LONDON (AP) – Portsmouth’s immediate future was safeguarded Thursday after Britain’s tax authority dropped its legal challenge against the Premier League club entering a form of bankruptcy protection. The customs and revenue service had been pursuing...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) – Michael Schumacher doesn’t expect the Formula One championship race to be any more difficult just because several teams are in the running for the title. Ferrari, Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes GP are all expected to challenge...

Five more names were added Wednesday to our grim toll of road accident fatalities. Among them was 12year-old Arik Ofer from Ofakim. He and a friend were severely injured on Sunday at a pedestrian crossing. The cab driver who recklessly ran them over...

At the peak of the Yom Kippur service, man is likened to a broken shard that compared to his creator is irrelevant, ephemeral and inherently fragile. This is true of any man, even a prime minister – especially a prime minister who governs in...

Sir, – Regarding the editorial “The Spanish disease” (March 10), I would like to clarify that (contrary to a report from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency) the embassy did not say or imply that “it was no coincidence that the ‘Russell Tribunal’… was held...

Sir, – Regarding the article “Quiet to Prevail for longer hours on residential streets” (March 11), may it be true and speedily so. A prohibition of loud and annoying activities, especially playing loud music in residential areas, is long overdue. I...

While Maccabi Haifa’s stampede towards a second straight Premier League championship has been attracting most of the attention, two of the league’s smaller clubs have been battling for their mere existence in recent weeks. Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and...

LONDON (AP) – Chasing its first Grand Slam since 2004 and with two home games to come, France is confident of going a step further with a home victory over Italy in the Six Nations championship while England is wary of another embarrassing slip-up...

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) – Tyreke Evans recorded his first career triple-double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, leading the Sacramento Kings to a 113-90 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night. With frequent chants of “ROY!”...

MADRID (AP) – Real Madrid’s exit from the Champions League has cast serious doubt on club president Florentino Perez’s plans, which had included winning a 10th European title in May. An early goal from Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday against Lyon had...

CHICAGO (AP) – The Chicago Blackhawks moved equal top of the NHL’s Western Conference with a 3-2 overtime win against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. Patrick Sharp scored his second goal of the game 2:08 into overtime to secure the win that put...

INDIANAPOLIS ( AP) – Injuries to Ohio State’s Evan Turner and Purdue’s Robbie Hummel might have dimmed the Big Ten’s chances of snagging a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament – not that the teams aren’t going to try to make a run and strengthen their...

NEW DELHI (AP) – Australia defeated the Netherlands 2-1 to set up a third consecutive World Cup final with twotime defending champion Germany, which outplayed England 4-1 in the other semifinal. Germany, the 2002 and ‘06 World Cup winners, avenged its...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero has a tough enough job this week without imagining it being even more challenging. The NCAA is discussing whether to expand the 65-team men’s basketball tournament, a topic with no shortage of...

Sir, – Vice President Joe Biden slammed Israel for announcing plans to build 1,600 homes in east Jerusalem, saying that “it undermines the trust we need right now in order to begin profitable negotiations” (“Biden rebukes Israel over Ramat Shlomo...

65 years ago: On March 12, 1945, The Palestine Post reported that Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky’s army group was ready to storm Danzig and its Polish twin port of Gdynia, while Marshal Georgy Zhukov’s men were fighting in Stettin’s suburb Altdamm. It...

Crude oil for April delivery dropped 13 cents to $81.96 a barrel at 1:01 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. (Bloomberg)

The shekel rose 0.7% against the dollar and traded at 3.7297 as of 5:30 p.m. in Tel Aviv, versus 3.7568 on Wednesday. The euro rose against most of its major counterparts as German government bonds dropped to the lowest level in more than two weeks on...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world’s richest person – a shift that underlines the loosening of America’s and Europe’s stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires’...

GENEVA ( AP) – Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries. A former IT...