After starting the new season with a comfortable victory, favourites India will be aiming to keep up the momentum when they take on hosts Sri Lanka in the second cricket ODI here on Tuesday.

Pierre Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, famously said that it was more important to participate than win. Such idealism, however, has been more the exception than the rule at the Games.

Arab officials meeting in Doha have approved an international probe into Yasser Arafat's death, after a report said he may have been poisoned, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat said.

US President Barack Obama said he hugged and "shed tears" on Sunday with survivors of the Colorado shooting and relatives of the dead, saying the entire country is "thinking about them."

The London Olympics are not big business for everyone — sex workers say they are being cleared from the streets around the stadium to make the area more presentable for the Games.

President Barack Obama will fly to Colorado on Sunday to visit the families of victims from the Aurora movie theater shooting, the White House announced, as he and Mitt Romney dialed back their campaigning in the shocked aftermath of the massacre.

Thousands of well-wishers and Egypt's military brass gathered on Saturday for the funeral of the country's former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, a key figure in the fallen Mubarak regime who died this week in hospital in the United States.

The Hinduja Group with a global presence in core sectors like oil and gas, automotive, power, IT, banking and finance on Sunday announced a major foray into the real estate sector in India involving an investment of up to USD 15 billion.

Virat Kohli, who fashioned India's 21-run voctory over Sri Lanka in the first one-dayer here, says that wearing India colours was a big motivating factor for him.

US police said on Saturday they had cleared all remaining threats from the booby-trapped apartment of the gunman accused of the Batman theater massacre that left 12 people dead in Colorado.