The Congolese team is set to be based in Houston for Group K matches

His family previously said he was hospitalized with a ‘severe illness’

Celtic 3-1 Dunfermline: Daizen Maeda, Arne Engels and Kelechi Iheanacho scored to dispatch the Championship side and back up their dramatic Scottish Premiership title win

New Zealand recovered from 11 for four thanks to a superb 159 partnership between Sophie Devine and Maddy Green.

Arsenal face Paris Saint-Germain in the biggest game in European football next weekend but, for the first time in the modern era, it won’t be free to watch in the UK

Two-time Nascar champion died Thursday at 41Busch had planned to race in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600Nascar driver Kyle Busch died after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications, according to a statement released by his family.Dakota Hunter, vice-president of Kyle Busch Companies, said in a news …

Champions Cup final: Leinster 19-41 BordeauxFrench side run in five first-half tries in comfortable winAnother vintage year for Bordeaux, another bitter final loss for Leinster. On a hot, unforgiving afternoon in Bilbao there was never the slightest doubt who would be hoisting the trophy into a cloudless Basque sky, such was the clear superiority of the …

Now for the really interesting part. Celtic’s completion of a domestic double was every bit as straightforward as Dunfermline feared it could be. Whether that achievement is sufficient for Martin O’Neill to be handed an extended stay as the Celtic manager should soon become clear. O’Neill has support, internally and externally, for his cause. Even at …

For all the rigmarole over interns spying at golf courses and which team would be allowed to play here, a third party who watched on helplessly from afar will now be in the Premier League football next season. The Hull head coach, Sergej Jakirovic, had described his side as “collateral damage” in the Spygate saga that had provided the most extraordinary …

Manchester United are close to completing a deal for a midfielder, with Michael Carrick overseeing a major overhaul.

Shane McGovern was rushed to hospital after his horse Reformist collapsed and died, pinning him beneath it for six hours before he was found by his wife.

The former Formula 1 racer was attacked at random while on holiday.

Gstaad gained ample compensation for his Newmarket second when storming to victory in the Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas .

Bordeaux-Begles tore Leinster apart in a dominant 41-19 victory to secure back-to-back Champions Cup crowns at San Mames Stadium in Bilbao.

Charlton Athletic beat Leicester City to earn their first promotion to the WSL courtesy of goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse's penalty shootout heroics, relegating the Foxes to WSL2.

Sophie Devine hits 87 off 57 balls to help New Zealand recover from 11-4 during the second T20 international against England at Canterbury.

Bordeaux-Begles score five first-half tries to retain the Champions Cup title with a comfortable victory over Leinster in the final in Bilbao and prolong the Irish team's agony in European rugby's showpiece game.

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost was injured when a masked gang raided his home near Geneva, Swiss media reports.