Sydney, Dec. 16 : Former England cricketer Michael Vaughan believes Joe Root has the right ‘real leadership  Read more »

Tirana, Dec 16 - Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, through his Facebook page, hailed the decision of FIFA allowing Kosova football clubs to play in international friendly matches.  Read more »

Madrid, Dec 16 - FC Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova has praised rivals Atletico Madrid ahead of the La Liga game between the two sides.  Read more »

London, Dec 16 : Mike Tyson has been forced to issue a statement denying false claims that he had a sex-change operation.  Read more »

Berlin, Dec 16 - Leverkusen edged Hamburg 3-0 to reduce their gap on Bayern Munich to nine points while newly promoted Frankfurt shocked 10-man Wolfsburg 2-0 within six minutes at the 17th round of Bundesliga.  Read more »

Madrid, Dec 16 - Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has defended coach Jose Mourinho.

Perez used the award of medals to some of the oldest Real Madrid club members to praise  Read more »

Nagpur, Dec 16 - England were 17/0 in their second innings at lunch, leading by 21 runs, on the fourth day of the fourth and final cricket Test against India at the VCA Stadium here Sunday.  Read more »

Fortaleza (Brazil), Dec 16 - The Arena Castelao in the north-eastern city here is to be officially opened Sunday.

At 5pm, local time, the first 2014 football World Cup stadium to be  Read more »

Rome, Dec 16 - Miroslav Klose scored the winner as Lazio beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the Italian football league Serie A at home.

The veteran German striker hit in the goal in the 82nd minute to move  Read more »

Istanbul, Dec 16 - Chinese Ye Shiwen claimed the women's 200-metre individual medley (IM) title at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) while American Ryan Lochte kept up his phenomenal form  Read more »

Madrid, Dec 16 - Malaga's exceptional first half to the season continued thanks to a 2-0 win away to Sevilla in Spain's La Liga.  Read more »

Sydney, Dec. 16 : Australian batsman Michael Hussey has been lauded as ‘world cricket''s superman’  Read more »

Sydney, Dec. 16 : Shane Watson has sounded out South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis to help him master the dual pressures of performing with bat and ball.  Read more »