London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher said on Friday that organisers are working to ensure the rescheduled race is held on Oct. 4 despite the cancellation of September's Great North Run due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation of the annual half marathon had raised doubts about the London Marathon going ahead due to the challenges faced by organisers in implementing social distancing protocols.
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner who once took a bullet for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan, was over the moon on Friday after completing her degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Britain's prestigious Oxford University.
The presidency of the Council is held by each of the members in turn for one month, following the English alphabetical order of the member states' names. According to the information released by the office of the UN spokesperson, India will assume the rotating presidency of the Council for the month of August next year.
The company's operations are slated to commence in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast next week.
The operator was acquired four years earlier by Essar, when the latter had more telecom ventures, such as the 33 per cent stake in Vodafone Essar, and also owned telecom towers.
Two wheels and an open road. Biking during Coronavirus Days.
Summary of World Cup qualifiers played across the world on Thursday
'A true match-winner against whom I enjoyed playing against a lot'
A three-way voting process will determine the finalists.
Kenya taekwondo champion Vincent Ochieng usually trains in school sports halls in Kisumu, but now he is working out with hundreds of other people on the gritty surface of the western city's biggest highway flyover. The government closed sports facilities in March as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, leaving athletes like Ochieng, who was looking forward to representing Kenya at the World Taekwondo Championships in China in October, with nowhere to train.
Ugandan smashed Bekele's 16-year-old record at Monaco Diamond League on Friday.
A Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for a Kerala-based club has been stuck for the last 54 days at Mumbai International Airport due to lockdown and unavailability of flights back home. Juan Muller, 23, has been stuck at the departure area of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. He spends his time at the airport's fancy artificial gardens and somehow buys food from stalls and passes his time with the airport staff.
The first One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka witnessed important milestones being set and new records being made.
Australia haven't quite played their best cricket in the World Cup, said captain Ricky Ponting on Saturday, promising to turn up the intensity as his team approaches the 'business end' of the mega-event.
After Kenya stunned the Lankans in the 2003 World Cup, the Island nation would be keen to get their revenge and send a message to their oppostion. Rediff staffers Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande lists out reasons on why Kenya stands no chance of repeating their 2003 heroics.
Keen to re-establish their reputation dented by the spot-fixing scandal, unpredictable Pakistan will look to launch their cricket World Cup campaign on a rousing note when they take on minnows in Hambantota on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old stuttered on the penultimate barrier but surged down the home stretch to power across the line and beat her previous record of 51.90 set at the U.S. trials in June.
Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn capped a dazzling performance in the 100 metres hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics with a gold medal while Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won the men's long jump title in an action packed Monday morning at the Olympic Stadium
World marathon record holder Patrick Makau was left out of the Kenyan men's team named on Wednesday for the London Olympics after he failed to finish last Sunday's London marathon.
Meb Keflezighi became the first U.S. male athlete to win the Boston Marathon in three decades on Monday, the first running of the race since last year's fatal bombing attack.
However, in two different dose regimens, the vaccine's efficacy was 90 per cent in one and 62 per cent in the other.
He is currently under treatment in stable condition, isolated from other patients, the statement said, adding that the tracing of all contacts has been conducted for further management. This is the second case in east Africa, after Kenya recorded the first case of COVID-19 on Friday.
Completing a marathon below two hours and 10 minutes is considered an arduous task, but Kenyan athlete William Kipsang is determined to do just that at the ninth Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
Action against the foreign Tablighi Jamaat members was first taken after over 2,300 people, including 250 foreigners, belonging to the Islamic organisation were found to be living at its headquarters located at Delhi's Nizamuddin soon after the nation-wide lockdown was announced in March. Several of these members had tested positive for coronavirus.
Shubhankar Sharma believes he will be in better form when he tees up for what will be his first professional tournament in four months.
Senior officials, including those from a central team, were present during the night-long operation and a close vigil is being maintained on further movement of locusts, Katiyar said. Two fire brigade vehicles loaded with insecticide had been deployed in all four Jhansi tehsils besides six vehicles were kept ready at the district headquarter. Ten municipal employees with two insecticide spraying machines were posted in every block.
Yeshaneh crossed the finish line in one hour, four minutes and 31 seconds at the World Athletics Gold Label road race, eclipsing the previous record of 1:04:51
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition just named the winner of this year's LUMIX People's Choice Award, and the perfectly-timed photo by wildlife filmmaker and photographer Sam Rowley is just too good to keep to ourselves. Selected from over 48,000 submitted images and 25 impressive finalists, Rowley's winning photo is called "Station Squabble," and it features two mice getting into a tussle over some leftover crumbs in the London Underground.
Images of playful lion cubs and a confused seal are guaranteed to raise a smile even with the world observing coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei shattered the 5km road World record in Monaco on Sunday, shaving 27 seconds off the mark set by Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto last month.
The researchers found that after being exposed to high levels of the novel coronavirus, none of the six monkeys that were given the vaccine developed viral pneumonia. Also, there was no sign that the vaccine had made the animals more vulnerable.
A sport ministry source said the government has not granted permission to any athlete to travel to Pakistan for the event.
Kenya have named New Zealander Mike Hesson as their new national cricket coach, officials said on Tuesday. The 36-year-old has been involved in coaching New Zealand 'A' and 'Emerging Players' sides since 2005 as well as assisting the main New Zealand team as a specialist batting coach.
Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru died late on Sunday after jumping from the first-floor balcony of his home in the Rift Valley, police said.
Roberto Firmino scored twice and Marquinhos and Philippe Coutinho also got goals as Brazil hammered Bolivia 5-0 in their opening World Cup qualifier in Sao Paulo on Friday.
After waiting in vain for about a fortnight in Somalian waters for release of seven members still held hostage by Somalian pirates, Indian freighter Asphalt Venture with its eight freed crew on Thursday reached Mombasa in Kenya.
Kenya coach Eldine Baptiste has parted ways with the team less than a month after the African nation's worst ever performance in the World Cup.
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Ethiopian Shura Kitata won a thrilling London Marathon as a stunned world record holder Eliud Kipchoge faded late in the race
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