Tennis: Safina backs out of Dubai date
World No. 2 Dinara Safina has been forced to pull out of next week’s Dubai Tennis Championships due to her ongoing back problems.
Federal authorities in Argentina are investigating the death of a key witness in a human rights trial that started Tuesday, the official news agency reported.
Roger Federer came from a set down to beat Fernando Verdasco in their ATP Tour finals opener on Sunday night. Earlier, home hope Andy Murray beat U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro.
Defending champion Serena Williams swept into the Australian Open third round with a 6-2 6-1 win over unseeded teenager Petra Kvitova in little over an hour on Thursday.
England captain John Terry braves the public eye despite continuing revelations about his private life, but his table-topping Chelsea team are held to a shock 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened Hull City.
Manny Pacquiao returned home to a hero’s welcome in his native Philippines on Friday after wresting the WBO welterweight title from Miguel Cotto on a 12th round technical knockout in Las Vegas.
It was once a proud center of learning, a bastion of Creole language and culture. But now students say that their potential for knowledge, like so many of their classmates, is buried under the rubble of The Faculty of Applied Linguistics in Port-au-Prince Haiti.
Rescue workers struggled to clear rubble and bodies Wednesday from the streets of Haiti’s “flattened” capital, where a government official said the death toll from Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake may exceed 100,000.
Monday, January 18
Motor Sport’s governing body, the FIA, formally confirm the entry list for the 2010 Formula One season — with potential newcomers US F1 omitted from the grid.
Honduras’ de facto President Roberto Micheletti said he has lifted a controversial emergency decree that had limited some civil liberties.
American Ryan Palmer birdied the last two holes to snatch the halfway lead at the Sony Open in Hawaii.
Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday he regretted the death of a prisoner after a prolonged hunger strike, even as human rights activists reported 30 people were detained on the way to the dissident’s funeral.
Sure, Luke Mescher felt a trembling fear when the walls around him started to shake Saturday, but standing around confused and scared wasn’t an option.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is expected to break one of his golden rules by re-signing former England defender Sol Campbell.
Ten-man Germany score the winning goal in the second minute of injury time to beat Nigeria 3-2 and secure a quarterfinal showdown with Brazil at the under-20 World Cup in Egypt.