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Chelsea are close to finalising a £23.3m deal to sign Fiorentina's 26-year-old winger Juan Cuadrado. The Colombian has already agreed personal terms with the Premier League leaders and the clubs are concluding the final details of the move. The total fee,...

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick has been ruled out for around four weeks with a muscle rupture. Carrick was injured during pre-season and missed the start of the campaign before returning for the Manchester derby, which saw United lose 1-0...

Diego Costa has lost his appeal against an FA violent conduct charge and has been given a three-match ban that will keep him out of Chelsea's clash with Manchester City. The Chelsea striker will miss his side's top-of-the-table Premier League...

Islamic State militants struck at Kurdish forces southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday morning, while bombs in Baghdad and Samarra killed at least 21 people, security and medical sources said. Police in the northern province of Kirkuk...

Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa's most divisive figures, ascended to the rotating chairmanship of the African Union (AU) on Friday, casting a shadow over the continental body's relations with the West. The only leader Zimbabwe has known...

Apartheid death-squad leader Eugene de Kock, dubbed 'Prime Evil' for his role in the torture and murder of scores of black South African activists in the 1980s and early 1990s, was granted parole on Friday after more than 20...

Xerox Corp (XRX.N), best known as a maker of printers and copiers, reported a 3.5 percent fall in quarterly revenue as printer sales declined. Net income attributable to Xerox fell to $156 million, or 13 cents per share, for the...

Qatar Airways has bought a 9.99 percent stake in International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) worth around 1.15 billion pounds ($1.7 billion), building closer ties with the owner of its partners British Airways and Iberia in the oneworld alliance. Qatar's national...

Crude oil will likely continue falling before posting only a mild recovery in the second half of this year, a Reuters survey of analysts showed on Friday, with prices set to average even less in 2015 than during the...

Muhammadu Buhari may be a man of integrity as many like to shout the rest of us down with; but he has lost whatever purity was ascribed to him, if any. He has lost every measure of respect now...