Manchester United's relationship with Nike finally hit rock bottom when the Barclays Premier League club began displaying branding from rivals manufacturers at their Carrington training ground earlier this year. As the club announced today that their long ...

The father of swimming champion Ian Thorpe was caught off guard by his son's coming out, saying the revelation was a shock. "It was a shock because we never had any inclination that Ian was that way inclined," Ken Thorpe told the Seven Network on ...

Americans living in Gaza are to be moved to safety as attacks between Israel and Palestine continue, and the death toll rises to 156. The evacuation is due to begin Sunday, and could take up to three days with 300 Americans expected to be among those ...

If you looked up at the sky you would have seen a perigree moon, more commonly known as a supermoon. It happens when the moon is 30,000 miles closer to Earth than the farthest point in its orbit and the moon looks bigger and brighter. The supermoon ...

Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the World Cup as Brazil take on Holland in Brasilia for the third-place play-off in the tournament's penultimate game. The consolation match gives both teams an opportunity to end Brazil 2014 on a high, with the hosts still ...

Argentina defender Pablo Zabaleta would love nothing more than to win the World Cup in the spiritual home of Brazilian football. When the World Cup draw was made last December, South American football fans dreamed of a Maracana final involving the ...

Brendan Rodgers has vowed to make Liverpool stronger after accepting Luis Suarez had to go. The Liverpool manager signalled Suarez's departure after Barcelona agreed to pay the striker's £75million buy-out clause and he will be unveiled next week close ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday set out to revive economic growth while keeping the middle class happy and handouts for the poor going. Jaitley's all-round Budget ambitions were set in the financial context of sticking to the unrealistic ...

Defending Tour de France champion Chris Froome said he was 'devastated' after injury forced him out of this year's race. Froome, 29, had to withdraw after the second of two crashes on Wednesday's rain-soaked fifth stage from Ypres to Arenberg Porte du ...

Brazil's 7-1 defeat at the hands of Germany in the first 2014 World Cup semi-final broke records online as well as on the pitch. The game went down as the worst loss in Brazil's history, the biggest World Cup semi-final scoreline ever, saw Miroslav Klose ...

An Afghan presidential candidate today made veiled threats of civil war as he claimed election results had been distorted by voter fraud. Abdullah Abdullah told thousands of supporters at a rally in Kabul he had been called by both Barack Obama and John ...

Per Mertesacker was irritated after the victory over Algeria. His post-match rant at a TV reporter has since gone viral. At one point, the Arsenal defender told his victim: 'I don't know what you want from me'. The comment summed up Germany's World Cup.

The 153 asylum seekers fighting a return to Sri Lanka have won an assurance they will not be returned home against their will without 72 hours' notice. But they will not be processed under the Migration Act because their boat never entered Australian ...

The 153 asylum seekers fighting a return to Sri Lanka have won an assurance they will not be returned home against their will without 72 hours' notice. But they will not be processed under the Migration Act because their boat never entered Australian ...

The 153 asylum seekers fighting a return to Sri Lanka have won an assurance they will not be returned home against their will without 72 hours' notice. But they will not be processed under the Migration Act because their boat never entered Australian ...

Shinzo Abe never actually said the C-word but don't be fooled: China was the key focus of the Japanese leader's historic speech to the Australian parliament. Abe on Tuesday became the first Japanese prime minister to address a special joint sitting of MPs ...

Tim Krul has defended his decision to wind up Costa Rica's penalty takers in Holland's dramatic quarter-final victory. Oranje progressed to the semi-finals of the World Cup after a 4-3 win on penalties in Salvador on Saturday. Krul was the hero of the night, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novak Djokovic takes on Grigor Dimitrov in the first of two Wimbledon's men semi-finals today on Centre Court. The Serb No 1 seed reached the semi-final after defeating Marin Cilic, while Dimitrov was responsible for ending Andy Murray's hopes of defending ...