LONDON: Ronaldinho admitted on Tuesday he would love to join Luiz Felipe Scolari at Chelsea.
The Barcelona superstar openly declared his desire to play for the Blues in a bid to speed up talks between the two clubs.
Scolari led Brazil to World Cup glory in 2002 with Ronaldinho as the key man and now wants to [...]

MANCHESTER: Brazilian striker Jo joined Manchester City from CSKA Moscow yesterday for what the English Premier League side said was a “club record” undisclosed fee.
The 21-year-old forward, capped once by Brazil, signed a four-year contract and in the process became Mark Hughes’s first major signing at Eastlands since he replaced Sven-Goran Eriksson as City manager.
Jo, [...]

LONDON: Liverpool bid £17mil for Gareth Barry on Tuesday and told Aston Villa: That’s our final offer.
The package is £15mil now plus £2mil in potential add-ons.
Villa manager Martin O’Neill has told the England midfielder he can go but has demanded £18m for his services.
The latest offer is a considerable jump from the £12mil which was [...]

PETALING JAYA: Selangor will make an early exit from the Malaysia Cup competition unless they get their act right in their remaining Group A fixtures, beginning with the home match against Malacca at the Shah Alam Stadium tonight.
With six matches more to play in the six-team group, Selangor have four points from four matches and [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: One of the top four seeded pairs have always gone on to contest the Olympic final in the men’s doubles competition and Koo Kien Keat-Boon Heong will be out to beat the odds in Beijing next month.
The duo will not be seeded for their first outing in the Olympics. Veterans Lee Wan Wah-Choong [...]

BOGOTA (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and 11 other hostages held for years in jungle captivity by Colombian guerrillas were rescued on Wednesday by troops posing as aid workers.

French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt hugs her mother Yolanda Pulecio after her arrival at Catam military airport in Bogota July 2, 2008. (REUTERS/John Vizcaino)

The bold [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: PKR’s plan to make Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim Prime Minister by Sept 16 is still on track, said the party’s vice-president Azmin Ali.
The Gombak MP, however, said with the latest allegations hurled against the de facto leader, there was some “slowing down of the process”.
“I spoke last night to the four Barisan Nasional [...]

PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has started a full-scale investigation into the police report lodged by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim alleging abuse of power by Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.
The agency’s Director of Investigations Datuk Shukri Abdull is leading the investigation.
ACA director-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan said there was [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim should not be reporting to Washington every time he faces a crisis in the country, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
Describing Anwar as “tukang lapor” (snitch) for the United States, Syed Hamid said Anwar always reported back to Washington.
“If he wants to be the leader [...]

SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has found grounds for a case against a former officer with the Mentri Besar’s office in relation to the solicitation of funds for the 100-day-in-office celebrations, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said yesterday.
He told a press conference that state ACA chief Jaafar Mahad conveyed to him on Tuesday there [...]