NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kenyan Peter Kamais took advantage of an ailing Haile Gebrselassie in the men's race and Mara Yamauchi of Britain rallied in the closing miles to lead the women in the NYC Half-Marathon on Sunday. Suffering from a cold and asthma symptoms, marathon world record holder Gebrselassie of Ethiopia dropped out of the 13.1-mile race near ...

Kenyan runners defied a severe sandstorm to win both the men's and women's titles in the Taipei Express Marathon Sunday, organisers said. Henry Cherono crossed the line in two hours, 24 minutes and seven seconds, ahead of Taiwan's Chiang Chieh-wen, who clocked 2:27:37. Cherono's compatriot Evelyne Kimuria won the women's title in 2 ...

Auxerre captured top spot in the French first division on Saturday while Paris St Germain, reeling from the violent death of a supporter, slumped to defeat at Nice in a match played behind closed doors. Auxerre skipper Benoit Pedretti scored in the second minute of injury time to secure a 2-1 home win over relegation-haunted Le Mans who thought they ...

Draped in red blankets, palms skywards, the Endorois, a Kenyan pastoralist tribe, chanted prayers to attract good spirits and scare evil ones from their ancestral lands nearly 40 years after being evicted from them. Chiefs from the tribe, which says it numbers 60,000 people, Saturday organised the first religious ceremony authorised in almost four decades at Lake Bogoria, 200 ...