The 41-year-old had his seven Tour de France victories nullified and was banned from cycling for life in October. ...
02:49 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Israel rejected concerted criticism from the United States and Europe on Monday over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to expand settlement building after the United Nations' de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood. ...
02:06 AM, Dec 04, 2012
French trade unions accused President Francois Hollande of betrayal on Saturday after his government backed away from a threat to nationalise ArcelorMittal's Florange steelworks. ...
10:29 AM, Dec 02, 2012
The French government backed away on Friday from a threat to nationalise a steelworks, saying it secured promises from the owner, ArcelorMittal, to invest and avoid any forced layoffs at the site where the company has idled two blast furnaces. ...
08:53 AM, Dec 01, 2012
The French government has found an industrialist willing to invest 400 million euros to renovate ArcelorMittal's Florange steelworks in northeast France, a minister said on Wednesday. ...
11:33 AM, Nov 29, 2012
President Francois Hollande pressed the head of steelmaker ArcelorMittal on Tuesday to avert the closure of two blast furnaces in northeastern France, raising the possibility of a state takeover while waiting for a buyer. ...
09:12 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Many European countries with lagging economies are trying to draw in foreign investors. But in France, a Socialist minister says he wants to kick the world's biggest steel maker out of the country, accusing it of lying to the government. ...
03:35 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Hamilton was a team-mate of Lance Armstrong during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours de France and was later banned from cycling after being found guilty of doping. ...
11:40 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has graced the cover of French weekly magazine Paris Match. The 47-year-old actor took to Twitter to announce the news and also posted a picture of the magazine cover. "If you know French... tell me what it says on cover... apart from my name. Thanks," Shah Rukh wrote in the cheeky post. In the photo, the actor is dressed in a black and grey...
10:45 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Parma: Italy head coach Cesare Prandelli insists his side did not deserve to lose 1-2 to France in a football friendly played here. Prandelli used a 4-3-3 format for the first time, with Stephan El Shaarawy, Mario Balotelli and Antonio Candreva up front, while Marco Verratti got his first senior start and Alessandro Florenzi his debut Wednesday, reports Xinhua. In-form AC Milan striker Stephan El Shaarawi gave the hosts a...
01:24 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Austin, Texas: The Lance Armstrong Foundation has formally dropped the name of the disgraced cyclist from its title, the organization said on Wednesday, marking the latest move by the cancer charity to distance itself following the biggest doping scandal in the sport's history. The foundation that has been informally known for years as Livestrong - the word adorning its well-known yellow wristbands - filed paperwork with the Texas Secretary of...
10:18 AM, Nov 15, 2012
London: Zlatan Ibrahimovic illuminated a low-key night of international friendlies on Wednesday, scoring an audacious overhead kick from 30 yards to cap his four-goal display in Sweden's 4-2 win over England. Ibrahimovic's one-man show in Stockholm - featuring what both his opponents and pundits hailed as one of the greatest goals seen in recent years - overshadowed two high-profile matches between fierce European rivals, with the Netherlands and Germany drawing...
08:50 AM, Nov 15, 2012
The NMC said that reporting on the Test series has been jeopardised as a result of the move by the BCCI. ...
05:05 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Paris: French President Francois Hollande's attempt to sign a note congratulating Barack Obama for getting re-elected wound up lost in translation - and all over Twitter. In the great Gallic tradition of murdering the English language, Hollande ended the letter to the US president in his own hand, writing: "Friendly, Francois Hollande." The mistake was a literal translation of the French "amicalement," instead of what probably should have been "kind...
07:09 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Paris: The French Football Federation sent players a stern warning over their future conduct on Thursday by banning midfielder Yann M'Vila from the national team until the end of June 2014 for going to a nightclub during the playoffs for the 2013 Under-21 European Championship. He will miss the 2014 World Cup, which runs from June 12-July 13, the FFF said after a disciplinary committee meeting, which M'Vila attended. Although...
03:29 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New York: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced it will not appeal against the decision to ban American cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles. WADA had the option of challenging the ruling that was made by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and backed by the International Cycling Union (UCI). "WADA has no concerns as to the complete process and...
09:36 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Paris/London: Google denied a newspaper report on Wednesday that it had received a 1 billion euro tax claim from the French authorities. The weekly Canard Enchaine said in an unsourced report that the French Tax Administration was looking into whether Google's practice of charging French advertisers via its European headquarters in Ireland led it to underpay taxes in France. European Union rules on freedom of trade within the bloc generally...
12:38 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Paris: Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins won the prestigous Velo d'Or award as the best rider of 2012. Briton Wiggins beat Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders winner Tom Boonen and Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez in a poll of cycling journalists set up by French publication, Velo Magazine. In addition to the Tour de France, Wiggins also won the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, Criterium du Dauphine and the Olympic time trial...
03:18 PM, Oct 30, 2012
No one will replace Lance Armstrong as winner of the Tour de France from 1999-2005 after the American was stripped of the titles for doping, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday. "With respect to Lance Armstrong and the implications of the USADA sanctions which it endorsed on Monday 22 October, the Management Committee decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any...
09:00 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Paris: Spaniard Alberto Contador expressed support on Wednesday for disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong saying the American was being "humiliated and lynched" by doping accusations which have led to the stripping of his seven Tour de France titles. "It seems to me that at certain times and in certain places Lance is not being treated with any respect," Contador, a double Tour champion who returned from a two-year doping ban in...
12:20 AM, Oct 25, 2012
