Asian shares, oil prices and the dollar came under pressure on Monday as politicians in Washington showed no signs of making progress to resolve the U.S. budget standoff, while safe-haven gold inched higher.
Financial bookmakers expected European shares .FTSE .GDAXI...
Airbus announced its first jet order from Japan Airlines Co Ltd (9201.T) on Monday, breaking open the last major aviation market dominated by rival Boeing Co (BA.N) after delays and a grounding of its 787 Dreamliner cast a shadow...
Afghanistan will play in the World Cup for the first time in 2015 after beating Kenya by seven wickets in the final qualifying match in Sharjah.
The country - one of the world's poorest and affected by decades of conflict...
England boss Roy Hodgson believes his team will avoid the "doomsday" scenario of not reaching the 2014 World Cup.
Montenegro and Poland visit Wembley for qualifiers on 11 and 15 October respectively and England need two wins to secure their...
Arsenal right back Bacary Sagna will be out for three weeks with a hamstring injury, the Premier League leaders' manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday.
The France international picked up the problem during Tuesday's 2-0 victory over Napoli in the...
Former Nigeria coach, Adegboye Onigbinde has identified former international, Taribo West as “primarily responsible for Nigeria’s failure to progress to the final of the 2002 Fifa World Cup”.
Onigbinde was reacting to accusations from the former AC Milan defender that...
A sweet smell, like that of apples, wafted through the air. In a field, a cow's eyes began to stream. A bird fell from the sky, its feathers singed, and people's mouths began to fill with ulcers.
At least 5,000...
Gunmen in Kenya have killed a radical Muslim cleric who had preached a mosque linked in the past to Somali Islamist militants, raising tensions in the port city of Mombasa.
The apparent assassination of Sheikh Ibrahim Omar, who died along...
Two Indian ministers resigned on Friday over a cabinet decision to create a new state, the latest bout of infighting that threatens to weaken the ruling Congress party in the run-up to elections due by next May.
The walkouts were...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is struggling to emerge from the shadow of his flamboyant predecessor Hugo Chavez at the helm of the South American OPEC nation.
Here are some facts about Maduro:
The burly, mustachioed Maduro, 50, is a former union...
