A rampant France smashed South Korea out of sight on Friday to open their women's soccer World Cup campaign in irrepressible style with a 4-0 victory that sent a warning to all other teams with a design on the trophy.
The last barrier to a 365-day professional sporting calendar in Australia looks set to come down with a report in the local media on Friday saying cricketers had agreed to play Twenty20 matches on Christmas Day.
The great Jamaican, who has won eight Olympic and 11 world championship gold medals, is planning to quit the track after competing in the 100m and 4x100m relay in the global event in London.
Kishore Singh salutes Akbar Padamsee, the legendary painter who passed into the ages last fortnight.
It is also concerned at report of torture, mistreatment, discrimination and corruption in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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Usain Bolt has left the door open to running in both the 100 and 200 metres at next year's world championships where he said he will be more focussed on protecting his legacy than topping his world records.
The result was the largest margin of victory in either the men's or women's World Cup.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the 11 candidates shortlisted by Time for its annual honour.
Ethiopia's Etenesh Diro got tangled up with two other runners in Saturday's 3,000m women's Olympic steeplechase and stopped to tear off her damaged right shoe and sock, but she kept on running to finish seventh.
Rapid urbanisation, multi-storeyed buildings and development projects have led to disappearance of 35 Centrally-protected monuments and sites across the country.
Here's a look at some of the protests which has unravelled in America post the elections.
'Rajesh Khanna broke the mould and yet, became the biggest superstar of Indian cinema.'
A summary of Thursday's finals in Track and Field at the Tokyo Olympics.
An essential ingredient in chocolate is cocoa which is rich in flavonoids. By eating chocolate, catechin and epicatechin can reach the bloodstream where they can be transported around the body, helping to prevent oxidation so the body can stay healthier.
The TTP, however, did not confirm the death of its chief in the drone strike.
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Sprint king Usain Bolt was named to the Jamaican Olympic team in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m races despite an injury that kept him from qualifying at trials, the Jamaican Olympic Association said on Monday.
It is their best finish for 54 years, since the glory days of the 1960s when the club was setting new standards in English football under Bill Nicholson.
Cook further said that Apple would like to place retail stores in India and is working with the government to seek approval to do that.
The Indian off-spinner took three wickets to help bundle out Durham for 191 in the first innings of their County Championship match.
Experts say local demand, government policies in retail and refining sector are attracting foreign players.
The report reads like a 'harangue on Pakistan, misrepresenting our position in sharp contrast to unquestioning endorsement of Indian stand point.'
The three Mi-35 Indian multi-role helicopters donated to Afghanistan have made a big difference in the offensive against militants in the war-torn country, the outgoing commander of US forces in Afghanistan has said.
Debutant director Navdeep Singh takes the tribute route by basing his first film completely on Roman Polanski's 1974 classic, Chinatown, screenplay by Robert Towne.
Halep has struggled for form and fitness since her first-round defeat at the US Open last August and came to Australia on a five-match losing streak and without a coach after long-serving Darren Cahill left for "family reasons".
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Allegations of spot-fixing by English cricketers have been dismissed by the England and Wales Cricket Board's Integrity Team and Cricket Australia.
Trump attributed the spike in the confirmed cases of coronavirus to the large-scale testing of the deadly disease.
Cheese increases the pH scale in your mouth and effectively prevents tooth decay.
Gurupreet Kaur, who was a month shy of turning 7, was found dead by the US Border Patrol officials 27 kilometres west of Lukeville, Arizona, after her mother left her with other Indian migrants she was travelling with to go in search of water.
French ice dancer Gabriella Papadakis on Monday was hit by a wardrobe malfunction
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Beaten in just over two hours, Nadal won barely a third of the match's points, was broken five times and conjured only a single break point in the third set, which the Serb saved.
'She's always smiling. I mean, we try in our team to smile everywhere. We make so many funny stuff around the court. She likes it'
A young Arnold Schwarzenegger in swimwear, Cary Grant setting airport chic standards, a socialite even the Kardashians can't keep with and other vintage moments from the film festival on La Croisette!
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