Lukas Podolski salvaged a last-gasp 1-1 draw for Germany against Finland in their final World Cup Group Four qualifying match in Hamburg on Wednesday.
Fabio Cannavaro is to join the Italian national squad on Sunday for their World Cup qualifier against Cyprus next week, despite being under the cloud of a drug test controversy.
Robbie Keane kept the Republic of Ireland's dream of automatic qualification for the World Cup finals alive with a last-gasp equaliser to hold 10-man defending champions Italy to a 1-1 draw in Bari.
Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov has been ruled out of Bulgaria's forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Republic of Ireland and Cyprus with an ankle injury.
World champion Sebastien Loeb increased his advantage in the Cyprus Rally by eight seconds on Saturday after claiming another stage victory on the gravel roads around Limassol.
World champion Sebastien Loeb has made an outstanding start to Rally of Cyprus by winning five of the opening six stages on Friday.
World champions Italy shrugged off a lengthy injury list to secure a battling 0-0 draw against Bulgaria in Sofia to leave them in prime position in World Cup qualifying Group 8.
They may be well known in their domestic leagues, but in terms of international football, Anorthosis Famagusta and CFR Cluj-Napoca are something of a mystery.
Two ships full of pro-Palestinian activists pierce Israel's sea barricade around the coastal strip -- and Israel plays nice, for a day
A much-changed Greece side easily defeated Cyprus 2-0 in a friendly on Monday, as the European champions started their warm-up for the defense of their trophy next month.
Lukas Podolski salvaged a last-gasp 1-1 draw for Germany against Finland in their final World Cup Group Four qualifying match in Hamburg on Wednesday.
Fabio Cannavaro is to join the Italian national squad on Sunday for their World Cup qualifier against Cyprus next week, despite being under the cloud of a drug test controversy.
Robbie Keane kept the Republic of Ireland's dream of automatic qualification for the World Cup finals alive with a last-gasp equaliser to hold 10-man defending champions Italy to a 1-1 draw in Bari.
Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov has been ruled out of Bulgaria's forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Republic of Ireland and Cyprus with an ankle injury.
World champion Sebastien Loeb increased his advantage in the Cyprus Rally by eight seconds on Saturday after claiming another stage victory on the gravel roads around Limassol.
World champion Sebastien Loeb has made an outstanding start to Rally of Cyprus by winning five of the opening six stages on Friday.
World champions Italy shrugged off a lengthy injury list to secure a battling 0-0 draw against Bulgaria in Sofia to leave them in prime position in World Cup qualifying Group 8.
They may be well known in their domestic leagues, but in terms of international football, Anorthosis Famagusta and CFR Cluj-Napoca are something of a mystery.
Two ships full of pro-Palestinian activists pierce Israel's sea barricade around the coastal strip -- and Israel plays nice, for a day
A much-changed Greece side easily defeated Cyprus 2-0 in a friendly on Monday, as the European champions started their warm-up for the defense of their trophy next month.
EU newcomers Cyprus and Malta adopted the euro Tuesday, bringing to fifteen the number of countries using the currency with increasing clout over the slumping U.S. dollar.
The Czech Republic sealed top spot in Euro 2008 Group D qualifying with a comfortable 2-0 victory in Cyprus.
Germany maintained the pressure on the Czech Republic in the race for top spot in Group D with a comfortable 4-0 win against Cyprus in Hannover.
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Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger jet have surrendered to authorities after releasing the remaining passengers and crew they had been holding hostage.
The U.S. Embassy's top military official in Cyprus has been found dead in a wooded area north of Nicosia, the island's capital, an embassy official said Monday.
Preparations are now in the final stage for a unique European event that combines pride and embarrassment in equal measures.
The captain and five other senior crew members of a Greek-flagged cruise ship which ran aground and sank off an island in the Aegean Sea have been charged with negligence and violating international maritime rules.
Striker Dimitar Berbatov scored twice as Bulgaria beat hosts Cyprus 3-0 in the final of an international tournament in Nicosia on Wednesday.
Celebrations of a nation's founding are typically occasions that emphasize national unity. But Turkey's Republic Day on Oct. 28, the 83rd anniversary of Kemal Atatürk's founding of the secular repu...
The Cypriot Football Association is contemplating giving victory bonuses to its national side after a 1-1 draw with Germany in European Championship Group D qualifying on Wednesday.
Germany coach Joachim Loew has called up Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Paul Freier for their Euro 2008 qualifier against Cyprus after Bernd Schneider and Piotr Trochowski were ruled out with injuries.
Bulent Ecevit, the Turkish politician, poet and journalist whose career spanned nearly half a century, has died aged 81.
Lukas Podolski shrugged off media criticism to score a pair of goals as Germany outclassed Slovakia 4-1 in their Group D Euro 2008 qualifier.
Slovakia condemned Wales to their heaviest home defeat since 1908 with a 5-1 Euro 2008 Group D qualifying win in Cardiff.
Craig Bellamy has been named as stand-in Wales captain for their upcoming Euro 2008 qualifiers, despite having to appear in court on assault charges between the matches against Slovakia and Cyprus.
Sebastien Loeb of France won the Cyprus Rally on Sunday, earning a record 28th win in the World Rally Championship.
World champion Sebastien Loeb has taken the lead from Marcus Gronholm in the second leg of the Rally of Cyprus on Saturday.
Ford's Marcus Gronholm leads the Rally of Cyprus on Friday with world champion Sebastien Loeb close behind after a lively first leg.
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As they waited for the U.S. Embassy to tell them when they'd be able to return to the United States, Monika Esseily and her family thought about the Lebanese who remained behind.
The pace of the departure of Americans from Lebanon in the face of bombing by Israeli warplanes quickened Thursday, as more ships moved into position off Beirut and made the 100-mile dash to Cyprus.
The United States brought in more sea and air assets to widen the bottleneck keeping thousands of Americans in war-torn Lebanon on Wednesday, a week after violence erupted.
The U.S. military is positioning Navy and Marine vessels in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, while the State Department charters airliners and a cruise ship to help in the evacuation of Americans trapped by the conflict in Lebanon, Pentagon officials said Monday.
France announced plans Sunday to begin evacuating its citizens and other mostly European nationals from Beirut by sea, while U.S. officials said they were planning a large-scale evacuation of Americans from battered Lebanon.
Americans could be evacuated from Lebanon using an "air bridge" of fast-moving aircraft, U.S. military officials said Saturday.
The following is the text of a message sent out Saturday to U.S. citizens registered with the U.S. State Department as traveling to or present in Lebanon.
New rallies in Ireland, Norway and Portugal will replace Australia, Cyprus and Turkey on next year's world championship calendar.
Campaigners in Cyprus on Sunday said they had created the world's longest chain of bras to raise awareness of breast cancer and win a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Georgios Samaras made a memorable debut for Greece by scoring the only goal in their win over Belarus on Tuesday at the start of an eight-nation friendly tournament.
Turkey has put forward an "action plan" aimed at moving Turkey and Greece closer to a settlement over the divided island of Cyprus, beginning with the elimination of many "economic restrictions on the island."
Unseeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis extended his extraordinary run at the Australian Open on Tuesday, upsetting seventh seed Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-4 6-2 4-6 3-6 6-3 to reach the semifinals.
France qualified for next year's World Cup in Germany with a crushing 4-0 victory over Cyprus.
Winger Damien Duff will miss Ireland's decisive World Cup qualifier at home to Switzerland on Wednesday because of a knee injury.
France's hopes of World Cup qualification were badly damaged as Group Four leaders Switzerland hit back to salvage a 1-1 draw in Berne on Saturday.
Diplomats say the European Union has postponed a ceremony to mark the historic start of Turkey's membership talks, setting no new time.
Britain said the European Union was on the "edge of a precipice" on Monday over terms for historic membership talks with Turkey.
A "tired or weakened" man sent two "Mayday" calls from a Cypriot airliner before it mysteriously crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people aboard, according to a preliminary report on the accident by a Greek investigator.
Authorities on Saturday verified that blood found in the cockpit of the Cypriot airliner that crashed near Athens, Greece, this week was that of a flight attendant, according to a source close to the investigation.
A text message reportedly sent to a relative by a "freezing" passenger onboard the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people onboard, was a hoax and the sender has been arrested, the airline says.
The co-pilot of a Cyprus airliner that crashed killing all 121 on board was alive when the plane went down, according to the chief coroner of the investigation.
Police in Cyprus have raided the offices of Helios Airways, officials said, a day after one of the company's jets crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
The flight recorders from the Cypriot airliner that crashed near Athens will be sent to France for examination to determine why it went down, possibly with all 121 people on board already dead.
A Cypriot plane with "no sign of life" in its cockpit while approaching Athens crashed into a mountain near Marathon on Sunday, Greek officials said. They said all 121 people aboard died.
Anorthosis Famagusta snatched a 3-2 aggregate win over Trabzonspor to claim a lucrative Champions League third qualifying round tie with Scotland's Rangers.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned home Saturday to an ecstatic welcome, with hundreds of supporters waving Turkish and EU flags at the airport to celebrate the agreement to start EU membership talks next year.
The European Union and Turkey reached agreement Friday on a deal that will allow Turkey to begin negotiations next year on full membership of the union.
After hours of intense negotiations, European leaders have agreed the European Union will begin membership talks with Turkey on October 3, 2005 -- a major step in Turkey's long pursuit of joining the EU.
Israel scored a scrappy 2-1 victory over Cyprus on a wet night to join Ireland and France on eight points at the top of European Group Four.
Barcelona striker Ludovic Giuly has pulled out of France's upcoming World Cup qualifying matches against Ireland and Cyprus, the French soccer federation has announced.
France coach Raymond Domenech has called up Juventus defender Jonathan Zebina for the first time, in his squad for next month's World Cup Group Four qualifiers against Ireland and Cyprus.
Ireland launched their 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign in impressive style with a 3-0 win over Cyprus.
Finland's Marcus Gronholm is fired up to triumph in this week's new-look Acropolis Rally after being stripped of victory in Cyprus last month.
Finland's Marcus Gronholm won the Cyprus Rally to give Peugeot its first win this season with the 307 WRC in the fifth round of the 2004 World Championship.
In an effort to quell criticism after rejecting a plan to unite the divided island of Cyprus, the Greek Cypriot president has vowed not to stand in the way of Turkey's bid to join the European Union after Cyprus becomes part of the EU on May 1.
World leaders have expressed their disappointment after Greek Cypriots scuppered a U.N. plan to unite their divided Mediterranean island.
Greek Cypriots have overwhelmingly rejected a U.N. plan to unite their divided Mediterranean island, while their Turkish neighbors to the north supported the plan, according to exit polls by CNN-Turk.
The European Union says there is a "big risk" the reunification of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus could fail because Greek Cypriots refuse to give up revenue from tourism.
In Nicosia, Europe's last divided capital city, a Berlin-style wall separates Greek from Turkish Cypriots who are soon to vote on a U.N. plan for reunification.
Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.
The European Commission has applauded a United Nations plan for the reunification of Cyprus and called on both sides of the divide not to throw away the proposal.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented Wednesday a final plan for the reunification of Cyprus and urged the Mediterranean nation to "seize this chance for peace."
Prospects for peace between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots appear unlikely, according to the Greek government, as a deadline looms for agreement on a reunification plan for the divided island.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have ended their first round of talks on a positive note despite an exposition outside the home of the Turkish enclave's pro-reunification prime minister.
Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu scored twice as Romania defeated Georgia 3-0 in a friendly tournament in Cyprus on Wednesday.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot delegations to the United Nations have agreed to resume full negotiations next week to reunite the divided island of Cyprus.
A third day of talks between Turkish and Greek Cypriot delegations aimed at seeking to reunite the divided island of Cyprus have ended without a solution but are set to resume later.
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