Brazil 1 Chile 1 (AET) (Brazil win 3-2 on penalties)

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Switzerland 2 Ecuador 1

A huge explosion rocked Venezuela’s biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 others in one of the deadliest disasters ever to hit the country’s key oil industry.

Australian Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) has won the Tour de France.

Great Britain's Mark Cavendish today scorched to the 16th Tour de France stage win of his career before hinting at the demons which lie beneath his combustible personality.

Mark Cavendish and his sprint adversaries will likely step to one side today, with the Tour de France fourth stage set to shake up the race for the yellow jersey.

TYLER FARRAR celebrated an emotional and long-awaited Tour de France stage win with an American Independence Day victory in Brittany yesterday.

SCIENTISTS yesterday unveiled a car that can be steered by a driver’s eyes.

Mexico City has enacted Latin America’s first law recognising gay marriage and said it hopes to attract same-sex couples from around the world to wed.

The top security chief of a central Mexican state has resigned after 53 inmates escaped from a prison with the alleged complicity of guards.

Amir Khan’s high-profile clash with Marco Antonio Barrera will go ahead on March 14 as planned after a medical examination confirmed the Mexican legend will be fit to box.

At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head today in one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the Philippines, police said. One employee was in critical condition in hospital.

A flight attendant angry about his work route started a fire in a toilet, forcing an emergency landing, authorities said today.

NEWLY freed Colombian hostage Clara Rojas had an emotional reunion with her son Emmanuel, three years after he was taken from her while she was held captive by leftist rebels.

Newly-released Colombian hostage Clara Rojas was reunited today with her three-year-old son who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors, but later taken away from her.

Freed hostage Clara Rojas wore a photograph of her three-year-old son around her neck as she described his birth and upbringing among Colombian rebels in jungle camps.

TWO high-profile woman hostages held in the Amazon jungle by Colombian rebels for more than five years were freed yesterday.

Colombian rebels today provided a pick-up location for two hostages they have held for years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, and the Colombian government gave him the green light to launch a rescue mission.

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez is prepared to send planes and helicopters into neighbouring Colombia to pick up three hostages who have been held for years by leftist rebels.

Dundalk 1 Galway Utd 0

IN the end, it all became too much for Hyder, a Pakistan bocce coach at the Simmonscourt Arena in the RDS, Dublin.

Malaga have beaten Boavista 1-0 in the UEFA Cup quarter-final first leg tonight.

Leftist guerrillas in Colombia have taken a presidential candidate hostage after abducting her at a roadblock as she was driving into an area where government troops are trying to oust the rebels.

M, scarpa is leading at five under after 14 holes having had five birdies.

Gustavo Rojas from Argentina has set a hot pace in the opening round of the Smurfit Europran Open at the K club.