RAMALLAH - The Palestinian national football team will travel to northern Iraq for a friendly on Friday followed by a visit to China, the head of the Palestinian football federation said Sunday....

CLEVELAND - Shaquille O'Neal says he wants to play another three years in the National Basketball Association and use that time to help Cleveland win a championship and end the city's title drought....

BELGRADE- The 25th world student games opened on Wednesday in Serbia, the biggest sporting event ever held in the Balkan state, with more than 8,500 athletes from 140 countries taking part in the...

LONDON, Robin Millard - Dinara Safina insisted nobody could now question her world number one status as she made it into the Wimbledon semi-finals. The Russian, who has never won a Grand Slam...

PARIS- Sportsmen who carry out high levels of cycle training could be damaging their chance of fatherhood, researchers reported on Monday. A team led by Diana Vaamonde of the University of Cordoba...

OTTAWA, June 27, 2009 (AFP) - Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean will officially open the 2010 Winter Olympic Games to be held in the western city of Vancouver, Prime Minister Stephen Harper...

NEW YORK- Dutch pitcher Sidney Ponson tested positive for the banned stimulant Phentermine at the World Baseball Classic last March and has received a two-year ban from the International Baseball...

WELLINGTON - New Zealand officials reacted with outrage Friday after French rugby player Mathieu Bastareaud admitted he had lied in claiming he had been attacked by thugs in a Wellington street....

STOCKHOLM - Spain's Telefonica Blue completed the ninth stage of the Volvo race Friday, almost four days after the six other yachts, after an accident forced it to undergo repairs in the Swedish port...