'Zinedine Zidane will be given the right to be heard by means of a written statement,' FIFA said.
China beat Canada 4-2 in the play-off for seventh and eight places in the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament.
Bangalore Lions chalked out a convincing 3-1 victory over Maratha Warriors in the Premier Hockey League.
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Iraq's Olympic squad will not be the biggest in Athens - but could it help unify a ravaged nation?
Star players Rehan Butt, Mudassar Ali Khan, Tariq Aziz and Mohammad Shabbir are in the 18-member team for the December 10-18 Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Chennai.
Ronaldinho is bidding to lift the trophy for the third year in a row.
An injury-hit Newcastle United stunned Tottenham Hotspur with a 3-2 victory in the EPL.
First Lokesh, then Rahul and now, Gaurav Chopra -- every time a dull celebrity begins to take a stand, s/he is evicted.
A determined Pakistan steamrolled world champions Germany 5-0 to set up a summit clash against Australia.
Former West Indies opening batsman Gordon Greenidge was appointed as the new convener of West Indies selectors.
England's top premier league club, Arsenal, has set up a multi-million-pound tax dodge for its players and manager.
Sushil took a minute and 20 seconds to defeat Johannes Botha of South Africa on technical superiority to claim his third successive gold medal at the Games.
Former world shot put champion CJ Hunter has claimed the IAAF tried to make him cover up a positive drugs test before the 2000 Olympics.
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom entered the final in the 48 kg classs at the Commonwealth Games, beating Sri Lanka's Anusha Dilrukshi , on Wednesday.
Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq will quit international cricket after the three-Test series in West Indies beginning later this month, the veteran batsman announced on Thursday.
Pakistan's captain says past record will have no bearing on the series. 'Whoever plays well consistently will win.'
The 18-man provisional squad includes uncapped Riffatullah Mohmand who scored 444 runs with three hundreds in Pakistan's premier domestic cricket tournament Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 2005.
Dwayne Bravo scored a quickfire 108 in the drawn two-day tour match against a PCB Patrons XI.
England fast bowler Matthew Hoggard was reported for excessive appealing as he celebrated the dismissal of Pakistan opening batsman Salman Butt.
And it takes two girls -- Priyanka, through Mona, to create a divide between bros Manu and Manveer.
No overblown drama, no weepy speech, Sui Dhaaga's sunshine spirit and throwaway nok jhonk pervades the uncertainty and exploitation, feels Sukanya Verma.
Zinedine Zidane is the country's most popular figure for 48 percent of French people.
Akmal wore blue coloured gloves in Pakistan's opening game against India and then changed them to maroon, which matched the West Indies kit in the second game.
He noted that the agency has already submitted a chargesheet in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan.
Italy beat France 5-3 on penalties after the two teams finished 1-1 after extra-time in a dramatic final.
Haroon Rasheed said there is tremendous exaggeration of facts whenever Shoaib Akhtar has been involved.
Police have registered a First Information Report against Rashtriya Janata Dal legislator of the dissolved Bihar assembly, Sunil Kumar 'pushpam', and 4 unknown persons, on the charge of allegedly causing the death of a pregnant dalit woman.
Eight Pakistan players, including maverick former captain Shahid Afridi, have been fined for breaching a team curfew ahead of their crucial World Cup game against India, sources told AFP.
Pakistan cricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq continues to rue the fact that he hasn't been able to captain his side in a Test in Pakistan.
'Savarkar was the closest the RSS had to a freedom movement icon, however flawed.' 'Indira Gandhi wasn't going to gift him to them.' 'And a non-career politician like Dr Singh understands it.' 'It is just that his party never listened to him,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Rajneesh Gupta presents the interesting numbers from the second day of Kingston Test between West Indies and India
'The physio told me I might have a problem walking in the future because of the back injury and that I need to stop playing cricket.' 'But I was very keen that I kept playing.' 'I told him just get me pain free and I will make a comeback.' 'And I did exactly that.'
The seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month's Games have all been given wildcard entries.
'People who were afraid to come out in the fear of losing their reputation will now do so fearlessly.'
Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Said, 34, accused of carrying out the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, managed to slip under the radar despite them being on counterterrorism agencies' radar for years before Wednesday's attack.
The PCB left out fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from a 16-member squad for the six-match one day series against India.
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