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Eric Cantona's believes the world's best player is not Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi - but Paris St Germain and Argentina midfielder Javier Pastore. Ligue 1 champions PSG paid Italian club Palermo £28m for Pastore in the summer of 2011...

Yaya Toure needs to increase his defensive effort and show some desire - or his time at Manchester City could be over, says Paul Walsh. Toure came under fire - not for the first time this season - following City’s...

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers believes Manchester City's Premier League struggles have "opened the door" to the Reds' hopes of Champions League qualification. Monday's 2-0 home win over Newcastle moved Rodgers's men four points off the top four with six games...

Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling's apparent inhaling of laughing gas will be "a minor blip" in a "fantastic career", says a players' union chief. The 20-year-old appears to inhale nitrous oxide in a video published on The Sun website. Sterling will be...

Ceremonies are to be staged around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted by Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A procession is being held in the capital, Abuja, with 219 girls taking part...

Iran proposed a peace plan for Yemen on Tuesday and called for an end to Saudi-led air strikes against Houthi rebels allied to Tehran, but the move was likely to draw a cool response from Riyadh. On the battlefront, militiamen...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and President Barack Obama will discuss the fight against Islamic State on Tuesday at a White House meeting likely to be dominated by Iraqi requests for U.S. arms and tension over Iran's role on...

JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, reported a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday as revenue from fixed-income trading rebounded. Trading picked up early in the quarter after the Swiss National Bank shocked currency markets...

Nokia Oyj (NOK1V.HE) is in talks to buy smaller telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent (ALUA.PA), a deal that would combine the industry's two weakest players but could pose challenges in cutting costs and overcoming political opposition. In a joint announcement, the...

Citigroup Inc (C.N) is looking for a buyer for its retail forex brokerage CitiFX Pro as part of efforts to streamline the banking world's biggest currency trading operation, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Tuesday. Citi has...