Cricket: Steyn shreds Indian line-up
South Africa pace bowler Dale Steyn ripped through India’s batsmen on the third day of the first cricket Test in Nagpur, taking eight wickets as the hosts were forced to follow on.
Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor has labeled as “outrageous” the controversial decision to ban his side from the next two Africa Cup of Nations.
So many doctors are answering Haiti’s call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem: organizing and finding good use for them all.
Barcelona star Lionel Messi was named FIFA World Player of the Year in Zurich on Monday, capping a remarkable 2009 for the Argentina star.
A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, killing at least 122 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin.
Hungary are through to the under-20 World Cup semifinals after a dramatic 3-2 victory over Italy in Suez in a match which saw four players sent off, three for the Italians, the official FIFA Web site has reported.
Six-time former major champion Nick Faldo tells CNN that “big” questions surrounding the future of Tiger Woods still remain.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest college and professional basketball players of all time, says he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer.
A federal appeals court in Argentina has ruled that a grandmother must stand trial for growing two marijuana plants in her backyard.
In the country that ranks second in the harvest of coca, the plant whose leaves are used in the production of cocaine, the idea to get Peruvian farmers to plant alternative crops is not new.
Ghana overcome the first-half dismissal of Daniel Addo to defeat Brazil 4-3 on penalties in the U-20 World Cup final in Cairo — becoming the first African side to ever win the tournament.
Five days after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the fear of going back inside has subsided. But the plazas and the parks are still full.
Five people were rescued Sunday from the rubble of a grocery store, officials told CNN, 24 hours after the effort to reach them began.
Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger rescued a point for Bayern Munich as the German Bundesliga leaders were held to a 1-1 draw by Cologne which saw their lead at the top of the table cut to just two points on Saturday.
Sunderland’s Anton Ferdinand is desolate after his injury-time own goal which salvages a point for English Premier League leaders Manchester United in a 2-2 draw at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori pleaded guilty to charges of illegal wiretapping and embezzling government money to bribe politicians and journalists to support his 2000 re-election campaign, the official Andina news agency reported.