Leander Paes and Martina Hingis thrashed Austrian-Hungarian fifth seeds Alexander Peya and Timea Babos 6-1, 6-1 to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon.
Like millions of women, Lisa Gable was often frustrated by falling bra straps. So, at age 70, she designed a solution and launched an intimate apparel company. Fourteen years later, she's still at the helm -- and her Strap-Mate can be found at Nordstrom and other major retailers.
Nadia Petrova and Elena Vesnina beat Wimbledon champion Venus Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles contest to give Russia a 3-2 win over the United States in their Fed Cup semi-final on Sunday in Stowe, Vermont.
The second magazine issues of the year are out on stands and we want to know who your favourite cover girl is!
She crashed out of the mixed event after a straight-set loss in the last-eight stage.
Wonder what that'd be like!
The first magazine issues of the year are out on stands and we want to know who your favourite is!
Norway beat Australia 4-1 on penalties to reach the women's World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2007 following a highly-entertaining 1-1 draw after extra time on Saturday. Norway's Isabell Herlovsen opened the scoring shortly after the half hour but Elise Kellond-Knight's direct corner seven minutes from time sent the game into extra time -- during which Australia's Alanna Kennedy was sent off.
The Indian had made the first round exit at the Tier I tournament at Key Biscayne in Miami last week.
Venus Williams gave a supreme effort in the Fed Cup semi-final against Russia after coming off the high of winning her fourth Wimbledon title but came up short in Sunday's decisive doubles match in Stowe, Vermont.
A reader sends this photograph of his wife and dughter with the actress and her kids.
The Indo-Israeli pair was drubbed by top seeds Lisa Raymond of the United States and Australia's Samantha Stosur in the third round at Wimbledon.
The four nation women's ODI tournament in India starts next month.
US Fed Cup captain Zina Garrison has picked both Williams sisters in her squad to face Russia in next month's semi-final.
Shabana Azmi is thrilled for director Deepa Mehta.
Rani, Kajol, Ash or Alia, Shraddha, Nargis? Which covergirl takes the top spot this months?
Fixtures from the US Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches
Let us travel to Kerala with the Ishq Vishk girl.
Hichki's greatest handicaps are its predictability and sentiment, feels Sukanya Verma.
Winter is here and we could all do with some rise in the mercury. And the hottest November cover girls will set it soaring. Don't forget to vote for your favourite!
'Clearly, Washington has all but given up hope following US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells's stormy visit to Colombo last month where she read the riot act to Sri Lankan leaders to sign the pending status of forces agreement allowing American troops to use Sri Lanka as a hub for operations in the Indian Ocean,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber went down 6-2, 7-5 against Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Meghann Shaughnessy.
The hits and misses of the week.
The three-times Wimbledon champion will partner Taylor Dent for the United States at the Dec. 29-Jan. 5 event in Perth's Burswood Dome.
Looking at the big winners of the year.
Young Indian entrepreneurs hope to share some of the limelight too at the Hyderabad event.
Check out the star arrivals.
Before Akshay Kumar takes centrestage in the courtroom this Friday, here's looking at filmi lawyers before him.
Om Puri's friends remember him.
The top-seeded duo battled past the Rodionova sisters of Australia, Anastasia and Arina, 6-7, 6-3, 10-5 in their opening round match of the US $731,000 clay-court event.
Working skirts, Bollywood style!
'Communities, organisations, governments and individuals could change the way children go to school, if they believe in possibilities -- if they try,' says author and activist Lisa Heydlauff.
After months of anticipation (and 31,000 submissions from the British public), the Britain's Duchess of Cambridge's final selection of images for Hold Still is available to view on the National Portrait Gallery's website. Designed to "capture and document the spirit, the mood, the hopes, the fears and the feelings of the nation" during lockdown, the project brings together 100 moving amateur shots of everything from at-home haircuts to make-shift classrooms; exhausted NHS staffers on duty to dedicated postmen in superhero costumes; pensioners FaceTiming with their grandchildren to mothers cradling their newborn babies. Below, see 22 remarkable images from Hold Still - then head to the The National Portrait Gallery website for the full exhibition.
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