New Delhi : India squandered chances and defended sloppily to go down 2-5 to a determined Spain as their Hockey World Cup hopes lay in shambles here Thursday.
India’s sub-continental neighbours Pakistan also seemed to be staring down the barrel after an identical 2-5 loss to an in-form England in another Pool B encounter at the [...]
New Delhi: Taeke Taekema scored a hat-trick as the Netherlands blanked Argentina 3-0 in a Pool A match of the Hockey World Cup here Monday.
The winners led 2-0 at half-time.
London: British singer Cheryl Cole’s footballer husband Ashley has once again been accused of having an affair with an American model.
Ann Corbitt, 28, claimed to have slept with the Chelsea star when his club toured America last July.
According to the reports, Corbitt and a friend got talking to Ashley in a bar in Seattle. They [...]
Wellington: New Zealand field hockey officials said Wednesday that the national team would continue with plans to go to India for next week’s scheduled World Cup tournament despite a reported warning from a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda.
News reports overnight said the Asia Times online newspaper had received a message Monday from guerrilla commander [...]
London: A Premier League football club of Britain has shown interest in buying one of the two Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchises to be sold at a base price of $225 million, a media report said.
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi Monday said that a Premier League club had expressed an interest in buying one of [...]
Vancouver: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has rejected the idea of the olympic movement lobbying in any way for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rogge told the IOC session in Vancouver he did not think it would be wise for the movement to put itself forward. Any such campaigning would “definitely not be in the [...]
Whistler (Canada): The Olympic flame arrived to the jubilation of thousands in the ski resort of Whistler, the first Winter Olympic venue stop for the torch relay.
The British Columbia town erupted in a party mood Friday, a week before the Winter Games begin in Vancouver and ahead of the start of alpine skiing events there [...]
London: Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren has joined the disgraced golf star at the sex addiction clinic where he is undergoing therapy.
The 30-year-old went there five days ago for the final part of Woods’ therapy, which involves both of them, reported thesun.co.uk
Woods, 34, accused of bedding more than a dozen mistresses is expected to leave [...]
Sydney: Historic Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is facing serious threat of losing out on international cricket.
It may may lose out next summer’s first One-day international to ANZ Stadium, reported The Australian Tuesday.
The move has apparently been approved by Cricket New South Wales and will be put to the board of Cricket Australia (CA).
“The proposed radical [...]
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 [...]