LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City's impressive 2-0 victory at Everton on Sunday equalled a club record of nine successive Premier League wins but more importantly sent an ominous warning to their rivals.
Former Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comments that Israel nearly attacked Iran's nuclear facilities but the plan was scuttled by military men and cowardly politicians could shake up Israeli politics.
Victims of crime are missing out on compensation because courts are forced to make criminals pay costs to the Government, campaigners have warned.
A campaign by Grant Shapps, the former Conservative Party chairman, to unmask the mystery contributor who altered his Wikipedia entry has hit a blank, because the emails that might have told the story have been deleted.
Human error may have caused the Smiler crash at Alton Towers, which forced two women to have leg amputations, according to reports.
LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Australia coach Darren Lehmann refused to blame mistakes in team selection for his side's Ashes defeat by England.
162 minutes sitting in the rain. With the result of this fifth Ashes Test a formality for Australia, and the red confetti already loaded to celebrate England’s series win, this was Ashes purgatory. Everyone wanted it over, not least the hosts. Maybe it was appropriate that this lacklustre affair would conclude in a wet whimper.
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Romain Grosjean banished the spectre of Spa and gave a huge boost to his financially-troubled Lotus team on Sunday with his first Formula One podium appearance since 2013.
The former wife of billionaire Oklahoma energy tycoon Harold Hamm, who was awarded nearly $1 billion in a divorce settlement, is now suing Hamm over the sale of a company the two co-owned.
LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The contribution of an unassuming Australian to England's surprise Ashes victory has been overlooked amid the euphoria of a frenetic roller-coaster series.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nigeria on Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization's headquarters and focus new attention on 219 schoolgirls held by the extremists.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Usain Bolt swept aside a year of poor form and injury to retain his world 100 metres title in nail-biting fashion on Sunday and give his beleaguered sport the boost it so badly needed after three weeks of negative headlines.
Joe Root backed England to become the best team in the world after a heavy defeat by Australia failed to dim the glow of Ashes success this summer.
Witnesses have taken a huge number of photographs and video and some of it "may be of use to investigators", Sussex Police said.
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Читать дальше...BEIJING (AP) — Fighter jets flew low over Beijing on Sunday as thousands of soldiers from China, Russia and other countries rehearsed for a military parade next month commemorating the end of World War II. The Sept. 3 parade will showcase the People’s Liberation Army’s rapidly growing capabilities at a time when Beijing is asserting […]
The official Palestinian news agency is quoting President Mahmoud Abbas as saying he is resigning from the Palestine Liberation Organization's top leadership body - a move seen as an attempt to tighten his grip on power.
BANGKOK (AP) — Despite new surveillance video that may offer a possible clue to the bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, Thai police said Sunday that the perpetrators may have already fled the country, and that they will “need some luck” to catch them. Surveillance video leaked to Thai media shows a man […]
A teenager has died after he was attacked outside a club in the Greek party town of Malia, on the island of Crete.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Senior officials from North and South Korea on Sunday were in their second day of marathon talks meant to pull the rivals back from the brink, even amid reports of unusual North Korean troop and submarine movement that Seoul said indicated continued battle preparation. While it was […]
Australia secured a consolation victory in the final Test by an innings and 46 runs on Sunday before England captain Alastair Cook lifted the Ashes urn at the end of a dramatic and fluctuating series.
LONDON (AP) — British police say the death toll from an airshow crash is “highly likely” to increase to 11 people after a fighter jet slammed into a busy main road. The Hawker Hunter single-seater fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles on a nearby […]
England batsman Ian Bell is keen to prolong his career but hinted at retirement after saying he will "take stock" of his future in the next few weeks.
The man who boarded a high-speed train in Europe with an assault rifle before being subdued by three Americans was known to intelligence services in three countries and had ties…
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