Former champion Pakistan has confirmed its participation in 19th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament to be played from 8-16 May in Ipoh, Malaysia. According to a spokesman of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), the

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Ryan Harris took his second consecutive five-wicket haul as Australia won fourth one-day cricket international against Pakistan by 135 runs played in Perth on Friday. Australia take a 4-0 series lead. Australia made 277-8 batting

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Italy's National Anti-doping Tribunal (TNA) on Friday provisionally suspended Fiorentina's Romanian striker Adrian Mutu after he tested positive for the banned substance sibutramine. The tribunal announced in a press release that it had "suspended the

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Cricket promoter, Malik Sarwar Mehmood criticised Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) selectors for ignoring talented batsman Muhammad Ayub once again. "Ayub, who scored 2100 runs in two season, suffered great injustice once again as the team

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Egypt and Ghana have advanced to the African Nations Cup final, maintaining their records as the tournament's most successful teams. They will both play in a final for an eighth time when they meet in

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An Iraqi army official says two Americans are being held in northern Iraq on visa violations. The official says the two were picked up Sunday in Mosul after crossing from Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region without

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An eight-hour shoot-out in southern Afghanistan ended on Friday with the deaths of five insurgents who had occupied a building near government offices, officials said. Earlier in the day the militants, wearing suicide vests, took

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A former Georgian diplomat who advised the country's mission to Nato was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Friday after being convicted of spying for Russia during the 2008 war between the ex-Soviet neighbours.

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Police raided the office of Sri Lanka's losing presidential candidate on Friday and arrested 15 ex-military members of his staff, aides said, two days after troops surrounded his hotel on suspicion of a coup plot.

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Russia on Friday unveiled a new fighter aircraft touted as a rival of the US F-22 stealth jet and developed amid the highest secrecy as part of a plan to modernise the armed forces. The

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