PARIS: Toulouse and Clermont prepare for the European semi-finals in a week’s time by facing each other in a sold-out French Top 14 blockbuster showdown on Sunday. Ugo Mola’s Toulouse sit at the top of the table and are readying for a trip to holders Leinster in the Champions Cup
PARIS: Since forcing a second ballot in the 2015 election that ushered in the scandal-plagued Sepp Blatter’s brief final term as FIFA president, Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan has focused on a different campaign. Ali remains president of the Jordanian Football Association and of the West Asian Football Federation, which
LOS ANGELES: Mitch Marner scored on a penalty shot in the second period as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the mistake-prone Boston Bruins 4-1 in the opening game of their NHL playoff series on Thursday. Marner, who finished with two goals, helped get the visiting Leafs playoff run off to
MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus head to SPAL on Saturday needing just a point to wrap up an eighth consecutive Serie A title in record time before their crucial Champions League decider against Ajax in Turin next week. Ronaldo returned from injury to score a precious away goal for Juventus in
JOHANNESBURG: Famed Egyptian club Al Ahly face one of the greatest challenges in their 112-year history when they try to wipe out a five-goal CAF Champions League deficit Saturday. South African side Mamelodi Sundowns exceeded their own expectations by thrashing the Cairo Red Devils 5-0 last weekend in the first
BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Buerki insists his team can bounce back from last weekend’s chastening defeat to Bayern Munich and keep up the pace in the Bundesliga title race. Dortmund slipped a point behind title rivals Bayern after thanks to a 5-0 thrashing in Munich last weekend, but a
SHANGHAI: Valtteri Bottas spun his Mercedes before upstaging team-mate Lewis Hamilton and their Ferrari rivals to go fastest in practice on Friday for the Chinese Grand Prix. The Finn tops the early drivers’ standings and he showed why with a lap of one minute 33.330 seconds, pipping Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Thursday he is considering a potential third nuclear summit with North Korea’s leader. “We will be discussing that and potential meetings, further meetings with North Korea and Kim Jong Un,” Trump said in the Oval Office at the start of talks with South Korean
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May faced down a call to resign on Thursday as she implored MPs to resolve the Brexit impasse at last after the EU granted a new six-month delay. May’s 27 European Union counterparts pulled another all-nighter in Brussels before clinching a compromise timetable for Britain’s
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s army has ousted veteran president Omar al-Bashir, but protestors against his iron-fisted rule denounced a “coup” and thousands rallied outside army headquarters as a night-time curfew kicked in. In a sombre televised address on Thursday, Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced “the toppling of the regime” and said Bashir