New Zealand capture fourth women's rugby World Cup (AFP)

New Zealand's player of the match Carla Hohepa (R) does the haka with her teammates after defeating England in the Women's Rugby World Cup 2010 Final at Twickenham Stoop Stadium, southwest London. New Zealand won the game 13-10.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - New Zealand shrugged off a double yellow-card setback to defeat England 13-10 and win the women's World Cup for a fourth successive time on Sunday.
Teen star Noh boosts Order of Merit bid (AFP)

Teenage South Korean star Noh Seung-yul, pictured in August 2010, produced an impressive fourth place finish at the European Masters on Sunday to widen his lead on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Graythen)AFP - Teenage South Korean star Noh Seung-yul produced an impressive fourth place finish at the European Masters on Sunday to widen his lead on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit.
Hameed insists was repeating claims and misled (AFP)

Pakistan cricketer Yasir Hameed leaves the Pakistan High Commission in London. Hameed insisted Sunday he had been misled by an undercover reporter and was only repeating allegations he had read about when he said his teammates were corrupt.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed insisted Sunday he had been misled by an undercover reporter and was only repeating allegations he had read about when he said his teammates were corrupt.
Scandal-hit Pakistan well beaten by England in cricket Twenty20 (AFP)

Pakistan's Umar Akmal plays a shot during the first Natwest International Twenty20 match against England at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.
Aussies muscled out of world basketball championships (AFP)

Slovenia's Goran Dragic goes for a basket during the World Cup Championship basketball match Australia versus Slovenia in Istanbul. Australia's world basketball championships campaign came to a bone-shuddering end on Sunday when they were crushed 87-58 by Slovenia in the last 16.(AFP/Franck Fife)AFP - Australia's world basketball championships campaign came to a bone-shuddering end on Sunday when they were crushed 87-58 by Slovenia in the last 16.
Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations (AP)

An Afghan boy is removed from a stretcher at a hospital, after being injured in a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Some people were killed and others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy in the insurgent hotbed of Kandahar, according to local hospitals. NATO said there were no injuries to coalition forces or damage to their vehicles. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown (AP)

An aerial view shows floodwaters surround houses in the Rajanpur district of Punjab province, Pakistan on Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Floodwaters are still swamping rich agricultural land in the southern provinces of Sindh and Punjab weeks after it lashed the country killing about 1,600 and leaving about 20 million people affected by floods. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Taliban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election (Reuters)

Following a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow helicopter rescue mission, army medical professionals wheel an Afghan man who was injured in an IED explosion into a Role 3 advanced medicine field hospital, at Forward Operating Base Dwyer, in southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The explosive, which also struck a boy in the face, was planted to kill or maim Marines and Afghan soldiers on foot, who responded and applied tourniquets to the man's upper thighs, and calling in the rescue unit from the 101st Airborne's TF Destiny. The man's legs were later amputated. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban said on Sunday they would attempt to disrupt elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against the poll by the hardline Islamists.
Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank (AP)

In this photo taken on May 11, 2010, teacher Kazuyo Arai, background standing, and her class listen to a student speaking at Honmoku Elementary School in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks, bringing the total to nearly 6,100. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker.
Minister says Pakistani militants stoking sectarian rift (Reuters)

Shi'ite Muslims carry coffins for burial, of those who were killed during a Shi'ite Muslim procession a day earlier, in Quetta September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Rizwan SaeedReuters - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to create a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.
Reports: Afghan captors release Japanese reporter (AP)

This undated photo shows Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese journalist and veteran of war zones. The Japanese journalist who was abducted by apparent Taliban militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors, reports said Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA, MANDATORY CREDIT **AP - A Japanese journalist who was abducted by apparent Taliban militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors, reports said Sunday.
Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger (AP)

FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Peter Chou, chief executive officer of Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., or HTC Corp., talks about the introduction of the brand into China's market during a press conference held in Beijing, China. East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are anonymous. Now HTC Corp., the Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
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