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World in motion: Akhtar has liposuction to lose weight

Pakistan fast bowler decides to tackle weighty issue while boxer Manny Pacquiao’s private life is under the microscope

Qatar’s wealth funding World Cup dream

The oil and gas-rich state wants to play football on the biggest stage — and money is the least of its worries

World in motion: Agassi confessed ‘to help others’

The former tennis star’s revelations of drug use, as revealed in The Times, were to assist other athletes, he says in a TV interview

Tyson’s mellow side put to the test in TV row

Former world heavyweight champion begins tour of Britain by rowing with Sky News' Dermot Murnaghan over his fall from grace

World in motion: five sportspeople who hated their sport

Andre Agassi said this week that he 'hated tennis' but is not the only one to be driven to despair by his profession

World in motion: Scandal threatens pride of Taiwan

Match-fixing allegations have cast a pall over the nation's baseball stars, with pitcher Tsao Chin-hui one of those implicated

Agassi shows self-policing is open to abuse

American’s admission that he used crystal meth was shocking, but not as shocking as the system that failed to punish him

World in Motion: Cuddly Tyson a 'changed man'

The former heavyweight returns to the UK next Tuesday and Owen Slot believes he is just beginning to understand himself

World in motion: Obama should pardon Johnson

Manny Pacquiao has a reputation in Manila for crooning in public, but now he plans to do so after his world-title bout

World in motion: Winfrey reduces Tyson to tears

Former heavyweight champion gets emotional over death of four-year-old daughter before being joined by Evander Holyfield in chat show

World in motion: the remarkable reach of 'Indian Red'

The Times Chief Sports Reporter recalls his unforgettable meeting with the former boxer who died, aged 64, at the weekend

World in motion: ESPN shows naked ambition

Broadcaster’s new magazine seeks to outstrip Sports Illustrated with pictorial feature on sportsmen and women in the nude

World in motion: the myth of the Norman-Evert union

The Times Chief Sports Reporter reflects on the end of a relationship that offered so much and delivered so little

World in motion: Maradona hopes for divine intervention

Argentina coach insists that he does know what he’s doing although he wouldn’t mind a little help from above

Holyfield's next big fight is against global warming

Our Chief Sports Reporter investigates the disgraced former Olympic champion's rocky relationship with the truth

Holyfield's next big fight is against global warming

The four-times world heavyweight boxing champion says he wants to be known in future as the Lean, Green, Fighting Machine

Craig Bellamy is deeply misunderstood - discuss

His inability to handle the red mist is legendary, but his professionalism with a project in Africa tells a different story

World in motion: cue next scandal, lawn bowls-gate

The sedate sport is latest to be tainted as New Zealand team are accused of losing deliberately in Asia-Pacific Championships

Will his own wine keep Miller on the piste?

Skiing: The Times Chief Sports Reporter finds the American skier turning to the bottle as an alternative to the Olympics