LONDON (Reuters) - England soccer star Wayne Rooney and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie are among a new group of 46 people suing over alleged phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper, court documents showed on Friday. Other celebrities listed included singer James Blunt, soccer players Ryan Giggs and Peter Crouch and former England rugby union player Matt Dawson. ...

The French international, who has been linked with Liverpool and Arsenal, says he wants to play in England one day but his club denies that the Magpies have made an approach

With FIFA embroiled in a World Cup bribery scandal, the presidential election campaign intensified Thursday as challenger Mohammed bin Hammam accused Sepp Blatter of allowing the governing body's image to be "sullied beyond repair." Blatter, meanwhile, picked up a key endorsement from a regional bloc in his bid for re-election on June 1.

Suddenly, the June 1 election to elect a leader for soccer's governing body has just one campaign theme: corruption. Just when FIFA President Sepp Blatter hoped he had put the organization's corruption problems behind him, English claims that six members of the executive committee were involved in bribery during World Cup bidding contests have thrown his bid for a fourth term into...

FIFA has asked the former leader of England's 2018 World Cup bid to provide evidence for his allegations that FIFA officials were involved in bribery. FIFA says it has also asked The Sunday Times newspaper for more evidence of information it received from a whistleblower within Qatar's 2022 bid.

IOC President Jacques Rogge says sports leaders must fight against corruption to prevent the type of ethics scandal shaking soccer's world governing body. Rogge tells The Associated Press that English allegations about six senior FIFA officials receiving or demanding bribes for their World Cup votes are bad for the image of world sport.