SAO PAULO -- United States World Cup coach Jurgen Klinsmann boarded the team's flight to Manaus on Friday with a big decision to mull over: What is the best way to replace Jozy Altidore for Sunday's match against Portugal? Altidore, the big, physical ...

CURITIBA Brazil (Reuters) - Carlo Costly scored Honduras's first World Cup goal in more than 30 years on Friday but an equaliser for Ecuador from Enner Valencia just three minutes later left the teams level at 1-1 at halftime of their Group E match on Friday.

Spain's meek surrender of the Fifa World Cup crown here in Brazil has got pundits signing off the death certificate of Tiki Taka - a style that so tormented the globe over the last six years. Unknown to most, however, is the fact that the foundations of tiki taka ...

image BELO HORIZONTE: Four-times world player of the year Lionel Messi may not be deciding Argentina's team tactics but his criticism is crucial and welcome, coach Alejandro Sabella said on Friday. Messi was critical of Argentina's first-half defensive ...

... * A confluence of events in the week ahead will likely continue to support the Treasury market, despite the relentless desire by many to sell the market. Bullish factors in the week ahead include an ongoing desire to ride the "Yellen wave," after a slightly more ...

TIMES VIEW Yes, time to move on. Spain's shocking exit from the ongoing Fifa World Cup in Brazil has raised several eyebrows regarding the team's tactics and football philosophy. Over the last six years, the Spanish team has appeared indomitable, winning ...

U.S. stocks rose, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, as drug makers rallied on merger activity and investors speculated economic growth will accelerate. Health-care companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (SPX) jumped 0.8 percent ...

U.S. stocks rose, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, as drug makers rallied on merger activity and investors speculated economic growth will accelerate. Health-care companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (SPX) jumped 0.8 percent ...

I have always been able to select a favourite going into every Grand Slam over the last 10 years or so but I can't really pick one ahead of Wimbledon. You can make cases both for and against the top four of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and ...

Iraqi tribal fighters hold up a portrait of Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Ali Sistani and chant slogans against Sunni Muslim insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Baghdad's Sadr City on Wednesday. Iraqi tribal fighters hold up a portrait of Shiite ...

Top seed Novak Djokovic has been dealt a tricky hand if he is to equal or better his 2013 run at the All England Club. Having contested the title against eventual champion Andy Murray last year, he is scheduled this time to face the same man in the semi-finals ...

Buoyed by an unlikely 3-1 victory against the Uruguayans in the opener, Costa Rica could secure a place in the World Cup knockout stages for only the second time with victory here against the Italians. The four-time World Cup winners are certainly no mugs, ...

Buoyed by an unlikely 3-1 victory against the Uruguayans in the opener, Costa Rica could secure a place in the World Cup knockout stages for only the second time with victory here against the Italians. The four-time World Cup winners are certainly no mugs, ...

Almost everyone has been forewarned but governments, far and wide, proved to be not farsighted enough to change course before the unprecedented took place. Last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an offshoot of Al-Qaeda and the successor ...

The fall of Iraqi cities to rebel forces believed to be loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is bound to change the shape of military confrontation in neighbouring Syria. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is in a precarious position now. If ISIS stays on a ...

Riad al-Maliki claimed Israel's recent massive military sweep was unacceptable, yet Abbas would continue assisting efforts to find the three missing teens. By Reuters | Jun. 20, 2014 | 4:43 PM. Tweet. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki. Photo by ...

We need Rihanna on a pundit sofa. The sometimes-clad songstress tweeted regularly during last night's big match and got to the meat of the matter with customary directness. Sample 1: Man they know better than to give Suarez that much room bruh!

AMELIE MAURESMO has told Andy Murray to drink in the adulation of walking back into Wimbledon as defending champion - then “get down to business” to retain his crown. Also in this section. Murray sights on defending title · 'I'm flabbergasted, I have ...

I have friends in Iraq, Iraqi friends, many of them Sunnis, living in areas and cities north of Baghdad. I became friends with most of them in 2004-2005 while serving as a civilian Department of Defense official on a U.S. Embassy team in Tikrit. Some of these ...

NATO has reported a further build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine as its new President put in place key pieces of his pro-Western government and embraced an EU trade pact that has been bitterly resisted by the Kremlin. Ukraine's parliament unanimously ...