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Colombia scored two first half goals to tame hosts the United States and open the Copa America tournament with a convincing 2-0 victory in front of a big crowd on Friday.
The contest for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award promises to be one of the most competitive ever with the likes of Usain Bolt, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andy Murray vying for top honours.
Robert Allenby's bizarre season took another strange turn when his caddie walked off the course midway through the first round of the RBC Canadian Open.
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Lionel Messi scored his 55th international goal to become his country's all-time leading scorer as Argentina thrashed hosts the United States 4-0 to ease into the final of the Centenary Copa America on Tuesday.
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Eight time champions Brazil were held 0-0 by Ecuador in the glamour game as the second day of the centenary Copa America tournament mustered up only one, albeit spectacular, goal from three matches on Saturday.
'This is the beginning of a big campaign which may last a hundred years of trying to understand the human body in detail.'
"I will admit coming here...wasn't the easiest thing for me," the former secretary of state said.
'Dr Rajan is often preachy with commandments aimed at nobody in particular,' complains M S Sriram.
The Scot lost 6-4, 6-4 to Richard Gasquet in his first singles match since January before saying he had turned down a wild card into the men's draw at the year's final Grand Slam.
'The lush green of Kashmir was exactly like the postcards and posters I had seen growing up.'
The BCCI has retired the No 10 jersey in Tendulkar's honour. But in football, number 10 signifies the legend. After Pele and Diego Maradona, the two great strikers of the ball, Lionel Messi has made the number priceless, notes Veer Arjun Singh.
Sports authorities across the world are scrambling to find out more about the mosquito-borne virus as they make plans for the games in August.
Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Mr Swamy has written letters to the Prime Minister's Office asking for Mr Rajan's services to be terminated.
'We have been getting e-mails for assignments and events. People from random islands, like Seychelles, called us to perform for India's independence day. It's crazy to see how the internet affects the world. We feel blessed that so many people recognise us. We have even got mails from low-budget feature film makers in the South -- like they want us to be the heroines!' Twins Poonam and Priyanka Shah give us a jhalak into their lives!
The majority of global equity trading and a significant proportion of trading in bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives, is done on electronic platforms
Dhoom 3 is a children's film made for children who've never seen a film, writes Raja Sen.
The Times Higher Education World University rankings lists the top 800 universities in the world.
"San Bernardino involved two killers who were radicalised for quite a long time before their attack," FBI Director James Comey said.
Pollution is impacting the lifespan of Indians.
The founder of the Republican Hindu Coalition first attracted attention in the US as the "Punjabi tycoon" who was a huge supporter of Narendra Modi in the US. 'He will be best for India. There is no better ally for the US than India in the region,' Shalabh Kumar tells Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Abhishek has been posting fond memories and interesting anecdotes on Instagram, recapping his #RoadTo20.
The former Swedish captain, was an integral part of Arsenal's feared line-up in the early part of the last decade. He also played a key role in the North London club's record-breaking 49-game unbeaten run in 2003-04.
The frenzy to be present at the Madison Square Garden on September 28 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Indian-American community likely rivals a rock concert held at the famous New York venue.
'... to Imran Khan, that there's not going to be any mediation of any meaningful sort given his (Modi's) special relationship with Trump.'
An Indian-origin journalist was heckled by Donald Trump's supporters and briefly detained by police during a protest at a campaign rally.
An Indian-origin Uber driver has allegedly raped a 25-year-old in Canada, prompting police to seek public's help in tracing him.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan plans to write on 'academic issues' after leaving the Reserve Bank.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has sparked off a political firestorm in the United States with his remarks that President Barack Obama does not love America, a comment termed as "horrible" by the White House.
'Child rape and sexual abuse have become a moral epidemic that haunts our nation and we can no longer remain silent spectators.'
'No Indian citizen should be humiliated by the US authorities.' 'And Shah Rukh Khan happens to be one of India's most well known citizens.'
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Chile beat Colombia 2-0 in the Copa America semi-final on Wednesday and will face Argentina in Sunday's final after surviving a tumultuous match in Chicago.
Ravin Gandhi wrote an op-ed for CNBC following Trump's Charlottesville remarks but was quickly trolled and racially abused by readers.
Lloyd and Sussane Rudolph -- two University of Chicago professors who started studying Indian politics in the 1950s, have been named the winners of the Padma Bhushan Award.
