Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has graced the cover of French weekly magazine Paris Match. The 47-year-old actor took to Twitter to announce the news and also posted a picture of the magazine cover. "If you know French... tell me what it says on cover... apart from my name. Thanks," Shah Rukh wrote in the cheeky post. In the photo, the actor is dressed in a black and grey...
10:45 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Parma: Italy head coach Cesare Prandelli insists his side did not deserve to lose 1-2 to France in a football friendly played here. Prandelli used a 4-3-3 format for the first time, with Stephan El Shaarawy, Mario Balotelli and Antonio Candreva up front, while Marco Verratti got his first senior start and Alessandro Florenzi his debut Wednesday, reports Xinhua. In-form AC Milan striker Stephan El Shaarawi gave the hosts a...
01:24 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Austin, Texas: The Lance Armstrong Foundation has formally dropped the name of the disgraced cyclist from its title, the organization said on Wednesday, marking the latest move by the cancer charity to distance itself following the biggest doping scandal in the sport's history. The foundation that has been informally known for years as Livestrong - the word adorning its well-known yellow wristbands - filed paperwork with the Texas Secretary of...
10:18 AM, Nov 15, 2012
London: Zlatan Ibrahimovic illuminated a low-key night of international friendlies on Wednesday, scoring an audacious overhead kick from 30 yards to cap his four-goal display in Sweden's 4-2 win over England. Ibrahimovic's one-man show in Stockholm - featuring what both his opponents and pundits hailed as one of the greatest goals seen in recent years - overshadowed two high-profile matches between fierce European rivals, with the Netherlands and Germany drawing...
08:50 AM, Nov 15, 2012
The NMC said that reporting on the Test series has been jeopardised as a result of the move by the BCCI. ...
05:05 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Paris: French President Francois Hollande's attempt to sign a note congratulating Barack Obama for getting re-elected wound up lost in translation - and all over Twitter. In the great Gallic tradition of murdering the English language, Hollande ended the letter to the US president in his own hand, writing: "Friendly, Francois Hollande." The mistake was a literal translation of the French "amicalement," instead of what probably should have been "kind...
07:09 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Paris: The French Football Federation sent players a stern warning over their future conduct on Thursday by banning midfielder Yann M'Vila from the national team until the end of June 2014 for going to a nightclub during the playoffs for the 2013 Under-21 European Championship. He will miss the 2014 World Cup, which runs from June 12-July 13, the FFF said after a disciplinary committee meeting, which M'Vila attended. Although...
03:29 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New York: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced it will not appeal against the decision to ban American cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles. WADA had the option of challenging the ruling that was made by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and backed by the International Cycling Union (UCI). "WADA has no concerns as to the complete process and...
09:36 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Paris/London: Google denied a newspaper report on Wednesday that it had received a 1 billion euro tax claim from the French authorities. The weekly Canard Enchaine said in an unsourced report that the French Tax Administration was looking into whether Google's practice of charging French advertisers via its European headquarters in Ireland led it to underpay taxes in France. European Union rules on freedom of trade within the bloc generally...
12:38 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Paris: Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins won the prestigous Velo d'Or award as the best rider of 2012. Briton Wiggins beat Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders winner Tom Boonen and Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez in a poll of cycling journalists set up by French publication, Velo Magazine. In addition to the Tour de France, Wiggins also won the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, Criterium du Dauphine and the Olympic time trial...
03:18 PM, Oct 30, 2012
No one will replace Lance Armstrong as winner of the Tour de France from 1999-2005 after the American was stripped of the titles for doping, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday. "With respect to Lance Armstrong and the implications of the USADA sanctions which it endorsed on Monday 22 October, the Management Committee decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any...
09:00 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Paris: Spaniard Alberto Contador expressed support on Wednesday for disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong saying the American was being "humiliated and lynched" by doping accusations which have led to the stripping of his seven Tour de France titles. "It seems to me that at certain times and in certain places Lance is not being treated with any respect," Contador, a double Tour champion who returned from a two-year doping ban in...
12:20 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Paris: While the sports world comes to terms with the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, Tour de France organisers unveiled a mountainous, prestigious route for the 100th edition of the world's greatest cycling race on Wednesday. The 2013 Tour, which will start from Corsica, will take l'Alpe d'Huez's 21 hairpins twice in the same stage, go up the gruelling Mont Ventoux and end at dusk on the Champs Elysees. But with...
04:22 PM, Oct 24, 2012
After being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles Armstrong has been asked to return the prize money of 4 million US dollar. ...
09:51 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Oslo: Norwegian cyclist Steffen Kjaergaard, who competed with the disgraced Lance Armstrong on the U.S. Postal Service team in the Tour de France in 2000 and 2001, admitted to doping on Tuesday. "When I was a part of the U.S Postal Service team, everything was organised by the team. I did not need to arrange for a doctor or do anything by myself," retired Kjaergaard told a news conference. "The...
06:28 PM, Oct 23, 2012
London: Californian sunglasses maker Oakley has ended a sponsorship of Lance Armstrong that began 25 years ago when he was a teenage triathlete after the American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles over a doping scandal. Oakley, owned by Italy's Luxottica (LUX.MI), became the latest sponsor to drop Armstrong after the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Monday ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's sanctions against the 41-year-old,...
09:18 AM, Oct 23, 2012
USADA banned Lance Armstrong for life on Monday on the grounds of doping and asserted that there's no place for cheats like him in cycling. ...
10:49 PM, Oct 22, 2012
The International Cycling Union has stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles after the United States Anti-Doping Agency brought out a guilty verdict against the iconic star. ...
07:07 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Geneva: Cycling's governing body agreed on Monday to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life, following a report from the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that accused him of leading a massive doping program on his teams. UCI President Pat McQuaid announced that the federation accepted the USADA's report on Armstrong and would not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The...
05:02 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Paris: France's foreign minister says Iran appears on track to reach the ability to produce a nuclear weapon by the first half of next year. France is one of six countries that have negotiated with Tehran over its nuclear program, which Iran insists is peaceful. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Europe-1 radio Sunday that unspecified experts "have established in an absolutely indisputable way" that Iran has compiled a full array...
03:41 AM, Oct 22, 2012
