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(Photo: Wiki Commons) Boxing Amir Khan has performed a U-turn and is ready to fight Kell Brook. Khan had been in talks to fight world welterweight champion Terence Crawford in March – and snub his countryman. But after Brook struggled to beat Michael Zerafa last month, Khan has had a re-think. A fight between Khan […]

26th Oct 2018

Sport brief: Zidane unlikely to manage in the Premier League

The agent of former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has cast doubt over any potential move to Manchester United for his client (Photo: Hadi Abyar/Tasnim News Agency/ Wiki Creative Commons) Athletics Mo Farah scored a stunning Chicago Marathon victory as he won in two hours five minutes and 11 seconds in only his third race […]

29th Jun 2018

Sport Brief

Cricket ACC Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup; Malaysia, (June 3-10) Bangladesh stunned the cricket world by defeating India by three wickets to win the ACC Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup in a fairytale finish in a last-ball thriller in Malaysia. By doing so, they have broken India’s stranglehold on the Asia Cup as they […]

23rd Feb 2018

Mirza to return in time for Asian Games

Mirza to return in time for Asian Games (Photo: Creative Commons) Cricket Pakistan Cricket Board Chair, Najam Sethi, is confident international cricket will be fully restored in Pakistan within a maximum of two years. Sethi expressed hope that in view of the improving security situation in the country and the successfully-hosted T20 matches in Lahore, […]

25th Aug 2017

The summer of two Mo’s

Distance runner Mo Farah and spin bowler Moeen Ali cemented their place as British sporting greats this summer (Photo: Creative Commons) Athletics IAAF World Championships London August 4- 13, 2017: Mo Farah missed out on a fifth major championships distance double in a row as he finished second in the 5,000m at the World Athletics […]

28th Apr 2017

SPORT BRIEF: Nour El Sherbini retains the El Gouna Squash Open

Nour El Sherbini retained the El Gouna International Squash Open (Photo: Flickr/Creative Commons) Athletics The doctor who gave double Olympic champion Mo Farah a controversial supplement has the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on April 19 that he failed to properly document the treatment. Dr Robin Chakraverty said the amount of L-carnitine was well […]

31st Mar 2017

SPORT BRIEF: Emre Can insists his contract stand-off with Liverpool is not about money

(L-R) Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Yaya Toure (Manchester City) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) and Emre Can (Liverpool) are all in talks to move from their clubs this summer (Photo: Flickr/Creative Commons) Athletics Mo Farah has welcomed any move to reanalyse his drug test samples despite the body that governs anti-doping in Britain appearing to warn against […]

24th Feb 2017

SPORT: Aboubakar seals win for Cameroon in the Africa Cup of Nations

A late goal by Vincent Aboubakar sealed a 2-1 championship win for Cameroon over Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations on February 5 in Gabon. I

25th Nov 2016

SPORT BRIEF

Athletics Great Britain’s Olympic champion Mo Farah is one of three athletes still in contention for the men’s IAAF World Athlete of the Year award. The 33-year-old will go up against Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and South Africa’s 400m star Wayde van Niekerk. The women’s award is between Ethiopia’s 10,000m champion Almaz Ayana, Jamaican […]

29th Apr 2016

Moeen quizzed for 40 minutes’ by Border Force officials

Nadine Osman The England cricketer Moeen Ali says he was stopped by border officers on his return to the country from the T20 world cup in India. Ali arrived at Birmingham Airport on April 9 afternoon, but was detained by the UK Border Force for 40 minutes.Ali took to Twitter to complain that he was […]

29th Apr 2016

Sport brief: Khairul Idham Pawi makes history

Athletics Mo Farah won a bronze medal as Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor won back-to-back World Half Marathon titles in testing conditions in Cardiff on March 25. Farah’s time of 59 minutes 59 seconds in a fast-paced race was 27 seconds off his own European record. Defending champion Kamworor won in 59:10 despite falling at the start, […]

Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.