HARARE: Brendan Taylor became just the third Zimbabwean batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test match as his side completed a crushing victory over Bangladesh in the first Test at Harare Sports Club.Set an unlikely 483 runs to win the ma...
LONDON: Per Mertesacker's first-half header gave Arsenal a 1-0 win at Fulham that moved them up to third place in the Premier League on Saturday, but Arsene Wenger's side struggled to overcome a home side reduced to 10 men for 78 minutes. The victory...
SUNDERLAND: Paolo Di Canio's honeymoon period as Sunderland manager continued as his side improved their Premier League survival hopes with a 1-0 victory over Everton on Saturday. Six days after he guided his side to a sensational 3-0 win over North-...
BANGALORE: RCB captain Virat Kohli sent the opposition in after winning the toss and his bowlers responded brilliantly by dismissing the Royals for just 117 in 19.4 overs on a Chinnaswamy track which appeared to be batting-friendly. Pacers R P Singh ...
LONDON: Pakistan's Danish Kaneria will try to resume his cricket career when he challenges a life ban for spot-fixing in London on Monday.But, heading into the start of the appeal hearing, doubt remained overwhether Mervyn Westfield would give eviden...
KOLKATA: The mighty Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets at Eden Gardens on Saturday. Kolkata Knight Riders frittered away a good start to be restricted to a modest 119 for nine by Chennai Super Kings in a Pepsi Indian Premi...
LONDON: Stoke City won 2-0 at Queens Park Rangers in the Premier League on Saturday to ease their relegation fears and all but condemn their rivals to the drop. Peter Crouch and Jon Walters struck late in each half to send Stoke up to 15th, six point...
LONDON: A goal in each half from Matt Jarvis and Kevin Nolan handed West Ham United a 2-0 win at home to Wigan Athletic on Saturday that as good as ends their relegation concerns but leaves the Latics still three points from safety. Wigan saw plenty ...
STUTTGART, Germany: World number two Maria Sharapova returns to the Stuttgart tournament as title-holder as the Russian number one begins her claycourt preparations ahead of her defence of the French Open. The 26-year-old has made a bright start to 2...
STUTTGART, Germany: Germany number one Angelique Kerber cancelled out Ana Ivanovic's earlier victory on Saturday to level the Fed Cup World Group Play-off tie at 1-1 between Germany and Serbia with three rubbers still to come.Former world number one ...
LUSHAN: Thousands of rescue workers combed through quake-shattered villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors as the death toll from a powerful tremor the day before rose to 179. Dressed in bright orange uniforms, rescuers batt...
TOKYO: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Japan's main Honshu island on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake hit at 12:22 pm (0322 GMT), 644 kilometres (400 miles) south ...
BEIJING: The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 18, with dozens infected, state-run media reported, after experts said there is no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission. A 69-year-old man surnamed Xu is the most re...
Beijing :At least 113 people were killed and more than 2,500 others injured Saturday when a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck southwest China’s Sichuan province, officials said.The earthquake hit Lushan county of Ya’an city...
The European Union (EU) in Afghanistan is distressed at the rising cultivation of opium-producing poppy across Afghanistan, suggesting that the lack of security is the centre of the problem. Alfred Grannas, deputy head of the EU delegation to Afgha...
QUETTA: Relief operation continues in the border town of Mashkel which was badly affected by a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Iran on Tuesday, forcing thousands of people to live in the open. About 15,000 people have been rendered homeless afte...
BEIJING: A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 peop...
BEIJING: The strong earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province Saturday killed nearly 72 people and left at least 400 injured, state news agency Xinhua said, citing a local official. The toll was announced by Xu Mengjia, secretary of the ...
MOSCOW: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula east of the Russian-administered Kuril island chain Friday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at 1958 GMT 132 kilometres (80 miles) southeast of the Russian cit...
BEIJING: Hundreds of people were killed or injured when a strong earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province Saturday, local officials said, five years after a massive quake devastated the region. The shallow earthquake struck just after ...
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Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
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