The Saudi Taekwondo team will participate today in the World Taekwondo Championship, which will continue until November 20 in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, with the participation of 122 countries.
The Saudi team will participate with four (...)
Philippe Gilbert claimed a second stage victory at this year's Vuelta a Espana as Nairo Quintana rode himself back into overall contention with a fine performance in the breakaway on stage 17.
Starting the day in sixth, seven minutes, 42 seconds (...)
At least seven people died as flames and gunfire erupted around the western Mexico state of Jalisco on Friday when a military operation targeting a violent drug cartel was launched at the start of a three-day holiday weekend.
Suspected cartel (...)
Gunmen ambushed a Jalisco state police convoy, killing at least 15 officers and wounding five others, in one of the deadliest attacks on Mexican law enforcement in years, UPI reported.
The ambush attack was believed to be carried out by the New (...)
Ministers of Labor and Employment of the Group of Twenty (G20) kicked off their meetings here today.
Minister of Labor Engineer Adel bin Mohammed Faqih headed the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the meetings.
G20 Ministers of (...)
Catriona Matthew won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational Sunday for her fourth career LPGA Tour title, closing with a 1-under 71 for a four-stroke victory in the 36-player event.
Matthew, the 42-year-old Scot whose last victory came in the 2009 Women's (...)
Dayron Robles was too far ahead of his rivals to get into any trouble this time, winning his second straight Pan American Games gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles Friday.
The Cuban world-record holder, who set a Pan American Games record by (...)
Maurren Maggi came into the Pan American Games as the woman to beat in the long jump, and she will leave Mexico the same way.
The Brazilian jumper won her third Pan American Games title in the event, leaping 6.94 meters Wednesday to claim another (...)
When it comes to the 100m dash, Jamaica is still the team to beat — with or without Usain Bolt.
Jamaican sprinter Lerone Clarke added the Pan American Games title to the gold medal he won last year at the Commonwealth Games, winning Tuesday's race (...)
Zigzagging around buoys one minute and flying through the air the next, Regina Jaquess won two more gold medals in water skiing Sunday at the Pan American Games.
The 27-year-old American, who had already won gold in the overall competition a day (...)
km swim through the waters of the Pacific Ocean, Richard Weinberger of Canada won the gold medal Saturday at the Pan American Games by a finger.
Weinberger won the race in 1 hour, 57 minutes, 31 seconds — only 0.3 seconds ahead of American rival (...)
Thiago Pereira was crowned king of the Pan-American pool when his victory in the men's 200m backstroke earned him his fifth gold medal and seventh overall Friday.
Argentina, meanwhile, confirmed its superiority in women's hockey as the world (...)
United States swimmers won three more titles in the Pan-American Games pool Wednesday to take their gold tally to 15, but the regional heavyweights' volleyball women team was stopped by aggressive arch-rival Cuba.
The US men won their 4x200 meters (...)
The rivalry in the pool at the Pan American Games was a washout Tuesday as the United States won four of five gold medals to leave Brazil in its wake.
Julia Smit, Arthur Frayler, Sean Mahoney and the women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team all won (...)
First he won. Then he didn't. Then he did again.
Brazilian swimmer Leonardo De Deus finished first in the men's 200-meter butterfly Monday at the Pan American Games, but was immediately disqualified because of a sponsor's logo on his swim (...)
Brazil snatched the limelight from the United States in the Pan-American Games pool Sunday with gold medals for Cesar Cielo, Felipe Franca and its 4x100 meters relay quartet.
World record holder Cielo won the 100 freestyle, breaking his Games (...)
Claire Donahue in the 100 meters butterfly and the 4x100 meters relay team both broke Pan American Games records twice as the United States dominated in the pool Saturday.
They did not have it entirely their way, though, with Games record holder (...)
Plenty of athletes will be competing at this year's Pan American Games with an eye on the 2012 London Olympics, while others are even looking ahead to the 2016 Rio Games.
The Pan Am Games, which opened Friday, bring together athletes from 42 (...)
Immediately after tapping in Sunday to win her first LPGA Tour title and fulfill a decade of promise, Michelle Wie pulled the ball from the 18th hole, looked up to the sky and let out a big sigh of relief.
After all the near misses, after all the (...)
Ay, ay, ay, ay! Guadalajara finally boasts the world's biggest mariachi band.
A total of 549 musicians got together to win the record for the birthplace of mariachi Sunday, playing several songs in just over 10 minutes, closing with favorites (...)
US President Barack Obama arrived late Sunday in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, for a North American Leaders Summit in which he was to meet Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Obama landed in (...)