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QPR new boy Rio Ferdinand is looking forward to a 'fairytale' finish to his career after leaving Manchester United. The 35-year-old centre-back signed a one-year contract at Loftus Road having been told he was surplus to requirements at Old Trafford...

Manchester United defender Rafael has returned to England for treatment on a groin injury. The Brazilian suffered the problem during training in Denver on Friday ahead of the 3-2 win against AS Roma. In Rafael's absence, Antonio Valencia started in the...

Liverpool have made Southampton defender Dejan Lovren their fifth summer signing in a deal worth £20m. The 25-year-old Croatia centre-back joins on a four-year contract and is the third Saints player to move to Anfield during this transfer window. He had...

Ukraine said its troops had taken more territory from pro-Russian rebels near the site where Malaysian flight MH17 was brought down, as international investigators said fighting was preventing them reaching the crash location. Ukrainian officials said two rebel-held towns had...

Chinese government officials have made sudden visits to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) offices in China, a spokeswoman for the company said on Monday, but declined to give any reason for the inspections. China's State Administration for Industry & Commerce, which Chinese...

Discount store chain Dollar Tree Inc said it would buy rival Family Dollar Stores Inc for about $8.5 billion, creating North America's biggest discount retailer. Shares of Family Dollar, which has been under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn to...

Israel sees no need for another Gaza ceasefire, an Israeli official was quoted as saying on Monday, as tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and Washington flared over U.S. mediation to end the almost three-week-old war. Fighting had subsided...

The Liberian government on Sunday closed most of the West African nation's border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 660 people across the region. The new...

Bain Capital's credit arm, Sankaty Advisors, is buying the debt portfolio of JPMorgan's principal investment group for more than $1 billion, the Financial Times reported. Sankaty won an auction for JPMorgan Chase & Co's Global Special Opportunities Group portfolio, which...

President Barack Obama could act without congressional approval to limit a key incentive for U.S. corporations to move their tax domiciles abroad in so-called "inversion" deals, a former senior U.S. Treasury Department official said on Monday. By invoking a 1969...