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Asian markets were mixed on Friday as investors took profits after recent gains, following a decline on Wall Street ahead of the release of a key jobs report amid worries over the US economy. Tokyo ended 0.45 per cent higher...

PSV Eindhoven scored in the last minute Thursday to beat Sparta Prague 1-0 and become the latest former European champion to advance from the group stage of the Europa League. Sparta defender Tomas Repka deflected Orlando Engelaar's header into his...

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon defended on Friday a debate on “national identity” that was launched by the government but has spiraled out of control, offering a platform for xenophobic views. Fillon gave an impassioned speech on the subject of “what...

European planemaker Airbus says it took 225 jet orders in the first 11 months of 2009, offsetting 31 cancellations and putting it ahead of rival Boeing. More than half of the new orders were for single-aisle A320s, which scored an...

France— France's culture minister has inaugurated the construction site of a new branch of the Louvre Museum in a depressed area of northern France. The glass and aluminum museum is scheduled to open in 2012 in Lens. It's being built...

Richard Dunne wants none of Sepp Blatter's 'moral compensation' • He has added insult to injury, says Republic of Ireland defender • Shay Given claims Fifa president's actions 'beggar belief' Richard Dunne says he had not seen the handball incident...

Two-time Grand Slam champion Amelie Mauresmo of France has decided to retire. Mauresmo, who won her two major titles in 2006 at the Australian Open and\ Wimbledon, cited the unwillingness to go through the rigors of training as one of...

World stocks mostly fell Friday ahead of a key U.S. jobs report that investors watch closely for signs of recovery and which could well set the market tone for the rest of the year. British shares was down 32.63 points,...

Soft focus … Zac Efron and Claire Danes in Me and Orson Welles Orson Welles , that brilliant beast of the prewar theatre jungle, is here reduced to a gentle moggy in Richard Linklater 's sentimental-romantic drama set amidst the...

It’s widely accepted that the media circus surrounding the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles intensified when Judge Lance Ito allowed the case to be televised. The conventional wisdom is that the resulting “ observer effect ,”...