Sachin Tendulkar's record 50th test century and the unpredictable highveld weather held up South Africa's charge toward victory late on day four of the first test against India at Centurion overnight. Tendulkar became the first player to the mark with his sublime 107 not out as India reached 454-8 in its second innings when play was halted because of strong winds at the SuperSport Park ground and an approaching thunderstorm. It left the visiting team 30 runs short of South Africa's mammoth...
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, said on Sunday that he would vote against the new arms control treaty with Russia, rallying opponents of the pact as it approaches the decisive vote expected this week. Blogs The Caucus The latest on President Obama, the new...
Janet Jackson's hit single Nothing — the theme song from Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? — is generating almost as much Oscar buzz as it feels riddled with grief. Jackson learned of her brother Michael's death while filming the movie in Atlanta, before she had recorded the song....
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction." -Simon Bolivar When Venezuela lawmakers granted President Hugo Chavez extraordinary powers to govern the country by decree for the next several months, it evoked the life of Simon...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has rejected a call for UN troops to leave Ivory Coast as tensions escalate after last month's presidential election. Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo had earlier demanded that all foreign peacekeepers leave the country. His spokesperson accused UN and...
The United Nations offered Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, unusual incentives to step down from office in 2000, according to leaked US diplomatic cables reported in a UK sunday paper, The Observer. Kofi Annan, who was the head the UN at the time, is said to have offered Mugabe a...
LONDON: Heavy snow disrupted European airtravel over the weekend and stranded hundreds of drivers in their cars as far south as Italy as a white Christmas appeared increasingly likely for many places. Britain was hit by more blizzards that shut its biggest airports on the busiest weekend for...
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