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Have the best cell in prison: Bidve’s killer
16 Oct 2012 5:45 AM ISTKiaran ‘Psycho’ Stapleton, who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve last year claims he has the ‘best cell’ in his wing and knows ‘loads of people’ in...
Murdoch takes to Twitter to ridicule Biden-Obama
16 Oct 2012 5:23 AM ISTMedia mogul Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter on Sunday to savage the Obama-Biden campaign, appearing to throw his full support behind Mitt Romney little...
Mike Tyson backs Aussie PM on sexism
15 Oct 2012 6:35 AM ISTAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s scathing speech against sexism won unlikely backing from controversial former heavyweight boxing champion...
Mom jailed for 99 years in US for beating daughter ‘into coma’
15 Oct 2012 6:33 AM ISTA Dallas woman who superglued her two-year-old daughter’s hands to a wall and beat her ‘to the edge of death’ has been sentenced to 99 years in...
Dissident Chinese writer brands Mo Yan ‘state poet’
15 Oct 2012 6:33 AM ISTDissident Chinese writer Liao Yiwu, who lives in Germany, branded China’s Nobel Prize winning author Mo Yan as a ‘state poet’, close to the communist...
UK to investigate military ‘cash for access’ claims
15 Oct 2012 6:30 AM ISTBritain’s defence ministry said on Sunday that it would probe claims that retired military officers offered to lobby illicitly on behalf of arms...
‘Ronaldo should win Ballon d’Or’
13 Oct 2012 8:47 AM ISTReal Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has said it would be a travesty if Cristiano Ronaldo did not win the 2012 FIFA Ballon d’Or, as competition heats up...
Anand’s search for first victory continues
13 Oct 2012 8:46 AM ISTWorld champion Viswanathan Anand’s hunt for an elusive victory continued as he was held to a draw by Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the eighth round of...
Armstrong stranded on road to nowhere
13 Oct 2012 8:39 AM ISTA damning report placing Lance Armstrong at the heart of sports history’s biggest doping programme raised questions about what happens next, with the...
Murray clears Stepanek hurdle
13 Oct 2012 8:36 AM ISTDefending champion Andy Murray battled back from a set down against unseeded Radek Stepanek to reach the Shanghai Masters semifinals on Friday,...
Bangladesh storm toll rises to 26, scores missing
13 Oct 2012 7:33 AM ISTTropical storms that battered southern Bangladesh are now known to have killed at least 26 people while some 60 fishermen are still missing, police...
F1: Hulkenberg eyes podium finish
12 Oct 2012 8:52 AM ISTThe chase for that elusive podium finish continues but Sahara Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg on Thursday said that his team has the car and...


