New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum expects England to retain the Ashes, saying “they are going to be a tough team to beat”.

Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt has for the first time publicly admitted to and apologised for spot-fixing, two years after he was found guilty of the offence.

Cycling’s greatest race, the Tour de France, begins on Saturday, hoping to cast off the recent cloud of suspicion and scandal of doping with a celebration of its historic 100th edition.

Mark Webber on Thursday confirmed what many close observers suspected when he announced that he will be leaving Red Bull and Formula One at the end of this season to switch to sportscar racing with Porsche’s LMP1 team.

World number one Novak Djokovic condemned the United States to their worst Wimbledon men’s performance in over a century as Serena Williams set up a clash of senior citizens against Kimiko Date-Krumm.

China today labelled riots in restive Xinjiang as “a violent terrorist attack” after state media said the death roll rose to 35 and authorities tightened control ahead of the anniversary of 2009 clashes.

Shamed US cyclist Lance Armstrong believes it is impossible to win cycling’s greatest race without using banned substances, he said in an interview with Le Monde today, on the eve of the 100th edition of the Tour de France.

Raids by gunmen in ethnically divided central Nigeria and gun battles between soldiers and attackers have killed at least 48 people and left dozens of homes burnt, the military said today.

India’s government said Friday it had doubled natural gas prices to stimulate investment and reverse a decline in domestic production that has caused power shortages for industry.

The British government on Thursday said it would pursue a radical fertility technique that uses DNA from three parents to create an embryo.