
The aircraft was carrying 164 passengers and 9 crew members to Canary Islands ...

10:03 AM, Aug 21, 2008

Lahore: Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium opened its gates to a foreign team on Wednesday for the first time since a terror attack on the Sri Lankan team bus forced a halt to international cricket in Pakistan. It was near the Gaddafi Stadium - Pakistan's cricket headquarters - that militants opened fire on the visiting Sri Lankans as they made their way to the ground for the third day of the second ...

01:00 AM, May 09, 2008

Kolkata: Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist feels that there is a big gulf in class between Sachin Tendulkar and the rest of the batsmen, something that makes it almost impossible for anyone to get anywhere near Tendulkar's landmark of 100 international centuries. Giving the example of Ricky Ponting, Gilchrist said 29 centuries separate Tendulkar from his former skipper. That speaks about Tendulkar's greatness. He is way ahead. I really doubt...

01:18 AM, May 08, 2008

Dhaka: The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Monday rejected a complaint from Bangladesh that Pakistani pacer Aizaz Cheema deliberately blocked their batsman Mahmudullah Riyad in the last over during the tense chase in the Asia Cup final. Chasing 237 for a victory in the Asia Cup final in Mirpur last week, Bangladesh fell short by two runs as they needed four from the last delivery. And the BCB had later appealed ...

01:14 AM, May 07, 2008

Delhi: Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag is delighted with the squad he has got for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and believes his team's first aim is to make it to the play-off stage. Sehwag, who was not the part of the Asia Cup team because of fitness issues, is pretty confident that he will be fully fit in time for the IPL and will start...

09:11 PM, May 05, 2008

Melbourne: Australia's Chappell brothers, Ian and Greg, are at loggerheads over Ricky Ponting's captaincy. While Ian feels Ponting's captaincy is hurting the Australian team, Greg, currently a selector in Cricket Australia, wants him to continue for another couple of years. (Mitchell) Johnson's epic resurgence should not camouflage the fact that Ponting's captaincy has started to hurt the Australian team, Ian wrote in a cricket website. In what appears to be ...

07:03 PM, Nov 19, 2007

The death toll in the devastating cyclone in Bangladesh is rising. ...

04:39 PM, Nov 18, 2007

Temperatures across central and south West Europe have crossed 40 degree Celsius over the weekend. ...

03:38 PM, Jul 25, 2007

A massive landslide hit south-eastern Bangladesh, the death toll rose to 106 on Wednesday. ...

06:47 PM, Jun 13, 2007

It was another sweltering day for Delhiites on Sunday as the temperatures hovered around 4 to 5 degrees above normal. ...

12:50 AM, Jun 11, 2007

A total of 57 lakh people are affected by AIDS in India, says Justice Jaichandran of the Madras High Court. ...

02:42 PM, Apr 16, 2007