Haitian candidate wants UN peacekeepers out
Haiti election favorite Mirlande Manigat, a longtime opposition leader and erstwhile first lady, is bracing for "massive fraud" in this weekend's vote and wants UN peacekeepers out.
Teams dread ghost of Harmison past
Brisbane, Nov. 24: If there is one certainty about the first ball of the first Ashes Test between Australia and England on Thursday, it is that it will not end up unaided at second slip as Steve Harmi
Nadal downs Djokovic, set for semis
Nov. 25: Rafael Nadal is on course for a place in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals after producing a masterful display to beat Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-2 on Wednesday.
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England ready to storm Gabba fortress
Brisbane, Nov. 24: Skipper Andrew Strauss said on Wednesday he was confident his players could pull off ‘something pretty special’ and win England’s first Ashes series in Australia in a generation.
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SL on top despite Bravo knock
Nov. 25: Part-time spinner Tillakaratne Dilshan bagged two wickets in one over in fading light to boost Sri Lanka’s hopes of gaining the lead in the second Test against the West Indies on Thursday. Th
Pill cuts 44% HIV infection in gay men
Washington, Nov. 24: A landmark study across four continents has shown that a daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug reduced the number of HIV infections among sexually active gay men by 44 per cen
29 dead in 2nd NZ mine blast
New Zealand, Nov. 24: All 29 men missing in a New Zealand coal mine have died after a powerful second blast tore through the pit, authorities said on Wednesday, plunging the country into mourning.
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US-S. Korea plan naval drill
Seoul, Nov. 24: South Korea and the United States will launch a four-day naval exercise involving a US aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea on Sunday after North Korea’s artillery attack on an island th
Beatles sell 2m songs in a week on iTunes
The Beatles sold more than 450,000 albums and over two million individual songs in the week since their music appeared on Apple’s iTunes, Billboard said on Tuesday.
US, Japan affirm cooperation over N.Korea
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her Japanese counterpart Seiji Maehara Thursday affirmed their cooperation with Seoul in the wake of Pyongyang's deadly attack on a South Korean island.