SITRA, Bahrain (AP) — When anti-government protests broke out in Bahrain, Alaa and Mohammed Hubail hunkered down in their family compound and refused to take part. They feared their reputations as top footballers would make them easy targets for (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Arab world should propose more natural sites for the U.N.'s World Heritage list after having only two new ones listed in the past 15 years, a conservation group said Tuesday.
The International Union for (...)
DOHA: FIFA executive committee member from Qatar is now open to discussing changing the 2022 World Cup from summer to winter.
Mohammed bin Hammam, also president of the Asian Football Confederation, has repeatedly said he wants the World Cup (...)
DUBAI: Lydia Hall of Wales shot a 5-under 67 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Anna Nordqvist of Sweden in the second round of the Dubai Ladies Masters.
Michelle Wie limped around the back nine of the Emirates Golf Club because of a bad (...)
DOHA: Tennis fans in this Gulf city are used to seeing Serena and Venus Williams at the WTA Championships. Each sister has won the season-ending title, and coming into this year's event, their images were everywhere—staring down from billboards, (...)
DUBAI: Qatar has promised it will keep fans and players cool if it wins the right to host the 2022 World Cup. This week, it will get a chance to prove it.
The country will host a FIFA delegation starting Tuesday and the highlight is expected to (...)
SINGAPORE: The International Olympic Committee says up to 17 countries have expressed interest in hosting future Youth Olympics, including the United States and others from Africa and Latin America.
The inaugural winter games will be held in (...)
SINGAPORE: A towering flame was lit in the heart of Singapore on Saturday, signaling the start of the inaugural Youth Olympics.
IOC president Jacques Rogge said the event would inspire young people around the world to take up sport but also teach (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Nearly 60 million people living around the Himalayas will suffer food shortages in the coming decades as glaciers shrink and the water sources for crops dry up, a study said Thursday.
But Dutch scientists writing in (...)