Even when he is unstoppable, it’s not good enough for Julio Jones. Jones outshined Odell Beckham Jr., and the Falcons won their second straight game Sunday. Jones caught a perfect 37-yard pass from Matt Ryan to set up Devonta Freeman’s go-ahead 2-yard touchdown run with 1:14 remaining, lifting Atlanta past the New York Giants 24-20 Sunday.
Ohio State is No. 1 and Michigan State is No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, giving the Big Ten the top two teams in the rankings for the first time since 2006.
By Tony Jimenez LONDON (Reuters) – The Solheim Cup has developed a penchant down the years for showcasing the good, the bad and the downright ugly of women’s golf and the 14th edition was no exception. The fans at the St Leon-Rot Club in south west Germany were treated to some dazzling golf by the U.S. and Europe teams in the women’s version of the Ryder Cup but ultimately the
By Tony Jimenez LONDON (Reuters) – A “truly sad” Suzann Pettersen has apologised for showing a lack of sportsmanship on the final day of the Solheim Cup in Germany and has asked for forgiveness from United States captain Juli Inkster and her 12 players. The Americans, who went on to win the trophy by 14 1/2 points to 13 1/2 after a spectacular display in Sunday’s singles, were enraged when
By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) – Alexis Tsipras said on Monday he would revive Greece’s banks and its crippled economy, while demanding debt relief from creditors in his “first big battle” following an unexpectedly clear election victory that returned him to office as prime minister. Preparing to be sworn in for a second term, he set those priorities at the top of a dauntingly long “to do”
By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s parliament authorized the government on Monday to deploy the army to help handle a wave of migrants, granting the military the right to use non-lethal force. Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million, lies in the path of the largest migration wave Europe has seen since World War Two and has registered more than 220,000 asylum-seekers this year. Prime Minister Viktor Orban told
By Maria Tsvetkova NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) – Israel and Russia agreed on Monday to coordinate military actions over Syria in order to avoid accidentally trading fire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Moscow. Recent Russian reinforcements for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which regional sources say include warplanes and anti-aircraft systems, worry Israel, whose jets have on occasion bombed the neighboring Arab country to foil suspected handovers of
A car bomb killed at least 12 people and injured 42 others on Monday in Ameen, a Shi’ite district in eastern Baghdad, police and medical sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Shi’ite areas are often targeted by Sunni Muslim militants from the Islamic State group. Earlier in the day, gunmen shot and killed a local official along with his son and nephew in the town
At least 30 people were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led alliance on a Houthi-held security compound in northern Yemen on Monday, medical sources and officials said, in an escalating campaign that has claimed increasing civilian lives. The coalition intervened in Yemen in March to restore Hadi after he fled to Saudi Arabia when the Houthis, backed by supporters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, overran his southern stronghold
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has started flying drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Monday, in what appeared to be Moscow’s first military air operations inside the country since staging a rapid buildup at a Syrian air base. The U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, could not immediately say how many Russian drones were involved in the surveillance
