MUNICH – Argentina coach Diego Maradona believes he has plenty of public support at home even though he has been the target of fierce criticism in his country’s media.
Maradona, who captained Argentina in 1986 when they won the World Cup for the last time, has endured a torrid time as coach, suffering World CupÂ
At one [...]

BEIJING – Although China topped the gold medal tally at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and won a national record five gold at the just-concluded Vancouver Games, no Chinese athletes appear among the 42 nominees in seven categories for the 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards, which will be announced in Abu Dhabi next Wednesday.
Deng Yaping, [...]

ULAN BATOR – Para athletes E. Zorig and N. Sukhbaatar of Mongolia will leave for Canada on March 6 to take part in the 2010 Winter Paralympics to be held March 12-21 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Apart of them, Mongolia’s national team comprises N. Sandagdorj, a coach, and N. Erdenetsetseg, a doctor, in accordance with the [...]

CONCEPCION, Chile: Rescuers edged their way toward quake victims trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday even as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile.
Authorities put the death toll from Saturday’s magnitude-8.8 quake at 214, but believed the number would grow. They said 1.5 million [...]

DUBAI – The assassins of a senior Hamas operative used a powerful muscle relaxant to incapacitate him before suffocating him with a pillow in his hotel room, Dubai police said on Sunday, in the latest revelations from the slaying local authorities have blamed on Israel.
Police said forensic tests turned up traces of the drug succinylcholine [...]

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Sunday that the UN nuclear watchdog would lose its legitimacy if it folds under pressures exerted by the United States over Iran’s nuclear program, the local Press TV reported.
Some attempts and reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) prove that this international body is not [...]