American Jessica Hardy kept the world records flowing at the world short-course championships with a sparkling victory in the women's 50 metres breaststroke on Thursday. Hardy, who won the world long-course title in 2007, clocked 29.58 seconds to beat the 29.90 set by Australia's Jade Edmistone in Brisbane in 2004. It took the world record tally to four after three marks tumbled on Wednesday's opening night.
South Korean teenager Park Tae-hwan became the first Asian to break the 15-minute barrier in the 1500m freestyle on the way to winning his third gold medal of the Asian Games.
They figured in three heats at the Doha Asian Games and failed to qualify in any.
Rehan Poncha and Arjun Murlidharan failed to qualify for the finals in their respective categories at the Asian Games.
The Indian ace (70) outscored Tiger Woods (72) by two shots in the opening round of the HSBC Champions in Shanghai.
Sri Sri Ravishankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, pays tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
The Nano does not look or feel like a very 'cheap' car. It is a very thoughtfully designed piece of kit, with an agreeable level of fit and finish. Nor would you expect the kind of space it has in its interior. The two-cylinder 624cc engine hisses like a modern scooter before waking up and settling to an idle. The cable-linked gear lever helped Bijoy Kumar Y select first and presto, we had motion!
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga may bear a striking resemblance with the young Muhammad Ali but France like to seem him more as the new Yannick Noah.
The announcements made in Los Angeles Tuesday morning saw No Country for Old Men getting eight but the big surprise was the same number of nominations for the much acclaimed There Will Be Blood which was expected to pocket three or four noms. Both films were nominated in the best picture categories.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has come up with a relatively cowardly list, a list that -- in a year brimming to the top with violent masterpieces -- is too scared to pick up the gun.
Americans Michael Phelps and Brendan Hansen broke their own world records at the Pan Pacific Championships.
American Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the men's 200m butterfly at the Pan Pacific championships.
The young Indian carded an even par 72 on Day 1 of the British Open.
Nikesh Rathi who scored in the 99.52 percentile in CAT and is a second year student at IIM Lucknow, shares his CAT advice.
Michael Phelps, who won six Olympic gold medals last month, will try to repeat his Athens performance at the seventh FINA world swimming championships in Indianapolis.
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Bernard Lagat achieved what no American man has managed in almost a century by winning a global 1,500 metres title at the world championships.
England debutant Owais Shah said the tips by the Hyderabadi cricketer were invaluable and he had stuck to them diligently.
Swimmer Michael Klim was among 35 Australian Olympic athletes who posed nude for a calendar released on Tuesday.
Six races, six world records and six gold medals: there really is no stopping Michael Phelps at these Games.
Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima stole the spotlight from Michael Phelps on Thursday with an unprecedented double-double in the Olympics breaststroke. France's Alain Bernard won swimming's blue riband event, the men's 100 freestyle, by a whisker from Australia's Eamon Sullivan in a thrilling race, after trailing at the half-way stage.
American swimmer Michael Phelps became the most successful Olympian of all time when he won his 10th gold medal on Wednesday and his fourth of the Beijing Games. The mighty Phelps broke his own world record to continue his dominance in the Water Cube pool and overtake an elite group including Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis who had won nine golds.
American swimmer Michael Phelps needed a little help from his friends on Monday to keep alive the dream of an unprecedented eight Olympic golds.
Tentative schedule for events on Day 2 of the Olympic Games.
'I write this piece,' says Javed Iqbal, 'not just to come to terms with my childhood, but to speak about those who were once Shiv Sena loyalists, whose dreams did not die with the passing away of Bal Thackeray, but were dead long before he was gone.'
Michael Phelps broke fifth world record in a week to collect his seventh gold medal at the world championships.
Michael Phelps demolished his third world record in three days on Thursday to collect his fourth gold medal of the world championships and strengthen his claims to be the greatest swimmer of all time.
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Jeannette Marsh, a first-year from IIM-K shares her first bungee jumping experience.
Pepper spray Wild For Wild comes in a compact aerosol canister containing a mix of red chilli pepper extracts.
India won seven of the nine races held on the last day of the swimming competition at the 10th South Asian Games.
India's gold tally crossed the half century mark as the country won medals from every discipline on the fifth day of competition at the 10th South asian Games in Colombo on Tuesday.
Indian swimmers sank three meet records on the way to winning seven of the eight gold medals on offer at the 10th South Asian Games.
India's teen tennis sensation said it was good to know that she could match the six-time Grand Slam champion.
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