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Azhar Ali's ton sets up exciting final test
12 July 2012 12:43 AM ISTPakistan's Azhar Ali smashed a second century in successive matches on Wednesday to leave the final Test against Sri Lanka poised for an intriguing...
Yaya Toure determined to stay at City
12 July 2012 12:33 AM ISTManchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has promised to follow boss Roberto Mancini's example by dedicating his future to the Premier League...
Clarke stunned as England thrash Australia
12 July 2012 12:16 AM ISTAustralia captain Michael Clarke admitted he hadn't seen a 4-0 one-day campaign defeat by England coming after his side made some unwanted history. ...
A well dressed Dragon
11 July 2012 9:01 AM ISTBy Virginie Mangin For many years designer Guo Pei drew inspiration for her luxury clothes collections from travelling abroad, but recently she...
Pope to sue German magazine for ‘Vatileaks’
11 July 2012 7:40 AM ISTA German magazine on Tuesday said that Pope Benedict XVI was preparing to sue it for publishing a cover satirising the ‘Vatileaks’ leaked-documents...
Suu Kyi makes Parliamentary debut
10 July 2012 7:19 AM ISTMyanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made her historic parliamentary debut on Monday, marking a new phase in her near quarter century struggle...
Raul Castro meets Hanoi top brass
9 July 2012 6:29 PM ISTCuban President Raul Castro met with Vietnamese leaders on Sunday following a visit to China, as Havana looks to old communist allies while it...
‘I will buy a shirt and watch for my father’
6 July 2012 6:49 PM ISTBy Rupam Jain NairRam Singh, 17, earns just $1 from the 100 cups of tea he makes every day outside Delhi railway station, but each evening, after...
Mike dies before he could be king
6 July 2012 6:51 AM ISTAn Australian forklift driver who some historians argued was the true heir to the British throne has died in the small New South Wales town he called...
Greek PM begins talks with EU-IMF auditors
6 July 2012 6:49 AM ISTNew Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras began talks with EU-IMF auditors on Thursday, hoping to renegotiate Greece's second bailout as the country's...
Clash of the stalwarts on the cards
6 July 2012 1:20 AM ISTNovak Djokovic and Roger Federer have met 26 times, but Friday's potentially epic Wimbledon semi-final will be a first clash on grass in their...
Federer, greatest of all time: Rod Laver
6 July 2012 1:14 AM ISTAustralian legend Rod Laver on Thursday proclaimed Roger Federer as the greatest player of all time, but with Rafael Nadal not far behind. 'Roger...


