euros ($2.6 millio...

French special forces and local troops raided an army base Friday in northern Ni...

Brazil on Thursday said it will auction concessions to drill and explore an offs...

Archeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in...

South Africa's James Kingston posted a six-under par 66 to lead the first round ...

IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled...

President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and la...

The world economy should start to make a weak recovery this year, but the United...

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis...

A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rock...