South Africa and England have qualified for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's T20 World Cup semi-finals after respective Group B wins over Pakistan and West Indies at the Sydney Showground Stadium.

Plans to invite the Chinese table tennis team to train in Japan have been disrupted by the new Government demands on the host municipality to counter the spread of coronavirus.

Austria’s Benjamin Karl and Mirko Felicetti of Italy were involved in the first-ever tie for first place in a parallel Alpine Snowboard World Cup race at the International Ski Federation (FIS) event in Canada's Blue Mountain, as Germany's Ramona Theresia Hofmeister secured her first crystal globe.

The United States, aiming for a hat-trick of victories in their home leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series, made a strong start to reach the quarter-finals in Los Angeles.

Canada’s Alannah Yip took her third and final chance to earn a quota place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with victory at the Pan American Sport Climbing Championships in Los Angeles.

Armand Duplantis narrowly failed in his ambition of setting a third consecutive world pole vault record in the space of 12 days here tonight.

Armand Duplantis, who has twice improved the world pole vault record in the space of a week, will seek an extraordinary hat-trick here tomorrow evening as the illustrious Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais in Liévin makes its debut in the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

All but two players from the United States Olympic ice hockey team that beat the Soviet Union in the 1980 match known as the 'Miracle on Ice' will gather for a 40th anniversary celebration in Las Vegas next weekend.

Suzanne Schulting remained on course for the 1000 metres win that could enable her to win the overall International Skating Union Short Track World Cup title at the fifth series event at the Energieverbund Arena in Dresden tonight.

Egypt won six of the 10 titles on offer in the junior men’s freestyle competition at the African Wrestling Federation Championships in Algiers, with home wrestlers taking home two golds.

Kata was to the fore on the opening day of competition at the African Karate Federation (UFAK) Senior and Junior Championships at Tangier in Morocco.

Nigeria made a triumph of the first World Para Powerlifting World Cup to be held in Africa as they finished the event in their capital of Abuja tonight with a total of 28 senior and 17 junior medals.

Germany’s defending champion Dimitrij Ovtcharov will seek a sixth title at the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) Europe Top 16 Cup, which starts tomorrow in the Swiss town of Montreux.

Nike’s new chief executive John Donohoe, who has recently visited China, admitted that sales and production there had been affected by measures introduced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.