London: A test event at the Olympic Stadium to familiarise athletes with the facilities will be held from May 4 to May 7.Organisers hope it will enable athletes to become...

Zurich: Nicolas Mueller claimed a historic berth in the final of the Grasshopper Cup in Switzerland when he became the first home player for more than 20 years to reach the...

Dublin: Alan Clyne became the first Scot to reach the final of the Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Open for 12 years when he survived a marathon battle against No2 seed Borja Golan in...

Sheffield (England): Ryan Day of Wales took a comfortable 6-2 lead over China's Cao Yupeng in the first session of their last-16 match at the world snooker championship...

Toronto: Toronto Raptors guard Ben Uzoh recorded 12 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists to lead the Raptors to a 98-67 victory over the New Jersey Nets in National Basketball...

Sheffield (England): China's Liu Chuang suffered a first-round exit from the World Snooker Championship after a 6-10 loss to Welsh veteran Mark Williams here.The 22-year-old Liu,...

Sheffield (England): China's snooker star Ding Junhui became the seventh top-16 player to fall in the first round of the World Championship after he suffered a 9-10 loss to Ryan...

London: World No. 1 Sergei Martynov of Belarus has won the men's 50m rifle prone at the 2012 ISSF World Cup and test event for the London Olympic Games here.Entering the final...

London: A giant human London Olympics logo covering 1,800 square metres has been created by 2,012 school children at Collingwood College in Camberley, Surrey.The youngsters were...

Sheffield (England): Mark Allen has apologised to Cao Yupeng for his comments after losing to the Chinese in the first round of the World Snooker Championship."Following my...

Sheffield (England): China's top snooker player Ding Junhui delivered a break of 100, but still trailed Ryan Day 5-4 at the end of the first session in the first round of the...

Moscow: Russian long jumper Irina Meleshina, silver medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has been banned for two years by the Russian Athletics Federation after she tested...

Cape Town: Six South African rugby players were feared drowned after being swept out to the sea at Port Elizabeth, Xinhua reported.The players were having a swim to cool off...

Beijing: Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry edged Martin Gould 5-4 to set up a second-round clash with "the Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson in the 2012 World Snooker...

Havana: Cuba and the US will resume in Havana in July an annual series of friendly baseball games that will serve to prepare both countries for international events.The last...