China's Olympic doubles champion Sun Tiantian won her first WTA singles title on Sunday, beating host player Iroda Tulyaganova in the Tashkent Open final.

Shase Rezae and Mehdi Rajab Zadea scored as Iran outscored Iraq 2-0 to open the three-team LG Cup soccer tournament on Wednesday.

Former captain Craig Moore might be singled out of the soccer friendly between Australia and Paraguay on Saturday after he missed a training session and several public appearance commitments.

The Mexican Football Federation and German sporting goods firm Adidas on Wednesday jointly announced an agreement for the German firm to sponsor the Mexican national team and to make the team's uniform for eight years starting in 2007.

Du Li of China and Thomas Farnik of Austria set world records in winning their 10-meter air rifle gold medals at the shooting World Cup Final's opening day in Granada, Spain on Wednesday.

The sister of striker Ricardo Oliveira of Inter Milan was kidnapped on Wednesday morning in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city.

Spanish women's field hockey qualified for their first ever semi-finals in the World Cup, following a 1-1 draw with England in their last group match on Wednesday.

Kenya moved closer to hosting the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens after being shortlisted with seven other countries by the International Rugby Board (IRB).

World number one Roger Federer defeated Serb qualifier Viktor Troicki through two tiebreakers 7-6 and 7-6 to reach the third round of the Japan Open tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

Two weightlifting powerhouses China and Russia split the gold medals in the world weightlifting championships as each of them dominated one women's class on Wednesday.