Liverpool's outcast Italian striker Mario Balotelli will have a medical at French side Nice amid transfer deadline day talks between the clubs.

The Daily Star (TDS) reach the semi-finals of the Walton-DRU Media Cup Football Tournament after ousting Kaler Kontho 2-1 in penalty shootout at Shaheed (Captain) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium.

Second seed Andy Murray has always said he would quite like an indoor grand slam event and at the U.S. Open it seems he has found the next best thing.

England are to delay naming their one-day squad for the tour to Bangladesh in an effort to buy more time to persuade captain Eoin Morgan to go on the trip.

The country's premier four-day cricket competition, the Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL), which is scheduled to begin from

England batsman Ian Bell will be available for selection for Bangladesh and India tours in the winter.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal get their US Open campaigns under way Monday in the shadow of Arthur Ashe Stadium's spectacular $150 million retractable roof and alongside rock music legend Phil Collins.

Captain Mamunul Islam will miss Bangladesh's international friendly against Maldives on September 1 due to a left thigh muscle injury.

Newcomer Mayeda Momtahina of Army Shooting Association stunned her senior counterparts in the Beximco 28th National Shooting Championship after grabbing the gold medal in the women's 10metre air rifle event at the National Shooting Complex in Gulshan yesterday.

German coach Oliver Kurtz was scheduled to arrive here last night and meet an interview board as he bids to take charge of the national hockey team ahead of Bangladesh's engagement in the AHF Cup, scheduled to begin on Nov 19 in Hong Kong.

Chinese Taipei thrash Kyrgyzstan 7-1 in the opening match of Group C Qualifiers of AFC U-16 Women's Championship at Bangabandhu National Stadium.

Andrew Strauss, the director of England cricket, urges supporters intending to follow the team in Bangladesh this autumn to make their own assessment of the situation in the country based on advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Kenyan police arrest the secretary-general of the country's Olympic committee (NOCK) in the wake of a series of scandals and embarrassments at the Rio Games.

Bangladesh national football team's head coach Tom Saintfiet flew for Belgium yesterday to attend to his pregnant wife, who is expected to give birth to the couple's first child today.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon thanks the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to let England's tour of Bangladesh in October to go on as planned.

The Brazilian authorities have charged US swimming star Ryan Lochte with making a false statement about being robbed at gunpoint during the Olympics.

Struggling Sheikh Russel are looking forward to ending the AFC Cup play-off qualifying campaign on a high by winning their last match against Bhutanese club FC Tertons at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu today.

A report on British newspaper The Telegraph's website has cast further doubts over England's scheduled tour of Bangladesh.

Factfile on Usain Bolt after his victory in the 200m at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics Thursday.

US Olympic authorities apologize to Brazil on Thursday as two US swimmers are allowed to go home having retracted a fabricated story about being mugged in Rio.