The number of US tourists to Cuba increased by 36 percent during the first four months of the year, though traveling to the island country is still restricted by US laws.
US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right leg in an accident while cycling in the Alps near Scionzier, France, on Sunday and is returning to the United States, his spokesman said.
For Serena Williams, it was a bad right elbow that led to some shaky serving and a dropped set.
In a matchup of past French Open champions with similar, grind-it-out-at-the-baseline games, Francesca Schiavone knew she and Svetlana Kuznetsova would wind up playing for hours and hours.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic gave teenage French Open trailblazer Boran Coric a ringing endorsement on Thursday by declaring: "He reminds me of me".
"You fight, you fight, and then you are reaching the mountain, but you go back and you are again down. Then you fight, you go up. It's tough. You are there and go (down) again. So you think about how are you going to get there ... you keep going for one meter more. You need just one meter more."
The worst corruption crisis in soccer history stems from the governing body's decision to award Russia and Qatar the next two World Cup tournaments, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday.
Brazilian police began investigating allegations of corruption in its soccer industry on Thursday, prompted by the arrests of top officials at world soccer body FIFA in a US bribery probe.
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner left a Trinidad jail by ambulance on Thursday, a day after he was charged in a US corruption case that has led to the arrests of more than a dozen international soccer officials and businessmen.
FIFA official have been arrested for alleged corruption in the latest scandal to rock the soccer world. Could there be a lesson in this for China as it embarks along a long road of soccer reforms?
Arsene Wenger would love to silence his critics by making history when holder Arsenal takes on Tim Sherwood's Aston Villa in the FA Cup final on Saturday.
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