Fidel Castro meets Vice President Hamid Ansari for an unprecedented meeting. Nikhil Lakshman reports from Havana.
Three young Indians plan to cycle from Kochi in Kerala to Tokyo in time to attend the Olympics there next year.
The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.
The Indian ace beat GM Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the penultimate round of the Bermuda invitational chess tournament to move to second place.
Three deaths have been reported and there are fears of more fatalities.
Check out the gold medallists on Day 13 of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday:
In 13 alleged incidents, five of which were substantiated, 4 were by guards and 1 one was by an interrogator.
P Harikrishna settled for a draw against top seed Alexey Dreev of Russia but managed to grab the second spot
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed happiness that the city has been recognised as a World Heritage Site.
Developing countries have stressed on evolving a high-level cohesion among themselves for achieving development objectives at the ongoing WTO negotiations.
The Indian world junior champion forged ahead after sole leader Giovanni Vescovi of Brazil was beaten in the fifth round in the Bermuda chess tournament.
Energy-hungry India, which is 70 per cent import dependant to meet its crude oil requirement, is mounting diplomatic initiatives to secure oil and gas from Gulf, Russia and Africa, Foreign Minister K Natwar Singh said in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The Indian Grandmaster is half a point ahead of second-placed Zhao Jun of China after nine round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
The world junior champion finished sixth following a draw with Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the ninth and final round of the Dos Hermanas International Chess tournament.
India and hosts Holland are in the same pool for the junior hockey World Cup scheduled to be held in Rotterdam
Nationality in sport has become muddied following the break-up of the Soviet bloc and the transfer of talent from poor to rich countries.
India lost to Cuba in their penultimate league match in the men's Junior Volleyball World Championship.
Thoughy weak in parts, good performances by the lead actors makes this a watchable film.
Diego Maradona plans to interrupt his cocaine-addiction therapy in Cuba to spend Christmas at home with his family.
16-year old Deep Sengupta shocked third seed Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev to move to second place with 7.5 points.
Mexico striker Javier Hernandez had surgery on a fractured collarbone and will be out for four weeks missing the Gold Cup, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) said.
"We are exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America. What we don't want to do is to let out somebody that comes back and harms us," Bush said.
India's challenge in women's archery at the Rio Olympics ended on Thursday after Laishram Bombayla Devi and Deepika Kumari were beaten in the pre-quarter-finals. While Deepika was blanked 0-6 by world No. 2 Tan Ya-Ting of Chinese Taipei, Bombayla lost 2-6 to world No. 18 Alejandra Valencia of Mexico.
The former Argentina football ace says now he no longer lives for the night.
The transparent masks designed to improve the sport's appeal for fans will be used for the first time at the Athens Olympics.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the eighth round of the Corus chess tournament.
The Indian ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
Joining the Bulgarian in the semi-finals of the World Chess Championship are England's Michael Adams, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan.
