MALMOE - Twenty-year-old barefoot singer Emmelie de Forest was the toast of Denmark Sunday after winning this year's Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of MalmoeHer song, "Only Teardrops" confirmed its status as the bookmakers' favourite to register a comfortable win at Saturday night's ...

  SHEFFIELD   Ronnie O'Sullivan outclassed Barry Hawkins 18-12 on Monday to win his fifth world snooker championship and become only the third man to claim back-to-back titles at the Crucible Theatre. The 37-year-old Englishman, returning to the sport after a year-long absence, showed no ...

WILLIAMSBURG- World number one Park In-Bee and defending champion Shin Jiyai headline a stellar field for the $1.3 million LPGA Kingsmill Championship. All of the top-10 players in the world rankings are competing as the LPGA plays its first tournament on the US East Coast this season. Shin won ...

LONDON: Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca seized the title of the world’s best restaurant from Denmark’s Noma on Monday, one month after dozens of people came down with a bout of food poisoning from the Copenhagen eatery. The restaurant in Girona, run by three brothers and known for ...

AUGUSTA - Ted Potter set the stage for the 77th Masters by winning the traditional eve-of-tournament Par-3 Contest on Wednesday, while tennis star Caroline Wozniacki provided comic relief.The 29-year-old American debutant carded a five-under 22 on the nine-hole par-three layout, which lies adjacent ...

RANCHO MIRAGE  - South Korea’s Inbee Park claimed her fifth LPGA Tour title and second major championship with a closing round of three-under 69 to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship by four strokes.The 24-year-old Park, who also won the 2008 US Women’s Open, blitzed the field on ...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has died in Geneva, Saudi state television said on Saturday, citing a royal court statement.Nayef, interior minister since 1975 and thought to be 78, was the heir to Saudi King Abdullah and was appointed crown prince in October after the death ...

KARACHI - ANISUDDIN KHAN - Second seed Thepchaiya Un-Nooh of Thailand pulled himself back from the brink to transform certain defeat into victory to clinch the Jubilee Insurance Seven-nation Snooker Championship crown here on Friday.Thepchaiya defeated current amateur world champion Hossein Vafaei ...

MEMPHIS - Red-hot Milos Raonic booked a finals showdown with Austrian Jurgen Melzer at the $1.37 million ATP and WTA Memphis Open. Canada's Raonic, seeking a third ATP title of the year, subdued Germany's Benjamin Becker 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 15 minutes. Melzer, meanwhile, defeated Czech third ...

KARACHI - Sterling M Asif of Punjab produced a dazzling cue control and potting to out-pot Sultan 8-2 in the final of Jubilee Insurance 37th National Snooker Championship on Thursday to regain the crown after two years.The 29-year-old from Faisalabad, Asif displayed impeccable potting and tactical ...

KARACHI – M Ishtiaq won the 20th Sindh Snooker Cup crown after surprising renowned international cueist Khurram Agha in a one-sided final by six frames to two here on Monday at Alys Parlour. M Ishtiaq  also won the top prize of Rs 25,000 while carving out 27-65, 80-35, 0-110, 69-40, ...

Kylie Minogue’s catchy dancefloor anthem Can’t Get You Out Of My Head has been named the new century’s most-played tune in a new radio poll. The 2001 song was famously rejected by singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor before Minogue made it a monster hit. Now it has beat out Britney ...

LAHORE – Mustafa Hanif and Faizan Ali batted Abbottabad to three-wicket victory over Quetta to clinch the PCB-PEPSI U-16 Cricket Tournament title here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday. Batting first, Quetta were bundled out for 125 runs all out in 36.4 overs. Mir Saeed made 24 with two ...

Anisuddin KhanKARACHI - Pakistan’s number one Aqeel Khan won the men’s singles UBL International Hard Court Tennis crown in an one-sided final when he defeated Abid Mushtaq in straight sets 6-1, 6-0 to bag winners purse of Rs 150,000, the highest ever prize given in a competition in ...

KARACHI - Cho Young Me, a South Korean residing in the city, with 39 points won the two-day Ponds ladies golf which concluded here on Sunday at Karachi Golf Club. There was a tie for second place between her compatriot Ahn Gui Ja and Japanese golfer Kazuyo Arae, both ended the 18-hole competition ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A special meeting was held at Darussalam head office in Riyadh to offer condolences over the demise of Saudi Crown Prince Amir Sultan bin Adbul Aziz. According to a press release issued by Darussalam here on Monday, while addressing the meeting Maulana Abdul Malik ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KA RACHI - Baqar Kamani won the Karachi Club Snooker Championship defeating Sajid Vali by four frames to two in the final here the other day at organisers own club. Baqar won the 56-76, 68-31, 80-31, 39- 67, 65-31, 59-24 to clinch Rs 8,000 as winner's purse while Sajid Ali ...

MIAMI (AFP) - Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks captured their first NBA championship Sunday with a 105-95 win over the Miami Heat -- the team that denied Dallas the title five years ago. Jason Terry scored 27 points and Nowitzki finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds as the Mavericks won the ...

MANILA (AFP) - Berry Henson of the United States held off a plucky late charge from local hope Jay Bayron to win his first Asian Tour title at the gruelling $300,000 ICTSI Philippine Open on Sunday. The Asian Tour rookie made a pivotal up-and-down for par on the last hole to close with one-over-par ...

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Manny Pacquiao easily defeated challenger Shane Mosley Saturday to retain his World Boxing Organization welterweight title and extend his fight win streak to 14 consecutive bouts. The 32-year-old Filipino pound-for-pound king knocked Mosley down with a straight left hand in the ...

LAHORE - Shahzad Hassan Sheikh of Friends Group became the president of Lahore Bar Association (LBA) by winning elections held on Saturday. He obtained 1,816 votes against his rival, Abdul Lateef Hanjra, who grabbed 1,658 votes. The counting of votes for the slots of vice-presidents and secretaries ...

.LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After seven rounds as an also-ran on the foreign theatrical circuit, Disney Animations Tangled finally nailed the No. 1 overseas box office spot with a weekend take of $26.3 million (16.9 million) - a mere $100,000 ahead of No. 2 The Tourist. First place openings in 10 ...

UEBEC CITY (AFP) - Bernard Hopkins declared he was robbed of becoming the oldest major world champion in boxing history Saturday when he had to settle for a majority draw against Haitian-born Canadian Jean Pascal. Pascal inflicted the first two knockdowns suffered by Hopkins in 16 years to keep his ...

OAKLAND (California) (AFP) American Andre Ward remained unbeaten and retained his World Boxing Association super-middleweight title Saturday with a hard-fought 12-round unanimous decision over Sakio Bika. Ward, fighting in front of his hometown crowd, improved to 23-0 as he looks toward a ...

TORONTO (AFP) Colorados Macoumba Kandji fired a shot that produced an over-time own goal in the 107th minute and gave the Rapids a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas in Sundays Major League Soccer Cup final. The Senegalese forward eluded a defender near the backline to the left of Dallas goalkeeper Kevin ...

LAHORE Crown Club moved to the third round of the 26th Muhammad Yaseen Akhter Memorial Cricket Tournament after beating Ghaziabad Sports by four wickets played here at Iqbal Park ground. Scores: Ghaziabad Sports: 120/9 in 20 overs (Azam 18, Tariq 13, Umer 10, Tajamal 26, Naqash 12, M Shoaib ...

A SPAT over Facebook photos led to the untimely dethroning of a beauty queen in New Zealand. 15 year old Olivia ONeal could have never imagined that she will have to give up the crown of Miss Teen Wanganui just months after winning the title. The problem started when the teenage pageant winner ...

WARSAW (AFP) Romanias Alexandra Dulgheru successfully defended her WTA Warsaw Open title by beating Chinese fifth seed Zheng Jie 6-3, 6-4 in the final here on Saturday. Unseeded Dulgheru had seen off Ukrainian seventh seed Kateryna Bondarenko, whose sister Alona she beat in last years final, in ...

ROME (AFP) Inter Milan followed up their passage into the Champions League final with a 2-0 defeat of Lazio on Sunday as Jose Mourinhos side edged closer to a fifth successive Serie A title. With just two games left, Inter restored their two-point lead over Roma, who won 2-1 at Parma on Saturday, ...

FRANKFURT (AFP) - China overtook Germany last year to become the worlds leading exporter as German trade suffered its sharpest slump since 1950, figures from Germanys national statistics office showed on Tuesday. According to information from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Chinese exports ...