Premier league debts ... Arsenal fans at the 2005 FA Cup final mock Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United. United have debts of £699m. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images 

Kaka was the subject of a dramatic late bid from Chelsea tonight although Real Madrid remained confident that they would hold off the London club and secure the £65m signature of one of the game's most sought after players 

Chile's Fernando González, who looks as if he has stepped out of the Pirates of the Caribbean, ended Andy Murray's dream of a first grand slam title with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 victory in the quarter-finals of the French Open in the Philippe Chatrier stadium 

Manchester City kicked off an ambitious summer of rebuilding by completing a £12m deal for Gareth Barry last night and the club will follow that with an attempt to lure Carlos Tevez from Old Trafford later this week

Brazil's government has confirmed that wreckage found in the Atlantic Ocean belongs to the Air France flight that disappeared shortly after take-off late Sunday

U.S. President Barack Obama is to deliver a long awaited speech to the world's Muslims from Egypt on June 4. The speech is widely seen as an opportunity for President Obama to set a new course in U.S. foreign policy

A sharp rise in betting activity is expected on next Monday's Tyne-Tees derby, when much more than local pride is at stake 

The teams that know how to fight – Stoke, Bolton, Blackburn, Pompey – have managed to climb to safety but the bottom clubs look barely capable of beating an egg 

With the launch of the Windows 7 release candidate, anticipation is growing over Microsoft's new OS. So is the upgrade really worth waiting for

More countries are reporting cases of swine influenza A-H1N1, as the outbreak centered in Mexico continues to spread