India’s top utility vehicle maker Mahindra and Mahindra has been chosen as the preferred bidder to take over South Korea’s bankrupt Ssangyong Motor, creditors said on Thursday.

Fast bowler Munaf Patel will join India’s squad for the remaining matches of the ongoing triangular one-day series in Sri Lanka, officials said on Thursday.

Aug. 12: In two groundbreaking studies published on Wednesday, doctors have used stem cells from bone marrow to help heal children with a killer skin disease, and to repair injured lungs.

Researchers

Aug 12: Sixth-seeded Vera Zvonareva waited through two rain delays totaling three and a half hours to pull off a come-from-behind victory over Maria Kirilenko in the Cincinnati Women’s Open.

The two

Chapel Hill (USA), Aug. 11: America’s 1991 400 metres world champion Antonio Pettigrew, who was stripped of a 2000 Olympic 4x400m relay gold medal, was found dead in his car, officials said on Tuesday

New Delhi, Aug. 10: A senior US defence official on Tuesday sought to soothe India’s concerns about US weapon supplies to arch-rival Pakistan.

The US under secretary for defence, Ms Michelle Flournoy

Paris, Aug. 10: World sprint sensation Usain Bolt on Tuesday ruled himself out of the rest of the 2010 season because of a back problem that affects his striding power.

The Jamaican, who won gold in

Paris, Aug. 10: France and England had World Cup campaigns to forget and on Wednesday both set out on what they hope is the first step in restoring their battered images in friendlies against Norway

Beijing, Aug. 10: A Chinese firm has developed a special protective case known as the “Apple Peel” for converting the iPod Touch media player into a mobile phone, state media said on Tuesday.

The App

Herat (Afghanistan), Aug. 9: The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by emptying three shots into her head for alleged adultery, the police said on Monday.

Bibi Sanubar