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Asians rejoice Pope Francis I
15 March 2013 7:37 AM ISTCatholics across the Asia-Pacific celebrated today the election of the first non-European Pope in 1,300 years, hailing Argentina's Jorge Mario...
Rafael Nadal sets Federer show at Indian Wells
15 March 2013 6:53 AM ISTRafael Nadal outlasted the in-form Latvian Ernests Gulbis 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to set up a mouth-watering quarterfinal with Roger Federer at Indian Wells....
Malaga add Spanish treble in CL
15 March 2013 6:50 AM ISTMalaga’s remarkableChampions League campaign continued on Wednesday when they beat Porto 2-0 to progress to the quarterfinals 2-1 on...
Bayern script escape tale
15 March 2013 6:48 AM ISTArsenal became the last English club to bow out of the Champions League on Wednesday despite a 2-0 second-leg win at Bayern Munich as the Gunners lost...
David Cameron tells Tories to tone down tweets!
14 March 2013 8:26 AM ISTBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has warned his Conservative lawmakers not to air their grievances about the party's dismal poll ratings and his...
‘US coup d’etat against Chavez’
14 March 2013 8:19 AM ISTVenezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua has charged that the United States had been plotting to overthrow late president Hugo Chavez.He also denied on...
Swish of the skirt: N’ Korea takes ‘sexist swipe’ at South president
14 March 2013 8:17 AM ISTNorth Korea took its first official swipe at South Korea’s new president on Wednesday, employing a well-known sexist phrase to paint Park Geun-Hye as...
‘Double Booker’ Mantel up for another Brit-lit award
14 March 2013 8:10 AM ISTHilary Mantel is homing in on a clean sweep of Britain’s three top literary prizes with a nomination for the Women's Prize for fiction.The novelist...
N Korea confirms end of 60-year armistice
14 March 2013 8:07 AM ISTNorth Korea confirmed on Wednesday that it had shredded the 60-year-old armistice ending the Korean War, and warned that the next step was an act of...
China rail min scrapping puts non-profitable cos’ fate in doubt
14 March 2013 8:01 AM ISTChina’s decision to scrap the debt-ridden Railway Ministry as part of the government revamp has raised concerns over the fate of non-profitable rail...
Spain fete ‘magical’ Barca night
14 March 2013 7:37 AM ISTSpain on Wednesday feted Barcelona’s ‘magical’ 4-0 demolition of Milan, praising the Catalans for a spectacularChampions League fightback that swept...
Djoker downs Dimitrov to advance at Indian Wells
14 March 2013 7:35 AM ISTWorld No. 1 Novak Djokovic survived a rocky start to beat Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (7/4), 6-1 on Tuesday and reach the fourth round of the Indian Wells ATP...


