SummaryFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation on Wednesday on suspicions he tried to use his influence to thwart an investigation of his 2007 election campaign, the prosecutor's office said.

With the 2014 World Cup now over for the U.S. national team, it's time to look ahead to the team we could see representing the USA in Russia in four years. Bet. 5$, 10$, 20$, 50$, 100$. = FIR Draw · Toronto FC TOR · WilliamHill. SALVADOR, Brazil — The ...

Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, left, is congratulated by defending champion Andy Murray of Britain after winning their men's singles quarter-final match at Wimbledon. Photo / AP. Andy Murray's reign as Wimbledon champion is over with the Scot falling to ...

The abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers have inflamed Israel, and the discovery of the body of an Arab teenager, perhaps killed as an act of revenge, looks set to create bigger problems. Clashes broke out on the streets of East Jerusalem today, ...

July 02, 2014, 1:04 PM — A U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting foreign terrorism suspects does what Congress intended it to do, members of a government privacy oversight board said Wednesday, defending their report that finds ...

London, England (SportsNetwork.com) - Rising stars Simona Halep and Eugenie Bouchard will meet in the semifinals at Wimbledon after winning quarterfinal matches in straight sets on Wednesday. The third-seeded French Open runner-up Halep, who ...

WASHINGTON (MNI) - The U.S. central bank is not trying to cause harmful spillovers when it carries out monetary policy, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday, but the Fed's mandate, like many other central banks, focuses on domestic goals.

Halep, the 22-year-old French Open finalist and third ranked player in the world, advanced to her first Wimbledon semifinal on Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Sabine Lisicki, last year's finalist here. Halep won the final 11 games of the match and left ...

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov coasted to a 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 win over Britain's Andy Murray, the defending champion, in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon on Wednesday. "I have two more matches to play, hopefully," Dimitrov, the No. 11 seed, said. "I'll just try to stay ...

Though the United States came up just short against Belgium in the World Cup, it's going to be a long time before anyone forgets about the performance put on by goalkeeper Tim Howard. Plenty of ink (digital and otherwise) was spilled about Howard's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says she doesn't see a need for the Fed to start raising interest rates to address the risk that extremely low rates could destabilize the financial system. Yellen says she does see "pockets of increased ...

At least nine civilians are reported dead in an attack on a village in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. The rebels have accused the Ukrainian army of shelling and bombing the village of Luhanska. But Ukrainian officials said their forces were not in the ...

Facebook communicated "terribly" about a controversial study in which it secretly manipulated users' feelings, the social network's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted Wednesday. Sandberg's comments came as British authorities said they would ...

Team USA goalie Tim Howard had one of the of greatest performances in a World Cup history, making 16 saves in a Round of 16 game against Belgium on Tuesday. The North Brunswick native also didn't have too bad of a showing on Twitter. There were 1.8 ...

At least five Ukrainian troops and hundreds of separatists have been killed as government forces engaged in more than 100 clashes with pro-Russian forces and as Russian and European leaders gathered in Berlin to discuss the worsening crisis. Ukrainian ...

Grigor Dimitrov celebrated after defeating Andy Murray in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Credit Image by Andrew Yates/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story ...

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has promised to reveal the "truth" about his side's purchase of Neymar over the course of the next month. The prosecutor's office in Madrid is currently investigating the transfer fee the club paid for the star in the ...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), which supporters of the extremist project identified as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) thereby granting it a much wider geographic spread that would include Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon, gained ...

Let's face it, Ghana have had a miserable old World Cup, crashing out at the first hurdle amid a swirling imploding vortex of bickering, in-fighting, boycott threats, players being sent home and general disarray. While it didn't make for particularly good football, ...

Let's face it, Ghana have had a miserable old World Cup, crashing out at the first hurdle amid a swirling imploding vortex of bickering, in-fighting, boycott threats, players being sent home and general disarray. While it didn't make for particularly good football, ...