FROM LEFT: Lekhwiya captain Madjid Bougherra, Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets, Al Sadd coach Hussein Amute and Al Sadd defender Mohammed Kasola touch the...
FROM LEFT: Lekhwiya captain Madjid Bougherra, Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets, Al Sadd coach Hussein Amute and Al Sadd defender Mohammed Kasola touch the...
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits a tee shot on the 3rd hole during the second round of the Wells Fargo Championship at...
LONDON: Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin (pictured), who came back from a doping ban to win the women’s 1,500 metres under a cloud of...
NAIROBI: Kenya’s world and Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha yesterday made a low-key return to the track when he ran in the 400m...
NAPLES, Italy: British sprint king Mark Cavendish could pull on the Giro d’Italia race leader’s pink jersey today as his Omega-Pharma team’s sprint-train...
OAKLAND, California: The Golden State Warriors squandered an 18-point fourth-quarter lead but held on to beat the Denver Nuggets 92-88 yesterday to reach...
MUMBAI: India’s bid to overturn an Olympic ban looked no closer to a solution yesterday with a split and squabbling delegation set to...
Bangladesh batsman Nasir Hossain plays a stroke during the first of the three matches of the ODI series between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh at...
LONDON: Ravi Bopara’s England exile came to an end yesterday when the Essex all-rounder was named in the hosts’ 15-man squad for next...
Kolkata: Backed by superlative bowling and decent batting, Kolkata Knight Riders handed Rajasthan Royals a crushing eight-wicket defeat to keep alive their feeble...
OEIRAS, Portugal: Third seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova fought back from a first-set whitewash to beat unseeded Romina Oprandi 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 yesterday to reach...
PARIS: Australia’s Brad Drewett, the president of the ATP, died yesterday at the age of 54 following a battle against motor neurone disease,...
LONDON: England off-spinner Graeme Swann has been penalised for ‘showing serious dissent’ during his comeback game for Nottinghamshire against Durham in the County...
Chelsea’s Fernando Torres celebrates after scoring the equaliser during the UEFA Europa League semi-final second leg match against FC Basel at Stamford Bridge...
MADRID: Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has still not made up his mind about his future and will only do so once the...
ROME: Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo has announced he will retire from international football after next year’s World Cup in Brazil. “In 2014 I...
KUALA LUMPUR: FIFA President Sepp Blatter called yesterday for more berths for Asian teams at future editions of the World Cup and said...
New Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa speaks during a news conference during the AFC Extraordinary Congress in...