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Germany goalkeeper Tim Wiese is a free agent after parting company with Hoffenheim on Wednesday, bringing an end to an unhappy 18-month spell at the Bundesliga club. The 32-year-old, who won the last of his six caps in a friendly...

Bayern Munich defender Dante has dismissed reports Manchester United are interested in signing the Brazil centre-back from Germany's European and Club World Cup champions. United need a new central defender with the future of veterans Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic...

Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time at a U.N. peace conference, angrily spelled out their hostility on Wednesday as world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. Opposition leader Ahmed Jarba accused the...

A leading pro-government activist was shot and wounded on Wednesday in Thailand's northeast, a stronghold of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, as a state of emergency began in the capital where protesters are trying to force her from power. The morning...

Pope Francis is considering a trip to South Korea in August to meet with young Catholics, a Vatican spokesman said on Wednesday, in what would be his first visit to Asia where membership of the Church is increasing. Father Federico...

(FROM L-R) FORMER HEAD OF THE JAPAN FEDERATION OF BAR ASSOCIATIONS KENJI UTSUNOMIYA, FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA, FORMER HEALTH MINISTER YOICHI MASUZOE AND FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE TOSHIO TAMOGAMI Former Japanese premier...

Cloud software maker VMWare Inc said it would buy mobile security company AirWatch for about $1.18 billion in cash and about $365 million in installment payments and assumed unvested equity. AirWatch will become a unit of VMWare and its employees...

IBM Corp missed revenue expectations for the fourth consecutive quarter as the world's biggest technology services company grappled with weakening demand for its servers and storage equipment, particularly in growth markets like China. As a result of the disappointing results,...

Motorola Solutions Inc, which makes walkie-talkies, rugged mobile computers and tablets, reported a 3 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by higher government sales. Net income rose to $343 million, or $1.31 per share, for the fourth-quarter ended December 31,...

McDonald's France (MCD.N) has confirmed tax inspectors visited its local headquarters but denied wrongdoing after French media reported it had transferred over 2.2 billion euros ($3 billion) abroad since 2009 to dodge taxes. The French arm of the U.S. hamburger...