Matthew Jones

Matt Powell in as Warriors face Falcons

Worcester Warriors make one change to the starting line-up for the highly anticipated Guinness Premiership clash with Newcastle Falcons at Sixways Stadium on Friday night (kick-off 8pm). Director of Rugby Mike Ruddock is forced...

Pop Warner teams prepare for regionals

A number of local Pop Warner teams are preparing for regional competition this week after a successful season in Northern Nevada. Heading the group is this year’s Douglas Tiger midget football team, which went undefeated and...

Four killed as Yemen forces clash with militants

Source: Reuters (Updates number of casualties) ADEN, Yemen, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Four Yemeni soldiers and a civilian were killed in clashes between suspected militants and government forces in a southern province on ...

Sale Sharks 9 Worcester Warriors 17

PHILIPPE Saint-Andre claimed responsibility for Sharks’ horror show on Friday night, the team’s fourth consecutive home defeat. Had Worcester flyhalf Matthew Jones converted all of his kicks at goal, the visitors would have...

Sanderson faith in fly-half Jones

Worcester skipper Pat Sanderson say he is backing Matthew Jones after the fly-half missed five kicks against Sale. The struggling Warriors went on to win the game 17-9, denying the Sharks the chance to go top of the table....

French parliament votes to limit tax breaks (Reuters)

PARIS (Reuters) - The French parliament voted in the early hours of Tuesday to cap the level of income tax breaks that can be claimed by high earners, closing loopholes that had allowed some to escape paying tax altogether.

Sarkozy and Blair to host economic crisis meeting (Reuters)

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Tony Blair will host a meeting of international leaders and experts in January to discuss the global economic crisis, the president's office said...

U.N. rights experts condemn Myanmar activist trials

Source: Reuters GENEVA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Democracy activists in Myanmar jailed for long terms after unfair trials should be retried in open hearings, United Nations investigators urged the ruling junta on Tuesday ...

Iraq's Sistani signals U.S. pact up to parliament

Source: Reuters NAJAF, Iraq, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, signalled on Tuesday he would leave it to lawmakers to decide the fate of a pact allowing U.S. ...

Police arrest 2 Serbs over Sarajevo camp war crimes

Source: Reuters SARAJEVO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Police arrested two Bosnian Serbs suspected of committing war crimes in a detention camp near Sarajevo during the city's 1992-1995 siege, the prosecutor's office said in a ...