The attacks on Indians Down Under are condemnable but the perception that Australia is a racist society is incorrect, asserted fast bowler Brett Lee.Lee, an immensely popular figure in India who has also acted in a Bollywood movie, said he is concerned by the way the Indian media is reporting about the attacks."I've been trying to explain to the Indian media that we're not a racist country," Lee was quoted as saying by 'The Daily Telegraph'.
Force India rejected a report on Friday that they were in danger of being forced out of business and said their new Formula One car would start testing as planned in Spain next week.
"Any fair-minded cricket fan would have enjoyed Anil Kumble's 600th Test wicket even though it was Australia's potential saviour Andrew Symonds," Waugh wrote in his column for the 'Daily Telegraph'.
A European team claims to be working on such a fantasy car which can drive itself -- in fact, tests would start next year on such vehicles that 'drive themselves' and could be on roads within 10 years, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Prince Albert II of Monaco has launched a drive to reclaim land from the Mediterranean Sea and create an area around 12.5 acres -- roughly the size of five football pitches, with a ground-breaking scheme to allow the tiny population to expand, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Vodafone Group, the world's biggest mobile phone group by revenue, is to end its sponsorship of the English cricket team following a strategic review of its sponsorship portfolio. Vodafone and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement that the current four-year sponsorship agreement would conclude at the end of the winter tour of South Africa in January 2010.
Ricky Ponting's over-rate woes after spin wizard Shane Warne's retirement have cost the Australian cricket team a hefty 130,000 dollars in fines so far.
Continuous terror attacks in the sub-continent has cast a shadow over the 2011 Cricket World Cup to be jointly hosted by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with the International Cricket Council contemplating of keeping a stand-by venue for the mega-event. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the ICC is expected to discuss the issue in its Executive Council meeting in South Africa next week.
Marco Materazzi's agent said Zidane's head-butt was prompted by the Italian defender's loose comment about the French captain's wife.
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In an attempt to make passports more European, United Kingdom officials are considering removing the Queen's message from their first page.
The head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq Sir Mike Jackson has launched a scathing attack on the United States for the way it handled the post-war administration of the country.
Ministers have promised to clear the 450,000 so-called 'legacy' cases, some of which date back to the 1990s, by 2011.
Quoting a leaked memo, The Daily Telegraph reported that the Home Office also lost track of tens of thousands o migrants who should have left the country at least six years ago, and some as far back as the 1990s.
Khan warned that the achievement of having an emboldened judiciary could soon be lost if Bhutto struck a deal with the military ruler.
Tata Motors, say sources, instructed advisers in the past fortnight to begin evaluating the merits of a joint offer for Jaguar and Land Rover.
The Indian Cricket League is targetting over-the-hill England cricketers for an unofficial mini World Cup to be held in India later this year, according to media reports in London.
Her intervention comes just days after her dramatic exit from Cabinet over a breach of the ministerial code and a scathing attack on Truss' leadership.
This suspicion has been drawn from a list, containing information about the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and Princess Royal, which police have recovered from the possession of the arrested members of the terror cell, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Pakistan's Army is to ask the country's embattled President Pervez Musharraf to relinquish office in a week's time as its top brass would not want him to be impeached, a news report said on Saturday.
The 'Iron Man of India' has emerged a contender to buy English Premiership football club Birmingham City after making an initial inquiry, The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday.
Considered one of the modern greats of the game, England's Test captain is yet to play in the cash-rich Twenty20 league, having gone unsold in the 2018 auction. However, all that can change in next year's tournament, which is set to be expanded with the inclusion of two new teams.
Star players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff are likely to lead the English influx into the Indian Premier League with its cash-rich franchises lining up six-figure offers for them. England one-day captain Paul Collingwood is expected to sign an IPL deal, too, with Owais Shah, Stuart Broad and Ravi Bopara also the subjects of lucrative bids believed to be in the region of $300,000.
North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il is seriously ill and may only have a few months to live, a British newspaper reported, quoting a source within the family of the reclusive "Dear Leader" as saying. "He does not have all that much longer to live and my sources say the doctors' diagnosis is that he will die before the end of the year," Prof Toshimitsu Shigemura, an expert on North Korea at Waseda University, told The Daily Telegraph.
According to the annual review for Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the king-in-waiting managed to slash his income tax bill by 5,000 pounds after some astute accounting, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Late actor Health Ledger's Joker in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight has been dubbed as "best villain in a superhero movie of all time". The critics have also started backing Ledger for a posthumous Oscar in their reviews of the actor's last completed film, The Dark Knight.
Indian IT workers are flooding Britain on temporary permits, undercutting local wages and raising prospects of a homegrown skills shortage, an IT association has claimed.
Microsoft is developing a system that could spell the end the use of computer mouse, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said. He said that computer users of the future will control their machines by voice and pen as well as touch. Users of Windows 7 will issue commands by touching the screen rather than by the traditional keyboard and mouse combination that has dominated since the 1970s.
Billionaire investor George Soros said that although the price of oil is rising due to a combination of rise in demand from China, a weakening dollar and the reduction in supply from the Persian Gulf nations, the main reason for the unprecedented spurt in crude price is speculation.
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'Such is his aura, whenever anyone mentions Sri Lankan cricket his name immediately springs to mind,' the former Australian skipper said.\n\n
A senior executive with global investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Sanjay Patel, has been named among the UK's 20 most powerful fund managers. Currently in his second spell at Goldman Sachs, after leaving it for an alternative asset management fund house GSC Partners, Patel is co-head of Goldman Sachs' European PE and Indian capital equity businesses. Patel returned to Goldman Sachs in February 2006.
Workers of a recession-hit textile company in south-west France have been asked to shift to India to work in its factory in Bangalore for a pittance or face a sack, a media report has said. Nine employees at Carreman textiles plant in Castres, south-west France, were told that they could continue workingfor the firm only if they relocated to Bangalore and accepted a meagre monthly salary of 48 pounds per month, The Daily Telegraph said.
Paul Collingwood wants to captain England at this year's Twenty20 World Cup even though he is not considered good enough for a starting place in his Indian Premier League (IPL) team.
German supermodel Heidi Klum has doled out dieting tips to those who are taking to the catwalk for the first time.
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Australian player David Warner has been put into another controversy after his brother Steven reportedly abused Shane Watson on his Twitter account.
British telecom giant Vodafone could face a downgrade in its credit rating by Standard and Poor's if its proposed bid for Hutchison Essar Ltd exceeds $19 billion, a media report said in London.
Former champion Nigel Mansell has hailed Lewis Hamilton as the Formula One driver to beat while rejecting comparisons between the 23-year-old Briton and golfer Tiger Woods. "I don't think he is like Tiger Woods at all," the 1992 champion, also a keen golfer, told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper on Friday.
The study found that, on an average, employees spent 42 minutes of each work day sifting through unnecessary e-mails and waiting for responses to urgent e-mails. It also found that increasing amounts of junk e-mail has led to longer work days and bad work habits.
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