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Sevilla’s goalkeeper Beto (left) vies with Barcelona forward Lionel Messi during their Spanish League football match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium in...

LONDON: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho stoked up his war of words with Manuel Pellegrini yesterday, questioning the Manchester City manager’s sums and calling...

AUCKLAND: Troublesome New Zealand cricketers Jesse Ryder and Doug Bracewell are out of the second Test against India, coach Mike Hesson said yesterday,...

President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), N Srinivasan addresses a press conference in Kolkata in this photograph taken...

Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club officials at a press conference yesterday. DOHA: The H H The Emir 23rd International Equestrian Sword Festival will...

PEBBLE BEACH: Jimmy Walker let a big lead shrink, but held on for a one-shot victory at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, his...

SOCHI: The organisers of Norway’s bid to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics said Oslo’s modestly-priced proposal was the safe choice after a succession...

SOCHI, Russia: Michel Mulder ‘lost’ then won the men’s 500 metres Olympic speed skating title by one hundredth of a second in a...

SOCHI, Russia: Germany’s Maria Hoefl-Riesch put on a skiing masterclass to defend her Olympic super-combined title yesterday, but 40-year-old biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen...

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DOHA: Li Na, the Chinese star who won her second Grand Slam title last month and will earn a world number two ranking...

MADRID: Real Madrid and Barcelona take significant advantages into the second legs of their Copa del Rey semi-finals against Atletico Madrid and Real...

HARARE: Zimbabwe national team cricketers boycotted a local twenty-over tournament yesterday over unpaid wages and bonuses, a players’ represantative said. “The situation is...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday removed the country’s cricket chief Zaka Ashraf, in the latest twist to a long-running saga dogging...

NEW YORK: Point guard Chris Paul returned from injury and the Los Angeles Clippers crushed the Philadelphia 76ers. Paul, who missed the previous...

SOCHI: Canada’s bid for a fourth consecutive women’s ice hockey Olympic gold medal remained safely on course yesterday but they took a while...

NAIROBI: A team from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is in Kenya to try to speed up investigations into doping which have stalled...

New Zealand’s Neil Wagner celebrates the wicket of India’s Zaheer Khan during day four of first cricket Test match at Eden Park in...