Beijing's Olympic opening extravaganza drew rave reviews on Friday from media around the world awed by rich displays of Chinese culture that eclipsed controversy that has surrounded the city's hosting of the Games.
In Sialkot, people found five empty ballot boxes near Kashmir Park in the Cantonment area, the report said.
The South Africa captured his 417th victim, eclipsing the previous record of 416 briefly held by Australian Adam Gilchrist.
Liverpool have been told by a tribunal to pay Championship (second-tier) leaders Burnley up to eight million pounds ($11.7 million) for striker Danny Ings.
Statistical highlights of the third day's play in the first Test between India and New Zealand, at Hamilton, on Friday.
Liverpool tore Real Madrid apart with a blistering 4-0 win to reach the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday while Premier League rivals Chelsea drew 2-2 with Juventus in Turin to progress 3-2 on aggregate. Bayern Munich cantered into the last eight by routing Portugal's Sporting 7-1 in Germany and 12-1 over the two legs for a Champions League aggregate record victory.
Chelsea agreed a deal to sign Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata, subject to the Spain international agreeing personal terms and passing a medical.
Younis Khan hit 313 and Kamran Akmal chipped in with an unbeaten century to help Pakistan achieve a record total as the first Test against Sri Lanka ended in a predictable draw on Wednesday. The hosts declared at a mammoth 765 for six on the fifth day before Sri Lanka finished on 144 for five, a lead of 23.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday hailed Sachin Tendulkar as a 'genius' after the master batsman eclipsed Brian Lara to become the highest run-getter in Test cricket. Tendulkar surpassed Lara to become the highest run getter in Tests on the opening day of the second Test against Australia at Mohali.
Russian Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva extended her own world indoor pole vault record to 5.00 metres at a meeting in Ukraine on Sunday.
Venus Williams carrying the hopes of the Williams clan while her younger sibling takes time out to have a baby.
Phil Jaques got his first duck in Test cricket and missed becoming the fourth player to record seven successive fifties, held jointly by Everton Weekes (WI), Andy Flower (Zim.) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI).
Barcelona rubber-stamped a decade of domestic dominance by clinching the La Liga title on Sunday
Sri Lanka off-spinner Dilruwan Perera took six wickets in the second innings for a match-haul of 10, as the hosts registered a thumping 278-run win over South Africa inside three days of the opening Test on Saturday.
'Not thought about scoring five hundreds. I just go out there and do my job. Not thinking about all these kind of milestones'
Kenya's Kenneth Mungara won the Mumbai marathon in a record time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 59 seconds on Sunday morning. His timing eclipsed countryman Daniel Rono's time of 2: 12.03 seconds, set in the 2006 edition of the event. David Tarun, also of Kenya, finished second in 2:12.02 seconds, while 2007 and 2008 winner John Kelai placed third with a timing of 2: 12.03 seconds.
"It's obviously an amazing feat while it is not very nice being a victim. Maybe I will look back at my career I think I was his 709th," he added.
Images from the Nations League matches.
Manmohan Singh faced stiff competition in Singapore. No, not at the East Asia Summit or in meetings with the Asean. But the rival attractions of two imaginative exhibitions on India's past and an exhaustive three-day conference titled "Early Indian Influences in Southeast Asia" eclipsed his presence while China's Wen Jiabao basked in media glory that reflected the reality of economic and military power.
IBM has developed an advanced software technology that can help assess transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe to the open source community.
Statistical highlights on day two of the third cricket Test between India and New Zealand, in Indore, on Sunday.
Despite the Indian bowlers working hard to improve their chances of a win in the third Test in Melbourne, Australia finished Day 4 on 261 for seven with Shaun March (62 no out) and Ryan Harris (8 not out) and 326-run lead. Rogers and Shaun Marsh scored fighting fifties to put Australia in a strong position on Monday. Here are the statistical highlights from the day's play.
ITC, Godrej Agrovet, DCM Shriram and other companies expanding in rural areas may eclipse the growth of their urban counterparts, including Reliance Fresh and the Future Group-owned Food Bazaar chain, helped by higher farm income that is spurring a boom in sales of fast moving consumer goods, consumer durables and apparel.
Australia recorded its largest one-day victory over West Indies to claim a 5-0 sweep of their international series on Sunday.
Olympian Deriba Merga and Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia won the men's and women's crowns in the Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday. Merga set the course ablaze, clocking 59.15 minutes, to set a new meet record.
Statistical highlights of the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup match between South Africa and West Indies in Johannesburg.
A survey says that Indian job seekers prefer the online recruitment process to newspaper ads and word of mouth information.
Gautam Gambhir's innings of 67 and 104 took him eight places up to 29, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni, under whose captaincy India clinched the second Test, moved seven places to 37 in the latest rankings.
Australia's Adam Gilchrist hopes to finally get the recognition he deserves for his prowess behind the stumps after the wicketkeeper-batsman broke the world record for the most Test dismissals on Friday. Gilchrist bettered South African Mark Boucher's world record when he caught Indian captain Anil Kumble shortly after the tea interval on the second day of the fourth and final Test.
Australia were 62 without loss at stumps, in reply to India's 526, at the end of Day 2 of the fourth Test.
With nine days remaining before the transfer window closes for the season, around 93 million pounds has been spent by English clubs on new signings.
Statistical highlights of the fourth day of the first Test between India and Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Bangalore on Sunday.
Rohit Sharma produced an elegant hundred before Kuldeep Yadav flummoxed the Pakistani batsmen as India inflicted a humiliating 89-run defeat via the Duckworth-Lewis method on their arch-rivals.
The thinking heads of Bengal have taken to the streets demanding the chief minister's resignation. They have dubbed Bhattacharjee 'the Narendra Modi of Bengal.'
The United States won the men's 4x100 metres medley relay on Saturday after Ryan Murphy had given them a world record start that propelled Michael Phelps to a 23rd gold medal in his final Olympic race.
Rohit Sharma blazed his way to the joint fastest century in T20 Internationals, reaching the three-figure mark off just 35 balls in the second T20 International against Sri Lanka in Indore on Friday.
American swimmer Michael Phelps became the most successful Olympian of all time when he won his 10th gold medal on Wednesday and his fourth of the Beijing Games. The mighty Phelps broke his own world record to continue his dominance in the Water Cube pool and overtake an elite group including Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis who had won nine golds.
China upstaged a hobbling United States team to surge to their first gymnastics women's team title at the Olympics.
Indian cricket legend Kapil Dev has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award at a ceremony in the House of Lords in London.
Statistical highlights of the third day's play between India and Sri Lanka in the first Test at the SSC in Colombo on Friday.
