A summary of Friday's night's qualifying matches for Euro 2020.
'Kofi Annan will be remembered more for his Nobel Prize and related glory rather than Rwanda and Volcker,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan with whom he worked in the UN.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Indian men finished sixth after beating Bulgaria 2.5-1.5 in the 14th and final round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Images from the Euro 2020 qualifying matches played on Tuesday night.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Images from the third day at the US Open, the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, in New York, on Wednesday:
Croatia, helped by a mistake by veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, held Italy to a 1-1 away draw on Sunday, but their evening was ruined by their fans who twice interrupted play by throwing flares onto the pitch.
An inexperienced Germany suffered an embarrassing 3-1 defeat to Slovakia in a storm-affected friendly ahead of Euro 2016.
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Grandmaster Sergey Fedorchuk of Ukraine won the Dubai Open chess tournament on a better tie-break score.
Images from Tuesday night's UEFA Champions League group stage matches.
But their medal hopes remain dim after the 13th and penultimate round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
P Harikrishna and S S Ganguly lost their games as India went down to defending champions Russia in the Chess Olympiad.
The Indian Grandmaster beat GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan in the third round of the Masters' section in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
Images from Day 6 of the French Open in Paris on Friday.
How the 32 teams are placed in the league stage of the 2014 Football World Cup.
India had a disappointing finish at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Italy.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly beat Gabriel Sargissen to help the Indian men register a 2.5-1.5 victory over Armenia in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Images from matches played on Day 5 at the Australian Open in Melbourne Park on Friday
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The World Bank would provide loans to India at higher than its existing concessional rates but lower than the market rate.
Yuki Bhambri braved cramps to get the better of Ireland's John Morrissey and enter the semi-finals in the boys' singles of the tennis event at the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore on Wednesday. The sixth seed Indian defeated Morrissey 6-4, 6-4 in the quarter-finals at Kallang Tennis Centre.
Grandmasters P Harikrihsna and Abhijeet Gupta played in copy book style to give Indian men their third victory in a row in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
'A plausible American tactic,' Rajeev Srinivasan suspects, 'would be to try and prevent the BJP and Modi from coming to power by splitting the anti-Congress vote using the AAP, and in case that fails, to follow up with a Plan B to make India ungovernable, to create mass conflict through their agents.'
Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 302 films in 365 days on airplanes, on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Google, Hulu, DVDs and even on YouTube.
The Indian men's and women's teams registered identical 3-1 victories over Czech Republic and Slovenia respectively, in the 10th and penultimate round of the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, on Monday. The women's team, with 14 points, improved to joint-seventh while the men's team moved to joint-ninth place.
In Moscow, Russia rallied to beat England 2-1 and keep their hopes alive for a berth in the finals.
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US Open champion Martin Kaymer sank an eight-foot birdie putt at the first extra hole to beat Bubba Watson in the four-man PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda on Wednesday.
Singapore is the world's most successful economy in exploiting ICT developments; US fifth, China 41st.
The recent bailout of Romania by the International Monetary Fund puts the spotlight back on the East European block of countries and what it means for the Western European banking sector. If evidence is anything to go by, things are turning for the worse. In fact, if a block of countries could be termed 'sub-prime', Eastern Europe seems to qualify as the countries seem to have been battered and bruised big time by the ongoing global financial turmoil.
Mittal, who is partnering HPCL for the project, will bring to the joint venture his vast expertise in project execution and unparalleled skills in managing governments.
India stands 40th in 'network readiness' in the world, having slipped from the 39th spot it held last year. However, it is above China (50th) and Pakistan (67th) and Sri Lanka (83rd).
'Whether in Kuwait, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, in Afghanistan, where the Muslim population was freed of one of the worst regimes in the 20th century, the Taliban,' says US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
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