Paes-Dlouhy enter finals of AIG Open

"Top seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy edged towards back-to-back titles as they advanced to the finals of the AIG Open in Tokyo on Saturday. They had earlier won the Thailand Open a few days ago. The Indo-Czech pair beat USA’s Robert Kendrick and Finn Jarkko Nieminen...

Russia calls halt to 5-day invasion of Georgia

"Declaring "the aggressor has been punished," the Kremlin ordered a halt Tuesday to Russia's devastating assault on Georgia — five days of air and ground attacks that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people. Both sides accepted the general outlines of a...

AP Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia

" Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Saakashvili, speaking at a news conference Saturday, also proposed that the warring parties be separated. Georgia's Security...

No chance of late Davis Cup call for Safin-Tarpishchev

""This is our strongest team," Tarpishchev told reporters at Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday."I think that these guys play better than Marat and he is not going to be here."Holders Russia will be represented by world number four Nikolay Davydenko, Mikhail Youzhny (19), Igor...

Letters 'revealed secret Russian hit squad'

"Detectives are investigating letters smuggled out of Russia purporting to show the existence of a secret squad set up to target poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko and others. Scotland Yard has been passed copies of two letters apparently penned in jail by former Russian...

Fore! Cosmonaut slices golf's longest shot

"Golf is an unforgiving game, wherever you play it. In tricky conditions this morning, Mikhail Tyurin, an experienced Russian cosmonaut wearing an overheating space suit, did his best to address a ball. He was strapped upside-down to the International Space Station as it...