Images from the second day's play of the 2016 French Open at the Roland Garros
List of Australian Open men's singles champions since the event began in 1905 (Australian unless stated):
The crisis remains acute with the country's banks already closed.
The shutdown was the longest in recent memory, and prompted US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White to call for a meeting of Wall Street leaders to help insure the 'continuous and orderly' functioning of securities markets.
List of men's singles champions at Wimbledon:
Andy Murray may have a dismal record in the Australian Open final, but he is not the only tennis star to come up short at the majors.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras battled to win lawmakers' approval on Wednesday for a bailout deal to keep Greece in the euro and avoid bankruptcy, as the IMF pressured Greece's creditors to provide massive debt relief for its crippled economy.
List of Australian Open men's singles champions since the event began in 1905 (Australian unless stated):
Action against auditors, last of the 276 recommendations of a JPC probing Ketan Parekh scam, is still pending.
IMF members will also be examining whether China's heavy intervention in the yuan market was befitting of a freely convertible reserve currency
The 2nd major of the year, the French Open will start on the weekend. With the clay-court grand slam starting on Sunday, here is the list of French Open champions over the years
Britain's Andy Murray won lifted his second Wimbledon title after defeating Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4 7-6(3) 7-6(2) on Sunday. Following that clinical performance, here is a list of Wimbledon men's singles champions since 1922....
Without some firmer pledge of debt relief, neither Greece nor the IMF is likely to accept a deal
Greek proposals hailed as "a positive step forward".
The impending default on the IMF loans leaves Greece sliding towards an exit from the euro.
Richard Rahul Verma, the first Indian American to serve as US Ambassador to New delhi, quips that surviving the first month in India is his first goal.
'India is part of our strategic and economic future,' says Richard Rahul Verma, the first Indian American to be appointed US Ambassador to India.
'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.' 'What the obituaries leave out is that Ali equally transcended the boundaries of geography and of information -- as witness the Chennai teen who assimilated that most mobile of fighters through still images shorn of context.'