French champion Paris Saint-Germain edged out Lyon on penalty kicks to win a tightly contested last edition of the League Cup on Friday and complete a domestic treble.
The match finished 0-0 and Lyon was a save away from winning it, leading 5-4 in (...)
Paris St Germain's dominance in the domestic cup competitions continued Saturday after it captured a record 11th French Cup title by beating Angers 1-0 thanks to an injury-time own goal.
The capital side, which owed its victory to Issa Cissokho's (...)
[caption id="attachment_74745" align="alignleft" width="285"] Rozana Al-Deeny with a lion cub. — Okaz photo[/caption]JEDDAH — A Saudi woman in her 20s has decided to become a nurturer of wild animals despite opposition from her family.
Rozana (...)
The Icelandic thunderclap roar proved no match for the sheer talent of France as the host finally showed its title credentials at the European Championship Sunday.
A crushing 5-2 victory lined up a semifinal with Germany as France displayed the (...)
After scoring one goal and setting up another in France's opening win at the European Championship, Dimitri Payet left the field in tears.
The West Ham forward, now hitting his career peak at 29, was playing for his country at a major tournament for (...)
A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up on Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police (...)
Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of St. Denis early on Wednesday when French police raided an apartment where a Belgian militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in the French capital was possibly holed up.
A woman died (...)
Regardless of who is elected on November 6th, Iran's nuclear program is going to be one of the most important challenges the next president is going to have to confront. Unless Iran's leaders shift course and suddenly decide to suspend their ongoing (...)
France shrugged off a poor first-half performance to draw 17-17 at home to Ireland in the Six Nations Sunday, ending its hopes of a Grand Slam and leaving Wales alone at the top of the standings.
Ireland had only won twice in France in the past 40 (...)
Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt recovered from a poor start to win the 100 meters at the Paris Diamond League meet in 9.84 seconds Friday.
Bolt set a new meet record and beat fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell, who finished second in 9.91. Another (...)
Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone.
Though saddened by the (...)
Toulouse rallied to win a record fourth Heineken Cup as flyhalf David Skrela tallied 15 points to help clinch a 21-19 victory over Biarritz in the final Saturday.
The six-time finalist fought back from 6-0 behind after 20 minutes at Stade de (...)
France has won its first Six Nations Grand Slam title since 2004 after narrowly beating England 12-10.
After a bright start from England Saturday, France gradually took control and three penalties from Morgan Parra put coach Marc Lievremont's team (...)
Davies, the doyen of translators of Arabic literature to English, has always been a pioneer. In 1946 he published in Cairo at his own expense, the first-ever book of Arabic short stories to appear in English translation – a selection from the work (...)
World record-holder Usain Bolt easily won the 100m at the Areva Meeting outside Paris on Friday but just missed out on Tyson Gay's season-best time.
The Jamaican, gearing up for next month's world championships in Berlin, won in 9.79 seconds. “I (...)
crowding at Al-Bat'ha outlet was due to the failure of the United Arab Emirates to sign the Agreement of the Unified Currency and said it was, in fact, as a result of over-crowding to complete the required procedures pertaining to (...)
crowding at Al-Bat'ha outlet was due to the failure of the United Arab Emirates to sign the Agreement of the Unified Currency and said it was, in fact, as a result of over-crowding to complete the required procedures pertaining to (...)
Eight years after the United States basketball team's last major win, the star players can call themselves Olympic champions again.
Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade led the US to a closer-than-it-looks 118-107 victory over world champion (...)
Usain Bolt won another Olympic gold medal in world record time Friday at the Beijing Games, this time with some company.
The 21-year-old Jamaican sprinter led his country's 4x100m relay team to a first-place finish at the Bird's Nest - by about 20 (...)
Move over Michael Phelps, the Beijing Olympics has another superstar.
Usain Bolt entered the Olympic history books in a big way Wednesday, becoming the first man ever to break world records while winning both 100 and 200 meters races at a single (...)
Michael Phelps held his arms aloft on Sunday after surpassing Mark Spitz as the most successful swimmer and Olympian of all time, relief written on his face after he won an unprecedented eighth gold at one Games.
Afterward, he said he just wanted (...)
THE sophistication of a wave of bomb attacks in India has caught the country's police and intelligence networks napping, and suggests militants may have received training abroad.
But the sheer scale of the attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad shows (...)
INDIA's government has regained political momentum after surviving a confidence vote in parliament, but optimistic talk about restarting stalled economic reforms could be overblown, analysts said.
India's stock market rose more than 5 percent to (...)
versa, but we work as a one organ. Matters are still in the stage of accusation and investigation, and the reality will appear but without exaggerations."
Prince Naif rejected the reports which said the Saudi security organs have eliminated (...)
Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.
They punched and kicked her stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend “Jassa”, 22-year-old (...)