Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
At the press conference, three women accused the former US president of sexual assault, while another one alleged that she was raped by him as a child.
Barack Obama, who picked up the much-needed victory in South Carolina Presidential primary, has received another endorsement. This time, from Caroline Kennedy, daughter of charismatic former United States President John F Kennedy. "My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined," says the daughter of the popular leader.
It's the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history -- and the fifth deadliest in modern US history.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani appears to have got it wrong when he contends that he spoke to former United States Ambassador Robert Blackwill, seeking Washington's help, to end the 1999 Kandahar hijack crisis. Blackwill, while responding to Advani's contention made in his memoirs My Country, My Life, said he was in the US during the Kandahar crisis and had come to India as Ambassador two years after the hijack crisis.
Armitage, appearing in a Brookings Institution discussion on 'The US-Pakistan Strategic Relationship', said, "I have gone my whole career desperately wanting to tell somebody that I would bomb them into the Stone Age and I have never been able to do it because I have never been authorised to do it."
He said India's diversity was its biggest asset and could propel it towards becoming a great power among nations if this diversity was not undermined by religious intolerance and political opportunism.
Gore, who was US President Bill Clinton's deputy in 2000, made the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, after which he was seen as a champion of environmental issues and climate change.
Gearing up for a possible 2016 presidential run, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the "biggest regret" of her tenure was the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including its ambassador.
Bonds worth about Rs 3,300 crore (Rs 33 billion) are held by institutions and retail investors in dematerialised form or demat, which will be redeemed automatically. In fact, the redemption process, which is the biggest ever in India, has already begun for bonds worth Rs 700 crore (Rs 7 billion) that are held in demat form by institutions.
While the charismatic Bill Clinton has often turned out in support for his wife, this is the first time that talk show host Oprah Winfrey will campaign for a presidential hopeful.
Singh hosted a lunch in honour of Clinton, who is in New Delhi on a private visit.
"I think the mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse like any other spouse who could defend his candidate. I think I can promote Hillary but not defend her because I was president," Clinton said. Clinton's comments while campaigning for his wife, including comparing Obama's bid to the unsuccessful campaign of an earlier black presidential hopeful, Jesse Jackson, resulted in a bitter war of words between the two top Democratic contenders.
Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush, has since transformed himself into an avid environment campaigner, even winning an Oscar for his documentary "An inconvenient truth", a film about global warming.
In a release, the non-profit organisation said the historic transformation in Indo-US relations could not have occurred without the presence of Blackwill in New Delhi.
Here are some little-known facts about Indian child activist Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay
Leicester's Mahrez finds form in time for January sales
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that the sale of uranium will not free up India's other resources for weapons development.
The lawmakers lacked imagination, he said.
Asked about his initial reactions on the IPCC winning the Nobel Prize, Dr Pachauri said he was "deeply humbled by the honour that has been bestowed on me by the Nobel Committee. In any case, this is an honour that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the IPCC's work."
Images from Tuesday night's UEFA Champions League group stage matches.
ED had earlier issued summons to Mallya for "personal appearance" on March 18 under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
'He reduced the secretary general's position so low that his brilliant successors like Boutros Ghali and Kofi Annan looked like rebels.'
The United States has a moral and national interest in helping poor and struggling countries transform themselves into free and hopeful societies, Bush said.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will not allow his players time off for Christmas as he wants to ensure they are fully prepared for Monday's English Premier League trip to basement team Hull City.
She was busy applying make-up when the Nehrus waited at the airport.
Winger Ryan Giggs has extended his contract at champions Manchester United by a further year to the end of June 2009, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.
Former United States President George W Bush campaigned for his younger brother for the first time on Monday night.
Bahel, who was in the field procurement unit of the procurement department of the United Nations, was investigated for bending the rules to steer millions of dollars worth of contracts to Indian firms.
'Once a government has approved a report then they necessarily have to accept ownership of it.' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Dr R K Pachauri in an extensive interview.
Jose Mourinho will forget what has gone on for the last three disappointing seasons at Manchester United, he said in his first interview after being installed as manager on Friday.
Manchester United have appointed Jose Mourinho as their manager, the Premier League club said on Friday.
The timing of the tests caught the CIA by surprise.
Tenet's remarks in his book were in contrast to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's statement that Armitage had threatened to bomb the country 'back to the Stone Age.'
Fulham forgot their Premier League struggles to sweep into the FA Cup fourth round with a 3-0 victory over fellow top-flight strugglers NorwichCity in a third-round replay on Tuesday.
'Having spent a lifetime in public service, that I should do something that I've never done before, that would stretch me a little bit.'
The founder of the awards Jakob von Uexkull sold a valuable stamp collection to fund the awards.\n\n
Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal needs to be given more time so that the club can reap the rewards of allowing him to develop his own ideas, former United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel said on Tuesday.
India is one of the most important partnerships the US has, says the man tipped to be the Democrat presidential candidate.
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