American Josh Hoey stormed to a new men's 800m short track world record in Boston.
As temperatures dip, fan heaters are fast becoming a winter essential.
Steve Smith and Travis Head hit centuries to help Australia dominate the third day's play by stretching their lead against England in the fifth and final Ashes Test.
James Anderson joins an elite list of English cricket icons including Sir Ian Botham, Sir Geoffrey Boycott, Sir Alastair Cook, and Sir Andrew Strauss, to have been honoured with a knighthood.
Joe Root scored his 37th Test hundred on Friday to go past the tally of former India skipper Rahul Dravid and contemporary Steve Smith.
American Aleia Hobbs won the women's 100 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, beating Jamaica's Shericka Jackson in a photo finish on Friday.
The point to note for India is that we must not panic. The United States may be our largest export destination, but high tariffs will not exactly mean gloom and doom. Sure, we can throw some morsels as we continue negotiating, but we must be firm that some red lines cannot be crossed, no matter what, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
Images from the Diamond League meet at Qatar Sports Club Stadium, Doha, on Friday.
Another century in the second Test against Australia could see him overtake the legendary Don Bradman.
Three England legends -- Len Hutton, Jack Hobbs and Jim Laker -- were on Sunday inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in London.
England star Joe Root is cementing his status as one of the greatest players as he achieved new career-high rating in the latest ICC Men's Test Batter Rankings.
This was the third time India were involved in a two-day Test.
The fatal flaw of Fast X is that it's trying to be smarter than it really is and the result is a convoluted mess with nothing novel at display.
We are currently in a transition phase and its resultant turmoil as a titanic struggle between Indian and Western value systems is being waged, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A new study suggests that people who have strong social media networks and receive multiple friend requests are less likely to die.
'People who tell you otherwise are either psychopaths or plain delusional.'
Rohit Sharma has overtaken captain Virat Kohli to become the top-ranked Test batsman from India.
'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040'
The Australian media has claimed that the selection of Alan Knott ahead of Adam Gilchrist as wicket-keeper in the World Test XI of all time by Wisden is embarrassing, and not choosing Dennis Lillee has been unfair.
The Forbes list of the World's Highest-Paid Actors Of 2019 is out, and Akshay Kumar lands a spot among the top 10!
Smith's three double centuries against England is second only to Bradman's record five, while his 11th Ashes ton moved him past Steve Waugh's 10 into outright third overall. Only Bradman (19) and England's Jack Hobbs (12) have more Ashes hundreds.
The Aussie skipper joins the Don and Sir Gary. Rajneesh Gupta has all the numbers on the Fastest to 6,000 Tests club.
The batting icon, who will retire from Test cricket after playing against the West Indies in his landmark 200th match in Mumbai next month, was named at his number four slot in the team, announced to mark 150 years of the Cricketers' Almanack, in London.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, Day 8.
Australia captain Steve Smith reached a career-high 939 rating points which are the sixth-best ever after Don Bradman (961), Len Hutton (945), Jack Hobbs and Ricky Ponting (both 942) and Peter May (941).
The couple has been together for the last eight years.
This will be a high tech city comprised of urban, suburban and rural environments and a mix of new and aging infrastructure.
The actress plans to challenge incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic party nomination.
Four Indian cricketers, including batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev, were today named in the Greatest All Time Test XI chosen in an online poll.
Sachin Tendulkar was the only current cricketer named in ESPNcricinfo's all-time Test World XI which did not include Australian captain Ricky Ponting and the likes of Brian Lara, Glenn McGrath, Sunil Gavaskar.
Lambasting the DDCA for deciding to install a statue of its late former president Arun Jaitley at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi, spin legend Bishan Singh Bedi has asked the body to remove his name from the spectators' stand, named after him in 2017.
Some interesting statistics of the third day's play on Friday, in the third Test between India and Australia, at the Kotla.
Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya was booed by a section of India supporters as he entered the Oval arena to watch India's crucial ICC Champions Trophy encounter against South Africa, in London.
A cricket umpire died at the weekend after being hit on the head by a ball thrown by a fielder. Alcwyn Jenkins, 72, was officiating on Saturday in a local league match at the St Helen's ground in Swansea, South Wales when the accident happened. He was airlifted to hospital but died shortly afterwards.
149 - Runs added by Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, recording a highest fifth-wicket partnership at Mohali.
Statistical highlights on day one of the fourth and final Test match between India and Australia in Nagpur on Thursday.
Haas, a six-time PGA Tour winner, was scheduled to play in the Genesis Open at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades that begins Thursday, but will withdraw to recover at his home in Greenville, South Carolina, his manager said.
The bakery was made famous by scenes from Sex and the City.
Ricky Ponting has achieved the fifth best all-time Test batting rating following his exploits in the first Ashes Test.
The Australia captain moved up to joint-third in the all-time ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen.
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