NEW YORK  Global oil prices closed little changed Thursday, recovering from sharper losses earlier in the day after weak Chinese manufacturing data.New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate light sweet crude for July, edged down three cents to settle at $94.25 per barrel. WTI had hit an intraday low of $92.21.Brent North Sea crude for delivery in July settled at $102.44 per barrel, down 16 cents from Wednesday. Oil prices have continued their recent declines for the third day in a row on both Brent and WTI as

BANGKOK  The price of oil was knocked lower Friday by a combination of ample supplies and lukewarm demand.Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 40 cents to $93.85 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.The contract fell 3 cents to close at $94.25 a barrel in New York on Thursday. The price sank as low as $92.21 in the morning after weak manufacturing data from China raised questions about the strength of oil demand in the world's No. 2 economy.The

ST. LOUIS   Manchester City overcame a three-goal deficit to beat rival Chelsea 4-3 on Thursday in the opener of a two-game U.S. tour.Edin Dzeko s second goal of the game tied it in the 85th minute for Man City and Micah Richards scored the stoppage-time winner by redirecting a header into the net.In a game played before a standing-room crowd of 48,623 at the St. Louis Cardinals  Busch Stadium, Juan Mata set up a pair of first-half goals for Chelsea against the general run of play.Mata s cross set up Demba Ba s header

PARIS  Used to be the French Open was the scene for clay-court specialists and surprise champions.Scan the list of past winners and runners-up. There s Gaston Gaudio and Albert Costa, Guillermo Coria and Martin Verkerk, Andres Gomez and Mariano Puerta. Not so much a "Who s Who." More like a Who s He?The women s list features fewer out-of-nowhere names, yet does include those such as Iva Majoli, Anastasia Myskina and Francesca Schiavone, who all won the French Open

MONACO  Finishing fastest in both of Thursday s practice sessions for the Monaco Grand Prix isn t enough to get Nico Rosberg too excited. He knows Mercedes has yet to prove it can last the pace on race day. The German driver clocked a time of 1 minute, 14.759 seconds to finish .318 in front of teammate Lewis Hamilton and .437 ahead of Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso in the second session. The times were generally faster than in the first session.But having taken pole position in

LOS ANGELES  A bridge carrying a freeway over a river in the northwestern US state of Washington partially collapsed Thursday, sending cars and people plunging into the water below, police said.Pictures showed a large section of the bridge, carrying the Interstate 5 highway over the Skagit river north of Seattle, collapsed into the water, with traffic and crowds of people visible on the end nearest land.People and cars in water," Mark Francis, spokesman for the Washington State highway patrol, said on his

NIAMEY Islamists groups have claimed responsibility for twin suicide car bombings on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger in which at least 20 people died, in retaliation for the country s military involvement in neighbouring Mali. The attacks on Thursday come just four months after Al-Qaeda linked militants seized a desert gas plant in neighbouring Algeria in a siege that left 38 hostages dead, also in retaliation against the intervention in Mali. Everybody has been