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Italian golfer Giulia Sergas, despite still feeling the effects of a week-long illness, was in commanding form on the first day of the New Zealand Women's Open, firing an eight-under...

Swede Robin Soderling retained his World Indoor tennis title by outlasting Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3 3-6 6-3 in the final in Rotterdam. In a serve-dominated final, Tsonga boomed down 20...

The Swedish driver Per-Gunnar Andersson in a Ford Fiesta clocked the best time in the opening super-stage of the Rally of Sweden. Andersson mastered the snowy conditions over the 1.9...

Confirming tennis as the most global of all individual sports, the women's top 10 features 10 different nationalities for the first time. Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki retains her top ranking, with...

The English golfer Paul Casey has won the inaugural Volvo Champions tournament in Bahrain, his first European Tour title since 2009. The 33-year-old Briton posted a closing 68 for a...

Australian amateur golfer Ashley Ona eagled her final hole to join compatriot Frances Bondad atop the leaderboard after the second round of the Royal Canberra Ladies Classic. The pair are...

Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov has produced a stunning five-set upset over the fourth seed Robin Soderling to reach the Australian Tennis Open quarter-finals in Melbourne Dolgopolov completed a shock…

The world tennis number one Rafael Nadal strolled through his 23rd consecutive grand slam win as Robin Soderling underlined his place as a genuine threat to the top seed's claims...

Rafael Nadal will take on Brazilian world number 96 Marcos Daniel in his first round of the Australian Tennis Open but faces a rocky path in his bid to become...

Four skiers have been killed in an avalanche in the French Alpine resort of Val d'Isere.

The seventh seed Juan Carlos Ferrero is out of next week's Heineken Tennis Open in Auckland, The Spaniard's still recovering from surgery to his right wrist and also has a...

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will contest the final of the Mubadala exhibition tennis tournament in Abu Dhabi as they prepare for this month's Australian Open. In the semi-finals Nadal...

The Scottish Premier League football club Celtic has signed the former Arsenal and Sweden midfielder Freddie Ljungberg. The 33-year-old, who played 75 times for Sweden, could make his debut in...

Five suspected Islamist militants have been arrested for planning to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.

Sweden is treating two explosions in a busy shopping area of Stockholm on Saturday as a crime of terror. A man found dead after the second blast was carrying an explosive device. Audio

British golfer Ian Poulter kept up his bid for back-to-back victories by taking a two-stroke lead after the third round of the Dubai World Championship. Last week's Hong Kong Open...

Roger Federer got straight down to business at the ATP World Tour Tennis Finals this morning with the world number two trouncing Spain's David Ferrer 6-1 6-4. The 29-year-old Swiss,...

Andy Murray made a perfect start to his bid to win the ATP World Tour Tennis Finals for the first time with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Sweden's Robin Soderling.

Team New Zealand has suffered a convincing loss in their only race on day 3 of the Louis Vuitton Trophy yachting regatta in Dubai. In a dying breeze in the...

Fourth seed Robin Soderling has ended Michael Llodra's brilliant run at the Paris Masters tennis tournament when he saved three match points to beat the unseeded Frenchman 6-7 7-5 7-6...

World tennis number two Roger Federer's reached the semi-finals of the Stockholm Open, after surviving a scare to beat fellow Swiss and Olympic gold medal partner Stanislas Wawrinka. The 2-6...

Lee Westwood will spearhead Europe's hunt for the five points they need to regain golf's Ryder Cup from the United States tonight. After heavy rain laid waste to the Celtic...

The former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has joined Leicester City because he wants to work in the Premier League again and says the Championship (second division) side had the...