DUBLIN (Reuters) - Leigh Halfpenny's last-minute penalty gave Wales a 23-21 win over Ireland in an enthralling Six Nations see-saw battle Sunday as the hosts failed to avenge last year's World Cup quarter-final defeat. Wales, missing several first-te...

Syrian opposition groups dispute number of dead but residents claim new type of artillery shell is being used against restive city Syrian forces persisted with one of the deadliest attacks of the 11-month uprising on Sunday, pounding parts of Homs e...

• United come from 0-30 to draw 3-3 at Stamford Bridge • 'We fought hard and that point could win us the league' Wayne Rooney claimed Manchester United's stunning late comeback here could have yielded the unlikely point that wins them the Premier Le...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will attack any country whose territory is used by "enemies" of the Islamic state to launch a military strike against its soil, the deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards told the semi-official Fars news agency on Su...

• United come from 0-30 to draw 3-3 at Stamford Bridge • 'We fought hard and that point could win us the league' Wayne Rooney claimed Manchester United's stunning late comeback here could have yielded the unlikely point that wins them the Premier Le...

First exit polls show Sauli Niinisto pulling well ahead of Finland's first openly gay presidential candidate Pekka Haavisto Finland's former finance minister, Sauli Niinisto, was poised to become the country's next president on Sunday night after pul...

• No change at top of Serie A as Juventus are held by Siena • Roma thump Internazionale 4-0 at Stadio Olimpico Juventus and Milan each played out scoreless draws, leaving the positions at the top of Serie A unchanged, though the latter's Zlatan Ibra...

As wickets tumbled around him Azhar just kept on going, his 157 coming from 442 balls A measure of the understated brilliance of Azhar Ali's innings came with the afternoon tumble of wickets. Where would Pakistan, who contrived to lose their last se...

England will have to achieve the second-highest run chase in their history, after being left a mountain to climb by Pakistan at the end of the third day of the third Test in Dubai.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab states will not stop their efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis even though their bid to secure U.N. backing was blocked by Russia and China, the Arab League's secretary-general said in a statement obtained by Reuters on Sunday...