Overpowers the ailing Cypriot to win the hardcourt title for third time in succession
Researchers at Georgia Technology developed the gyrating Robotic dock that looks like a bizarre futuristic table lamp, but in fact is a fully featured dancing robot called 'Shimi'
Sri Lanka caused the biggest upset of the ICC Women's World Cup as they defeated defending champions England by one wicket off a last-ball six in a thrilling Group A encounter at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Friday.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
'He grew up poor and faced racism as he worked to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Hank never let the hatred he faced consume him.'
US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday went full blast against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, accusing him of outsourcing American jobs to countries like India and China.
After winning the ODI series 2-1, Indian women lost momentum and subsequently conceded an unassailable 2-0 lead against England.
Hong Kong has the highest level of economic freedom worldwide
Security officials are looking into the possibility that bombs used in the recent spate of terror attacks against Israeli targets in India, Georgia and Thailand were produced in the same Tehran lab and smuggled out of Iran via diplomatic mail, a media report has said.
Top tweets from the second day's play at the French Open featuring John Peers, Novak Djokovic, Caroline Wozniacki and Kristina Mladenovic:
The events on Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 of the Games were well captured and here we document all the action from Day 6, in pictures...
In addition to declaring a national emergency, US President Trump has approved major disaster declarations for New York, California, Washington, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas and Florida.
Former World champion and Beijing Olympics bronze medalist wrestler, Sushil Kumar finally managed to seal his London Olympics berth after winning the 66kg freestyle title at the World Qualifying Tournament in Taiyuan, China on Friday.
Biden is best qualified to address the root cause of the polarisation in American politics before it turns into terminal malignancy, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
President Barack Obama believes women should be allowed to join the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, the White House said on Thursday, adding pressure on the exclusive 80-year-old organization to drop its restrictive policy.
Holders Spain stretched their winning run in qualifiers to 23 as they began the journey to the 2014 World Cup with a 1-0 victory in Georgia on Tuesday but along with Germany and Italy they struggled to take the points.
Official sources said on Sunday that Letters Rogatory for Iran, Malaysia, Thailand and Georgia has been sent to Union Home Ministry for vetting after which it would sent to Legals and Treaty Division of Ministry of External Affairs to be sent to these respective countries
Favourites Spain start the defence of their world title away to Georgia on Tuesday when coach Vicente del Bosque will have another chance to test the form of record marksman David Villa, recently returned from eight months out with a broken leg.
Grandmaster and national champion Abhijeet Gupta won the sixth Kavala International chess tournament after playing out a quick draw with Shota Adaladze of Georgia in the ninth and final round in Kavala, Greece.
Thailand's top officials tried to calm its citizens on Wednesday over the triple explosions in Bangkok, with the defence minister saying they should not be construed as terror attacks, even as Israel and Iran traded charges over the incident. Thai police arrested two Iranian men in central Bangkok on Tuesday, when a bomb possibly being assembled by three Iranians went off in a house.
The United States has no information yet on which organisation or people were involved in the bombing on an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in New Delhi and attempted attack on Israeli diplomatic personnel in Georgia, the White House has said. "We have no information yet on who is responsible for these attacks, so we are still evaluating what happened," said Jay Carney, White House press secretary.
Even as India launched a probe into the Israeli embassy car blast, which injured four including a diplomat, media reports speculated the link between the blast in New Delhi and the foiled bid to attack the embassy in Georgia and that it occurred on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah's military commander Imad Fayez Mughniyeh.
Bollywood stars continue to post pictures with lovely messages on Earth Day.
The plan is to charge 30 per cent less. Travel sector executives say if IndiGo is able to do so, it could create a new class of flyers.
Order of play on the main show courts at the French Open.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
If push comes to shove, Trump is probably planning to order the US army to clear his path for a second term. What if the armed forces refuse to obey their commander-in-chief?, asks Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
This is nature at its funniest, courtesy Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Some seem to be having a whale of a time. Others, grinning for the camera, or caught in "gotcha" embarrassing moment. These are the best entries so far in the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, 2019.
Vikas Krishan (75kg) became the third Indian boxer to enter the quarter-finals of the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku and be just one win away from booking a berth in the Rio Games this August.
India's Arjun Atwal carded eight birdies and a lone bogey to rocket into a one-shot lead over Davis Love III and Jim Furyk after Friday's second round of the McGladrey Classic at Sea Island in Georgia.
Stepping up its tirade against Iran, Israel on Tuesday said the plot for terror strikes against it and its citizens was hatched in Tehran, including the car bomb blast in New Delhi in which one its diplomats was seriously injured.
Amidst a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, putting the country on course for its highest turnout in a century. Some 239 million people are eligible to vote this year.
The spending on a typical RT-PCR test would take up 23 per cent of the monthly income of an average Indian, compared to 2 per cent in China. This is one of the deepest cuts in the pocket of an individual, in comparison to 14 other countries, reports Abhishek Waghmare.
England women scripted a sensational recovery from a difficult position to register a consolation two-wicket win in the third and final ODI to prevent hosts India from completing a whitewash in the three-match series.
Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis progressed through to the quarter-finals of the Italian Open with a straight sets victory in the women's doubles event in Rome.
India scored an emphatic 4-0 victory over South Africa and jumped to joint second spot after the third round of the World Women's Team Chess Championship in Mardin, Turkey.
World champions Germany and perennial also-rans Albania do not share much in common in football but both were united in joy on Sunday when they qualified for Euro 2016 in France along with Romania and Poland.
In the next three years, Tata Power will invest anywhere between $150-200 million.
Five people, including two women, were killed in a shooting incident at a Korean spa outside Atlanta, police said on Wednesday.
Maroon 5 threw just about everything at the Super Bowl halftime show: a gospel choir, a drumline, pyrotechnics, a giant letter "M" and even SpongeBob.
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