It was supposed to be the tie-breaker football game between Egypt and Algeria, determining who would advance to next summer's World Cup in South Africa. However, in the end, the only thing that broke were the ties that formerly bound the two peoples. Ahmed Morsy reports

The countdown to the 2010 Africa Nations Cup hosted by Angola started with the draw at the Talatona Convention Centre of Luanda, reports Abeer Anwar

BAHRAIN's Olympic 1500m champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games...