In a park in the Latvian capital Riga, a small group of protesters gathers, all Russian, some wearing paper hats inscribed with the word "Alien". Latvian police carry out a small, bureaucratic piece ...

Fifa president Sepp Blatter said Nigeria's plan to co-host the 2010 World Cup with four African countries will not work. "This idea of Nigeria [to stage the tournament with Cameroon, Benin Republic, ...

New York's bid team faces an increasingly tough task to bring the Games to the Big Apple for the first time. The city was ranked down in fourth when the International Olympic Committee examined the ...

Moscow sees its ability to stage every event inside the city borders as the key to its bid for the 2012 Games. Bid leader Valery Shantsev says Moscow would stage the "most compact Games ever" if it ...

There were reservations about bidding after Paris came third behind Beijing and Toronto in the race for 2008 and lost out to Barcelona in 1992. But the French capital is considered to be the favourite ...

Rangers manager Paul Le Guen has left the club by mutual consent. Chairman David Murray said: "Having met with Paul it was clear that in the interests of the club we agreed jointly to him stepping ...

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Central defenders need to be very committed and focused on their role. If you let the opposition striker get in behind you then it can easily result in a goal against your side. Y ...

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A cricket ball is round and hard, right? Well, not exactly. Many players claim the white balls used for limited-overs games have more swing and more sting than the more traditiona ...

Tony Blair has revealed why he overturned government policy going back nearly 90 years to approve the appointment of a Catholic as British ambassador to the Vatican. The former prime minister tells a ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...