Yemen’s national chess team was fired after the team competed against Israel at a chess tournament in Belarus this week.

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While the Pakistani cricket team’s match fixing scandal dominates UK sports headlines, betting operators and player associations in Britain are making strides in a proactive approach to educating sportsmen and women on the pitfalls of insider betting.

A roundtable titled ‘The Value of Sport as a Development Tool’ focusing on the potential of sport to assist in achieving the Millennium Development Goals will today take place at the UN’s Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York.

The quest for “more responsibility and less power” is what the President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) hopes will mark his presidency, he says in an interview with Around the Rings.

The latest edition of the Football Top 20 report from consultants Sport + Markt claims that nearly 250 million people aged between 16 and 69 in Europe follow the sport, generating a football market worth up to €12 billion.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter seems confident that his African legacy will live on in the form of an Olympic Games held in South Africa. In July 2010, encouraged by President Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s governing Olympic body SASCOC announced that it would oversee a bid for the 2020 Games and encouraged potential host cities to state their intention to bid.

A group of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are calling for greater attention on funding of grassroots sports, as the European Commission prepares to draft its first ever proposal of an EU sports programme in November.