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Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing significant damage in at least one city, the country’s newly inaugurated president said Thursday.

Guatemala’s national police chief and the country’s top anti-narcotics official have been arrested in connection with the drug trade, Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez announced.

Transfer window target Sergio Aguero has pledged his future to Spanish La Liga Atletico Madrid despite being linked to a string of top clubs, including English Premier League leaders Chelsea.

Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.

England striker Jermain Defoe scored a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur ended the brave FA Cup run of third-flight Leeds United on Wednesday night with a 3-1 victory at Elland Road.

Tiger Woods has said he’s taking “an indefinite break” from professional golf and has admitted to “infidelity,” in a statement posted on his Web site. It was not clear how Woods’ hiatus would affect his sponsorships.

Beleaguered Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini gets a vote of confidence for the club’s director-general Jorge Valdano despite their disastrous Champions League exit to Lyon.

Andy Roddick rallied from a set down to edge Spaniard Feliciano Lopez on Friday in a tense match that saw the American advance into the fourth round.

Maria Sharapova stays on course for her first tournament victory since returning to the WTA Tour with a battling three-sets victory over Alisa Kleybanova in the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Wednesday.

Big-spending Real Madrid crash out of the Champions League at the last 16 stage for the sixth successive season after being held to a 1-1 home draw by French side Lyon on Wednesday.

Thierry Henry’s confession that he handled the ball in the build-up to the controversial goal by William Gallas, pictured, which sent France to next summer’s World Cup, has done little to console a devastated Ireland team as the controversy rumbled into Thursday.

World No. 2 Novak Djokovic suffered a shock defeat by sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny in the semifinals of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Saturday.

Wayne Rooney (above) scores twice as Manchester United crush AC Milan 4-0 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League and ruin David Beckham’s return to Old Trafford.

Honduran prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the country’s six top military commanders for abuse of power in connection with the coup that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last year.

Eight people died early Monday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when a city bus and a police ambulance collided, the government news agency reported.

Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt is named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the second successive time at a star-studded ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Tennis star Serena Williams wins the women’s award.

Top seed Roger Federer sends out an ominous warning to his rivals with the most comfortable of Australian Open second-round victories over Victor Hanescu.

New doubts have arisen over the future of Portsmouth after the struggling English Premier League club’s administrator announced that Britain’s tax department has mounted another legal challenge.

David Beckham is mobbed by fans as he arrives for AC Milan’s Champions League tie against former club Manchester United but what part he will play in Wednesday’s match at Old Trafford is in some doubt.

The luge track on which a Georgian athlete died during an Olympic training run will reopen on Saturday after officials found it had no deficiencies, the Vancouver Olympic committee and International Luge Federation said.

9-1 shot Shocking, ridden by Corey Brown, secures victory in the Melbourne Cup with a late surge taking him past Godolphin-trained Crime Scene to win one of the world’s most prestigious horse races.

Cristina Perez furrows her brow, concentrating and trying not to let her gaze wander too wildly.

Sports superstar Roger Federer has organized a charity event to raise funds for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, as the tennis world rallies to contribute to the cause.

Agnieszka Radwanska crashed out of the Kremlin Cup after she slipped to a straight sets – 6-3 6-3 – defeat to Russian Maria Kirilenko in Moscow.

Brazil will have its second-best harvest in the nation’s history this year, the government said.

U.S. diplomats on Friday called for the immediate release of an American who has been jailed in Cuba for months.

Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga have all crashed out in the last 16 of the Dubai Championships as Wednesday produced a day of shock results.

Nicklas Bendtner scores a hat-trick as a rampant Arsenal side thrash Porto 5-0 at The Emirates to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday.

The Haitian government has launched a new effort to thin out the tent cities around Port-au-Prince that are home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last month’s earthquake.

Captain Fred Couples congratulates Tiger Woods after the world number one crushes Y.E.Yang 6 and 5 to clinch the Presidents Cup for the United States against the Internationals.