A total of 37 foreign workers died at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing after a hostage crisis coordinated by a Canadian, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday. Sellal also said that 29 Islamists had been killed in the siege, which Algerian forces ended by storming the plant, and three had been captured alive. ...
10:30 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Federer said he was saddened by Lance Armstrong's admission that he cheated his way to seven Tour de France wins. ...
09:34 AM, Jan 20, 2013
The hostage crisis in the Sahara desert continued on Saturday with 12 hostages and 18 kidnappers dead since the Algerian army launched an assault. The militants are suspected al-Qaeda operatives. ...
07:05 PM, Jan 19, 2013
The cyclist said the penalty he was given by the USADA was much harsher than the sanctions dished out to other self-confessed cheats. ...
09:30 AM, Jan 19, 2013
The program was seen by a total of 4.3 million viewers in Thursday's back-to-back airings. ...
09:23 AM, Jan 19, 2013
What do you think about Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey? ...
05:41 PM, Jan 18, 2013
What Armstrong did with his trail of lies and dissembling was to shake the very foundations of cycling and make mockery of sports in general. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The governing body would welcome Armstrong in a truth and reconciliation commission for the sport following the American's confession that he doped to win his Tour de France titles. ...
03:11 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Djokovic has heavily criticized Armstrong's long-expected doping admissions, saying he is a disgrace to cycling. ...
01:46 PM, Jan 18, 2013
In addition to several lawsuits already filed, Armstrong could also face new defamation claims from the numerous people he attacked over the years for accusing him of doping. ...
12:50 PM, Jan 18, 2013
In the famous Oprah Winfrey show, the cyclist said he could not have won the Tour de France seven times without the drugs. ...
08:00 AM, Jan 18, 2013
French troops launched their first ground assault against Islamist rebels in Mali on January 16 in a broadening of their operation against battle-hardened al Qaeda-linked fighters who have resisted six days of air strikes. France has called for international support against the Islamist insurgents it says pose a threat to Africa and the West, acknowledging it faces a long fight against the well-equipped fighters who seized Mali's vast desert north...
12:33 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Emerging economies are set to grow faster than the developed economies over the next four decades and India is likely to become one of the three largest economies by 2050, says a PwC report. According to the report 'World in 2050 The BRICs and Beyond: Prospects, challenges and opportunities', the global financial crisis has accelerated the shift of the economic centre of gravity and China is expected to surpass the...
04:56 PM, Jan 16, 2013
French troops pressed northward in Mali toward territory occupied for months by militants on Wednesday, military officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put soldiers in direct combat "within hours." French ground operations began overnight in Mali, said Adm Edouard Guillaud, the French military chief of staff. ...
03:40 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Oprah Winfrey says she and her TV crew were "mesmerized and riveted" by some of Lance Armstrong's answers during a 2 1/2-hour interview in which the cyclist acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs. ...
02:22 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Berdych will next play the winner of the match between Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. ...
10:50 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic extremist fighters have been burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defences to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's new country. They have used the bulldozers, earth movers and Caterpillar machines left behind by fleeing construction crews to dig what residents and local officials describe as an elaborate network of tunnels,...
01:36 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Former Wimbledon champion Kvitova has advanced to the second round with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 victory over Schiavone. ...
10:10 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels launched a counteroffensive in Mali on January 14 after four days of French air strikes on their northern strongholds, seizing the central town of Diabaly and promising to drag France into a brutal Afghanistan-style war. France, which has poured hundreds of troops into the capital Bamako in recent days, carried out more air raids on January 14 in the vast desert area seized last year by...
09:55 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Although American media had widely speculated that Armstrong would admit to cheating in the interview, neither Winfrey nor Armstrong confirmed the report. ...
08:05 AM, Jan 15, 2013
