MARSEILLE - Three of the 43 Russian supporters detained in France over the violence around the England-Russia Euro 2016 match will be tried Thursday, prosecutors told AFP.Another 20 of the group will be expelled from France although they will...
Attending one major sporting event in France was not enough for Mr Ko Chong Tat.Not only did he attend the Formula 1 Grand Prix De Monaco 2016, he also caught the Roland Garros - The 2016 French Open, and...
Germany's national football manager Joachim Low is a legend, having led his country to the holy grail of World Cup glory two years ago.But at the ongoing European Championships during his team's opening match against Ukraine, Low was caught...
WITH less than two months to go before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro begins, it is unclear if Singaporeans will be able to catch the sporting action live on television.It is understood that neither national broadcaster Media- corp...
PARIS - UEFA on Tuesday told Russia it would be kicked out of the European Championship if its fans cause one more incident of stadium trouble during the tournament.Europe's governing body declared Russia responsible for the stadium disturbances, racist...
TOKYO - A South Korean man admitted Tuesday to detonating a homemade pipe bomb at a controversial Tokyo war shrine last year, in a case that highlighted lingering tensions over Japan's former rule of the Korean peninsula.Jeon Chang-Han, 28,...
KUALA LUMPUR - Kenneth Thexeira is a mild-mannered writer for an interior-design magazine by day, but on certain nights his alter ego bursts forth in golden tights and a baby-blue cape: enter "The Eurasian Dragon."The 27-year-old Singaporean is part...
Paris - UEFA said Sunday that Russia and England could be thrown out of the European Championship finals if their fans are involved in more violence.The UEFA executive committee made a public "warning" in a statement which expressed "disgust...
Marseille - Hundreds of fans charging through streets holding chairs above their heads ready to throw and bloodied, bare-chested men brawling with police - football's plague of violence has returned with a vengeance in France.English and Russian supporters fought...
Marseille - Two nights of tear gas, broken bottles and beer-bloated football fans on Marseille's Vieux Port came as a stark reminder to European Championship organisers that old habits die hard.France has been on the lookout for potential terrorists,...
