India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina thrashed Argentina's Gisela Dulko and Paola Suarez to advance to the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open here.

The No.2 seeds took just over

Third seed Roger Federer defeated Canada's Milos Raonic 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, 6-4 in the third round of the ATP/WTA BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday.

Federer advances to the fourth round where he will face Thom

Defending champions Novak Djokovic and Caroline Wozniacki eased through their openers in the California desert while fourth seed Andy Murray bit the dust for the second straight year.

Djokovic has no

World number one Victoria Azarenka survived an opening-match scare to beat Mona Barthel 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (8/6) in a three-hour marathon at the Indian Wells tournament on Friday.

The 22-year-old Az

Rafael Nadal has lost his last seven matches against world number one Novak Djokovic but the Spaniard denies that he has a burning obsession to beat the Serb.

The pair last met in January's Australia

A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 was demoted to the rank of private on Tuesday but will serve no time behind bars, a military spokesman said.

Staff Sergeant Frank Wu

A woman who shot her two children, their father and a cousin in California's Central Valley before committing suicide took video of herself on her iPad as she smoked methamphetamine prior to the killi

The most earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond earth, scientists said on Monday.

Tiger Woods won the Chevron World Challenge on Sunday, the one-shot triumph in an unofficial 18-man event his first victory since a 2009 sex scandal shattered his iconic image.

Woods had gone 26 star

A highway in California state has reportedly slipped into the ocean following landslides caused by heavy weekend rain in the region.

The Paseo del Mar road in an area of Los Angeles was under the sca