The London Stock Exchange holds fresh meetings with its two suitors next week when Deutsche Bourse and Euronext flesh out their rival approaches to take over Europe's biggest equity market. Deutsche Bourse will meet with

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Michael Clarke is hoping his first home-town Test over the New Year will bring a return to batting form against Pakistan. The 23-year-old batting prodigy is keenly looking forward to playing in his first Sydney

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Next month's Australian Open and its seven lead-up tennis tournaments will raise funds to help the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, Tennis Australia (TA) said on Friday. TA said the tournaments, the first of

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Australia's cricketers on Thursday proposed an international match to raise funds for tsunami victims but said the event depended on co-operation from cricket bodies. Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland met players' representatives and ICC

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It's a New Year's Test of stark contrasts: Pakistan are scratching to come up with a team while Australia are blessed with options after naming a 13-man squad for the final Sydney cricket Test getting

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Spinner Ashley Giles says England, who won 11 of 13 test matches and drew the other two in 2004, will not rest on their laurels next year. "We haven't sat down and discussed the success

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Back in the bosom of his family, Lleyton Hewitt is gunning for Australian success. Still licking his wounds after the recent split from fiancée Kim Clijsters, the former world number one has gone back to

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England captain Michael Vaughan pledged that his team would seek to carry over their triumphant form of 2004 into the new year after they came within two wickets of a ninth successive victory on a

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Stuart MacGill should join forces with master leg-spinner Shane Warne to bamboozle Pakistan in the final Sydney cricket Test, Warne's mentor Terry Jenner said on Friday. But the former Test leg-spinner doubts that will happen

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has pledged 10 million rupees (approximately $230,000) for relief for tsunami victims in India. Copyright Reuters, 2005