MADRID - Barcelona's fourth La Liga title in five seasons -- and the 22nd of their history -- was confirmed on Saturday after Real Madrid could only manage a 1-1 draw with Espanyol.Espanyol took advantage of Jose Mourinho resting a host of first team players in the first half ahead of Real's Copa ...

BARCELONA - Formula One returns home this weekend for the first European race of the 2013 season with a familiar scenario unfolding amid hopes of an upset to match last year's unexpected dramas at the Spanish Grand Prix. Defending triple world champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull, who was ...

  BARCELONA     Rafael Nadal extended his record number of Barcelona titles to eight as he brushed off a slow start to beat Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday. Last weekend's Monte Carlo runner-up regained his accustomed position on an ATP winner's podium with his ...

  BARCELONA     Rafael Nadal led the way with a 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 defeat of Frenchman Benoit Paire on Friday, as the Barcelona Open completed rain-delayed matches from the previous 24 hours and prepared to start the quarter-final ties. Nadal, the seven-time champion seeded second, ...

MADRID - Barcelona extended their advantage at the top of La Liga to 12 points with an easy 6-1 win over Getafe on Sunday. The game was over as a contest inside 13 minutes as Alexis Sanchez slotted home from Andres Iniesta's through ball before Lionel Messi fired in his 46th goal of the season. ...

MADRID (AFP) - Lionel Messi closed in on Gerd Mueller's scoring mark as Barcelona crushed Athletic Bilbao 5-1 to set a new record for the best ever start to a La Liga season and stay 11 points clear of Real Madrid.Defending champions Real edged city rivals Atletico 2-0 with Cristiano Ronaldo on ...

BARCELONA  - Mexico's Sergio Perez, in a Sauber, set the fastest time on the third day of Formula One testing on Saturday as rain brought an early finish to proceedings at Montmelo.Perez clocked 1min 22.094sec after completing 114 laps, with McLaren's Jenson Button in second place after just ...

LONDON - At the annual Laureus ceremony, Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic was named Sportsman of the Year and Kenyan distance runner Vivian Cheruiyot Sportswoman of the Year.Djokovic enjoyed one of the best years of any player in the history of professional tennis in 2011, winning three of the ...

Lionel Messi's exploits with Barcelona won him the World Player of the Year award for an unprecedented third year in a row on Monday at the age of 24. The Argentine swept home with 47.88 percent of the votes in the survey among national team coaches, captains and selected media, receiving the ...

KARACHI - Turkish Airlines, official sponsor of FC Barcelona, has carried the last champion of Europe with the players of FC Barcelona Football Players branded aircraft on Sunday at 13:00 from London to Barcelona, says a press release. During the flight, football players and managers of FC ...

BARCELONA (Agencies) - Barcelona extended its unbeaten run to a club-record 28 games, strolling to a 4-1 win over Malaga to open up a four-point lead in the Spanish league after second-place Real Madrid drew 1-1 at last-place Almeria. Andres Iniesta, David Villa and Pedro Rodriguez scored in the ...

MADRID (Agencies) - Pedro Rodriguez netted a brace as champions Barcelona started 2011 with a nervy 2-1 home win over Levante on Sunday to move five points clear of Real Madrid at the Spanish first division summit. Pedro struck on 47 and 59 minutes to clinch an 11th successive league victory for ...

MADRID (AFP) Spain World Cup star David Villa scored a 49th minute winner as Barcelona beat Sporting Gijon 1-0 on Wednesday to record their first league win of the season at the Camp Nou. Villa, 28, began his career at hometown club Gijon in 1999 and, in the absence of the injured Lionel Messi, ...

BARCELONA (AFP) Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was denied a place in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open as the third seed lost Friday to Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in a two-hour struggle. Tsonga, bidding for the first clay title of his career, was unable to continue his reversal of ...

LAHORE Aisam and Filip Polasek of Slovakia had to dig themselves out of a deep pit to bring home a well-deserved win over local favourite, an All Spanish pair of Alberto Martin and Fernando Vicente, in the opening round of the prestigious ATP Barcelona Tennis Championship which is being played on ...

MADRID (AFP) Barcelona followed up their impressive win over Real Madrid five nights ago with a convincing 3-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruna on Wednesday to go six points clear of Real at La Liga summit. After scoring against Real, winger Pedro Rodriguez was on the scoresheet again with a ...

MADRID (AFP) Champions Barcelona bushed aside Athletic Bilbao 4-1 on Saturday to return to the top of La Liga and open a three-point gap on Real Madrid who they face next week in 'El Clasico. Barcelona have a decisive week ahead of them with the Champions League quarter-final second leg at home to ...

MADRID (AFP) Lionel Messi scored a sensational hat-trick as champions Barcelona nudged Real Madrid off the top of the table crushing Tenerife 5-0 away on Sunday for their first victory of 2010. Barca scored three times in a destructive nine minutes with Ballon DOr winner Messi scoring two of them ...

MADRID (AFP) - US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey celebrated her 55th birthday by taking over a popular tourist attraction in Barcelona to hold a party for 1,700 of her employees and their families, Spanish media said Monday. The fiesta Sunday night at the Poble Espanyol, a reconstruction of a ...

MADRID (AFP) - Sergio Aguero's late goal helped Atletico Madrid come from behind to beat Barcelona 4-3 on Sunday and blow the Spanish title race wide open. Barcelona, who led 2-0 and 3-2, have now failed to win in four matches and have seen their lead over Real Madrid cut from 12 points, just ...

KARACHI - PIA is going to start direct flights to Barcelona (Spain) soon aprt from resuming its flights to Stansted (England) in near future, sources told The Nation. Sources said that PIA Planning Dept was working on the opening of a new route to Barcelona, Spain, to increase its operational ...

Prime Minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Chief of the Army Staff, General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani and President of ANP, Asfandyar Wali Khan called on President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday and discussed with him prevailing law and order situation in the country. In a meeting at Aiwan-e-Sadr, General ...

Iraqi forces launched a major hunt for Al-Qaeda gunmen in the restive province of Diyala on Thursday after 35 people were killed in an ambush of a police convoy. Wednesday's attack, which saw the entire patrol wiped out, was one of the deadliest against police in recent months despite massive ...

National Assembly session will begin at 5:00 pm today (Wednesday). Ruling coalition members in the National Assembly on Tuesday called for former president Pervez Musharraf's trial under Article 6 while opposition members asked the government to move on by setting aside the past and asked ruling ...