Kavarna, Bulgaria: Britain's Graeme McDowell and South African Branden Grace set up a mouth-watering showdown in the semi-finals of the World Match Play Championship by winning on Saturday.
World number eight McDowell, the highest-ranked player in the field, avenged his defeat in last year's final by easing past holder Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium 2 & 1.
Colsaerts was already trailing when his drive at the 10th hole found a hazard after flying over an on-course toilet.
To adhere to the rules he had to first drop his ball on the toilet floor before he was eventually given 'relief' from the immovable obstruction and he spared his blushes by pitching the ball on to the green and holing out from 15 feet for a par four....
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09:22 AM, May 19, 2013
Cannes: And it appears to have been a crime spree in Cannes after an unidentified person fired two shots into the air during the live broadcast of a TV show. Cannes Film Festival jury members including Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil who were being interviewed had to run for cover. The Police have managed to arrest the man at the scene. The suspect was found carrying a dummy grenade and...
10:20 AM, May 18, 2013
Jewellery belonging to luxury brand and Cannes Film Festival sponsor Chopard were stolen on Friday from a hotel room. Police say that the robbers managed to enter the hotel room without forcing the door open or using the magnetic key card and removed the entire safe containing the jewels worth over a million dollars. A Chopard spokesperson though has downplayed the reports that the jewels were valued over a million ...
09:55 AM, May 18, 2013
Paris: Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewellery, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday. The apparently well-planned robbery at the Novotel hotel took place in the room of a representative of Chopard,...
11:24 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Shares of jewellery manufacturers on Monday gained up to 7.5 per cent in an otherwise weak stock market amid hopes of pick-up in sales of gold jewellery and coins on Akshaya Tritiya. Thangamayil Jewellers soared by 7.49 per cent, Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (3.19 per cent), Tara Jewels (3 per cent), Titan Industries (1.24 per cent), Rajesh Exports (1.84 per cent), Shree Ganesh Jewellers (1.84 per cent). Akshaya Tritiya is...
01:52 PM, May 13, 2013
London: Doug Bracewell claimed an impressive four-wicket haul on the second day of New Zealand's warm-up match with Derbyshire on Sunday to strengthen his claim for a place in the tourists' Test side. Having declared on 289 for 5 on day one, New Zealand bowled the English county side out for 154 as Bracewell finished with figures of 4 for 28. By the close of play, they were 199 for...
08:47 AM, May 06, 2013
Charlotte: One phone call changed his plans. One shot changed a whole lot more for Derek Ernst. Six days after Ernst received a call that he was in the Wells Fargo Championship as the fourth alternate, the 22-year-old rookie found himself one shot out of the lead and 192 yards away from the flag on the 18th hole, the toughest at Quail Hollow in the cold, wind and rain of...
08:19 AM, May 06, 2013
Phil Mickelson and Nick Watney survived some late-round misadventures to emerge from Saturday's third round tied for the lead in the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mickelson topped the leaderboard for most of the day and Watney took his turn alone in first place during the final stretch before both players fell back with double-bogeys to head into Sunday's final round knotted at eight-under-par 208....
10:20 AM, May 05, 2013
Charlotte: World number two Rory McIlroy, back at the scene of his first PGA Tour win, fired a five-under 67 at Quail Hollow on Thursday for a seven-way share of the first-round lead in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Northern Irishman was joined atop the leaderboard by Americans Nick Watney, Ryan Moore, Robert Garrigus, Daniel Summerhays, Derek Ernst and Monday qualifier Nate Smith. Another six players...
09:05 AM, May 03, 2013
Charlotte: Vijay Singh withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship because of a sore back Wednesday, one day after the PGA Tour said it would not punish the Fijian for his admission that he used deer antler spray. The tour said on Tuesday the World Anti-Doping Agency informed it that the spray contains only small amounts of a growth hormone factor that is banned under the anti-doping policy. The tour had...
09:11 AM, May 02, 2013
Karur: A seven-year old girl, who fell into a newly dug deep borewell in a farm land in the district, was on Saturday night pulled out after over 14-hour long intense rescue efforts but doctors declared her dead at a hospital. Muthulakshmi, who fell into the improperly closed 900-feet borewell at Suryapalli village at around 7 am, remained stuck within a depth of about 18 feet and was pulled out...
08:54 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Karur: A seven-year old girl who fell into a deep borewell in a farm land in the district, was on Saturday night pulled out, ending the about 14-hour long intense rescue efforts, police said. Muthulakshmi, who fell into the improperly closed 900-feet borewell at Suryapalli village, about 50 km from Karur, around 7 am, remained stuck within a depth of about 18 feet and was pulled out by rescuers around...
01:14 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Tiruchirappalli: A seven-year-old girl on Saturday fell into a deep borewell at a village in neighbouring Karur district, about 120 km from Tiruchirappalli, and intense efforts to rescue her continued, police said. Muthulakshmi, whose parents are farm labourers from Dindigul district, was playing in the farm land at Suryapalli when she fell into the 900-feet deep borewell, which had been crudely closed after it failed to yield water, they said....
10:26 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor feels that cash-rich Twenty20 Leagues like the IPL are acting as a huge "distraction" for young players, who are now more interested in raking in moolah than playing for the country. "If you look at the IPL and the money that's going around there, that's got to be a big influence I think. As much as they all say 'Test cricket's the No....
03:00 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Charlotte: Tiger Woods is sticking to his long break after the Masters, meaning he will miss the Wells Fargo Championship next week. Asked about Woods not playing Quail Hollow this year, agent Mark Steinberg replied in an email, "Accurate." Woods typically takes three weeks off after the year's first major. Because of a change in scheduling this year, the Wells Fargo Championship is only two weeks after the Masters. Woods...
02:28 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Sydney: Veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin was recalled to the Australian squad on Wednesday and made vice-captain for their upcoming Ashes tour to England with Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris also making the grade. Haddin, who has only played one Test in the past 14 months and turns 35 next week, replaces Shane Watson as Michael Clarke's deputy in a 16-man squad for the five-Test series starting in England in July....
08:39 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Los Angeles: Graeme McDowell held his nerve in fierce winds to clinch his second PGA Tour title with a playoff victory over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Sunday. Northern Irishman McDowell sealed the win with a regulation two-putt par at the first extra hole, the 18th, where Simpson three-putted for bogey after missing the green to the right with...
12:38 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Jaipur: A couple was intercepted with gold jewellery worth Rs 1.39 crore at the Sanganer airport in Jaipur. The couple, hailing from Phalodi area in Jodhpur district, had come from Hyderabad on Tuesday and the jewellery was found during the scanning of their bags, officials said. On being questioned, they failed to produce the relevant documents regarding the jewellery, they said. They were interrogated till late Tuesday night after which...
02:49 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Jaipur: Mumbai Indians coach John Wright Tuesday said that his IPL side has plenty of talented players and selecting the playing eleven sometimes becomes the hardest thing. "We have so many talented players like Glen Maxwell, Yuzvendra Chahal, Nathan Nile, Dwayne Smith and even an experienced bowler Munaf Patel could not be included in the scheme of things. It is important that everybody is happy," said Wright on the eve...
09:56 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Bollywood fashionista Sonam Kapoor opened the national capital's first ever India International Jewellery Week. ...
08:30 PM, Apr 16, 2013
