Pakistan has appealed against its Davis Cup Asia Oceania tie being switched to New Zealand over security fears, demanding it should be played at a neutral venue, officials said Saturday. Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) secretary Rashid Khan said an appeal has been lodged with the board of the International Tennis Federation, which made the decision last week. "We have appealed ...

Wales and the United States set the Australian round of the IRB Sevens series alight in the opening round with shock wins over Fiji and England here Friday. Tournament favourites New Zealand and Samoa safely negotiated their way through their first matches but elsewhere the form book was thrown away. A stirring second-half performance by Wales, who languish a lowly ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand banker defrauded clients of $13 million to fund a lavish lifestyle of prostitutes, property and wine, local media reported on Friday. Stephen Gerard Versalko, 52, was convicted of stealing NZ$17.8 million from the clients of his employer, ASB Bank, and jailed for six years, the Dominion Post newspaper reported. Court officials could not ...

Pregnant women may be far more at risk from swine flu than thought, according to a survey published on Friday that was carried out in Australia and New Zealand. An investigation carried out among American women between April and May last year, in the first month of the H1N1 virus' outbreak, suggested pregnant women were four times likelier to develop ...