Football: Benitez is safe – Liverpool
Liverpool chief executive Christian Purslow has declared Rafael Benitez’s job as “under no threat” despite the club’s European Champions League exit on Tuesday night.
Arsenal’s youngsters condemned Liverpool to their fifth defeat in six games with a 2-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium to reach the quarterfinals of the English League Cup on Wednesday night.
Former world number one Rafael Nadal defeats James Blake in an entertaining three-setter but U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro exits the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday.
Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
Pakistan cricket is embroiled in a new controversy after the national team were accused of deliberately losing two games at the Champions Trophy by a government official, and the future of captain Younis Khan, above, is now in doubt.
Nemanja Vidic celebrates his goal as Manchester United beat Wolves 3-0 to go level with Chelsea at the top of the English Premeir League.
Nikolay Davydenko avenges last year’s Tennis Masters Cup final defeat by Novak Djokovic to upset the world No. 3 in the semifinals of the Shanghai Masters and set up a showdown with top seed Rafael Nadal.
Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky has signed a new contract at the Emirates Stadium, the club have announced.
Roberto Mancini has set his sights on a top four finish in the English Premier League this season to bring Champions League football to Manchester City after taking over from the sacked Mark Hughes.
Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao defeated defending champion Miguel Cotto on Saturday to claim the WBO welterweight title.
Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has given Floyd Mayweather Jnr’s camp a Monday deadline to resolve a blood-testing row which has threatened to derail the proposed super fight between the two welterweights.
Defending champion Venus Williams reaches the semifinals of the $4.55 million WTA Championships in Qatar, where she joins sister Serena, without hitting a ball on Friday.
As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has given a strong indication that the 2018 World Cup will be staged in Europe after he revealed a consensus of opinion among the governing body’s members favours the move.
Brazil beat Costa Rica 1-0 to set up a replay of the 1993 Under-20 World Cup final against Ghana on Friday, with the Black Satellites earlier overcoming Hungary 3-2 in Tuesday’s first semifinal in Cairo.
Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo died Tuesday after an 80-day hunger strike to demand better jail conditions, according to dissidents.