Visawanatahan Anand crowned world chess champion for the fifth time after beating Israe's Boris Gelfand in a 4-match tie breaker 2.5 - 1.5. ...
10:59 PM, May 30, 2012
Moscow: India's chess champion Viswanathan Anand has successfully retained his world No. 1 title by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship on Wednesday. This is Anand's fifth world title. Anand led 2-1 going into the fourth game of the tie-breaker, which was set up after a tied 6-6 result with his Israeli challenger Boris in the 12th and...
06:36 PM, May 30, 2012
London: Three Britons in their 20s have undertaken a record-breaking trip around the world in a cab, travelling over 43,000 miles (over 69,000 km) and putting 80,000 pounds (about $128,600) on the meter. The three friends - Paul Archer, 25, Leigh Purnell, 24, and Johno Ellison, 28 - drove across four continents and 50 different countries in their trusty diesel motor, affectionately called Hannah, the Daily Express reported. They had...
11:45 AM, May 12, 2012
Moscow: An attempt by Vladimir Putin's foes to protest his presidential election victory by occupying a Moscow square ended on Monday with riot police quickly dispersing and detaining hundreds of demonstrators - a stark reminder of the challenges faced by Russia's opposition. The harsh crackdown could fuel opposition anger and bring even bigger protests of Putin's 12 years in power and election to another six, but it also underlined the...
07:32 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Moscow: Russians started voting Sunday to elect the country's president for the fifth time in the nation's post-Soviet history, the first in which the president will serve a six-year term. Five candidates - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, nationalist Liberal Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky, A Just Russia Party leader Sergei Mironov and the only independent, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov - vie for the Russian presidency in Sunday's...
09:00 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: A gas explosion at a residential building in Astrakhan, Russia, brought down a nine-storey building and injured 12 residents. Eleven others are still believed to be stuck in the debris. Reports say the blast blew out the lower section of the building. As people rushed in to help evacuate the victims, the upper storeys collapsed as well. The explosion, possibly caused by natural gas, occurred on Monday in...
06:19 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Moscow: Days before the presidential elections in which he is the main contender, Russian and Ukranian security agencies have claimed to have foiled a Chechen linked plot to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Russian state television said two suspects had been arrested in the Ukranian Black Sea resort of Odessa and who later confessed on air to acting on instructions from the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov to kill Putin after...
05:37 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Moscow: CSKA Moscow equalized from the last kick of the match when Pontus Wernbloom scrambled the ball into the net, giving the Russian club a 1-1 draw against Real Madrid in the last-16 of the Champions League on Tuesday. The Swedish midfielder's debut game for CSKA ended with him poking the ball home in the third minute of stoppage time in the first leg at Luzhniki Stadium. Madrid had won...
04:38 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Moscow: Real Madrid will be aiming to continue their perfect run in the Champions League on Tuesday when they face CSKA Moscow in sub-zero temperatures on the Luzhniki Stadium's artificial pitch. Madrid go into the last-16 match after winning all six of their group games in the competition and are also in fine form domestically, having won 18 of their last 19 matches to lead Barcelona by 10 points in...
10:26 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Madrid: Angel di Maria has been left out of Real Madrid's squad for Tuesday's Champions League match at CSKA Moscow after apparently aggravating a leg muscle injury. The Argentina international made his first appearance of 2012 in Saturday's 4-0 league win over Racing Santander, and scored the Spanish leaders' third goal 10 minutes after coming on in the 63rd. But Di Maria went down awkwardly near the end of the...
09:41 PM, Feb 19, 2012
London: Tottenham signed striker Louis Saha from Premier League rivals Everton and reached a deal to offload Roman Pavlyuchenko to Lokomotiv Moscow in the final hours of the transfer window on Tuesday. Manager Harry Redknapp signed Saha despite the 33-year-old Frenchman scoring just twice in 20 appearances for Everton this season and struggling with injuries in recent years. "He's got good movement, can score goals but probably needs a change,"...
08:41 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Mumbai: Indian franchise Mumbai Fighters slumped to their fifth defeat in seven matches and their third on the trot when they were beaten 3-2 by Dynamo Moscow in the World Series Boxing contest at the Inorbit Mall in Mumbai on Friday. The Fighters began on a promising note when Indian WSB debutant Gaurav Bidhuri scored a split 2-1 (48-47, 48-47, 46-49) verdict over his bantamweight rival Vladimir Nikitin. Three out...
12:08 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Moscow: Interpol's wanted list increased by 50 per cent in 2011, to 75,000 names from 50,000 in 2010, Interpol chief Ronald Noble said. The list currently includes 26,000 suspects who have been issued "red notices", which stipulates their immediate detention for subsequent extradition, as well as 49,000 issued "diffusions" - informal arrest warrants that are posted on Interpol's communications system. The bureau issued 10,000 new "red notices" and 15,000 "diffusions"...
03:59 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Moscow: Russian police detained as many as 60 protesters in a central Moscow Square as they tried to hold an unscheduled demonstration against Prime Minister Vladmir Putin's rule. Around 200 people, including reporters and bloggers, had gathered at the Triumfalnaya Square to stage an anti-Putin rally in Moscow, police said. Shouting slogans like 'Putin Must Go!' and 'Free the Political Prisoners', the protesters gathered at the Square as part of...
02:52 PM, Jan 01, 2012
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