American Kristin Armstrong became the first cyclist to win the same road event at three different Olympic Games on Wednesday. Britain's surprise packet Joseph Clarke won the Canoe gold in the K-1 slalom course on Wednesday.
In an impressive ceremony at the White House, commemorating the 40 years of the Moon mission, Obama honoured Apollo 11 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and hailed them as 'three iconic figures'.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
US President Barack Obama marks the 45th year of the Apollo 11 moon mission.
Federer, Djokovic headline Day 2 at Flushing Meadows
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Wednesday night.
Fresh off the OTT oven, Sukanya Verma picks 10 hot new treats for you.
Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won gold medal in a world sand art championship in Bulgaria.
Leicester City suffered a frustrating night on the south coast as they were held to a 1-1 draw in the Premier League
Anindya Dutta relies on facts and figures rather than back stories to trace the history of Indian spin bowling, says Partha Basu.
MotoGP: KTM's Oliveira powers to victory in Barcelona thriller
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Sunday.
Images from Day 1 of the US Open in New York, on Monday.
Former Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso withdrew from the Tour de France on Monday after revealing he has testicular cancer.
Scotland's Clarke names uncapped trio in Euro squad.
Manchester United kept up their impressive chase for a top-four spot with a comfortable 3-0 win at relegation-threatened Aston Villa in the English Premier League on Thursday. Relegation-threatened Bournemouth had a late goal disallowed by VAR as they had to settle for a 0-0 draw at home to Tottenham Hotspur.
Poland's third seed Agnieszka Radwanska has been bundled out of the US Open by Russia's Ekaterina Makarova in the biggest shock of the women's event at Flushing Meadows.
Till high school, his medium of learning was Marathi. Later, he completed his doctorate under Neil Armstrong's guidance. He has travelled to close to 50 countries, sold $350 billion worth of aircraft. Anjuli Bhargava meets Boeing SVP Dinesh Keskar.
Two workers of a petrochemical plant have been killed following an explosion and a subsequent fire that ripped through the site in central Louisiana in the United States.
Nationalisation has served its purpose. It's time to move ahead, keeping majority ownership of the government in a few banks to serve the people, argues Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Ferrari are planning to add female racers to their expanding young driver programme as they seek to develop talent for the future.
IMAGES from Saturday's English Premier League matches.
From recently-retired master blaster Sachin Tendulkar to Andy Murray, Bobby Charlton and Lance Armstrong, Rediff.com brings you some famous sporting quotes of 2013.
The contemporary music scene in Delhi is deliciously complex and layered; while Bangalore may be the rock capital and Mumbai busy helming alternative, Delhi is revelling in a unique sonic experience, says Ritika Bhatia.
The Italian completed a near-perfect Tour de France for Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team when he won the longest stage in Revel.
Serena Williams returns to the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday
The good folks at Men's Health have very helpfully listed why they believe are the fittest men of all time.
Striker Mariano's header was glanced onto the crossbar by Sociedad's Andoni Gorosabel while the loose ball fell to Marco Asensio, whose shot was deflected wide for a corner from which Raphael Varane header hit the top of the bar.
A day after Nationalist Congress Party leader Samir Bhujbal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, the former member of Parliament was on Tuesday sent to the agency's custody until February 8 by a special PMLA court in Mumbai.
With two tough stages in the Pyrenees up next, five times champion Lance Armstrong and the other favourites took it easy.\n\n
'Even among scientists and technology mavens -- typically communities that tend to view the world through the lens of logos or reason and not mythos, there is a shiny-eyed enthusiasm for the mythical world,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Stringent drug testing means cycling is now probably the cleanest sport, Tour de France champion Chris Froome said on Monday.
Viswanathan Anand says the rating system should not be used to name the best player of the year.
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