Sarkozy opens up to Africa at Nice summit
PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy will host his first Africa summit next week, joined by some 40 leaders in the Riviera city of Nice as France seeks to salvage its dwindling…
Murray struggles into 3rd round at Roland Garros
PARIS: As a Scot, Andy Murray should be more accustomed to dealing with rain than he showed at the French Open on Thursday. Murray's second-round match took two days to…
Tweeting is out for Spain's World Cup players
MADRID: Spanish players at the World Cup will have to give up social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook during the tournament as coaching staff consider them an unnecessary…
UEFA approves Platini's financial fair play plan
NYON: European football's governing body UEFA on Thursday unanimously approved Michel Platini's 'financial fair-play plan' which will require clubs to break even by 2012. UEFA president Platini's initiative will be…
Buffon plays down Italy repeat chances
ROME: Italy and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon on Thursday played down the world champions' chances of retaining their title in South Africa. Italy claimed victory in the World Cup in…
Maradona in charge: Argentina braces itself
BUENOS AIRES: With Diego Maradona coaching the nation's pride in the World Cup, Argentines are bracing themselves for bombshells: a startling outburst, a scandal or even the unspeakable — a…
Baghdad's trade in wildlife anything but tame
BAGHDAD: A dozen fluffy white kittens with piercing blue eyes frolic in a wire cage, perched perilously atop a pen containing two African lion cubs. Neighborhood schoolchildren stop to…
Pakistanis create rival Muslim Facebook
ISLAMABAD: Pakistanis outraged with Facebook over "blasphemous" caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed have created a spin-off networking site that they dream can connect the world's 1.6 billion Muslims. A group…
US reaches 1,000 death marker in Afghan war
KABUL: The American military death toll in Afghanistan has passed the 1,000 mark at a time when President Barack Obama's strategy to turn back the Taliban is facing its greatest…
Hamas faces rising anger after bulldozing Gaza homes
RAFAH: Huddled in a tent near the mound of rubble that used to be his home, Eissa Al-Sidudi says out loud what many Gazans would only mutter in private: Hamas…
