
Newly-crowned Premier League champions Manchester City will strengthen their squad in the close season as the club target European glory next year, manager Roberto Mancini said on Thursday.

General Motors Co will build the next generation of its Astra compact in Britain after workers at its factory in Ellesmere Port, northwest England, overwhelmingly agreed to a new labour deal, leaving its plant in Bochum, Germany in danger of closure.

Marcello Lippi, who led Italy’s national soccer team to World Cup victory in 2006, was hired as coach of Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande.

The failure of China's mass-market electric car producers to meet government sales goals is prompting one major carmaking partnership to change tack and develop a "luxury" e-car for the world's largest auto market where upscale brands trump environmental concerns.

Jennifer Lopez has topped the annual Forbes list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in the world, taking over from fellow pop singer Lady Gaga and beating out media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

Britney Spears hasn't even taken her seat as the new judge of "The X Factor" in the US, but the pop icon is already getting a lesson in the media glare of live, talent show television.

Major automakers will launch new models through 2016 in the United States at a faster pace than in the last two decades, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report.

Chuck Brown, known as the "Godfather of Go-Go" for the subgenre of funk music he helped create, died on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore after being admitted earlier this month suffering from pneumonia.

Diego Maradona could be set for a return to the international arena with the Argentine being considered for the vacant United Arab Emirates head coaching job.