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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made successful injury comebacks at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 in the eight-nation team event.
The Slovak Republic hammered the defending champion and five-time holder the US through singles victories from teenager Dominika Cibulkova and...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a successful injury comeback at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 at the eight-nation team event.
Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip surgery, winning his singles over Nicolas Kiefer 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-2.
Dellacqua, who had to...
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Australia's Adelaide United defeated New Zealand rivals Waitakere United 2-1 as the club world cup got underway in Tokyo on Thursday.
Adelaide United captain Travis Dodd hit an 83rd-minute winner as the Australians came from behind to beat Oceania champions Waitakere United in a quarter-final play-off.
Paul Seaman put the New...
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US cyclist Lance Armstrong will make his official comeback to professional road racing in January at the Tour Down Under in Australia, organizers of the Adelaide stage race said Wednesday.
Armstrong announced his retirement after winning the Tour de France a record seven times in 2005 but has said he would try for an eighth triumph in...
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Malcolm Turnbull, elected Tuesday as the leader of Australia's opposition Liberal Party, is the conservative politician from central casting: well-groomed, well-educated, well-connected and, well, rich.
He's the wealthiest member of the Canberra Parliament, thanks to a career in business that saw him start information-technology...
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 Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88,
will be given a state funeral on January 22 in his home city Auckland,
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Saturday.
Tributes to Hillary, who died Friday of a heart attack, shortly
before he was due to be released from hospital after treatment for
pneumonia,...
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 There were big surprises Thursday when prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd
took the dust sheets off his Labor cabinet at Parliament House in
Canberra, and the Liberals he defeated in last weekend's general
election met down the corridor to pick a new leader to replace Prime
Minister John Howard.
As expected, Julia Gillard became...
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Voters in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec elected a federalist provincial government Monday, handing the Liberal Party of Quebec a slim majority.
Premier Jean Charest's Liberals, who are not connected to the federal Liberal Party, won 66 seats in the 125-seat provincial legislature, with 42 per cent of the popular...
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Brazilian comedians gave symbolic "bad luck presents" to British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, who is seeking the world championship title Sunday in Sao Paulo.
Hamilton's rival for the title is Brasilian Felipe Massa, so many of his compatriots are hoping for a "miracle" at the season-ender on the Interlagos...
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 A team of archaeologists has uncovered the undamaged antique
tomb of a pre-Incan leader who lived 1,600 years ago and the discovery may be
of great use in solving the mysteries regarding Peru's ancient Moche culture, the
group's Canadian lead scientist said on Saturday.
The tomb, named Huaca del Pueblo, was unearthed in the
region...
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 Two long-time hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia were freed Thursday.
They were flown to Venezuela, where they were greeted by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, who had worked to mediate their release. The
former hostages, politicians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, called
for continued efforts to free hundreds of...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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 Peru is confronted with the jeopardy of infectious diseases
spreading and looting in the aftermath of the Wednesday 8
magnitude earthquake. Pisco is the most devastated town and President Alan Garcia has been monitoring
rescue efforts since Friday.
Though at first the first man in the state dismissed the
looting as rumors, the...
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Zimbabwe has received agricultural inputs from the South African government worth over 300 million South African rand (about 30 million dollars), Zimbabwean state media reported Monday.
The Herald newspaper quoted Zimbabwe's Agricultural Minister Rugare Gumbo as saying Pretoria had sent, among other items, maize and sorghum seed,...
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In a sign of the growing instability in southern Africa caused by the Zimbabwean crisis, Zimbabwe's government accused its neighbour Botswana of plotting to help overthrow President Robert Mugabe's regime, state media reported. Zimbabwe's state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as saying that the...
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to meet directly with the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in a bid to salvage faltering talks aimed at bringing an end a long-running civil war, a government newspaper reported Tuesday.
Reclusive guerrilla commander Joseph Kony, who is currently holed up in the jungles of the...
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Talks between President Robert Mugabe and pro-democracy leader Morgan Tsvangirai over the share of government ministries between them were due to resume Friday for the fourth successive day, with no sign the deadlock could be resolved.
Even the usually optimistic Herald, the daily propaganda newspaper of Mugabe's ZANU(PF) party, said...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument with their
mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were
injured in the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between
the pirates,...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument
with their mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were injured in
the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between the...
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German authorities attempting to end the kidnapping crisis in which 19 people were snatched in the Egyptian desert a week ago have said that they have no new information regarding their whereabouts or condition, it emerged on Friday.
The group, which consists of 11 tourists - five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian - plus eight...
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Hundreds of businesses around Zimbabwe were readying Friday to open their doors to sell goods in foreign currency as the country's own currency accelerated in its crash towards oblivion.
The central bank Thursday granted special licences to 570 retail and wholesale businesses, oil companies and service stations to charge in hard...
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Kgalema Motlanthe, who was elected South Africa's third post-democracy president Thursday, is a self-effacing, former anti-apartheid activist with a reputation for making peace within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
Motlanthe, 58, replaces Thabo Mbeki, who stepped down four days before the end of his second five-year term...
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African National Congress (ANC) deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa's caretaker president Thursday after being elected in a landslide vote in the National Assembly in Cape Town.
Motlanthe easily defeated Joe Seremane, candidate of the official opposition Democratic Alliance, 269 votes to 50 votes out of 360...
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German officials are negotiating with the kidnappers of 11 tourists and eight Egyptians who went missing on Friday in Egypt's southern desert during a safari trip, sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism said on Tuesday.
Negotiations for the release of the eleven Europeans, including five Germans, five Italians, a Romanian, and...
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Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to launch a probe after 13 people died during a stampede at a football stadium prompted by allegations of witchcraft, reports said Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC that those who died were trapped at the exit of the stadium in Butembo, eastern Congo after fans fled a volley of tear...
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 The U.S.
government has announced that it is strengthening security for its team in Sudan after an
international prosecutor made a move into arresting Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir and his actions set off concerns regarding dangerous repercussions.
On Monday, Washington
unexpectedly ceased to offer its support to the attempts...
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As African Union (AU) leaders meeting in Egypt continued to debate a solution to Zimbabwe's political crisis white farmers in the country continued to be chased off their farms, despite an order from a regional court protecting them from eviction.AU heads of state were meeting for a second day in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh...
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 The U.N. warned Tuesday that post-election violence in Zimbabwe was
rising to near crisis levels ahead of a planned presidential run-off, with
opposition supporters enduring the brunt of attacks, AFP reports. The statement
followed opposition leader’s Morgan Tsvangirai move to return home to contest
the election with veteran...
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 Kenya's parliament is set to open Tuesday for the first time since
flawed presidential elections last month touched off a wave of violence
in the usually peaceful country that has killed at least 575 people,
according to the Kenyan Red Cross Society.
The opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is set to take its
seats...
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 Rival politicians traded accusations of inciting violence Wednesday, as
unrest sparked by disputed presidential polls continued across Kenya,
leaving at least 300 people dead.
President Mwai Kibaki and defeated opposition candidate Raila
Odinga blamed each other for the brutal violence that has seen nearly
300 people killed since...
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 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner Sunday amid reignited
violence around the country after a tight, tense race was marred by
allegations of fraud.
As Kibaki's supporters celebrated in the capital Nairobi,
pro-opposition protesters countrywide took to the streets charging the
vote was rigged.
Leaders had appealed...
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 The war crimes trial of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, was postponed by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to allow Taylor's new defense team more time to prepare. The trial was set to start on Monday, but the Court only held a hearing to decide whether to allow the postponement.The new court date is January 7, 2008....
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TSG Hoffenheim added a "playing ugly" attitude to their flair to earn a 1-1 draw on Sunday against Schalke 04, a result good enough to see the newcomers go into the winter break top of the Bundesliga standings ahead of champions Bayern Munich.
Selim Teber's curling free-kick in the 72nd minute cancelled out Schalke's lead in...
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Spanish giants Atletico Madrid announced on Monday that they would travel to Marseille, for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique just hours ahead of the kickoff.
Like most European teams, Atletico normally travel the day before the game, in order to get used to the city, the stadium and the weather.
This time,...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Austrian Benjamin Raich goes into the new alpine season - which starts on the weekend in the Austrian town of Soelden - looking for a second overall World Cup title.
The 30-year-old, who has also won 30 World Cup races, however, is aware that even though he is one of the favourites, he is far from guaranteed to repeat...
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At least three people died, two were missing and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The typhoon destroyed 7,915 houses and affected some five million people in Guangdong province, where all the casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news...
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Finland held a national day of mourning and flags were at half-mast Wednesday, a day after a 22-year-old man killed 10 people at a trade school in western Finland.
Police believe that the gunman, whom they identified as Matti Juhani Saari, acted alone. He had apparently planned the massacre since 2002, police said Wednesday.
Saari,...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners in Thursday's first-round first-leg matches.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup).
After being...
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At least two persons were killed and 18 people injured in the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan which was shaken on Wednesday by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake, a local official said.
Yasser Hazbavi, head of the provincial natural disaster headquarters, was quoted by Khabar news network as saying that rescue team were at the site and...
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Surprise package Hoffenheim will be aiming to keep their place at the top of the Bundesliga when they visit Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
The newly-promoted village club are the only side with maximum points following two victories without conceding a goal, and Leverkusen coach Bruno Labbadia warns that the good start is no...
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No one expected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, which ended Tuesday, to result in a breakthrough in the peace process, so no one was disappointed.
A breakthrough is always possible in the peace negotiations, which resumed around the turn of the year, after a seven-year...
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Bayern Munich bosses are remaining calm as the Bundesliga champions look for a first league win under new coach Juergen Klinsmann, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
"We have complete patience. We are convinced that we have the right man in Juergen Klinsmann and that we are on the right road," he told Bavarian...
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A United Nations investigative team has found that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in a US-led coalition air raid in western Afghanistan last week, the top UN envoy in the country said Tuesday.
The team "found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses and others that some 90 civilians were...
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China on Monday celebrated the Beijing Olympics as a "glorious success," while rest of the world saw the Games as a demonstration of the potential of an aspiring global power.
"China secured its position as a world power with the Olympic Games in Beijing," the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun said in a commentary at...
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Germany looked strong Friday at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, as they took two of the first four gold medals on offer for the day.
They won the women's kayak four (K4) 500m and the kayak two (K2) 1,000m, while Briton Tim Brabants won the kayak single (K1) over 1,000m and Attila Sandor Vajda from Hungary took gold in the...
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Argentina on Tuesday won their first-ever Olympic cycling medal when they won men's madison race at the Beijing Olympics ahead of Spain, while Britain's Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton took the sprint titles.
In the madison race, Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez beat Joan Llaneras and Antonio Tauler into second place...
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Paul Goodison claimed Great Britain's third sailing gold of the Beijing Games with victory in the men's Laser category Tuesday while American Anna Tunnicliffe won the women's Laser Radial.
Goodison made up for the disappointment of finishing fourth in Athens four years ago by holding on to his lead in the 10th and final race, winning...
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The glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to China's face when the Russian competed in the Olympic pole vault just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night in which Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase domination from world champion Brimin...
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Coach Marcello Lippi is back in the fray after a two-year rest to begin a second stint at the helm of world champions Italy.
He rejoins the national team, which he steered to a fourth World Cup in 2006, for a friendly with Austria on Wednesday in the French seaside town of Nice.
A month and a half after being called back to replace...
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is recovering from heart surgery in the United States, his office announced on Thursday.
The 74-year-old president had been treated in a hospital in Rochester in the US state of Minnesota. He had been released from hospital but was still recovering in the US, his office said in a statement.
"The...
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Bayern Munich expect new coach Juergen Klinsmann to deliver a 22nd German league title when the Bundesliga season begins for the league and cup winners at home to SV Hamburg on Friday.
Bayern start the Bundesliga's 46th season as clear favourites but the change of coach from the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld to 44-year-old Klinsmann,...
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This day in Olympic history: August 12.
1984 - Carlos Lopes wins the marathon for Portugal at the Los Angeles Games. It was his country's first-ever Olympic gold medal and he won it in an Olympic record time of two hours nine minutes and 21 seconds.
Lopes had originally wanted to become a footballer, but his father did not like the...
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 According to a new study released today by a team of
scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Center
for Health Research in Portland,
Ore., a notebook and your
keenness in keeping the evidence of your daily meals may be the key to losing
weight and having a healthier lifestyle.
The report was published in the American Journal...
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Venus Williams may be heading into tennis orbit after winning her fifth Wimbledon title.
'It puts you in the stratosphere, to be honest, just because of what
this tournament means,' said the American who came third time lucky
against her younger sister Serena in the weekend title match at the All
England club. 'If I'd had...
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 Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, who left
classified papers in an insecure area, has resigned, according to a statement
made Monday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper did not reveal what the documents were about or where they were left. But
a government source disclosed last night that they were NATO summit...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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 According to researchers, some viruses being used in experimental AIDS
vaccines may damage the immune system by exhausting key cells. The result was
reported on Thursday in a finding that may further cloud the field of HIV
vaccines.
They said vaccines using the viruses should not be tested on people until
more studies are...
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 According to a recent study, swearing regularly at work can
boost team spirit and help get rid of stress along with social relationships
and better expression of feelings.
Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University
of East Anglia, and
graduate Stuart Jenkins studied the use of profanity in the workplace...
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 According to a large international consortium made up of
Stephan C. Schuster and Webb Miller of Penn State,
hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient DNA, better source than bones
and muscle for studying the genome sequences of extinct animals.
Their research achievements are to be released publicly in a
paper in the Science...
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the 191st day of 2007 with 174 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; American painter James Whistler in 1834; brewer...
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 The International Security Assistance Force wasn’t very pleased when Afghan authorities communicated the death toll from the latest airstrikes, saying “less than a dozen” civilians died during Friday’s air raids. Major John Thomas, ISAF spokesman said “significant” fatalities were recorded among the civilian population, but the figures...
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David Beckham gave a hint of his marketing skills and image powers on his first Italian weekend, partly upstaging the Serie A's other football stars when he was presented as AC Milan's new arrival.
His new side's 5-1 win over Udinese in the last game of 2008 and the massive media coverage of his presentation Sunday evening were the...
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Three weeks ago, Sevilla tried to bring Barcelona down to earth - and were hammered 3-0 at home.
Two weeks ago, Valencia tried to do the same - and crashed 4-0 in the Camp Nou.
Last Saturday came the turn of Real Madrid - who lost 2-0 in the Catalan capital.
All of which has prompted the following question in Spain: is there any...
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Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted to dissenting voices in the national team squad but still feels the Euro 2008 finalists can look back "positively overall" on the year.
Apart from the run to the final in the summer, where they lost 1-0 to Spain, Loew also pointed to his side's confident start to the 2010 World Cup...
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Sevilla jumped above Villarreal into third place in the Spanish Liga on Sunday with a somewhat fortunate 1-0 defeat of the "Yellow Submarine."
Sevilla were the beneficiaries of two crucial refereeing decisions. Just before half-time, Renato scored the only goal despite being offside when set up by Frederic Kanoute and...
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Brazilian striker Amauri notched a brace late Sunday to help Juventus beat AC Milan 4-2 to remain alone in second place six points behind Serie A leaders Inter Milan, who earlier beat tail- enders Chievo by the same scoreline.
Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic also scored a brace to move the defending champions on to 39 points from 16...
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Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann has called for former Germany defender Markus Babbel to be allowed to obtain his coaching badge on a special coaching course.
Klinsmann said an exception should be made for 36-year-old Babbel, a former Germany and Bayern Munich team-mate who has taken over as coach of VfB Stuttgart.
Under...
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Serie A side Catania have renewed the contract of coach Walter Zenga until the end of the 2009/2010 season, the Sicily club's web site said Thursday.
Zenga, 48, last season rescued Catania from relegation after taking the helm with seven games left. In the current season, his team sits comfortably at mid-table on 22 points from 15...
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Two straight defeats and the failure to secure first place in their Champions League qualification group have not dented the confidence of Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.
"The true bad luck will be also for the first team of another group, who will have to tackle a team like Inter (in the tournament's knockout stage),"...
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Five teams are fighting for the last three places in the knockout stage of the Champions League when the last group matches take place on Wednesday and Thursday.
There is also plenty at stake for clubs now out of contention in the Champions League but seeking UEFA Cup participation as third-place finishers in their groups.
Roma,...
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Glasgow (dpa) - Diego Maradona has dismissed suggestions that his Argentina team struggled to a 1-0 friendly international victory over Scotland in his first game in charge.
Maxi Rodriguez scored the only goal of the game Wednesday evening after eight minutes at the end of a slick passing move involving Carlos Tevez and Jonas...
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Fiji embarrassed visiting New Zealand with a 2-0 win in Oceania's final World Cup qualifier on Wednesday night.
It was the New Zealanders' first defeat after five wins in the Oceania Nations Cup had already qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South Africa in June 2009 and a World Cup playoff against an Asian team later next...
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Spain manager Vicente del Bosque has won applause by calling up young strikers Fernando Llorente and Juan Mata for Wednesday's friendly against Chile.
Llorente, 23, is the tall and angular centre-forward for struggling Athletic Bilbao, strong in the air though not a natural goalscorer.
Mata, 20, in contrast, is small and...
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Bernd Schuster has reportedly been told by Real Madrid to win in Valladolid on Saturday or start packing his bags.
Madrid sports dailies AS and Marca said on Wednesday that Real have lost confidence in their controversial German coach after a shock cup elimination against third division side Union Irun the previous night.
Real beat...
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Their standing in the Serie A may not show it clearly, but champions Inter Milan are facing some unexpected problems in a defence package that was crucial for them in the successes of the past seasons.
The five goals conceded in the last two games, a 3-2 win over tail-enders Reggina and a 3-3 draw at Cypriot side Anorthosis, sent bad...
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Wednesday will be a very important night for Real Madrid.
That is when the Spanish giants will be trying to turn the tables on their Euro jinx team of recent years, Juventus of Turin, in the week's most high-profile Champions League game.
At the same time, Real will be trying to go back on top of Group H.
"The Old...
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Bayern Munich's Argentina defender Martin Demichelis is delighted about the choice of living legend Diego Maradona as new national team coach.
"Maradona is the biggest football idol we have in football. He is football-crazy. He thinks and lives football every day," the 16-times capped Demichelis told Munich's club website...
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Brazilian football legend Pele made clear his scepticism as to the likelihood that Diego Maradona might be successful as coach of Argentina's senior team.
"Great stars, great players do not usually make good coaches. And sometimes a footballer that was not so brilliant in his career becomes a great coach," Pele noted, in...
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The appointment of football legend Diego Maradona to the post of coach to Argentina's national team coach was met with cautious surprise by fans in the football-crazy South American country.
While Maradona's past talent as a footballer is never questioned, many are casting doubts on his ability to coach the senior team, based on his...
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Former Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona has been named coach of the country's national team despite a lack of experience as trainer at a time when Argentina has struggled in World Cup qualifiers.
"Now the real work begins," Maradona said.
His appointment followed a meeting Tuesday that Maradona and former...
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Not long ago 1899 Hoffenheim were campaigning in the German fifth division in front of a few dozen fans.
On Sunday a capacity crowd of 26,300 will be in the Carl-Benz- Stadion in Mannheim to see the club take on Bundesliga table-toppers SV Hamburg.
But what makes the story so remarkable is not that before the start of the season...
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Liverpool have three fresh injury doubts ahead of Sunday's top of the table meeting with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge,
Already without striker Fernando Torres, who suffered a hamstring injury while on international duty with Spain last week, they could also find themselves missing forward Robbie Keane and midfielders Steven Gerrard and...
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