Soccer will continue to rely on human judgement when it comes to disputed goals after the game's rule-makers flatly rejected the use of video and chip technology now and in the foreseeable future. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) voted against two proposed systems on Saturday, and said it would not risk sacrificing the sport's human element.
Kevin Volland ties record for fastest Bundesliga goal.
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Jamaica and West Indies cricketer Jerome Taylor has been charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest after a confrontation with officers in a bar in which he had been drinking, police said on Thursday.
Expressing confidence, Food Minister K V Thomas said on Friday the government is not 'worried' about food inflation, which is showing a decline trend and may come down to 7 per cent soon.
When he didn't respond (Mr Saver has lost count of how many relationship managers he has had in the past few years!), the gentleman landed up at his doorstep and started pleading with him to open fixed deposits with the bank, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
West Indies T20 skipper Darren Sammy has excluded from the list of central contract for the 2015-16 international cricket season.
After opening higher, the markets continued to trade in the positive zone in the afternoon session as traders were encouraged by RBI governor Shaktikanta Das's statement that the new resolution framework is expected to give durable relief to borrowers amid the Covid-19 crisis, said Narendra Solanki, head-equity research (fundamental), Anand Rathi.
The winners of next year's World Cup final in South Africa will collect $30 million (18 million pounds) in prize money, FIFA said on Thursday after their Executive Committee meeting in the historic setting of Robben Island.
France, World Cup winners in 1998 and finalists in 2006, missed out on a place in the eight top seeds for Friday's draw, announced by FIFA on Wednesday.
Bayern Munich won its sixth Champions League crown in Lisbon on Sunday night.
The Kannada film industry was in a state of shock after hearing the news. Monica has acted in four Kannada films in a career spanning six years. She had created a lot of controversies and her name featured regularly in magazine gossip columns.
Mohun Bagan on Thursday wrote a 255-page letter to football's world governing body FIFA, challenging the interim relief to India captain Bhaichung Bhutia.
FIFA warned French politicians on Saturday to beware of meddling in the running of football amid national soul-searching and high-level meetings over the traumatic exit of Les Bleus from the World Cup.
The car, sold under the Mahindra-Renault badge, will see a rebranding exercise and be manufactured and distributed by M&M alone.
Bajaj Auto's ultra low-cost car project may have a bumpy ride ahead, with partner Renault India still to take a final call on branding and marketing the vehicle.
Jerome Valcke, FIFA's often-outspoken secretary general, all but confirmed on Friday that he will be leaving his job when Sepp Blatter is replaced as president of world soccer's governing body next February.
The alleged mastermind of the scheme Chelsea-based Indian entrepreneur Nandan Pruthi and his business partners Kenneth Peacock and John Anderson were arrested after a series of raids conducted by the London police in the city, the Observer newspaper reported.
Noting that the last reforms to the Security Council were made in the sixties, Ambassador of France to India Jerome Bonnafont said "if we want the Security Council to remain a legitimate place for handling peace and security crisis in the world, it is absolutely necessary to have India as well as couple of others as permanent members."
Ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh's twin strike from penalty-corners went in vain as India were held to a 3-3 draw by Belgium in the first hockey Test at Temse, Belgium.
Simon Katich fell eight runs short of a century as Australia finished Day 1 in the opening Test against the West Indies on 322 for 5, in Brisbane, on Thursday.
FIFA has finally acknowledged that there may be something wrong with the Jabulani World Cup ball and will act on it after the World Cup.
Most Asian currency and equity markets too suffered steep losses due to US rate hike fears.
A fine innings of 143 from Ian Bell helped England to recover from a terrible start and finish the first day of the first Test against West Indies on 341 for five in Antigua on Monday.
FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke has said that South Africa is still not ready to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals, nearly 100 days ahead of the start of the tournament.
France on Wednesday said it would soon introduce a law to ban the practice of wearing burqa in public places and made it clear that people staying in the country should adhere by the laws of the land. French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont said wearing a burqa or nikaab in public places in France was in contradiction of the principles of freedom and equality. "If someone does not feel at ease with French laws, why should they stay in France," Bonnafont asked.
Best selling American author Jerome David 'JD' Salinger has died in New Hampshire where he lived for more than fifty years after stepping back from spotlight to live in quiet seclusion. He was 91. The author died of natural causes on Wednesday, according to a statement provided by his family to the American media.
Considering the fact that Surya is renowned stuntman of Tamil films' Jaguar Thangam's maiden venture, which also marks his son's debut, you ought to have a pretty good idea of what the music would be like. And depressingly, you would be right. Here is music director Jerome Pushparaj's offering.
FIFA dashed any lingering Irish hopes of playing in next year's World Cup finals on Tuesday by declaring it would be impossible to add a 33rd team to the tournament.
West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor has said that the current Australian team is beatable. Though Queensland managed to score 617 against the West Indies in their practice game, the 25-year-old Taylor believes the tourists are ready to take on the Aussies.
Swiss police are investigating a bomb threat at the FIFA congress, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
The news of Neeraj Grover, Creative Head of Synergy Adlabs, allegedly killed by actress Maria Monica Susayraj and her boyfriend Naval officer Lt M L Jerome Mathew seems to have inspired Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt.
A naval officer and his girlfriend, a Kannada film actress, were arrested in connection with the murder of creative head of a television production house.
Sachithra Senanayake, the Sri Lankan off-spinner banned for illegal bowling action, is to proceed to Chennai's ICC accredited centre for suspect actions.
India beat the West Indies by six wickets with one ball to spare in the third one-dayer via the Duckworth-Lewis method and took an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match series.
The organising committee of the first World Cup to be held in Africa also decided that, to make the finals as affordable as possible for home fans, the cheapest tickets for first round matches, apart from the opening game, would cost $20.
Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng returned to haunt his former club with a last-gasp goal that secured a 1-0 win over English title holders Manchester City in their opening Champions League Group E clash on Wednesday.
India's boxers are remembered only during a big event, says Olympics medal hope Akhil Kumar. 'Before and after that no one cares.'
'I am not saying start buying from today. but start buying in the next three-four months.'
In a new twist to the sensational case relating to the murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover, the police on Friday claimed that the killing was pre-meditated by Kannada film actress Marrayya Monica Susayraj and her naval officer boyfriend M L Jerome Mathew.The police had earlier claimed that Grover's killing was a spontaneous act and the new disclosure came after police got hold of mobile phone records of Mathew and Susayraj, which suggested that the act was pre-meditated.
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