Morocco winger Nordin Amrabat has been discharged from hospital but he will not play in the side's next World Cup Group B clash against Portugal on Wednesday after suffering concussion in the 1-0 loss to Iran, officials said.
In Asia, the last Blue Moon and a total lunar eclipse happened 35 years ago on December 30, 1982.
Alessandro Del Piero scored with a longe-range swerving free kick to give Juventus a 1-0 home win over Zenit St Petersburg on their return to the Champions League group stages on Wednesday. The 33-year-old captain, who played in the final when the Turin club won the second of their two European Cups in 1996, netted on 76 minutes in their Group H opener with Zenit goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeyev looking at fault.
India and Russia have decided to explore signing a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that will include not only features of a foreign trade agreement but also trade in services and investment.
Highlighting the continued growth story of India, the government today said the country is likely to capture 15 per cent of the over $54 billion market in the upcoming knowledge processing outsourcing (KPO) industry by 2010.
US President George W Bush and West German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday agreed to "consider" supporting Shashi Tharoor, India's candidate for the post of the UN secretary general to succeed Kofi Annan.
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis lost went down in straight sets to Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in the women's doubles final of the Madrid Masters tennis tournament, in Madrid, on Saturday.
Sofia Kenin, defending champion Belinda Bencic and third seed Elina Svitolina made swift exits at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
Bayern Munich were held to a 1-1 home draw by Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg in the first leg of their UEFA Cup semi-final on Thursday. The Bundesliga leaders led through Franck Ribery's 18th-minute goal but, Brazil defender Lucio deflected a cross from Viktor Fayzulin past Bayern goalkeeper Oliver Kahn for the shock equaliser on the hour.
World Junior bronze-medallist Sachin Singh (49kg) became only the third Indian boxer ever to strike gold at the AIBA Youth World Championships with a stunning unanimous victory over Cuban national champion Jorge Grinan in the summit clash at St Peterburg, Russia, on Saturday.
Russian police reportedly raided an art gallery in St Petersburg to seize a painting that allegedly depicted President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in lingerie.
The victims of the attack were suffering from coughing, suffocation and rapid heartbeats. Several of them are being treated at the scene of the attack, the report addded.
Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath has said that the country is an emerging Asian powerhouse, as India has recorded the fastest gross domestic product growth in 18 years.
UEFA Cup holders Zenit St Petersburg were knocked out at the last-16 stage by Udinese on Thursday while Hamburg SV stunned Galatasaray to deny the Istanbul side the chance of a May final in their home city.
Worldwide food demand is growing, and continued economic growth around the world is only going to spur more and more food demand. Once you add the growth in the world population to the mix, you've got one heck of an investment opportunity cropping up (pardon the pun) in the agricultural industry.
The world's top eight industrial nations on Monday ppeared to have climbed down from a tough position on farm subsidies, reviving hopes of resumption of the collasped WTO talks.
Indian officials accuse London of failing to act against UK-based businessmen who use fake charities to transfer up to eight million pounds a year to terrorist outfits operating in India.
Russian Nikolay Davydenko has won his appeal against a fine for not trying hard enough during a match.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis survived a scare before pulling off a three-set win over the Chinese pair of Yi-Fan Xu and Saisai Zheng in the WTA Qatar Open to extend their unbeaten streak to 41 matches in Doha on Wednesday. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair toiled for one hour and 24 minutes to prevail 6-4 4-6 10-4 over the unseeded Chinese duo to enter the quarterfinals. They got a bye in the first round in the hard court USD 2,818,000 prize money tournament. Sania and Hingis have together won four titles this year out of an overall trophy count of 13. They started the year with wins in Brisbane and Sydney before completing a hat-trick of Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open. The duo had won the St Petersburg Ladies title earlier this month. Just before the tournament started, Sania took some time out to visit the DPS-Modern Indian School here and she interacted with the children.
Dutchman Pim Verbeek was on Monday named new coach of South Korea's soccer team.
Sebastien Grosjean clinched his first title in five years by beating compatriot Marc Gicquel in Lyon.
The Russian received a warning from the umpire for not trying hard enough during his loss to Croatian qualifier Marin Cilic at the St Petersburg Open.
Top seed Nikolay Davydenko tumbled out of the St Petersburg Open in the second round, going down to Croatian qualifier Marin Cilic.
What we are seeing is a demonstration of how in today's complex global scenario there can be issue-based coalitions of States.
Switzerland's Belinda Bencic became the first teenager in seven years to reach the top 10 of the WTA rankings after she climbed to ninth in the world on Monday.
According to local agencies, the Indian student has been hospitalised and is reportedly out of danger.
Zenit St Petersburg and Middlesbrough dented the UEFA Cup hopes of Olympique Marseille and tournament favourites AS Roma.
Leander Paes and Purav Raja, who are trying to establish as a pair on the ATP World Tour, progressed to the quarterfinals of the St Petersburg Open with a straight-set win over Fabio Fognini and James Cerretani.
The Russian Mikhail Youzhny brushed aside third seed Ivan Ljubicic to win the World Indoor tournament.
Indian boxer Sachin Singh (49kg) advanced to the AIBA Youth World Championship finals after notching up an impressive victory in the last-four stage in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
During her talks with Putin in his hometown St. Petersburg, Sonia was accompanied by External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and Indian Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal.
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