South Africa were on track to end Australia's unbeaten 24-year Test run at the Gabba after dominating the third day's play in the opening Test on Sunday.

The world's number one team amassed a formida

World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko successfully defended his IBF, WBA and WBO titles on Saturday with a unanimous points victory over Polish challenger Mariusz Wach.

The 36-year-old Klitsc

West Indies captain Darren Sammy wants his players to "stay hungry" and to build on recent successes when they meet Bangladesh Tuesday in the first of two Tests.

Sammy's men are buoyed by victory in

Jacques Kallis took some blame for South African teammate Hashim Amla not challenging his dismissal and missing out on a possible bigger score against Australia in the first Test on Sunday.

Amla had

Kuwait on Saturday marked the golden jubilee of its constitution with a spectacular $14-million fireworks display which earned the wealthy Gulf state a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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A shallow 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake struck around 117 kilometres (72 miles) north of the country's second largest city of Mandalay at

The BBC's Director-General George Entwistle resigned after the broadcaster's flagship news programme wrongly implicated a British politician in child sex abuse. "I have decided that the honourable thi

Jeevan Mendis grabbed three wickets as Sri Lanka clinched the one-day series against New Zealand with a comfortable seven-wicket win in the fourth match in Hambantota on Saturday.

Sri Lanka achieved

Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro claimed a crucial 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-3 victory over defending champion Roger Federer on Saturday to book his place in the semi-finals of the ATP Tour Finals.

Del Potr

South Africa tightened their grip on the first Test against Australia Sunday, reaching 357-3 on the third day with century-maker Hashim Amla the only man dismissed in an extended morning session.

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