New Delhi: New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder's condition was improving and he was responding to medical staff and his family on Friday as police said they had arrested two men in connection with the alleged assault.
A 20-year-old man and 37-year-old had been charged with assault and would appear in court on April 4, New Zealand Police (NZP) said in a statement. The men were related, police said, without providing further detail.
Ryder, 28, was rushed to hospital early on Thursday with serious head injuries after being involved in two altercations outside a bar and fast food restaurant in Merivale, a suburb of Christchurch.
Local media reported Ryder, who was in a critical condition on Thursday, had sustained a fractured skull and a collapsed lung in the alleged assault....
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11:27 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester. University of Leicester researchers say it is "beyond reasonable doubt" that a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. ...
11:29 PM, Feb 04, 2013
A number of alien-like skulls have been discovered in a 1,000 year old cemetery in Mexico. The finding initially stunned the researchers, however, upon closer inspection the skulls were found to be human skulls warped into strange, alien-like shapes. Scientists said the practise of deforming skulls of children as they grew was common in Central America, and these findings suggest the tradition spread farther north than had been thought. ...
11:20 AM, Dec 30, 2012
New Delhi: Skull Candy, a Utah-based company, has introduced a new range of headphones and earphones in the Indian market, which includes Aviator, Uprock, Fix and Heavy Medal models. The headphones look stylish and are claimed to deliver quality sound. Designed specifically to rest comfortably in various positions in the ear, the 'Fix' model is touted to deliver uninterrupted tuneage, even during vigorous exercises. It has been priced at Rs...
09:13 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi refused to put on a 'skull cap' offered by a Muslim cleric during his three-day 'Sadbhavana' fast here. Sayed Imam Shahi Saiyed, a cleric of a small Dargah in Pirana village on the outskirts of the city, had on Sunday gone up to the stage to greet the Chief Minister, at Gujarat University Convention hall here. He offered Modi a skull cap, but the...
04:48 PM, Sep 19, 2011
London: In a damning assessment, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been described by British officials as "highly corrupt" and a "numbskull". The assessment of Zardari was made by officials and military leaders in the months after his election as president in September 2008, The Daily Telegraph reported citing documents leaked by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Sir Jock Stirrup, then Chief of the Defence staff, told American diplomats that Pakistan was...
04:40 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Athens: A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport after security staff discovered a skull wrapped in cloth and skeletal remains in a sheet inside his baggage. "They maintained it was a woman who was...
10:22 AM, Jan 19, 2011
Philadelphia: Captain America's latest foe is deadlier than the Red Skull: suicide. The character armed with his trademark shield faces off against suicide in a new story that publisher Marvel Entertainment released Wednesday for free through its website and app. The toll-free hotline for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is featured in the work, too. John Draper, director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a network of crisis centers across...
12:24 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Two human skulls were discovered inside the cupboard of a clerk. ...
04:55 PM, May 26, 2009
Dubai: India remained fourth even as England took an outright lead as the number one team in the latest ICC Test Championship table after claiming the three-match Test series against the West Indies 2-0. England (117) now lead second-placed South Africa (116) by one ratings point, while Australia are placed at No. 3 with 112 points and India are down at number four with 111 points. If England had managed...
12:08 AM, May 31, 2008
Kingstown: Kraig Brathwaite's resilient unbeaten 66 guided West Indies A to 212 for 8 on day one of the second unofficial Test against India A here on Saturday. At one stage the hosts were 23 for 2 and then 130 for 6, before Brathwaite took charge of the innings and saw off the day. For India A, Ashok Dinda finished with 2 for 22, while Rohit Sharma claimed 2 for ...
03:06 PM, May 30, 2008
Hello and welcome once again to DRS, my own personal space where I discuss matters cricket on Cricketnext.com. Let's talk today about an interesting comparison between the two geniuses of our time – Sachin Tendulkar, the first international batsman to score a hundred international centuries, and Vishwanathan Anand, now a five-time world chess champion. Clearly these two individuals are the biggest achievers, in a sense, of our times when it ...
12:01 PM, May 30, 2008
Russia's Communists call it little more than crude anti-Soviet propaganda. ...
03:47 PM, May 29, 2008
Bangalore: Keeping his cards close to the chest, Mumbai Indians' coach Shaun Pollock on Sunday said his team certainly has a plan for RCB's batting line-up but hopes Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers do not fire against them in Monday's encounter. We will be in trouble if we made our strategy against RCB public. Obviously, we have a strategy against RCB that we would like to keep within the ...
06:50 PM, May 22, 2008
Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians go head to head in the Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. After a not-so-convincing start to their campaigns, both the teams have improved a bit of late, but a lot more is needed for both to feel secure about their play-offs qualification, more so in Chennai's case. This will be the second time this season that both the teams are...
06:29 PM, May 19, 2008
Mumbai: Mumbai on Friday included Rohit Sharma in their one-day squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy All India knockout rounds, to be held in Delhi from March 5-12. The middle-order batsman's availability was confirmed after the elimination of India from the tri-series in Australia. Sharma will come into the squad, to be led by Ajit Agarkar, in place of Siddharth Chitnis. Incidentally, Sharma, who was in poor touch with the...
02:14 AM, Apr 30, 2008
Bookies have tipped South Africa as favourites to win the World Cup whereas India are seen as the second favourites. ...
09:18 PM, Jan 05, 2008
The skeletons were packed in two airbags and kept in the rear of the bus. ...
01:47 AM, Sep 21, 2007
This was one debate, which was not going to go up in smoke. ...
05:10 PM, Aug 31, 2007
The skull and bone warnings won't appear on cigarette and
beedi packs now and Ramadoss is upset. ...
09:27 AM, May 24, 2007
