FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo must continue to maintain his exceptional high standards in order to be classed among the sport's legends, according to Brazil  great Pele who compared the Portuguese to Eusebio. Portugal  and Real Madrid forward Ronaldo beat...

Britain on Monday accused Syria's government of committing "yet another war crime" by spraying civilian areas with barrel bombs - oil drums or cylinders which are packed with explosives and metal fragments and dropped from aircraft. Human rights groups say the improvised devices have...

At first glance, it seems to be no more than a nondescript suburban street of neat 1930s semis, too close to the noisy A40 dual carriageway to be fashionable.  But this road in the West London suburb of Acton has become the capital’s unlikely front line in Syria’s...

In the wake of the military seizure of power in Egypt last July, US secretary of state John Kerry praised the coup leader General Sisi for "restoring democracy". Last November, in a sign of approval for the new regime,  Kerry visited Cairo where he said that Sisi’s "road map" to...