ROME - World number one Serena Williams swept Belarusian Victoria Azarenka aside 6-1, 6-3 to win the Rome Open title on Sunday. Williams broke Azarenka's serve three times in a one-sided first set and despite a tighter second set the American prevailed to stretch her career-best winning streak to ...

ROMERafael Nadal set up a potential Rome Masters final with Swiss rival Roger Federer after dominating Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals on Saturday. Berdych had caused the first major upset of the tournament when he ousted world number one Novak Djokovic on Friday.However, despite an ...

During Nawaz Sharif's first tenure as Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif was admitted into Services Hospital for a minor surgery. My father was serving as MS Services Hospital at the time; he gave Shahbaz Sharif two ‘VVIP’ rooms. That wasn't enough for him, my father was asked to vacate the ...

AUGUSTA  - Adam Scott sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Angel Cabrera and win the 77th Masters, becoming the first Australian golfer to capture the green jacket.Nine months after making bogeys on the last four holes to squander a British Open lead at Royal ...

AUGUSTA - Brandt Snedeker of the United States and Angel Cabrera of Argentina shared the lead at seven-under par 209 after the third round of the Masters on Saturday. Snedeker opened on four under, two back from 36-hole leader Jason Day of Australia, and he parred the first 12 holes before ...

AUGUSTA - A Masters second round that tested how top golfers handle adversity Friday saw Tiger Woods stumble, Jason Day take the lead and teen Guan Tianlang make the cut despite a rare slow-play penalty. Day, hoping to be Australia's first Masters champion, shot a four-under par 68 to stand on ...

AUGUSTA - Australia's Marc Leishman and Sergio Garcia of Spain shared the lead at the 77th Masters on Thursday after both shot six-under 66s in the first round at Augusta National.Leishman had set the early pace, sparked by four birdies in a row from the 13th, but Garcia matched him late in the day ...

AUGUSTA - Sweden's Carl Pettersson set the early pace as the 77th Masters got underway Thursday with all eyes on Tiger Woods as he looked to seal a remarkable return to the top with another major title.The burly Pettersson, playing in his fifth Masters, birdied Augusta National's opening two holes ...

AUGUSTA  - Tiger Woods was practicing at the Masters driving range on Monday when up walked 14-year-old Chinese prodigy Guan Tianlang, greeting the superstar player who had inspired him to start golfing.Guan asked Woods to autograph his cap and in addition to doing that, Woods invited Guan ...

SAN ANTONIO - Martin Laird punched his ticket to The Masters by firing a closing round of nine-under 63 to capture the PGA Tour’s Texas Open by two strokes on Sunday.The 30-year-old Scotsman matched the course record and snapped a USA win streak on the PGA Tour that dates back to last season. ...

SAN ANTONIO  - With the season's first major just around the corner Rory McIlroy figured that adding the Texas Open to his schedule would be the best way to help him polish his game."I feel like all the components of my game are there," McIlroy said. "It is just a matter of putting it all ...

MIAMI - Pakistani tennis player Aisamul Haq Qureshi dedicated his first ATP Master 1000 title of the year to his country and the people, after winning the men’s doubles final at the Sony Open in Miami Saturday night. Aisam and his dutch partner Jean-Julien Rojer, seeded number five, ...

ISLAMABAD - Top eight players of the country were seen in action in the PTF Master Cup 2013 (Men's) tennis event here at Senator Dilawar Abbas PTF Tennis Complex on Wednesday.PTF selected top 8 players Aqeel Khan (Karachi), Yasir Khan (Karachi), M Abid (Lahore), Sanaullah Khan (Peshawar), Heera ...

DAYTONA BEACH - After lengthy rain delays and a freak fuel fire accident, Matt Kenseth emerged as the Daytona 500 champion on Monday, holding off Dale Earnhardt Jr on the final lap to win an incident-packed race under floodlights.Kenseth, in a Ford, was helped by his Roush Fenway team mate Greg ...

Rafael Nadal was ousted in the third round of the Shanghai Masters by Germany's Florian Mayer, 7-6 (5), 6-3. The 15th-seeded German ran down a drop shot and flicked it past Nadal at the net to break the top-seeded Spaniard for the second time and win the match. Nadal lost in the third round in ...

A Milton Keynes man who spent 12 years learning how to speak Klingon says its helped him deal with his dyslexia. Jonathan Brown, 50, is now the chief linguist on a CD teaching others how to master the alien language from Star Trek. It helped me identify my problem and found a way of working with my ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has granted equivalence to ACCA qualification to a Masters level degree. A circular issued by HEC states that: HEC recognizes the membership of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) after completion of ...

AUGUSTA (Reuters) - South African Charl Schwartzel birdied the last four holes to clinch his first major title with a two-stroke victory at the Masters, ending a stunning afternoon of brilliant shot-making. Schwartzel, who began the final round at Augusta National four strokes off the pace, rolled ...

HUA HIN (Thailand) (AFP) - Japan's Tetsuji Hiratsuka claimed his third title of the season Sunday when he won the 600,000-dollar Black Mountain Masters after a play-off against Thai youngster Namchoak Tantipokakul. Hiratsuka triumphed in the Asian Tour's season-finale at the Black Mountain Golf ...

ONE is at a loss to express reaction over the assertions of German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she vomited venom against Pakistan, in an attempt to appease her American masters and also her Indian guest, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Her 'vision that Pakistan is using terrorism to solve ...

LAHORE - The Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust on Wednesday dismissed as biased and concocted a news item published by daily Pakistan Today about the construction of Aiwan-i-Quaid-i-Azam in Jauhar Town, and explained the need and importance of the project for the future generations. We believe those ...

Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next week's Paris Masters due to a minor case of tendinitis in his left shoulder, the world number one said. The Spaniard, who has had serious problems with tendinitis in his knees over the past few years, said he sustained the injury practicing his serve at home in ...

ISLAMABAD When nation was still in a state of shock over brutal killing of two youngsters in Sialkot yet another shocking incident took place in the federal capital on Monday where a 12-year-old servant was subjected to callous torture by his masters and even they rolled heated iron on boys body, ...

PETALING JAYA (Malaysia) (AFP) Angelo Que of the Philippines claimed a thrilling play-off victory over Englands Chris Rodgers at the 300,000-dollar Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters for his third Asian Tour title on Saturday. The 31-year-old Que outlasted a battling Rodgers with a par at the ...

AUGUSTA (Georgia) (AFP) Italian schoolboy Matteo Manasero produced more record-breaking exploits at the Masters on Thursday, becoming the youngest player in the history of the event to make the halfway cut. Ten days shy of his 17th birthday, the amateur from Verona added a battling second-round ...

AUGUSTA (Georgia) (AFP) Tiger Woods will have an afternoon tee time alongside South Korean K.J. Choi and fellow American Matt Kuchar in Thursdays opening round of the Masters, officials announced Tuesday. Woods, playing competitively for the first time in nearly five months in the wake of a sex ...

MIAMI (AFP) Sixth-seeded American Andy Roddick ended the giant-killing run of Czech Tomas Berdych to secure the Miami ATP Masters 1000 title Sunday. One break of serve in each set was enough for Roddick, who didnt face a break point in the entire match which he won 7-5, 6-4. Its a surprising stat, ...

AUGUSTA (Georgia) (AFP) Tiger Woods will face his first extended public questioning over a devastating sex scandal on Monday in a dramatic start to a tension-packed comeback week of golf at the Masters. Reporters from around the world will have the chance to seek details about the early morning ...

MELBOURNE (AFP) Tiger Woods stretched his lead to three strokes with another imperious display in the second round of the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath here on Friday. The peerless world number one carded an unblemished round of four birdies to dominate the second round and head into the ...

EVIAN LES BAINS (France) (AFP) - Japan's Ai Miyazato claimed her first LPGA title on Sunday when she defeated Sweden's Sophie Gustafson at the first extra hole of a sudden-death play-off in the Evian Masters. Miyazato, who won 12 titles on the Japanese LPGA tour and became a superstar in her ...