• Root comes of age for England in familiar surroundings

    Reuters - 4 hours ago

    By Justin Palmer LEEDS, England (Reuters) - Proud sons of Yorkshire have served England well with the bat in 136 years of test cricket and Headingley rose as one on Saturday to acclaim a new home-grown hero in centurion Joe Root. The likes of Herbert Sutcliffe, Leonard Hutton, Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Vaughan have batted with distinction for England. Sutcliffe and Hutton's run-scoring feats have never been forgotten by proud Yorkshire folk despite fading in the mists of time since they made hay in the first half of the 20th century. ... More »Root comes of age for England in familiar surroundings

  • Girl power no longer a novelty at Indy 500

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    By Steve Keating INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - While Formula One flirts with the idea of a female driver, girl power is already as much a part of the Indianapolis 500 as turbo-charged engines and the winner chugging cold milk in Victory Lane. Swiss Simona de Silvestro, Brazilian Ana Beatriz and Britons Pippa Mann and Katherine Legge represent the four women who will take the command to start their engines alongside 29 men at the famed Brickyard for Sunday's race. ... More »Girl power no longer a novelty at Indy 500

  • Cambodian documentary wins Cannes prize for innovative cinema

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    By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival on Saturday. "L'Image Manquante" (The Missing Picture) was among the 18 films that premiered in the Un Certain Regard category that was set up to encourage emerging and innovative filmmakers and run alongside the main competition at the world's top film festival. ... More »Cambodian documentary wins Cannes prize for innovative cinema

  • Root lifts England with maiden test century

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    By Justin Palmer LEEDS, England (Reuters) - Joe Root hit a maiden test century on his home ground at Headingley and county colleague Jonny Bairstow chipped in with 64 to leave England on top at 337 for seven in the second test against New Zealand on Saturday. Root, in his sixth test, punched the air and gleefully hugged fellow Yorkshireman Bairstow after steering Doug Bracewell to the third-man boundary to bring up his hundred. "It was a fantastic moment. I lost it a bit... ... More »Root lifts England with maiden test century

  • Rosberg on pole in Mercedes Monaco sweep

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    By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) - Germany's Nico Rosberg scorched to his third successive Formula One pole position with team mate Lewis Hamilton completing a front row lockout for Mercedes at the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday. The pole was the fourth in a row for Mercedes, whose qualifying form has faded in the races this season, and second successive sweep of the top-two places. Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel qualified third, on a drying track after a damp session, with Australian team mate and last year's winner Mark Webber lining up alongside. ... More »Rosberg on pole in Mercedes Monaco sweep

  • Hartley's Lions hopes hanging by a thread

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    By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - England hooker Dylan Hartley looks set to lose his British and Irish Lions place after being sent off for calling the referee a cheat in Saturday's English Premiership final in which his Northampton team were beaten 37-17 by Leicester. The incident, at the end of the first half in front of almost 82,000 fans at Twickenham, was the first red card in a Premiership final but Hartley has claimed his expletive-led accusation was aimed at Tom Youngs, his opposite number and rival for the Lions jersey, and not referee Wayne Barnes. ... More »Hartley's Lions hopes hanging by a thread

  • Dortmund bring in Bender for captain Kehl

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    LONDON (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp left captain Sebastian Kehl out of their Champions League final against Bayern Munich at Wembley stadium on Saturday, bringing in Sven Bender as the second holding midfielder next to Ilkay Guendogan. Bender, who is a more attacking player than Kehl, was joined in the Dortmund starting line-up by Kevin Grosskreutz on the left wing due to the absence of Mario Goetze through injury. That change means Marco Reus switches to the middle behind forward Robert Lewandowski. ... More »Dortmund bring in Bender for captain Kehl

  • Interpol refuses Russian search request on dead lawyer's boss

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    International police agency Interpol has pressed the delete button on all the information it has on the former employer of late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, saying a Russian search request for him was of a "political nature". More »Interpol refuses Russian search request on dead lawyer's boss

  • PGA leader Canizares back after meningitis scare

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    By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - Spain's Alejandro Canizares is hoping to pull off a remarkable victory at the PGA Championship, three and a half weeks after being diagnosed with viral meningitis. The 30-year-old admitted it was "scary" when he became ill on a flight from the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea to the China Open at the start of the month. "I started getting headaches, didn't attach too much importance to it, but the next day I woke up with the biggest headache I've had in my life," Canizares told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. ... More »PGA leader Canizares back after meningitis scare

  • Alonso plays down Monaco chances

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    By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) - Ferrari's Formula One title contender Fernando Alonso played down his chances of winning the Monaco Grand Prix after qualifying on the third row on Saturday. The Spaniard will line up sixth, next to Lotus rivals Kimi Raikkonen fifth and behind the two Mercedes - who swept the front row with Nico Rosberg on pole - and two Red Bulls. "I think it's going to be difficult tomorrow," Alonso told reporters. "Nothing is impossible in Formula One, but it's going to be very unlikely that we'll fight for the victory tomorrow. ... More »Alonso plays down Monaco chances

  • Bomb in Yemeni military vehicle kills two and injures six

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    ADEN (Reuters) - A remotely-detonated bomb planted in a military vehicle killed a soldier and a civilian and injured six other soldiers in the Hadramaut region of eastern Yemen on Saturday evening, a local security official said. The explosion took place in the town of al-Shehr as the vehicle drove along a main road, the official said. He added Islamist militants were suspected of the bombing. Islamist militants seized control of swathes of south and east Yemen during the political chaos of the Arab Spring in 2011. ... More »Bomb in Yemeni military vehicle kills two and injures six

  • Dismissed Hartley in Lions doubt as Leicester win

    AFP - 5 hours ago

    England hooker Dylan Hartley could be out of the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia after being sent off in Northampton's 37-17 defeat by Leicester in the English Premiership final here at Twickenham on Saturday. More »Dismissed Hartley in Lions doubt as Leicester win

  • WPP Wins Crucial Backing Over Pay Reforms

    Sky News - 5 hours ago

    WPP, the world's biggest marketing services group, is poised to escape a repeat of last year's shareholder revolt despite paying its chief executive more than £17m in 2012. More »WPP Wins Crucial Backing Over Pay Reforms

  • Syria rebels fight on as peace talks pressure mounts

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    Syrian rebels kept up resistance Saturday to a Hezbollah-backed government assault on a strategic central town as pressure grew on a political opposition in disarray to attend a peace conference. More »Syria rebels fight on as peace talks pressure mounts

  • Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory to Syrian ally Assad

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    BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said on Saturday his group would stay in the Syrian war "to the end of the road" and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad. Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shi'ite Muslim group, said in a televised speech that Syria and Lebanon were facing a threat from radical Sunni Islamists, which he argued was a plot devised by the United States and its allies to serve Israel's interests in the region. "We will not rely on anyone ... ... More »Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory to Syrian ally Assad

  • Murder sparks anti-Muslim backlash

    Press Association - 5 hours ago

    The murder of soldier Lee Rigby has prompted a huge increase in reported attacks against Muslims, an anti-extremist organisation has said. More »Murder sparks anti-Muslim backlash

  • Ton-up Root puts England on top against Kiwis

    AFP - 5 hours ago

    Joe Root's maiden Test century, on his Yorkshire home ground, left England well-placed in the second and final Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Saturday. More »Ton-up Root puts England on top against Kiwis

  • Twice widowed suicide bomber kills one in Russia's Dagestan

    AFP - 6 hours ago

    A suicide bomber identified as the widow of two Islamists blew herself up in Russia's Dagestan on Saturday, killing one person and wounding over a dozen in the second attack to hit the volatile northern Caucasus region this week, officials said. More »Twice widowed suicide bomber kills one in Russia's Dagestan

  • New fighting in central Sudanese state

    Reuters - 6 hours ago

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - New fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and rebels in a central state where insurgents launched a major attack last month, both sides said on Saturday. The government is grappling with an umbrella of rebel groups trying to move its fight to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir from remote regions in Darfur in the west and the eastern Blue Nile state bordering Ethiopia closer to Khartoum. ... More »New fighting in central Sudanese state

  • Woolwich: Rise In Attacks On Muslims

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    The murder of a soldier in a London street has prompted a dramatic increase in attacks on British Muslims, amid a series of arrests linked to the backlash. More »Woolwich: Rise In Attacks On Muslims

  • Russian pro-, anti-gay activists arrested after defying ban

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    By Jason Bush MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained around 30 pro- and anti-gay activists in central Moscow on Saturday, imposing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations. The arrests, underlining Russia's tough response to public demonstrations by gay groups, coincided with the first ever gay rally in neighbouring Ukraine, which was allowed by the authorities and protected by the police. Russia's parliament has given preliminary approval to a ban on "homosexual propaganda" targeting minors, which critics say would effectively ban gay rights demonstrations. ... More »Russian pro-, anti-gay activists arrested after defying ban

  • Egypt court rejects religious slogans in election law

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    CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court ruled on Saturday that parts of a revised election law setting out terms for a parliamentary vote were unconstitutional, casting fresh doubt over a poll that has already been delayed. The Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament had approved the law last month and sent it to the Supreme Constitutional Court to check the legality of the voting procedures for a new lower house. Opposition politicians had denounced the text of the revised election law approved by parliament and repeated threats to boycott the vote. ... More »Egypt court rejects religious slogans in election law

  • Leicester crowned champions after Hartley sees red

    Reuters - 6 hours ago

    By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - Leicester were crowned English rugby champions for the 10th time when they beat Northampton 37-17 in an extraordinary final on Saturday as their rivals had captain Dylan Hartley sent off for abusing the referee. Leicester, appearing in a ninth successive final but who had lost their last two, had the early advantage with a Niall Morris try but the game turned in their favour when England hooker Hartley was shown a straight red near the end of the first half after the referee said he had sworn and called him a "cheat". ... More »Leicester crowned champions after Hartley sees red

  • Between 180-200 French militants have fought in Syria - Le Monde

    Reuters - 6 hours ago

    PARIS (Reuters) - Between 180 and 200 French citizens have travelled to Syria in the past year to join a two-year-old rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, le Monde reported on Saturday, citing figures from France's internal DCRI and external DGSE security services. That number, which is higher than a previous estimate of about 50, includes fighters who took up arms with rebel groups like the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. About two dozen have already returned to France, Le Monde said. ... More »Between 180-200 French militants have fought in Syria - Le Monde

  • Raikkonen allowed to race with Hunt tribute

    Reuters - 6 hours ago

    By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) - Formula One title contender Kimi Raikkonen has been cleared to race with a tribute on his helmet to late champion James Hunt after the lettering was initially deemed to contravene television regulations. The party-loving Lotus driver, second in the championship at present, is a big fan of Britain's 1976 champion and once entered a snowmobile race under Hunt's name. He has also paid tribute to him in the past with Monaco helmets. This year's had the words 'James Hunt' on the top, positioned to face the camera behind. ... More »Raikkonen allowed to race with Hunt tribute

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