Paris: Kimi Raikkonen continues to be an enigma. The 2007 world champion had a forgettable qualifying in Melbourne on Saturday as he could only manage an embarrassing 17th place on the starting grid for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The reason it was embarrassing was because his teammate - and near rookie - Romain Grosjean produced an outstanding performance to clinch third place, trailing the two McLarens by just 0.4...
09:44 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Melbourne: Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen, returning to Formula One after two years away, failed to get through the first phase of qualifying for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday. The Finn, who won from pole position for Ferrari at Albert Park in 2007, lost control of his Lotus on a corner on his final flying lap and the detour onto the trackside grass cost him a place in...
03:00 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Melbourne: McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in Saturday's final practice for Formula One's season-opening Australian Grand Prix, as two of the sport's biggest stars had session-ending spins. Hamilton edged Lotus' Romain Grosjean by just eight hundredths of a second in the pre-qualifying session, with Red Bull's Mark Webber third fastest and McLaren's Jenson Button fourth. Webber's teammate and reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel had his session cut...
10:33 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Melbourne: Sebastian Vettel reflected a widespread caution over predicting the outcome of the Formula One season on Thursday but at least the world champion was prepared to share his season goal, however unsurprising it was. Driver after driver at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix expressed the opinion that winter testing had been inconclusive and only in Saturday's qualifying, perhaps even in Sunday's race, would the true pace of the cars...
04:27 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Paris: For the first time in the history of Formula One, six world champions will be on the grid when the new season starts on Sunday. Here is a brief look at them (with age, nationality, manufacturer, number of championships, race wins and pole positions): Sebastian Vettel, 24, Germany, Red Bull Two-time defending F1 champion Race Wins: 21 Pole Positions: 30 Is there anything or anyone to stop Sebastian Vettel...
03:56 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Melbourne: On the eve of his first Formula One practice session in three years, Kimi Raikkonen was typically underwhelmed on Thursday, saying he rarely bothered to watch the sport during his absence. Raikkonen is back from a spell in rally cars and various other forms of racing, joining a Lotus team which is regarded as long shot to win this weekend's season-opening race in Australia. Most drivers would be excited...
03:09 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Melbourne: Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso says the team still expects to fight for the Formula One title this season, despite acknowledging the scarlet cars are likely to struggle in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this weekend. Alonso said on Thursday that this year's car is still not a finished product heading into Friday's first practice session and that the team is behind the likes of Red Bull and McLaren in...
02:03 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Melbourne: The start of any new Formula One season is uncertain enough for teams and drivers without the addition of wet weather, which is expected for this year's opening Australian Grand Prix. The forecast for Melbourne is for rain and possible thunderstorms from Friday through to race day on Sunday, which will render much of the best-laid pre-season preparations and learned predictions irrelevant. Throw in the always-slippery Melbourne street circuit,...
01:57 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Melbourne: Novak Djokovic overcame his breathing problems and a "physical crisis" to beat Andy Murray in an almost five-hour Australian Open semi-final on Friday night and move into his third straight Grand Slam final. Standing between Djokovic and a record shared by some of the greatest players of all time will be No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal, a man he beat in six tournament finals in 2011. Despite appearing tired and...
07:22 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Washington: Scientists have discovered a gene which they claim is responsible for causing epileptic seizures in some babies. Benign familial infantile epilepsy (BFIE) is known as infantile seizures that run in families. Seizures commence when a baby is about six months old and stop by the age of two years. But what causes the rare form of epilepsy in previously healthy infants has so far eluded researchers. Now, an international...
12:19 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Melbourne: A Melbourne-based Pakistani student was on Monday deported on security grounds after being questioned by Australian security intelligence officials over his suspect phone calls to Pakistan. Twenty-three-year-old Salman Ghumman has been deported and is now on his way back to Pakistan, The Australian newspaper quoted the Immigration Department as saying. Ghumman was detained last month by immigration officials after several months of questioning by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation officials...
11:49 AM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: An Australian teenager has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg. The judge, however, said the attack was not racially motivated. 21-year old Nitin was stabbed to death in Melbourne in January 2010 while he was walking to his workplace. The attack took place at a time of heightened attacks on Indian students and cab drivers in that country. The...
08:37 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Delhi that was at the 113th position in 2010 in the survey, went up one point this year to at the 112 position. ...
08:39 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Melbourne: Australia's second-largest city Melbourne has been rated the world's best city to live in, and Mumbai one of the worst, according to a new survey. In the survey of 140 cities around the globe, Melbourne secured the top slot with a score of 97.5 per cent, followed by Austrian capital Vienna (97.4 per cent), and Vancouver in Canada (97.3 per cent) which was rated the best last year. Three...
04:38 PM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: After becoming a sensation in huge cities like Toronto and Melbourne, the SlutWalk finally took place in New Delhi on Sunday under the name of Besharmi Morcha. Close to 200 people gathered at Jantar Mantar to participate in the march to protest against society's perception that victims of sexual harassment ask for trouble by dressing scantily. "We have students and a number of groups supporting us for the...
11:57 AM, Jul 31, 2011
Melbourne: A Gurdwara in the Australian state of Victoria has been vandalised in what is believed to be a "racial" attack, sparking fears among the minority community which has appealed for greater security for the Sikhs. Sikhs in Shepparton in northern Victoria have appealed to those who vandalised their Gurdwara to leave them alone. "Why they're doing it we don't know and we think there's a bit of racism -...
07:54 PM, Jun 02, 2011
New Delhi: The excitement is building up as the Queen's baton makes its way through Delhi in its final lap. The baton had reached the Games Village Saturday morning. After much negative publicity, the Games have made history by being the biggest ever in terms of participants. More than 6700 athletes have confirmed that they will be attending the mega event. Over 5800 foreign delegates have already arrived and many...
02:00 PM, Oct 02, 2010
Apparently, Aamir would be attending the festival to promote his film ...
05:18 PM, Jul 23, 2010
The teenagers who viciously attacked the Indian in March 2008 have not even been locked up. ...
01:29 PM, Jun 30, 2010
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Eighteen-year-old Georgia Bucknell has pleaded guilty to the charges. ...
12:23 PM, Jun 10, 2010
