English Premier League leaders Liverpool will need to maintain their excellent recent record against Everton in Sunday's Merseyside derby if they are to hold their advantage over second-placed Manchester City.
Maharashtra Chief Prithviraj Chavan resigned on Friday, a day after the Nationalist Congress Party broke its 15-year-old alliance with Congress in the state, reducing his government to a minority.
Mario Balotelli scored a minute from time to give Inter Milan a 2-1 win over beleaguered Juventus in their Italian Cup quarter-final on Thursday, leaving Juve coach Ciro Ferrara on the brink of the sack.
Before meeting the governor, she visited the memorial of Jayalalithaa at the Marina Beach in Chennai.
Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur coach Andre Villas-Boas will take over Russian side Zenit St Petersburg this week after agreeing on a two-season contract, the club said on Tuesday.
In a survey conducted by Nielsen, for Telugu news channel NTV, an overwhelming 78 per cent of the electorate in Andhra Pradesh stated that they would like to see Jaganmohan Reddy succeed his father YSR Rajasekhara Reddy as the next chief minister. According to the survey, the results of which were also released by the Congress Legislature Party, caretaker Chief Minister K Rosaiah was second on the popularity chart with 13 per cent support.
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'We can't say that a year has gone by and it doesn't hurt. But that they didn't succeed, that we can say!' Voices from a memorial ceremony in New York for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivika who were killed in the terror attacks.
"The charge that the two ministers were pro-rapist is absolutely wrong. It was sheer indiscretion on their part," Madhav said.
A gunman has taken at least two people hostage in post office northwest of Paris, French media reported.
Besides people from the UK, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Ireland, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Kenya and Australia, these 50 also include television presenter Kim Jagtiani from Mumbai and Anjaan RJ of Bangalore. The Top 50 will be narrowed down to a final 11 -- 10 of whom will be chosen by Tourism Queensland and an 11th 'wild card' applicant chosen by popular vote.
Swansea City climbed out of the relegation zone after a first-half header by captain Ashley Williams gave them a 1-0 win over Watford on Monday just hours after they named Francesco Guidolin as their new head coach.
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Continue to invest normally unless prices fall drastically in April-May. If prices do fall drastically, invest more than normal, advises Devangshu Datta.
John Terry will pass into Chelsea folklore as their greatest captain during the most successful period in their history and his announcement on Sunday that he will leave at the end of the season marks the end of an era.
The Election Commission has so far announced 'unofficial' results of 295 seats of the 300-seat parliament saying, the Hasina's alliance won 258 seats while her archrival ex-premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party grouping won in 31 constituencies.
Former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer will manage Newcastle United for the remainder of the season, according to television reports on Tuesday.
Arsenal, who fired Unai Emery as manager last week and appointed former player Freddie Ljungberg as caretaker boss, now sit 10th in the table on 19 points, with Brighton a single point behind and three places below them.
Argentina captain Lionel Messi pulled his side level in the 57th minute after a handball by Paraguay's Ivan Peris which no-one on the pitch appealed for but was spotted by a VAR review.
Leicester City manager Craig Shakespeare has said that he never had any arguments with predecessor Claudio Ranieri and there was no ill feeling between the pair prior to the Italian's sacking.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will "officiate" on urgent matters of governance after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday afternoon, a senior Congress party source told rediff.com
Locals alleged that the road that was closed some time ago over safety issues was reopened at the insistence of TSRTC officials to save on fuel.
Celebrated Nobel Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter died of cancer on Christmas eve aged 78, his family said.
Pakistan's incoming government should convert the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh into life imprisonment on "humanitarian grounds" and ensure his early release, caretaker Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney said on Monday. President Pervez Musharraf had on March 19 deferred the hanging of Sarabjit, scheduled for April 1, by 30 days after receiving an appeal for clemency from the Indian government and the condemned man's family.
The church's caretaker found that the main door was ajar and a few belongings and the ciborium were broken.
Catalan nationalists said on Friday they would hand out 10,000 Scottish flags to Barcelona supporters in the Spanish King's Cup Final soccer match on Sunday after Madrid banned the display of the Catalan pro-independence flag in the stadium.
Though this thriller has a good premise, it's execution leaves much to be desired. The only good thing about the movie is the performances by the veterans.
Satyajit Ray would have been 97 today, May 2. Soumendu Roy, who worked with the legendary director for many years, looks back on the Genius that was Manikda, as the Master was known to family, friends and admirers.
Authorities have been directed to take stringent measures and show 'no leniency' towards elements involved in militancy and violence.
India is interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs through "information centers" it has set up in Afghanistan and promoting terrorism in Balochistan, caretaker Information Minister Nisar Memon has said.
British national Ben Southall, the winner of the 'Best Job in the World' competition which will pay him a whopping $121,000 on Wednesday started his six-month caretaker duties at the picturesque Hamilton Island, saying he intends to work hard to promote tourism in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Shah said that no one objected when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he publicly said that Devendra Fadnavis would be the chief minister if the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance wins the assembly polls in Maharashtra.
Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan said that President Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, former federal ministers Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, Ejaz-ul-Haq, Amir Muqam and Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi faced threats to their lives from extremists.
Premier League strugglers Portsmouth have sacked manager Tony Adams after a slump in form which has left them in danger of relegation.
Information Minister Nisar Memon said the interim government believes that the political parties and candidates should work together to create an atmosphere conducive to the holding of free, fair and transparent polls. Dismissing apprehensions of pre-poll rigging expressed by some political leaders, Memon said in a statement that the "unfortunate culture of questioning the electoral process has become a custom in our country".
Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was released on Thursday on bail after one-year imprisonment.
Ben Southall, a British charity worker has won the 'best job in the world'.
Any hopes of a Happy New Year will evaporate for Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal if his side fail to beat struggling Swansea City at Old Trafford on Saturday.
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