La Paillade will lift its maiden French crown on Monday, when the club will be presented with l'Hexagoal after confirming its status as champions with a win on the road.

The Manchester City star has been omitted from the 18-man roster, which features a maiden call-up for Universidad de Chile's Matias Rodriguez

CULDROSE, England (Reuters) - The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off a special flight from the Games birthplace of Greece to light a cauldron with a golden torch. The British Airways 'Firefly' Flight 2012 from Athens landed on time at the Culdrose naval air station with Britain's Princess Anne, Games chairman Seb Coe and the former England soccer captain among the delegation. ...

It had been claimed that the Sweden international, who has been linked with a move away from San Siro, has fallen out with his boss and several teammates

The Arsenal captain finished the campaign with 30 league goals, equaling former Gunners forward Thierry Henry's club record for a single season

The Barcelona forward has claimed the accolade for the continent's top league goalscorer, bagging himself a half century of strikes during the 2011-12 season.

LONDON (Reuters) - When London marathon medical director Sanjay Sharma was called to attend someone who had collapsed with suspected cardiac arrest a mile from the finish line last month, he expected to find a man in his seventies. "I had to hide my horror as I saw a young, athletic woman," he says. "I had to... compose myself for a few seconds before we started resuscitation. ...

The attacker has struggled to secure regular first-team action in his maiden season at the Allianz Arena, and could be shipped out on loan to the Weserstadion.

The man at the center of the refereeing scandal that rocked Italian football in 2006 maintains that the Bianconeri was wrongly stripped of two Scudetti