Archive for the May 4, 2017
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Three more Russian athletes including a sprinter stripped of Olympic gold have admitted doping, the country's tainted track and field body (RusAF) said on Wednesday. RusAF's anti-doping coordinator said she hoped the athletes' admission could
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The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has chosen Glasgow as venue for International Hockey Federation (IHF) Home and Away League which is expected to be staged in 2019. A spokesman of PHF said here that the
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Laiba Ijaz and Komal Khan took berth into the Under-15 and Under-19 finals of the Nazim Peshawar National Junior Girls Squash Championship being played here at PAF Hashim Khan Squash Complex on Wednesday. Nazim, Nawan
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Cristiano Ronaldo proved Atletico Madrid's Champions League destroyer once more with a hat-trick as Real Madrid took a commanding 3-0 semi-final, first leg lead on Tuesday. Ronaldo extended his lead as the all-time top scorer
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Long jump world record-holder Mike Powell said plans to rewrite world records set before 2005 are "a slap in the face" and vowed on Wednesday to fight the move. European Athletics has proposed that only
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The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday sent a legal notice to its Indian counterpart for failing to honour an agreement to play a bilateral series, saying this had cost them $60 million. The Board of
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North Korea on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a US professor for trying to "overturn" the regime, as tensions spike between the isolated nuclear-armed nation and Washington. Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, became the third
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Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has been injured and one of his deputies killed in an air strike in northeast Nigeria, civilian and security ssources told AFP on Wednesday Two Nigerian Air Force jets bombarded
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Thousands of Palestinians rallied Wednesday in the West Bank city of Ramallah in a show of support for Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. Gathering as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was about to meet
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China has issued new internet regulations increasing Communist party control over online news providers, the latest step in the country's push to tighten its policing of the web. The ruling party oversees a vast apparatus
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