TAIPEI - China's Olympic champion and world number one Li Xuerui and fellow Chinese players dominated the Badminton Asia Championships semi-finals on Saturday in Taipei. Li was locked in a tight fight with Japan's Sayaka Takahashi until she claimed a wider lead in the third game to win 21-18, ...

NYON, Switzerland - The prospect of an all-German or an all-Spanish European Champions League final next month remains alive after Friday's semi-final draw.But with the Spanish and German teams kept apart when European football's governing body UEFA made the draw for the last four, the Wembley ...

Sri Lanka have qualified for the tri-series finals against Australia after beating the home side by nine runs in a dramatic finish to Friday's one-day clash at the MCG. The result means MS Dhoni's world champions India finish last in the tri-series standings and miss the finals. Acting captain ...

HOBART  - Pushed to the very brink of elimination, a demoralised India face an arduous task of beating Sri Lanka with a bonus point to have any remote chance of qualifying to the final of the cricket tri-series when the two sides clash on Tuesday.Barely left standing on their feet after a ...

LONDON  - World number one Nicol David captured the World Series Finals title on Sunday when the Malaysian star defeated Ireland's Madeline Perry 11-9, 11-9, 11-9 in the Queen's Club final.David dropped just one game all week -- in the semi-finals against Laura Massaro -- and she was too ...

HYDERABAD The Sprite Cricket Next Hyderabad city championship finals were held with great pomp at Mehran Ground, Preetabad, says a press release. First launched in 2010; this is the second season of Sprite Cricket Next, an innovative campaign that aims to unearth hidden talent and pick the best ...

lahore - PAF and PHF Academy qualified for the final of the National Tray Hockey Championship now in progress at Faisalabad, according to information received here Saturday. PAF defeated Punjab 3-2 in the semi-final. Khaliq, Zeeshan (PC) and Mushtaq (PC) scored for the airmen. Punjab's scorers ...

KARACHI Azher Abdul Qadir had the better of Maheen Dada 8-7 in the best-of-one-set semi-final of under-13 singles of the Sindh Junior Ranking Tennis here the other day. In the final, he will meet Hasan Farooq who defeated Marib Malik 8-5 in the other semi-final. In under-15 event, Talha Zubair ...

LAHORE Hammad Riaz of Lahore won the finals of the nationwide campaign of the Pakistan Racer Hunt that was held at the prestigious Bahria Town in Lahore. Over 500 contestants from across the nation took part in the activity conducted by Racing Pakistan in an effort to promote motorsport in the ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) A goal by Rory Fallon just before half-time and some heroic goalkeeping by Mark Paston secured New Zealands ticket to next years World Cup as they squeezed past Bahrain 1-0 here on Saturday. In a match billed as the biggest sporting event ever staged in New Zealand, the single ...

At least 30 Taliban were killed in the fierce fighting with the security forces at Kabal here. ISPR said that the security forces operation, which continued against the local Taliban, resulted in the death of 30 Taliban at Tehsil Kabal in the district of Swat. Curfew in Tehsil Kabal would remain ...