Four-time champions Ghana beat Mali 1-0 to shoot to the top of Group B at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Lance Armstrong’s confession has pushed South Africa’s anti-doping body to retroactively test blood samples from over 50 top cyclists.
Arsene Wenger has revealed his faith in German economic efficiency, saying it was the reason Per Mertesacker had become the club’s debt collector.
David Walsh, the journalist who queried disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s remarkable comeback from cancer, has accepted the American’s apology.
Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass measures aimed at reducing gun violence, but also reaffirmed his commitment to the right to bear arms.
Second seed Maria Sharapova has sent Venus Williams crashing out of the Australian Open in a crushing straight sets defeat in the third round.
As a way of acknowledging the east African government, US President Barack Obama has met Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
The Malian army have retaken Konna, which fell to Islamist rebels advancing from the north and sparked French military intervention.
US President Barack Obama’s half-brother has hit the campaign trail in his native Kenya in a bid to get a seat in the upcoming elections.
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters have killed two people in Algeria, taking more than 40 foreign hostages, while French troops battled Islamist rebels in Mali.