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Yousuf resurrects Pak on return

Aug. 19: Pakistan’s Mohammad Yousuf marked his return to international cricket with a well-made 56 before he became Graeme Swann’s 100th Test wicket at The Oval here on Thursday. Pakistan, at tea on t

Oil prices rebound in Asian trade

Oil prices rebounded in Asian trade on Friday on hopes the Japanese government would ease monetary policy to stimulate its economy, analysts said.

Partner says BP hiding oil spill documents

Transocean, the company that owned the rig behind the Gulf of Mexico disaster has accused oil giant BP of hiding key data needed for a probe, according to a letter seen on Thursday.

Transocean accuse

Air India jet lands in Oman after bomb scare

An on-flight bomb scare that out to be a hoax forced an Air India passenger jet to make an emergency landing at Muscat airport on Friday, Omani police said.

The Boeing 737 was en route from Kuwait to

Swiss shock for Spurs

Paris, Aug. 18: Roman Pavlyuchenko’s late goal allowed Tottenham to escape from a lacklustre performance with a narrow 3-2 defeat at Swiss side Young Boys in the first leg of their Champions League pl

Dwarves demand state benefits

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Dwarves wait to attend a function organised to announce the formation of their association in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

New buzz word 'vuvuzela' earns a place in English dictionary

Vuvuzelas, the plastic horns that provided the soundtrack for the World Cup in South Africa, have blared their way into a dictionary containing the latest in the English language, published on Thursda

India proposes formula to break BlackBerry logjam: report

India's government has proposed a formula that could avert its threatened shutdown of the core features of the BlackBerry smartphone over security worries, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Explosion in China's Xinjiang kills seven, injures 14

An explosion in China's restive Xinjiang region left seven people dead and another 14 injured on Thursday, state media reported.

Police have already caught a suspect at the site of the blast, which h

Four die in Japan coastguard helicopter crash

Four Japanese coastguard personnel died in a helicopter crash while rescuers continued to search for a missing crew member, officials said on Thursday.

Coastguard helicopter Akizuru crashed on Wednes

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