Australian cricket is in a "mess", says former England captain Mike Gatting, who feels an out-of-form Ricky Ponting should step down as captain to ensure that his batting does not suffer.
The participants were given financial decision tasks that allowed them to choose "less money now" or "more money later". The addicts chose the "now" reward almost three times as often.
Iran could have a nuclear bomb by 2010, a leading international think-tank has warned. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran will amass enough low-enriched uranium this year which could put it on course to build a nuke weapon by the end of the next year, The Daily Telegraph reported.
England were lucky to escape unpunished from a ball-tampering controversy in their third Test against South Africa, according to former captain Michael Vaughan.
Dismissing reports that England is all set to pull out of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, officials in London insisted that there is no such move and a team will definitely travel to India for the mega event.
According to a Daily Telegraph report, with India ruling the roost in international cricket by virtue of their financial might there is a possibility that the ICC headquarters may be shifted to Mumbai once Sharad Pawar succeeds David Morgan as ICC president in July 2010.
Police are investigating an allegation that teenage British tennis player Gabriella Taylor was poisoned at Wimbledon last month, with her mother telling local media the 18-year-old had been "close to death".
According to the report from the European Information Technology Observatory, Britons spend more on electronic equipment than shoppers in any other country in Europe, The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Consumers in Britain are expected to spend more than 11 billion pounds this year on electronic gadgets, making them bigger spenders than those in Germany (9.3 billion pounds), France (7.2 billion pounds) and Italy (4.3 billion pounds).
About 80 per cent of Sicilian businesses cough up a pizzo, of as much as 350 pounds a month. However, the burgeoning power of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Naples, the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia, has led to the infiltration of bigger businesses as well.
Two-time US Open champion Pat Rafter is to present Tennis Australia with plans to stop the national men's game from sliding into oblivion.
The West Indies will take on Australia in the first Test at the Gabba in Brisbane without the services of key middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan, who suffered a training mishap.
The move comes after the maker of Dairy Milk chocolate rejected a renewed 9.8 billion pound hostile bid from American food giant Kraft Foods.
Former Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne said the time is right for fast bowler Pat Cummins to succeed Tim Paine as captain of the Test team.
The most astonishing find was a Tchaikovsky violin concerto featuring the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish Jew who fled Vienna in 1937 and was publicly declared an enemy of the Third Reich, according to the daily.
Even as her high-profile colleagues decides to stay away from this year's Commonwealth Games, 800m world champion Caster Semenya of South Africa has confirmed her participation in the October 3-14 mega-event to be held in Delhi.
South Africa striker Benni McCarthy must lose weight or face a fine, said West Ham United owner David Sullivan on Friday.
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British soldiers in Afghanistan are currently suffering a 10 per cent casualty rate, just a tick below the 11 per cent loss rate Britain suffered at the peak of the global conflict more than 60 years ago.
Out of form spinner Monty Panesar and Ian Bell are among the six English cricketers, who are set to take off the list of England's centrally-contracted players when the new deals are announced in the next 15 days.
The sparse crowd watching a regular county match was treated to an out of the world experience, quite literally, when a 4.5 billion years old meteorite came hurtling towards the ground. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the rock, was a few inches long and up to 4.5 billion years old.
As Gordon Brown prepares to succeed Prime Minister Tony Blair, the naming of Rushdie in the honours list and subsequent events have created the impression of a clueless party.
Microsoft had pasted a white man's head on to a black man's torso in a promotional photo in the Polish version of its official website.
A consortium of Indian and Abu Dhabi investors, which is believed to include steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, is planning to bid for UK property company British Land, says a media report.
Terrorist organisations are using driving tests in the UK to open bank accounts needed to move money in and out of the country to fund their operations, a news report revealed on Sunday. The British authorities have stepped up action to stop the fraud with a far reaching undercover operation.
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As rescuers in India on Tuesday successfully pulled out all 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in Uttarakhand after 16 days, the global media hailed the rescue operation and provided live coverage of the dramatic development.
Stung by the umpiring bloopers in the second Ashes Test, Australian media on Monday spit venom on match officials, seeking the sacking of Rudy Koertzen and flaying the other "circus clown" Billy Doctrove.
Captaincy had bogged down fiery English batsman Kevin Pietersen to such an extent that he now equates the job to facing an oncoming train and says it gets worse when the team performs badly.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is locked in a power struggle with the army over his plans to ease tensions with India and his assertion that Taliban, not India, is the greatest threat to his country, a news report said today.
An electric car in Japan has reportedly set a new world record by running for over 27 hours and covering more than 1,000 kilometres on a single charge.
Merrylands Police said the Indian youth was walking along Amos Street at 7.30 pm on Wednesday when three men came from behind him and repeatedly hit him in the face.
Britain and Norway made a last minute bid to save the lives of two Tamil Tiger leaders but in vain as Sri Lankan troops closed in, the media reported on Saturday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's political chief, B Nadesan, and peace secretariat head, S Pulidevan, had attempted to surrender, The Daily Telegraph said, in a report quoting Vijay Nambiar, the United Nation Secretary-General's envoy.The men were later found dead.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has just been named the richest person in the UK for fourth year in a row, but when it comes to being a powerful businessperson, he lags behind four others in the British manufacturing industry.According to a list of 100 most-powerful business people in the UK's manufacturing sector released by the Daily Telegraph, India-born Mittal has been ranked fifth.
The National Enquirer reports that the actress hates Pitt's shabby look.
The Muslim Council of Britain has admitted to not having any checks against extremism among its affiliated groups.
The actress' former bodyguard claims she has two faces.
The couple, who became engaged in 2004, tied the knot in the presence of a handful family and friends.
The deal was agreed between the government and more than 280 tribal elders and terrorists in North Waziristan last month, The Daily Telegraph reported, quoting a government official in Peshawar.
Biographer Jenny Paul has claimed in his new work that the Rolling Stones lead was married to his now ex-wife, model Jerry Hall, when the Original Sin actress paired up with him.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has questioned Kevin Keegan's decision to return to Newcastle United for a second spell in charge.
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