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The new Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced late Tuesday included few changes to key ministry posts.

Syriza’s stronger-than-expected win secured it 145 of 300 parliamentary seats, short of an outright majority but enough to allow the party to govern with only one small coalition partner. “Given the alternatives and the fact that he really hasn’t been given a...

Alexis Tsipras the leader of left-wing Syriza party waves to his supporters after the election results at the party’s main electoral center in Athens, Sunday, September 20, 2015.

Greeks have chose to grant Alexis Tsipras a second term in office as prime minister in a general election that returned his leftist Syriza party in first place but was also marked by an unprecedented low turnout of 55 per cent.

Serbia’s World No. 1 Novak Djokovic won his second US Open championship by defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in a scintillating final Sunday night.

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning a second general election in less than nine months. His Syriza party will form a coalition government of 155 seats with its old partner, the Independent Greeks which...

A “vindicated” Alexis Tsipras hailed what he called a “clear victory” for his left-wing Syriza party in the Greek parliamentary elections in front of crowds of jubilant supporters in Athens on Monday adding that his party now had a “crystal clear...

Tsipras called the snap election to gain a new mandate after his government failed to reverse a €85bn bailout deal with European Union lenders, which would force the Greek state to continue heavy cuts to jobs and services.

Tsipras, who’d resigned as prime minister a month ago, asked voters for a second chance, and against all odds, he got it.

Syriza plans to govern in coalition with the small right-wing Independent Greeks party, the partner Tsipras chose after winning the last general election in January.

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning the country’s fifth election in six years. “We won’t recover from the struggle by magic, but it can happen with hard work”, he added.

At Wimbledon Federer had hit the heights in his crushing semi-final victory over Andy Murray before running into Djokovic.

Anderson, who won his third career title two weeks ago at Winston-Salem, is the first South African in the US Open’s last-eight since Wayne Ferreira in 1992.

Djokovic is already a legend, but a few more injury-free years could see him become the world’s greatest-ever player.

If Andy Murray hadn’t recovered from his five-set, second-round marathon against Adrian Mannarino on his off day from competition, the Scot showed he had made sufficient progress in his relatively breezy third round affair against Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci late on...