Top seed and defending champion Ding Ning of China breezed past Dederko Zhenhua of Australia 4-0 to reach the second round of the World Table Tennis Championships here Wednesday. Ding, also the London Olympics silver med... Read More

Uganda's national cricket team has been invited for a tour to Sri Lanka after the east African nation put up an impressive show at the just concluded World Cricket League Division III in Bermuda. Justine Ligyalingi, the ... Read More

Japan's Ai Fukuhara was upset 2-4 by little-known Park Seonghye of South Korea in the first round of the World Table Tennis Championships here Wednesday. The 12th-ranked Fukuhara lost 11-4, 6-11, 9-11, 11-3, 8-11, 6-11 t... Read More

FIFA has warned that Sao Paulo could be stripped of its status as a 2014 World Cup host city due to stadium construction delays. Local officials last week said the Itaquerao Stadium would not be ready until at least Marc... Read More

BRUSSELS/BERLIN -- Germany's economy crept back into growth at the start of the year but not by enough to stop the euro zone from contracting for a sixth straight quarter, and France slid into recession. Falling ... Read More

The artwork Arab World Map Construct / Reconstruct by Shawki Youssef is a map of the Arab world as it appears on the Baath party logo. Courtesy Green Art ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google is expected to use its annual software developers' conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving produc... Read More

An afternoon stroll for a mother and her three children turned into terror when a man pulled up beside them, grabbed the woman's 7-year-old daughter, threw her in his trunk and drove ...

In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh, smiles at second right, a... Read More

VATICAN CITY -; The Vatican says the Scottish cardinal who resigned as archbishop after admitting to sexual misconduct will leave Scotland for several months of prayer and ...