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New Year’s Day always provides a complete programme of fixtures in the Barclays English Premier League (BPL) in England. Nigerians usually have a say in matters decided on the pitch in the most exciting football league in the world and...

Lionel Messi will be "like a bull" when he returns after almost two months out with a thigh injury, his Barcelona teammate Cesc Fabregas predicted ahead of Sunday's La Liga match at home to Elche. Messi flew back to the...

The transfer market has officially opened for South African clubs but in practice, no new signings can be affected until the Premier Soccer League reopens for business on Monday, January 6. With all Premier Soccer League teams due to return...

Returning striker Emmanuel Adebayor was 'almost unstoppable' after the Togolese scored the opening goal in a 2-1 win at Manchester United to continue Tottenham Hotspur's recent revival, manager Tim Sherwood said. Adebayor has flourished under Sherwood since his appointment in...

The Super League of Malawi (Sulom) has banned from football Silver Strikers and Mighty Wanderers for eight and five months respectively after finding them guilty of causing violence in last Saturday’s aborted TNM Super League decisive match at Balaka...

Islamic authorities in Malaysia on Thursday seized 321 Bibles from a Christian group because they used the word Allah to refer to God, signaling growing intolerance that may inflame ethnic and religious tension in the Southeast Asian country. The raid...

Islamist militants in Somalia said on Thursday that they carried out the triple bombing on a Mogadishu hotel that killed at least 11 people. Al Shabaab, who are battling African peacekeepers for control of territory in southern and central Somalia,...

Egypt's former Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, will face trial on January 28 over a mass jail break in 2011, one of three cases against him since he was ousted by the army in July, judicial sources said. Since Mursi was...

Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was taken to hospital with chest pains on Wednesday while on his way to face treason charges in a special court in the capital, Islamabad. It was the third time that Musharraf has failed...

A Chinese helicopter has reached a Russian ship stranded in Antarctica for nine days and is beginning to pick up 52 passengers who spent Christmas and the New Year trapped in ice, the expedition leader said on Thursday. The helicopter...