Liverpool showed their two faces again last night, throwing threw away a three-goal lead as Sevilla fought back to earn a dramatic 3-3 draw deep into stoppage time.

Atletico Madrid 1 Chelsea 2: Alvaro Morata and Michy Batshuayi proved there is life after Diego Costa as Chelsea fought back to win 2-1 at Atletico Madrid last night.

A close friend of the woman killed when a car was driven into peaceful protesters in Charlottesville has described her death as a terrorist act.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has told the country's National Court he did not know anything about the ruling Popular Party's accounting practices when a corrupt scheme allegedly helped fund it.

Atletico Madrid 2 Real Madrid 1 (Real Madrid win 4-2 on agg): Karim Benzema’s brilliance booked Real Madrid a place back in the Uefa Champions League final as the holders lost 2-1 to city rivals Atletico 2-1 at the Vicente Calderon, but comfortably progressed on aggregate.

Antoine Griezmann’s controversial first-half penalty handed Atletico Madrid a tight 1-0 win over gutsy Leicester in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Wes Morgan and Marc Albrighton fired Leicester to a glorious victory over Sevilla — and a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Sevilla 2 Leicester 1: Jamie Vardy and Kasper Schmeichel kept Leicester’s Champions League hopes alive as they escaped from Sevilla still eyeing the quarter-finals.

Sevilla 2, Leicester 1: Jamie Vardy and Kasper Schmeichel kept Leicester's Champions League hopes alive as they escaped from Sevilla still eyeing the quarter-finals.

Bayern Munich 2 Atletico Madrid 1

Atletico Madrid kept up the pressure on rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid in the race for the Primera Division title with a 1-0 home win over a stubborn Malaga side.

President Rafael Correa is raising taxes and imposing a one-off levy on millionaires to rebuild cities devastated by Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades.

Ecuador’s earthquake death toll rose to 350 as traumatised survivors rested amid the rubble of their homes and rescuers dug for survivors in the Andean nation’s shattered coastal region.

The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades has flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast.

Pope Francis has challenged Latin America’s youth to take up his environmental protection campaign, saying the defence of God’s creation is not just a recommendation but a requirement.

Ecuador’s highest court has endorsed and sent to the National Assembly a constitutional reform package that would allow indefinite re-election for President Rafael Correa.

The Obama administration faced a breakdown in confidence yesterday from key foreign allies over secret surveillance programmes that reportedly installed covert listening devices in EU offices.

Senior European officials expressed concern at reports that US intelligence agents bugged EU offices on both sides of the Atlantic, with some leftist politicians calling for concrete sanctions against Washington.

US National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is “under the care of Russian authorities” and cannot leave Moscow’s international airport without his passport, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said today.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has been re-elected by a landslide.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is recovering after a successful cancer operation in Cuba, his vice president said.

The WikiLeaks leader has impugned the reputations of two member states, says Ana Palacio

It would be “suicide for Great Britain” if authorities tried to enter Ecuador’s embassy to reach Julian Assange, the country’s president said.

The attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to avoid extradition from Britain took a dramatic turn yesterday, as he was granted political asylum by the government of Ecuador.

In the two months since Julian Assange ducked into Ecuador's London embassy to seek political asylum, president Rafael Correa has been consistently deferential to Britain while insisting on his right to protect a free speech advocate facing persecution.

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador rejected suggestions from opposition politicians that he give an amnesty to police officers implicated in last month’s uprising over plans to strip them of promotion bonuses.

US President Barack Obama called Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa to urge that tensions in that country be resolved through democratic means, the White House said.

LUIS “El Leon” Garcia could be contemplating Olympic gold medals if he remained in his native Cuba but, instead, he faces the biggest assignment of his short professional career at The Aura in Letterkenny tonight when he takes on Uruguay’s Jorge Rodriguez on the undercard to Paul McCloskey’s European title defence.

ECUADOR was under a state of siege yesterday, the streets quiet with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he’d been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier.

Soldiers firing automatic weapons and concussion grenades rescued Ecuador’s president today from a hospital where he had been trapped by police rebelling over benefit cuts.

A district court judge has convicted a newspaper editorial writer of insulting the head of the Ecuador government’s National Financial Corporation and sentenced him to three years in prison.

Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa’s chief of security has died of swine flu, the government said today.

President Rafael Correa, a leftist champion of the poor, declared re-election victory just moments after the polls closed – a win that breaks sharply with Ecuador’s history of political instability.

Voters are expected to easily approve Ecuador’s 20th constitution tomorrow, expanding President Rafael Correa’s powers and letting the pugnacious leftist run for two more consecutive terms.

South American presidents reached an uneasy compromise to resolve a dangerous crisis triggered by Colombia’s military raid in Ecuador, stepping back from a week of insults, troop movements and talk of war.

A summit of Latin American leaders aimed at cooling Colombia’s growing border crisis turned into an angry showdown today, with the president of Colombia accusing his Ecuadorian counterpart of having been financed by Colombian rebels.

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega says he is breaking off relations with Colombia over the country’s raid on a guerrilla base in Ecuador.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa called his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe a liar who “wants war”, following a raid against guerrillas that set off a diplomatic crisis.

Venezuela and Ecuador have punished Colombia for killing a rebel leader in the Ecuadorian jungle by expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to the brink of war by killing a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil.