Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recovered from a mid-match meltdown to defeat Nicolas Almagro 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-7 9-7 Monday and set up a quarter-final against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open.

Nico Rosberg has been assured he will get equal treatment with Michael Schumacher at Mercedes this season despite the gulf between them in achievement and experience.

Unsettled Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has a future with Tottenham Hotspur if he wants one, manager Harry Redknapp said on Monday.

Michael Schumacher batted off questions about his chequered past on Monday and said he was returning to Formula One with nothing to prove to anyone but himself.

The words ‘safe’ and ‘Bode Miller’ are not usually found in the same sentence but the world’s most controversial ski racer believes they should be.

Javaris Crittenton of the Washington Wizards pleaded guilty on Monday to a misdemeanor gun possession charge for last month’s incident when he argued with teammate Gilbert Arenas and brought an unloaded handgun to the basketball team’s locker room.

Former New Orleans Saints hero Archie Manning has no dilemma deciding who to back when his old team meet the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl on Feb 7.

President Mahmoud Abbas is studying a U.S. proposal for talks between the Palestinians and Israel at a level below full-scale negotiations between their leaders, a Palestinian official said on Monday.