Meir Dagan, a former Israeli general and longtime director of its spy agency, has died. He was 71.

Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 to 2011. Under his leadership, the Mossad reportedly carried out covert attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists and unleashed cyber-attacks, including the Stuxnet virus that delayed the Iranian nuclear program.

Manchester City's players trudged off the field. Many fans left early. The final whistle was greeted with only a smattering of cheers.

It was hardly the way the English club envisaged marking progress to the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in its history.

Atletico Madrid beat PSV Eindhoven 8-7 in a penalty shootout on Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the third straight season.

Juanfran scored the decisive penalty for Atletico after Luciano Narsingh struck the crossbar in the previous attempt.

This weekend's Formula One season-opening grand prix in Australia should, in theory, be an unpredictable affair.

Along with the standard first-race technical glitches with new components, the usual churn of rule changes, and drivers becoming reacquainted with racing, this year will also add a new qualifying system and reduced aid to drivers from the pit wall.

The Asian Football Confederation has ruled that matches between clubs from Saudi Arabia and Iran must be played at neutral venues.

The AFC's competition committee had given both football federations until March 15 to resolve an impasse created by Saudi government restrictions prohibiting any nationals traveling to Iran. It agreed to delay matches between Saudi and Iranian clubs until later in the Asian Champions League.

Russia's defense ministry says another group of its aircraft has left the Russian air base in Syria and is returning home.

Wednesday's announcement comes two days after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian military to withdraw most of its fighting forces from Syria, signaling an end to Russia's five-and-a-half month air campaign.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will tell his Russian counterpart on Wednesday that any future agreement in Syria must not end up strengthening Hizbullah and and its main backer Iran, a senior Israeli official said.

The unidentified official said the main goal of Rivlin’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow will be to discuss the international negotiations taking place in Geneva on an agreement to end the fighting in Syria and find a political solution for the war-torn country.

Skeptics of North Korea's nuclear threat, and there are many, have long clung to two comforting thoughts.

While the North has the bomb, it doesn't have a warhead small enough to put on a long-range rocket. And it certainly doesn't have a re-entry vehicle to keep that warhead from burning up in the atmosphere before it could reach a target like, as it has suggested before, Manhattan.

Hollywood star and Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie arrived in Lebanon on Monday night to mark the fifth anniversary of the eruption of the Syrian conflict.

She paid a visit on Tuesday to several Syrian refugee camps in the country, including those in the eastern Bekaa region of Saadnayel, where she gave a press conference under the pouring rain.

The chief executive of Liverpool, who restored stability to a club that was on the brink of bankruptcy six years ago, has decided to leave the role next year.

Ian Ayre oversaw the transition from the financially troubled ownership of American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. to the takeover by John Henry's Fenway Sports Group in 2010.