Former England captain Rio Ferdinand and current England boss Roy Hodgson have been named on the Football Association commission set up to improve the national team's fortunes.
The appointments follow criticism of the group's all-white, all-male make-up by Heather Rabbatts,...
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says Manchester United are still involved in the Premier League title race.
The Gunners are top of the table, eight points clear of the reigning champions, who have endured their worst league start in 24 years...
Patrice Evra, who captained France through their farcical 2010 World Cup implosion, has raised the temperature around the national team again after becoming embroiled in a row with former fellow internationals turned pundits.
Evra has been summoned by coach Didier...
David Moyes struggles to string together back-to-back Premier League wins, there are reminders everywhere he looks that this type of form is not what the English champions are used to.
Saturday's 1-1 draw against Southampton was at Old Trafford where...
Residents of a Syrian town besieged by President Bashar al-Assad's forces appealed to the world to "save us from death" in an open letter describing desperate conditions and suffering.
Hundreds of men, women and children in Mouadamiya had died and...
When Silvio Berlusconi set out to end Italy's government last month, he didn't consult the national secretary of his People of Freedom Party. Nor was the party's secretary Angelino Alfano asked whether he wanted to resign as deputy prime...
France summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to protest allegations in Le Monde newspaper about large-scale spying on French citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency.
The allegations that the agency was collecting tens of thousands of French telephone records...
Europe's top human rights court ordered Spain on Monday to free a Basque separatist militant, saying her extended prison sentence was illegal, a ruling victims groups warned would lead to the early release of dozens of violent prisoners.
The Strasbourg-based...
At least five passengers were killed and 16 wounded when a train was bombed and derailed in restive southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials said.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the bombing, but arid western Baluchistan province...
Global shares hovered at five-year highs on Monday while the dollar edged up against the yen as investors looked ahead to a deluge of U.S. data for clues on when the Federal Reserve will begin scaling back its stimulus.
Many...
