Christchurch: Australia became the first team to win the under-19 cricket World Cup thrice as they defeated Pakistan by 25 runs in the final at Bert Sutcliffe Oval Saturday.
Pakistan, chasing a victory target of 208 runs, were bowled out for 182 in 46.4 overs.
Pacer Josh Hazlewood claimed four wickets for 30 runs while spinner Luke [...]
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi will attract new capital investments worth more than 45 billion dirhams (about $12 billion) over the next five years, WAM news agency said citing an official report.
The investments will be made by the existing as well as new companies to be set up in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) capital over [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama Friday stepped up his commitment to nuclear energy as part of the solution to global warming, marking a shift in policy that is partly designed to end a deadlock with opposition Republicans over energy policy.
Obama tasked a new commission to make proposals within two years on how to better manage [...]
New York: US stocks fell Friday, capping the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s worst month in nearly a year, despite government figures showing the economy grew at its fastest pace in six years last quarter.
The markets did begin the day higher after the Commerce Department said gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 5.7 [...]
Santiago: Chilean teenagers are becoming obese due to increasing fast food consumption while those from Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala are not far behind.
Chile, where 44.7 percent of people over 15 were overweight in 2009, was the worst in Latin America and second in the world, said Euromonitor, which released a study on the subject Thursday.
Mexico, [...]
Washington: The Obama administration seems to have abandoned plans to try 9/11 Pakistani mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan, following objections from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“It’s dead,” an unnamed source cited by Politico, a website focusing on politics, said.He will be tried domestically, but officials have not decided where, it said, citing an unnamed [...]
London: One-third of samples of milk and dairy products analysed in various restaurants in Europe are contaminated, says a new study.
Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) advised against keeping milk in jugs and suggest that these foodstuffs need to be better handled.
The team detected unsuitable practices, such as reheating milk over and over again, [...]
London: Pop star Jessica Simpson is stepping in to support earthquake devastated Haiti by organising a drive to send shoes to survivors of the disaster.
The singer is teaming up with Nashville, Tennessee foundation Soles4Souls, to collect at least 50,000 pairs of shoes in 50 days, which will be sent to victims in the Caribbean country, [...]
London: American model-and-actress Jenny McCarthy has admitted she has a crush on Jesus Christ because she loves his beard.
The former Playboy model who is currently in a relationship with actor Jim Carrey believes Christ would be a good guy to date if he wasn’t “dead”, reports fashion.ie.
“I’m looking at a picture of Jesus on the [...]
London: Pop divas Madonna and Britney Spear’s infamous smooch at the MTV Video Music Awards 2003 has been voted the top kiss of the decade.
The two superstars made headlines around the world after they puckered up at the annual ceremony and British department store Selfridges has branded the kiss the most iconic of the first [...]