Croatia clinched a place in next year's World Cup finals on Sunday after holding Greece to a goalless draw at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Athens to complete a 4-1 aggregate victory in their playoff tie.
The best in international photojournalism was recently announced by World Press Photo's Annual Photo Contest. Despite fierce competition, the jury was forced to select just a handful of images from more than 73,044 photos by 4,548 photographers across 125 different countries. This year's grand prize was awarded to Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt, earning him the title of Press Photographer of the Year. Here are some of the winners.
Are you looking for inspiration for your wedding photography? Here are the winning photos from this year's International Wedding Photography of the Year image competition. The International Wedding Photographer of the Year competition was created this year to promote and celebrate the art of wedding photography from all around the world. One of the unique rules for this competition was that the photographer had to take the image during an actual wedding day. Below are some of the beautiful images from the competition.
Images from the 2018 World Cup qualifiers played in Europe on Monday
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
People spent a sleepless night as a series of aftershocks shook Assam after a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake caused extensive damage to buildings.
A headed goal in second-half injury time by Cristiano Ronaldo gave Portugal a much-needed 1-0 win over Denmark in their Group I Euro 2016 qualifier on Tuesday.
Images from Day 9 of the 2022 Australian Open, at Melbourne Park, on Tuesday.
Penpix of the top women's contenders at the 2021 Australian Open
There is also an Indian actor in top ten!
Pop sensation Psy brought the house down 'Gangnam Style' as Incheon laid out the red carpet for over 13,000 competitors from 45 countries with an exhilarating opening ceremony to launch the 17th Asian Games at the main stadium on Friday.
With the 2011 edition of the prestigious tournament getting underway, Senior Associate Editor Bikash Mohapatra takes a look at a few players whose lone claim to fame came at the grass courts of the All England Club.
The epicenter of the quake was Sonitpur and the quake occurred at 7.51 am at a depth of 17 kilometres, it said.
Ash Barty's dream of ending her nation's 42-year wait for a homegrown Australian Open champion lay in tatters on Thursday after the world number one crumbled on the big points in a straight-sets semi-final defeat to Sofia Kenin. The 23-year-old Queenslander beat a hasty retreat from Rod Laver Arena after losing her first Melbourne semi-final 7-6(6), 7-5, shaking her head ruefully as she walked down the player's tunnel.
'I felt comfortable knowing that I just needed to change a few things, to adjust, to try and bring the match back in my favour'
'Does it mean that we are witnessing the end of an era?' 'Probably not, but the post-Trump trade war has certainly brought a lot of instability in China,' notes Claude Arpi.
The BRICS model will need to demonstrate the efficacy of a second alternative governance structure to reform the Bretton Woods legacy.
Serge Gnabry continued his impressive scoring run for Germany, netting in second-half stoppage time for his ninth goal in his 10th international, completing Germany's eighth consecutive win over Northern Ireland.
'We have 150 institutions under us and not one is involved in conversions. If anyone is saying that we are indulging in conversions, then come before us and prove it. Each one has a right to follow a religion, but we are against forcible conversions.'
Forty-year-old O'Neil Bell was killed during a robbery in Atlanta, while suspended St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey underwent surgery after shootout
Goldman Sachs, a global investment banker, said India's growth prospects remain strong despite adverse global developments like high commodity prices that have pushed inflation to high levels. The growth in 2008-09 is expected to be slow at 7.8 per cent as against 8.7 per cent in the previous financial year.
Ash Barty carries a nation's hopes of ending the long wait for a home champion into the Australian Open
Indian-American hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal on Thursday pleaded guilty at a court in New York to violating federal election laws by using straw donors to secretly funnel money to political campaigns and will pay a million dollars to the US as part of his plea agreement.
De Boer, who lasted only 77 days as Crystal Palace manager after losing his first four league games in charge with no goals scored, said in an interview on BT Sport that it was "a pity" Mourinho was Rashford's manager because he was not getting enough chances.
Pankaj Advani, Aditya Mehta and Sourav Kothari won their matches in the under-21 World snooker championship.
Images from the European World Cup qualifiers played on Thursday
The selection of opener Cameron Bancroft, wicketkeeper Tim Paine and number six Shaun Marsh all looked to have backfired early in the series-opener but all three finished strongly in Brisbane to help Australia to victory and boost their confidence ahead of the second test in Adelaide starting on Saturday.
Spain started their World Cup qualifying campaign with a crushing 8-0 win over Liechtenstein, laying down a marker in Group G with a ruthless second-half display on Monday.
Spain strolled to a 4-1 win at home to Israel, while Italy survived some first-half scares on the way to a 2-0 win and Ukraine registered a 1-0 home win over Ukraine in an action-packed game.
'To consider BRICS anything more than a temporary club with some common interests would be folly. The goal should be to induce others (Japan, ASEAN, South Africa) to align with us -- a non-threatening, democratic nation, rather than with malevolent China or waning America. For us to consider aligning with either China or the US would be absurd. India is just too big to be a sidekick,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.
Forty years have passed since Chris O'Neil held the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup aloft as the last Australian women's champion in 1978.
'Small investors usually rely on tips or recommendations from a friend for stock picking.' 'These platforms offer them unbiased research for making their investment decisions.'
Satnam Singh may have endured a tough time with the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA, but he isn't ready to give up just yet.
The Australian Open has seen many unheralded players punching above their weight. Rediff.com takes a look at a few such unseeded players who went the distance in the new millennium.
'India is no longer the India of the '70s and the '80s.' 'It's a large country with the fastest growing economy.' 'In working with India, you just can't go and humiliate the nation publicly.' USIBC President Mukesh Aghi tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com about how he advises American companies to do business with India, what he thinks of Modi's government and the way forward for the India-US relationship.
They researched their companies well, didn't believe in the market chatter and advise to stay invested for long term.
A round-up of the World Cup qualifying matches played on Friday.
The world champions now have 19 points while Poland, 8-1 winners over Gibraltar, are on 17.
US indicts Rajya Sabha MP K V P Ramachandra Rao, a close associate of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and his son Jaganmohan Reddy, in bribery and corruption case.
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