Paris: Victoria Azarenka was back to her top-ranked self at the French Open on Wednesday. The Australian Open champion from Belarus easily advanced to the third round at Roland Garros by beating Dinah Pfizenmaier of Germany 6-1, 6-1 on Court Philippe Chatrier. In the first round, Azarenka struggled early before winning 12 of the final 14 games to advance. She committed 60 unforced errors in that opening match, but brought...
04:59 PM, May 30, 2012
Sydney: A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday broke her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, a media report said. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,848-metre-high summit from the northern side of the mountain with four other team members, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) quoted Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association as saying. Watanabe and the other team members were...
09:32 PM, May 19, 2012
London: Parents at a children's party in an Australian school were left stunned to discover the treats on offer were shaped like bums and breasts. The X-rated chocolates -- which also came in the form of men's privates and a couple having sex -- were handed out to youngsters at a Mother's Day event at the school, The Sun reported. Cassandra Lacey, a mother of two kids, said: "Every single...
12:49 AM, May 15, 2012
Shimla: A 22-year-old Australian tourist has filed a police complaint against a Chandigarh youth, stating that he had raped her in a guest house at Kasol in Kullu district, 220 km from Shimla. In her complaint, police said, the victim alleged that the youth hailing from Chandigarh gave her some sedative and took her to Green Valley guest house where he raped her on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, he...
11:45 PM, May 14, 2012
Melbourne: The rich in Australia may soon be forced to pay "millionaires' tax" with the country's powerful trade union calling the government to slap such a tax, similar to US President Barack Obama's so-called "Buffett rule." The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is debating a reform that includes shifting the tax burden of low and middle income earners to millionaires and billionaires. ACTU said it wants to ensure that...
03:47 PM, May 12, 2012
Mumbai: Ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh has said that the Indian hockey team are keen to play more on the blue turf to get adjusted to it ahead of the London Games, as they failed to adapt to the surface during the Olympic hockey test event in London recently. After losing all their matches against world champions Australia, Olympic champions Germany and hosts Great Britain during the Olympic test event, India...
06:04 PM, May 10, 2012
London: Indian men's hockey team ended its London tour without a win as they lost the bronze medal match 1-2 to Great Britain in the four-nation test event ahead of the upcoming London Olympics, in London on Sunday. It was India, who scored the first goal through in the minute but the hosts rallied to beat the visitors. V Raghunath had put ahead in the first half through a brilliant...
10:39 PM, May 06, 2012
Australian government's Sports Outreach Programme is encouraging parents of the deprived children of Delhi to send them to play. ...
07:01 PM, May 02, 2012
Melbourne: An Indian-origin family of four, including two children, was found dead in Melbourne on Tuesday and Australian police are treating it as a murder-suicide case. The bodies of Nilesh Sharma, 34, his wife Pritika, 32, five-year-old Divesh and three-year-old Divya were found at their Glen Waverley home in the city's eastern outskirts. Nilesh, an accountant, was found in a hallway, the others in their bedrooms. The Fijian-Indian family, which...
06:06 PM, May 01, 2012
Canberra: An Australian billionaire announced plans on Monday to build an "unsinkable" version of the Titanic, 100 years after the original sank after hitting an iceberg. Titanic II is expected to make its maiden voyage from England to North America, the old Titanic route, in late 2016. "It is going to be designed so it won't sink," mining and tourism tycoon Clive Palmer told reporters. "It will be designed as...
03:45 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian court on Friday ordered the fast food giant KFC to pay 8 million Australian dollars to the parents of a Sydney girl who was left paralysed and brain damaged after eating its chicken twister. Monika Samaan fell seriously ill with salmonella poisoning after eating at the Villawood KFC in 2005, according to media reports. The then-seven-year-old was in a coma for six months and acquired spastic quadraplegia...
12:11 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Sydney: A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami alert has been issued. The US Geological Survey says the magnitude- 7.0 quake struck on Tuesday at a depth of 200 kilometers (124 miles), about 140 kilometers (88 miles) north of the city of Lae. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue...
01:53 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress. The teenager, who was 15-year-old at the time of incident in 2010, had appealed claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional...
11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian women's hockey team lost 1-2 to USA via a golden goal in the bronze medal play-off match to return empty-handed from the first leg of the four-nation tournament on Monday. Locked 1-1 at the end of the regulation time, India conceded a penalty stroke three minutes into extra time, which USA captain Lauren Crandall converted easily to pocket the bronze medal at the Harbour Hockey Stadium...
05:41 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Melbourne: Australian airliner Qantas on Friday flew the country's first commercial biofuel flight between Sydney and Adelaide using a mix of conventional fuel and refined cooking oil. John Valastro of Qantas said the flight this morning was a commercial first in Australia, and would have produced far less carbon emissions than if conventional jet fuel were used. "We're talking about a 60 per cent reduction in the overall life cycle...
10:03 AM, Apr 13, 2012
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