Los Angeles, Aug 4 (DPA) New Los Angeles ATP champion Sam Querrey has dismissed complaints from last weekend's opponent Tommy Haas that Haas was distracted by the antics in the st...More

Belgrade, Aug 4 (DPA) Some 20,000 people gathered Monday in downtown Belgrade to welcome Serbian gold-medal winners from the world championship in Rome -- swimmers Milorad Cavic a...More

Dusseldorf, Aug 4 (DPA) SV Hamburg flirted with disaster but Frank Rost then saved twice for a 4-1 victory on penalties over second division Fortuna Dusseldorf in the first round ...More

Washington, Aug 4 (DPA) Lleyton Hewitt began his build-up to the US Open with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Donald Young for a place in the second round of the Legg Mason Classic. ...More

Madrid, Aug 4 (DPA) Rafael Nadal's uncle and coach, Toni, has told Spanish radio that his nephew will make a return to tennis at next week's Montreal Masters after more than two m...More

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 4 (DPA) Malaysian police discovered the body of a marathon runner a day after he failed to return home after finishing the race, news reports said Tuesday. ...More

Brussels, Aug 4 (Xinhua) One of the three men who escaped from a Belgian prison in a helicopter July 23 was arrested by the police here. Abdelhaq Melloul...More

Kuantan (Malaysia), Aug 4 (IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak Tuesday launched the country's first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) that he said would be 'Asia's biggest'. ...More

Hong Kong, Aug 4 (DPA) Two highly paid senior civil servants could be disciplined after a probe found they surfed the internet for pornography rather than working, a media report ...More

Sydney, Aug 4 (DPA) An Australian pilot who forgot to put chocks under the wheels of his aircraft when he cranked its propeller saw it take off without him. ...More

Seoul, Aug 4 (DPA) Former US president Bill Clinton arrived Tuesday in Pyongyang, state media reported, as South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said the focus of the trip would be to ...More

Washington, Aug 4 (IANS) Is your waistline bothering you in middle age? Try regular yoga, says a new study. The study, led by researchers at Fred Hutchin...More

United Nations, Aug 4 (IANS) A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the United Nations Education...More

Dhaka, Aug 4 (IANS) Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Koko has challenged his trial for alleged corruption in two deals, one with German telecom...More

Washington, Aug 4 (IANS) India's Somdev Devvarman is through to the second round in the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, beating fellow qualifier Yuichi Sugita 6-0, 7-6 (6). ...More