Juve will pay Udinese a total of nine million euros ($12.05 million) over the next three financial years for the 24-year-old.
"Juventus Football Club announces that it has terminated the current co-ownership agreement with Udinese Calcio concerning the registration rights of Kwadwo Asamoah," the (...)
Officials said Czech Klara Zakopalova had been installed as 32nd seed following the Russian's withdrawal with the original seeds between 32 and 27 being moved up one place.
Kuznetsova, who was seeded 26th for the grasscourt major which begins on Monday, was the only player to take a set off (...)
The gazelle-like 21-year-old, who is 1.74 metres tall and weighs 64.5 kilograms, has signed a five-year contract with the Spanish champions, who paid 57 million euros ($76.3 million) for his services.
After competing forBrazilon home soil at theConfederations Cup, he is likely to make his Barca (...)
Greece's ruling party leaders met on Wednesday to try to agree when and how to resume state TV broadcasts, two days after a top court ordered the immediate reopening of the state broadcaster ERT, abruptly closed by the government a week ago.
ERT's screens were black or showing colour bars for an (...)
Demonstrators blocked a major highway and other roads in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, crippling transportation in Brazil's largest city and financial hub, in an ongoing wave of protests against poor public services, inflation and police violence.
The protests, the biggest in Brazil in over two decades, (...)
The core group of nations making up the Friends of Syria will meet on Saturday in Doha to discuss concrete help for the Free Syrian Army after recent successes by government forces, a French foreign ministry official said.
The meeting will be attended by foreign ministers from the 11 countries (...)
Bombs flattened a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday but there were no casualties as the building had been emptied for repairs following previous attacks, security officials said.
The al-Hadaiq station in downtown Benghazi was completely destroyed by explosives at (...)
Rafa Nadal could face world number one Novak Djokovic, defending champion Roger Federer or home favourite Andy Murray as early as the Wimbledon quarter-finals after being announced as fifth seed for the tournament on Wednesday.
Djokovic was named number one, with Murray second and Federer third in (...)
President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance as demonstrations continued in some cities around the country.
Speaking the morning after more than 200,000 Brazilians (...)
Champions Manchester United will travel to Swansea City for their first Premier League match under new manager David Moyes while Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City are at home to Newcastle United on Aug. 17.
Premier League fixtures published on Wednesday also threw up a home game against (...)
Australia's soccer team celebrated with hundreds of fans at a victory party in Sydney on Wednesday after eking out a nervous win over Iraq that sealed their ticket to the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil.
Their victory drew bleary-eyed fans young and old to Sydney's Customs House, all draped in (...)
Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin, once told American diplomats the Middle East's so-called Shia Crescent where the Muslim sect holds sway was "becoming a full moon" as Iranian influence spread.
For the kingdom's Sunni ruling princes, that fear, revealed in a 2009 US embassy (...)
The Egyptian pound fell below LE7 to the US dollar on the official exchange market on Wednesday, following a foreign exchange auction.
The selling price of the Egyptian pound stood at 7.00 to the greenback after the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) auctioned off $38.9 million at LE6.9902 to the (...)
Former Italy and AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso has been appointed Palermo manager with the task of steering the relegated team straight back to Serie A, the club said on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old, who won a host of honours including two Champions Leagues and the 2006 World Cup as a player, (...)
تغلب الأردن بهدف نظيف في ملعبه على سلطنة عمان اليوم الثلاثاء ليتشبث بأمل التأهل للمرة الأولى الى نهائيات كأس العالم لكرة القدم.
وسجل المهاجم أحمد هايل الهدف الوحيد بضربة رأس من مدى قريب في الدقيقة 57 ليضمن الأردن احتلال المركز الثالث في المجموعة الثانية بالدور الأخير من تصفيات آسيا.
وسيخوض الفريق (...)
أعلن اتحاد العاب القوى في جاميكا ايقاف العداءة فيرونيكا كامبل براون البطلة الاولمبية لسباق 200 متر مرتين بشكل مؤقت إثر سقوطها في اختبار للكشف عن المنشطات اثناء لقاء جاميكا في الشهر الماضي.
وقال الاتحاد الجاميكي لألعاب القوى في بيان اليوم الثلاثاء "يؤكد الاتحاد الجاميكي الان وجود قضية ضد فيرونيكا (...)
أكد بوب برادلي مدرب منتخب مصر لكرة القدم لرويترز إن المسيرة المظفرة للمنتخب المصري في التصفيات الافريقية لكأس العالم 2014 تعني للبلاد أكثر من مجرد الاقتراب من حلم التأهل الى النهائيات.
وحقق المنتخب المصري العلامة الكاملة بفوزه بمبارياته الخمس في التصفيات الافريقية حتى الان وضمن التأهل الى المرحلة (...)
Ethiopia soccer officials have admitted fielding an ineligible player in a World Cup qualifier and are resigned to being stripped of three points, potentially handing South Africa and Botswana a 2014 lifeline.
"We have evaluated the situation and we came across the issue that we made a mistake," (...)
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least seven worshippers, police said.
More than 20 people were wounded in the attack in the al-Qahira district of northern (...)
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at the world's largest cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London and New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building by far.
The prince is inviting Dubai's biggest real estate (...)
Turkey has seen $1.35 billion of capital outflows from its equity markets since May 26 due partly to global market conditions and two weeks of domestic political unrest, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said on Tuesday.
Central Bank Governor Erdem Basci said on June 12 that outflows from Turkish (...)
Australia left it late but beat Iraq 1-0 to become the second country to qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals in front of 80,000 rain-soaked but euphoric fans at Sydney's Olympic Stadium on Tuesday.
Substitute striker Josh Kennedy headed the ball home seven minutes from time to give the Socceroos (...)
A Turkish man has staged an eight-hour silent vigil on Istanbul's Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead.
Erdem Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping (...)
As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption.
The marches, organized mostly through snowballing social media campaigns, (...)
Police raided multiple addresses in several cities across Turkey on Tuesday, detaining dozens of people following more than two weeks of anti-government protests, local media reported.
State media TRT said 25 people had been detained in the capital Ankara, 13 in Eskisehir to the west, and "many" in (...)