MELBOURNE - ROGER Federer continued his total domination of Andy Roddick with a 6-2 7-5 7-5 masterclass in the Australian Open semi-finals on Thursday.
JAKARTA - INDONESIA has thrown its hat into the ring to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022, an official said on Thursday.
Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) chairman of foreign relations Dali Taher said a formal letter of intention had been sent to the sport's governing body FIFA.
MELBOURNE - THREE-TIME champion Serena Williams roared into the Australian Open final on Thursday with a 6-3, 6-4 semi-final win over Russian fourth seed Elena Dementieva.
Second seed Williams again hit form at the right time to reach her 13th Grand Slam decider, ending Dementieva's 15-match winning streak.
LONDON - HONDA Racing could apply for a bail-out from the British government, which this week said it would unlock billions of pounds in credit funding for the auto industry, it was reported on Thursday.
The team said it had had meetings with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whose chief minister Lord Peter Mandelson unveiled the funding plan on Tuesday, the Guardian newspaper said.
