Germany sent Saudia Arabia a shipment of rocket-propelled grenades in exchange for support of their bid to host the 2006 football World Cup, a report in the German media has claimed....
Inept batting took the gloss off defiant half-centuries from Marlon Samuels and Shane Dowrich and sent the West Indies crashing to a chastening nine-wicket defeat inside three days in the opening Test against Australia here Friday. ...
Indian shuttler Parupalli Kashyap lost to Japan's Kento Momota in three games in the men's singles semifinal of the $800,000 Indonesia Open Superseries Premier here on Saturday. ...
German football federation president Wolfgang Niersbach has termed FIFA's payment to Ireland over a controversial refereeing decision as "a joke". ...
Barcelona will become the first European team in history to twice win the treble (domestic league, Cup title, and the European Champions League) if it is able to snatch its fifth Champions League title from Juventus on Saturday in the final here. ...
Following the Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) go-ahead to Kerala to host the 12th South Asian Games, the Kerala government has written to the Centre for the second time expressing desire to host the event in November this year. ...
India's Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal lost her top spot, sliding to the third position, in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday....
A former director of FIFA who was brought to trial by a New York court confessed in 2013 that he had accepted bribes in exchange for selecting the sites of the World Cup in 1998 and 2010, judicial sources have said. ...
About 400 FIFA staff gave outgoing president Sepp Blatter a standing ovation after the 79-year-old Swiss announced he would resign, a media report said on Thursday. ...
World No.1 Novak Djokovic outclassed World No.7 Rafael Nadal 7-5, 6-3, 6-1 in the men's singles quarter-finals match to book a place in the semi-finals of the French Open here on Wednesday....
