An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Manchester was forced to return to its origin due to last-minute airspace restrictions related to the ongoing situation in West Asia. The flight was using a leased Boeing 787 aircraft.
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Police officers have surrounded the vehicle, which was hijacked just before dawn on its route from the town of Marathon into central Athens.
American Crystal Cox, who won 4x400m relay gold at the Athens Olympics, was stripped of her medal on Saturday, the International Olympic Committee said.
A Beijing television reporter died on Friday after fainting while filming the Olympic torch relay on Thursday evening.
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Jones's lawyer Joseph Burton had accused the USADA and the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) of creating a "witch-hunt."
August 23, the day the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the lunar surface, would be celebrated as 'National Space Day'.
Defender Ehsan Hajsafi became on Sunday the first member of Iran's national team to speak out from the World Cup in Doha in apparent support of anti-government protests at home, saying players should be the voice of those suffering.
Alina Kabaeva was first linked to Putin more than a decade ago, while she was a medal-winning gymnast.
Oleg Perepechyonov has been asked to return his Olympic bronze medal from the 2004 Athens Games after his samples from eight years ago were retested and showed traces of 'a funny substance', the Russian weightlifter said on Wednesday.
Euro zone leaders will hold an emergency summit on Monday.
Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis and an unnamed Greek competitor have tested positive for banned substances and have been expelled from the Rio Olympics, their teams said on Friday.
Salman Karimi, who withdrew from the Athens Olympics saying he had broken his hand, tested positive for drugs.
Australian dual Olympic silver medal-winning kayaker Nathan Baggaley has been arrested following a drug bust, local media reported on Sunday.
Less than two weeks after Lance Armstrong was handed a lifetime ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), fellow American cyclist Tyler Hamilton will describe their alleged drug cheating together in a book.
The triple-Olympic champion pleaded with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to let her concentrate on winning more gold at Athens.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is getting in touch with Greek authorities to ascertain the arrest of three women, including a doctor, for allegedly being involved in the multi-crore kidney racket in which Dr Amit Kumar, the key accused, has been taken into custody by it. The agency, which is probing the case, will approach the authorities through the external affairs ministry and Interpol to get facts and evidence related to it, CBI sources said on Thursday.
A Syrian amputee swimmer, granted asylum in Greece, will be a torch-bearer for the 2016 Rio Games and is to run with the Olympic flame through a refugee camp in Athens on Tuesday.
Swedish Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson said on Monday he was retiring after injury put an end to his plans for a comeback at the London Games later this year.
The WADA report also said that between 2004 and Aug. 1, 138 Kenyan athletes had tested positive for prohibited substances, 113 of them during competitions.
11th-hour debt restructuring programme offered no concessions to creditors
Formal negotiations are due to start in Athens on Friday.
Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were among a group of Greek athletes to be tested by doctors from WADA.
The Athens Games champion can do better than 12.91 seconds, says his coach.
The American sprinter tested positive for a metabolite of cannabis at a meeting in Seville in June.
The world's fastest man was officially charged by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of committing a doping offence.
The US Senate has decided to release documents detailing any drug use by American athletes.
Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, a fierce critic of a Russian track and field ban at the Rio Olympics, was elected an International Olympic Committee member on Sunday but a third of the votes were against her.
The American athlete will miss the Athens Olympics after her appeal against a two-year drugs ban was dismissed
ASDA said 3,800 tests would be carried out on Australian athletes in the next 12 months.
With 75 per cent of votes counted, the ND party was leading with 39.6 per cent of total votes heading towards a majority in the 300-member Greek Parliament, while Tsipras' leftist Syriza was behind with 31.6 per cent of total votes, CNN reported.
IMF report says billions more cash and debt relief needed
Italian anti-doping authorities have called for two-year bans on 26 athletes, including Olympic bronze medallist Fabrizio Donato and European champion long jumper Andrew Howe, for allegedly failing to provide doping samples.
The sweltering heat killed 57 people across Japan in the week from July 29 to Aug. 4, the Disaster Management Agency said on Tuesday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
European leaders are searching for solutions as conflicts in Syria and Iraq are sending thousands of refugees on dangerous voyages through the Balkans and across the Mediterranean to the 28-nation European Union. Here are the latest developments on the crisis.
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