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San Francisco - Defending champion Lydia Ko shot a five-under 67 to seize the early lead at the LPGA Tour's Swinging Skirts Classic...

Los Angeles - LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers moved to within one win of advancing to the second round of the NBA playoffs with...

New Delhi - IOC supremo Thomas Bach will meet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday amid growing expectations that one of the...

Washington - NBA playoffs first-round results on Thursday (all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference at Boston Cavaliers 103 Boston 95 (Cavaliers lead series 3-0)...

Karachi - Deserted grounds, deprived fans and falling standards -- Pakistan has suffered badly from six years without hosting international cricket, but Zimbabwe's...

New Orleans - Brendon de Jonge had two runs of three straight birdies Thursday en route to an eight-under 64 for a share...

Paris - Tony McCoy - Britain's 20-time champion jockey, retires at Sandown on Saturday. Here AFP looks at five of the Northern Irish...

British jockey Harry Bentley celebrates after winning his 100th race of the season, at the QREC in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Qatari trainer Jassim...

Doha: The Qatar Stars League (QSL) has announced that at this season’s Qatar Cup matches there will be approximately QR2m worth of fantastic...

Atlanta: The Atlanta Hawks defeated Brooklyn 96-91 to take a 2-0 lead in their play-off series on Wednesday, just hours after announcing the...

Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah in action in the Cars category of the 2015 Sealine Cross-Country Rally yesterday. RIGHT: Joan Barreda Bort of Team...

In this file picture taken on March 31, Ali Hmoud Al Naimi (centre), Head of Competitions of QFA and other officials take part...

  Milan - Juventus CEO Giuseppe Marotta says the Italian champions will need luck to make the Champions League final after coming up against...

  Phoenix - Women's NBA stars Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson, who announced their engagement last August, were arrested and booked into jail after...

  Barcelona - Rafael Nadal's stuttering season continued as he was stunned 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) by Italy's Fabio Fognini at the Barcelona Open on...

    Paris - France coach Philippe Bergeroo has drawn heavily on players fron Lyon and PSG, the two dominant domestic forces, for his 23-woman...

  Berlin - Goal-line technology could make its appearance in the Bundesliga as early as the end of the season relegation play-offs, the head...

  Jakarta - Denmark's Thomas Bjorn shot a six-under-par 66 to share the first-round lead in the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters on Thursday, while...