Jamie Vardy's unconventional route to the English Premier League's record book began with heartbreaking rejection from his hometown club at 16 and back-breaking work in a carbon-fiber factory.
Nearly 50 luxury watches confiscated from soccer officials who had received them as "gifts" ahead of the World Cup in Brazil have been donated to charity, FIFA's ethics committee said on Thursday.
Major League Soccer offers a tougher challenge than the English Premier League and will soon be one of the best domestic competitions in world soccer, according to Chelsea great Didier Drogba.
The question of whether Russia will take part in next year's Olympic Games was no clearer on Thursday after IAAF president Sebastian Coe held a news conference dominated instead by his personal relationship with Nike.
Cam Newton sprinted to a corner of the $1.2 billion showplace of the Dallas Cowboys, pointing a camera at celebrating Carolina fans while gesturing to them with a wide smile.
Brett Favre had one more memorable moment with the Green Bay Packers.
The US House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them.
New Zealanders began voting on Friday to select a potential new flag, part of a controversial push for the South Pacific country to drop Britain's Union Flag from its national banner.
The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed on Friday to have working-level contact next week to discuss the timing, venue and agenda for intergovernmental talks, which the two sides had agreed to hold in late August.
A 1,111-carat "high quality diamond", said to be the biggest find in more than a century, has been discovered at a mine in Botswana.
Bangladeshi village soccer coach Mofiz Uddin only decided to form a girls' team in 2011 out of frustration at the local boys' failure to bring home any trophies.
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