FACTBOX-Soccer-Checkered career of Argentina's Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona's spell as Argentina coach came to an end on Tuesday after the country's soccer association voted unanimously not to renew his contract.

Meet Espen "Erik The Viking" Baardsen, The Man Who Gave Up Soccer For Hugh Hendry

American born Norwegian Espen Baardsen used to play goalkeeper in the sport of soccer, spending time at clubs in the U.S. as well as Tottenham Hotspur, Watford, and Everton in England.

Facts & faces

Jack Tatum, the Pro Bowl safety for the Oakland Raiders best known for his crushing hit that paralyzed Darryl Stingley in an NFL preseason game in 1978, has died. Tatum was not penalized on the play and the NFL took no disciplinary action, but it did tighten its rules on violent hits. Receiver Terrell Owens agreed to a contract with the Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday and will report to training ...

Tensions over Moscows Khimki forest mounting to a boiling point as Bellona and activists appeal to government and ...

ST. PETERSBURG Amid worsening conditions for ecologists trying to save the Khimki forest in the Moscow region from clear cutting to make way for am $8 billion high speed toll road between the capital and St. Petersburg, Bellona has asked Vladimir Lukhin, Russias human rights ombudsman to step in and help sort our the loggerheads.

Tories "put ideology before facts" in census decision, Rota says

The federal Conservative government "will continue to put ideology before facts" by continuing with the decision to cut the long-form census, according to Nipissing-Temiskaming MP Anthony Rota.[...]