(CNN) She's not quite unbeatable but she's not far off.Mikaela Shiffrin confirmed her status as one of the most dominant sports stars on the planet with a ninth World Cup win of the season in Zagreb, Croatia Saturday.The 23-year-old's fifth slalom win of the season and seventh victory in her last nine races took her overall tally to 52, three shy of Switzerland's Vreni Schneider in third on the women's all-time list.Lindsey Vonn leads with 82 World Cup victories but

Riyadh. sport . Kaspersky Lab sponsored Emirati racer Amna Al Qubaisi is set to lead a group of six female drivers at the Formula E rookie test in Saudi Arabia, with the 18-year-old set to take the driving seat for Envision Virgin. The teenager, who is the first-ever female Emirati racing driver, will join a who’s who of racing talent hitting the streets of Ad Diriyahafter the opening race of the fifth ABB FIA Formula E Championship.Amna Al Qubaisi will

BUDAPEST, (Xinhua) .Japan ruled on the first day of Budapest Judo Grand Prix, with the gold medals in the women's 48kg, 52kg and men's 60kg and 66kg categories here on Friday.Ryuju Nagayama took the men's 60kg gold medal, before the Russian Albert Oguzov. The bronze was shared by Robert Mshvidobadze from Russia and to Amiran Papinashvili from Georgia.In this category, Chinese competitor Su Rilege was eliminated in his second fight by Dutch judoka Tornike Tsjakadoea.In the men's 66kg category, Kenzo

GLASGOW (Reuters) .Synchronized swimmers Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Varvara Subbotina were crowned as the first champions at the inaugural multi-sports European Championships on Friday. The Russian pair, a combination of youth and experience, dominated the duet technical routine at Glasgow’s Scotstoun Sports Campus, performing to the soundtrack of musical ‘Chicago’. Their compatriots Aleksandr Maltsev and Mayya Gurbanberdieva then underlined their country’s familiar dominance in synchro events by taking the duet technical mixed title.Subbotina, a 17-year-old, and Kolesnichenko, a 24-year-old who has

By James Masters and Becky Anderson, CNNLiverpool (CNN)No sooner had Mohamed Salah crushed Manchester City's Champions League dreams this week, the messages between Liverpool and Rome went into overdrive.Those exchanges are now likely to be put on hold with Liverpool star Salah being pitted against his former employer, Roma, in the semifinal of the Champions League.Speaking to CNN ahead of the draw, Salah said he had already been messaging his former teammates, offering his congratulations after Roma's astonishing victory over

Reuters.Karolina Pliskova gave herself the perfect pre-Wimbledon tonic by lifting the Aegon International title on the grass at Eastbourne, defeating Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-4 in impressive style in Saturday's final.The Czech world number three demonstrated once again just why, with her big serves and crushing groundstrokes, she could be the one to beat at Wimbledon over the next fortnight as she annexed her third title of the season.Denmark's Wozniacki, the world number six who had hoped to regain the title

ROSARIO, Argentina, : Reuters.Some of the biggest names in world football gathered in Argentina on Friday to see Barcelona striker Lionel Messi wed his long-time girlfriend Antonela Roccuzzo.Past and present Barcelona team mates Carles Puyol, Javier Mascherano, Neymar and Luis Suarez were all there, as was Gerard Pique and his pop star wife Shakira.Several Premier League players were also among the 260 guests, including Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas and Manchester City's Sergio Aguero.An extra 350 police were drafted in to provide

PORT GENTIL, Gabon, Jan 29 (Reuters) .Egypt's Mahmoud Kahraba scored a dramatic late goal to snatch a 1-0 win over their nemesis Morocco on Sunday and a place in the African Nations Cup semi-finals.The seven times winners were on the back foot for much of the last eight game against their north African rivals but grabbed the winner from an 87th minute corner.Morocco failed to clear the bouncing ball and substitute Kahraba hooked it home from close range to book

 By Arwa Gaballa | CAIRO .Reuters.Egypt has added one of the country's most renowned athletes, retired football star Mohamed Aboutrika, to a terrorism list for alleged ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.Fans expressed shock and called the government move an " injustice " against the former midfielder who led the country's national team for roughly a decade and is widely considered to be the most celebrated athlete of his generation in Egypt.Egypt has listed the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and jailed