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For Libya, a victory at the African Cup of Nations would be about so much more than sports.
The mayor of a Mexican town who survived two drug cartel assassination attempts has gotten his own "corrido," a genre of Mexican folk song that in recent years has been more devoted to glorifying the exploits of drug traffickers than public servants.
Gunmen killed a retired army general who took over a month ago as police chief of the violence-wracked Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, the government of northern Tamaulipas state said Thursday. Two of his bodyguards also were slain and two suffered wounds.
The body of a murdered man was found Monday on the main highway to Acapulco, bringing to 31 the number of people killed in the Pacific resort city over four days.
The IOC said Monday it will speed up rulings about whether cities bidding to stage the Summer Olympics can hold the games outside the traditional months of July and August.
The IOC has welcomed reassurances from London organizers that funding for the 2012 Olympics will be protected at $14.6 billion.
Two men were arrested for killing a small-town Mexican mayor for $6,000 in a land dispute, prosecutors said Thursday.
Mexican marines captured 30 suspected Gulf cartel members and seized an arsenal of weapons during two days of raids in a northern border state torn by drug gang battles, officials announced Wednesday.
Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the U.S. border in a region that has become one of biggest battlegrounds in the country's drug war, authorities said Friday.
Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war.
The governor of a Mexican border state said Wednesday he will give state police officers a 20 percent pay raise in an effort to deter them from being lured into helping drug cartels.
Mexican government officials say 72 migrants found dead at a ranch near the U.S. border may have been killed by the Zetas drug cartel.
FIFA might compensate fans who missed the Spain's World Cup semifinal against Germany because of congestion at Durban's new airport.
The last country to qualify for the World Cup, Uruguay is hoping to be the last to leave.
Not all is lost for Uruguay striker Diego Forlan.
If Javier Pastore or Lionel Messi want advice about playing Germany in the World Cup quarterfinals, they don't have to go far for advice from the expert.
Sometimes, preparing for penalty kicks makes all the difference. And sometimes, it doesn't matter a bit.
The 2010 World Cup so far is the fourth consecutive tournament free of doping.
Nobody gives Mexico much of a chance against Diego Maradona's Argentina team in the World Cup round of 16 on Sunday. Coach Javier Aguirre isn't ready to pack his bags yet.
Sven-Goran Eriksson has resigned as coach of Ivory Coast after the team was eliminated from the World Cup.
Kim Jong Hun's North Korean players have fallen far short of emulating their illustrious countrymen who reached the 1966 World Cup quarterfinals.
Every day when Chile's players walk onto their World Cup practice field, the torn and muddied Chilean flag flying nearby serves as a reminder of just how much their country needs something to cheer for.
Serbia's first try at qualifying landed it in the World Cup. Now, it can take the next step.
Chile coach Marcelo Bielsa is looking to redeem himself at the World Cup after failing to take his native Argentina through the group stage of the 2002 tournament.
Three Britons who were part of a school group touring South Africa were killed in a bus crash Thursday, police and British officials said.
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