West Indies captain Darren Sammy won the toss and elected to bat against India in the first One-day International on Monday at Queen’s Park Oval here.

Nato warplanes battered Muammar Gaddafi’s command network in Tripoli, the alliance said on Monday ahead of a visit to Libya by an envoy from Russia, which has raised concerns about the military campaign.

The West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl against India in a one-off T20 International at the Queen’s Park Oval here on Saturday.

India will feel pressured to retaliate if Pakistan-based militants launched an attack similar to the Mumbai assaults that killed more than 160 people and fueled anger across the country, minister of state for defence M.M. Pallam Raju said on Saturday.

Kidnapped Colombian journalist Mario Esteban Lopez escaped being burned alive by kidnappers because the gasoline they doused him with wetted their matches, he told EFE.

The chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Chris Patten, wants India’s Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

India’s stand-in cricket captain Suresh Raina has rubbished reports linking him to an alleged bookmaker, saying getting photographed with somebody does not amount to knowing the person.

State Bank of India (SBI) is set to commence operations in Saudi Arabia in the next four to six weeks, a senior bank official has said.

Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar and three other senior Yemeni officials wounded in shelling of the presidential compound were transferred to Saudi Arabia for treatment on Saturday, a medic said.

Bombers killed 24 people in attacks on a mosque in central Iraq frequented by provincial officials and later at a hospital where the victims were being treated, officials said on Saturday.