David Luiz says Brazil deserved their 2-1 victory over Colombia and expects a “great and beautiful” World Cup semi-final against Germany on Tuesday. Thiago Silva – who will be suspended for the semi-final in Belo Horizonte – bundled in the opener just ...

Good job . . . Germany's Miroslav Klose is congratulated by coach Joachim Löw after their victory over France at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters. Ken Early. Topics: Sport · Soccer · International · World Cup · Didier ...

Dutch national soccer team head coach Louis van Gaal leads his team's training session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. European Pressphoto Agency. The World Cupquarterfinal is familiar territory for the Netherlands, but Costa Rica—the last remaining Concacaf ...

Sir John Betjeman may have rhapsodised about playing tennis with Joan Hunter Dunn, who had 'the speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy'. But the modern tennis heroine has rather more weapons in her arsenal — and we are not just talking about ability on ...

1 Who to watch. All eyes will be on Lewis Hamilton this weekend. It is an important race for him. It is the British Grand Prix, and he would like to see that 29 points in the championship being clawed back. At times it seems Lewis can be as much a mystery to ...

Djokovic saved a set point in the ninth game and three more in tiebreak before sealing the contest. Tweet This. Related. FedererAP-T · Wimbledon 2014: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic shine after struggle, make semis · MurrayAPT · Son sets at Wimbledon.

When Belgium last qualified for the tournament in 2002, the present squad were a disparate gaggle of schoolboys poised unknowingly on the brink of global stardom. Eden Hazard, then a slender 11-year-old, was making a name for himself as a skilful winger ...

Indian diplomacy has scored a quick victory in securing the release of 46 nurses briefly held captive by Sunni Arab militants in Iraq. This raises hopes that another batch of workers from northern India kidnapped from the Iraqi town of Mosul can also be freed.

NAGS HEAD, NC - JULY 04: No swimming flags are posted due to the heavy surf left by Hurricane Arthur, July 4, 2014 in Nags Head, North Carolina. Hurricane Arthur hit North Carolina's outer banks overnight causing wide spead power outages, flooding and ...

Watch live coverage on TV One and at tvnz.co.nz/fifa as France play Germany in the quarterfinals at the 2014 FIFA World Cup at Estádio Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro. 6mins - FRA 0-0 GER. It's a cagey start to proceedings, with Germany knocking the ball about ...

A four-set victory by Novak Djokovic over Grigor Dimitrov would typically conjure a fairly easy win for the top player in the world. Friday's win, however, was anything but that. Djokovic dispatched of Dimitrov 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, but the No. 1 seed really needed to ...

The game, of course, is this afternoon's quarterfinal World Cup match between Brazil and Colombia. Mr. Cunha, a 44-year-old Rio de Janeiro bank teller, is desperate to see his team advance. But he fears the stress of seeing it happen – or not happen – may ...

Catch all the live updates from the quarterfinal match between France and Germany at Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. (Scroll down for the Live Blog). A European presence in the World Cup semi-finals is assured as Germany and France meet at the Maracana, ...

With peak winds of 100 mph and a storm surge of 3 to 5 feet, Hurricane Arthur blasted North Carolina's Outer Banks overnight. The unusually strong early season hurricane is now accelerating to the Northeast, and its outer bands are likely to lash eastern New ...

On a day of "dramatic developments", all 46 Indian women nurses were suddenly set free by Sunni militants ISIS in strife-torn Iraq and were being brought back home in a special Air India plane which left this evening for Erbil, a non-conflict zone. "The Indian ...

On a day of "dramatic developments", all 46 Indian women nurses were suddenly set free by Sunni militants ISIS in strife-torn Iraq and were being brought back home in a special Air India plane which left this evening for Erbil, a non-conflict zone. "The Indian ...

Eugenie Bouchard stands on the brink of Wimbledon glory but her "boring" lifestyle includes no time for cultivating friendships on tour and no time for Laura Robson either. Canada's 20-year-old finalist confirmed on Friday that the days of she and Robson ...

More than 40,000 people were without power at the start of the July Fourth holiday after Hurricane Arthur scythed through North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday. Thousands more had already fled in preparation for the Category 2 storm, which has seen ...

May Warren blogs live from Toronto as the France and Germany face off in a midday match at the World Cup. MORE ON THESTAR.COM. World Cup coverage. Top News. Filipino nanny to be deported for babysitting while awaiting paperscomments · NEW ...

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, arrives at Southwark Crown Court to be sentenced, in London, Friday, July 4, 2014. Australian-born Harris, 84, was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault on four victims aged 19 or under between 1968 and 1986. Harris ...