Martina Hingis might be ranked among the best female players of all time in the glamorous sport of tennis but she won’t be able to shake off the doping issue that has lifted its ugly head to entrap the Swiss tennis star. Although the WTA has...

The last time that Buddhist monks in Myanmar staged street protests calling for democracy was in 1988 when the noble uprising was severely crushed by the dictatorial military regime. But this time, it’s hugely different. The monks have been...

South America might be a football-crazy continent, but most of the countries lack the necessary infrastructure to host the most widely watched single sports event — the FIFA World Cup. The only nation in the continent capable of hosting the mega...

When on Monday the armed pro-Al Qaeda militants in the notorious North-Western Frontier Province agreed to a ceasefire agreement with the Pakistan government, there was surge of hope that this time Pakistan could just move forward in eradicating...

The last time England hosted the FIFA World Cup finals, they won it in style. So there’s little doubt that England is eager to host the mostly widely watched single sports event again as early as 2018. The English FA had hatched the plan to bid...

Suddenly, there is a surge of optimism in Pakistan. After months of severe criticism and pressure from the international community, President General Pervez Musharraf appears to have realized the need for his regime to reach out to the lawless rebel...

The Nepal crisis drags on. The debate on whether the monarchy in Nepal should remain at all appears to have no end in sight and the tiny, poverty-stricken South Asian nation sandwiched between India and China is sinking deeper and deeper into...

Magician David Copperfield would need to dig deep into his reserves to come up with the magic to save himself from spending a good number of years in the Federal prison. His magic might have earned him worldwide recognition and fame but all that...

There was always a hanging suspicion that the Libya peace talks on the Darfur conflict would yield few results. Even before the peace conference has begun in Sirte, the absence of representatives of various rebel fractions has confirmed that the...

South Africans are said to be the comeback specialists in world cricket and on Friday at Multan, they demonstrated why they are called so. They went into the fourth match in the five-match One-Day series against Pakistan 2-1 down and knew that a...