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Mindy Kim kept her quest for a first LPGA title on course Friday, firing a five-under 67 to maintain her two-shot lead at the...

The Pakistan Polo Association has picked the best available for in the World Cup Zone D playoffs to be held in Malaysia from June...

Calling the formation of the five-member commission to probe into the Abbottabad incident a unilateral move of the government, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on...

Chris Tremlett inspired England to a sensational victory as they defied the elements to beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 14 runs in...

Ireland’s hopes of convincing the International Cricket Council they are deserving of a World Cup place were undermined by a thumping seven-wicket defeat to...

The world’s fastest man Usain Bolt revealed Tuesday he has put on some muscle in an attempt to stay ahead of the chasing pack. The...

Taufeeq Umar completed his fifth career hundred before gifting his wicket just before lunch, leaving Pakistan 320 for four in their second innings -...

Germany took an early lead over defending champions Argentina in the World Team Cup final on Saturday after Florian Mayer sealed a straight-sets win...

Cooperation with Pakistan helped lead the United States (US) to the hideout where Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces, US Secretary of...

LAHORE - Model Town Women FC's President Fouzia Rizwan has announced 23-player squad for fourth edition of National Women's Football Club Championship. The event will be played at Model Town Academy Ground from April 22-26. Model Town will take on Fatima Club (22 April) and Lahore Fighters (24 April) in Group-B. According to club's secretary Amna Bashir, qualified coach Kirin Illyas, first ever woman to lift National Women's Football trophy under coach Hafeez Malik in 2005, will act

NEW DELHI - Little-known opener Sunny Sohal hit a half-century and Kumar Sangakkara made a solid 49 to set up Deccan Chargers' 16-run win over Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday. Sohal top-scored with an impressive 62 as Deccan posted a competitive 168-4 before restricting Delhi to 152-7 for their second victory in five matches of the Twenty20 tournament. Australian David Warner scored a 48-ball 51 with the help of one six and five fours for Delhi, who suffered

CASTRIES - Mohammad Hafeez retired out on 101 to lay the foundation for a 68-run victory for Pakistan in the opening match of their Caribbean tour against the University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI on Monday.
The stand-in Pakistan captain struck 10 fours and two sixes from 93 balls to lead the visitors to 287 for seven from 50 overs, after they chose to bat in the one-day practice match at the Mindoo Phillip Park in the St. Lucia capital.
Left-arm spinner Abdur

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's cricket authorities on Monday named big-hitting all-rounder Tillakaratne Dilshan as captain for the upcoming tour of England. Dilshan will lead the side in all three formats of the game -- Tests, one-day internationals and Twenty20s -- on the tour, Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement. The 34-year-old, renowned for an over-the-head scoop shot dubbed the "Dilscoop", replaces Kumar Sangakkara, who stepped down after Sri Lanka lost the World Cup final to India

PARIS - Petra Kvitova beat Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 Sunday to bring the Czech Republic within one match of reaching the final of the Fed Cup. In a battle of the team's top players, Kvitova came from behind to give Wickmayer her first defeat in her last 10 Fed Cup singles.
The Czechs are now heavy favorites to reach the final after finishing as semifinalists the past two years. Belgium's hopes now rest with Kirsten Flipkens, ranked 106th in the world, and

STUTTGART - Australian Open quarter-finalist Andrea Petkovic gave Germany a 1-0 lead in the opening rubber of their Fed Cup play-off aginst the United States with a win over teenager Christina McHale. The 18-year-old from New Jersey had her serve broke on four occasions, while Petkovic, 23, only conceded her own delivery twice, to seal a 6-3, 6-4 victory in one hour 35 minutes.
The Americans are missing a trio of injured names here including both the Williams sister -- Serena and

KUALA LUMPUR - Rory McIlroy fired a second round eight-under-par 64 to soar joint top of the Malaysian Open on Friday, defying the jet-lag and exhaustion that nearly got the better of US Masters winner Charl Schwartzel. Both the players flew halfway across the globe from Augusta, where Schwartzel won his Green Jacket and McIlroy blew a four-shot final-round lead, to land here without their clubs that cost them precious practice rounds.
The sleep-deprived golfers responded

PARIS - European directors are many, Asians are few and South Americans non-existent on the list of 19 films in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival, announced on Thursday. Spain's Pedro Almodovar, Denmark's Lars Von Trier and Belgium's Dardenne brothers are among those whose latest projects will be in the limelight when the world's premier film festival opens on May 11 on the French Riviera. No fewer than 1,715 films -- some for the first time