Argentina superstar Lionel Messi handed coach Diego Maradona a World Cup scare on Friday when he injured his right knee in a training match.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him — China.

Cesenatico (Italy), May 21: Italy’s Manuel Belletti, of the CSF team, won Friday’s 13th stage of the Tour of Italy with Australian Richie Porte of Saxo Bank holding on to the leader’s pink jersey.

Luke Donald put together a second successive round of 68 to move to six-under par and the top of the leader board on day two of the European PGA Championship here on Friday.

Google unveiled a television platform on Friday in a partnership with Sony, Intel and Logitech that brings the Web to the television set.

A 31-year-old British woman has defied all the odds to give birth to the first sextuplets — four girls and two boys — in the UK in more than 25 years.

Lance Armstrong on Thursday dismissed accusations of doping levelled against him by disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis, who implicated the seven-time Tour de France winner and others in confessing his own cheating.

Rafael Nadal claimed the first victory of the French Open on Friday after defending champion Roger Federer was handed a tricky draw while Serena Williams was on collision course with long-time rival Justine Henin.

A firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire in an oil tanker, part of a goods train, at Chintawanpur, some 200 km north of Patna, on Thursday.

At least one thief carried out the biggest known robbery of a Paris museum and fled with five paintings by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and other major names, worth $635 million, officials said on Thursday.