Melbourne man McNamara won five singles titles and 19 in doubles and teamed up with compatriot Paul McNamee to win the Australian Open doubles in 1979 and Wimbledon twice in 1980 and 1982.
The PSG striker came second to tennis legend Borg on a list of Sweden's all-time sporting greats.
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The greater land-use in organic farming leads indirectly to higher carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to deforestation.
He addressed a seminar on India and Sweden in Stockholm.
Presenting the magazine covers which grabbed our attention this year.
In rebranding the F-16 into the F-21, Lockheed Martin appears to have accepted what many have warned it for years: That the IAF would never buy a fighter whose very name is associated across India with the Pakistan Air Force which has operated the F-16 since the 1980s.
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In a meeting on Thursday evening, the RCom management, led by CEO Punit Garg, requested the bank representatives to release Rs 260 crore it received as I-T refund so that it could repay the dues to Ericsson.
The company is likely to sign a MoU with the Yogi Adityanath government for opening retail stores in the important towns of the state.
Yet Milan's defensive frailty was punished when Konstantinos Fortounis scored from the penalty spot in the 81st minute to give his side the win that left them second in Group F on 10 points.
16-year-old Greta Thunberg had earlier said world leaders were behaving like children about climate change.
Musicians from across the world will gather in Goa for the Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival.
Kenya's marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and Colombian jumper Caterine Ibarguen were honoured as IAAF athletes of the year at athletics' annual awards ceremony on Tuesday.
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Football fans worldwide back points deductions for racism at matches
Under the deal, Russia will provide design, technology know how and key materials to GSL for construction of the ships in India.
Born and abandoned in Mumbai, reborn in Sweden, Erika Sandberg says she is Indian on the outside but feels Swedish on the inside. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel narrates her tale.
Victoria's Secret model Elsa Hosk put on a show-stopping display in a $1 million fantasy bra.
Sukanya Verma looks at what stood out in a mostly humdrum affair.
If one leaves aside 2016, when sales declined 4.68 per cent, the pace of growth in 2018 is the slowest in a decade, according to IHS Markit, a sales forecast and market research firm.
Infosys was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising 2.36 per cent, followed by HDFC Bank up 1.39 per cent.
Industry watchers say the two brothers could even work more closely in the future. "It may well turn out to be a watershed moment in their relationship."
In the Sensex kitty, ITC turned star performer by surging 2.45 per cent, followed by NTPC rising 2.19 per cent.
We sorted through countless photographs taken around the world to come up with the top photos of 2019. Together these images tell the story of the year -- capturing moments of hope and heartbreak, triumph and tragedy.
Jio has been allocated spectrum in 28 gigahertz to run 5G trials.
Rediff readers tell us what their first salaries were.
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The CBI had moved the trial court seeking permission for further probe in the matter saying it had come across fresh material and evidence.
Srikanth needed 35 minutes to get the better of local hope Vittinghus 21-16, 21-10 in the opening round of the US$7,75,000 tournament.
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Nordhaus, a professor at Yale University, is best known for his work on climate economics. Romer, of New York University's Stern School of Business, is a proponent of a theory that examines how the world can achieve sustainable growth.
The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.
Arthur Ashkin in the US, Grard Mourou in France, and Donna Strickland in Canada will share the prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Rattled by embarrassing domestic defeats, Chelsea looked jittery before Olivier Giroud settled their nerves with a close range tap-in shortly after halftime at StamfordBridge following good work by N'Golo Kante and Willian in the build-up.
Still, the earliest India will get to experience Apple online will be early 2020 and the company's first fully-owned signature store should be up around 2022 -- almost two decades after it had opened its first store worldwide, writes Nivedita Mookerji.
Federer's hard-fought 6-7 (5), 7-6 (8), 10-7 victory over American John Isner put the Europeans just three points from their victory target and Zverev got them there with a 6-7 (3), 7-5, 10-7 win over Kevin Anderson.
The Swedish chair umpire who gave a pep talk to Australian Nick Kyrgios during a US Open match this year has been suspended without pay for two weeks, the ATP Tour said on Tuesday.
The artillery pounds targets and keeps the enemy's head down, preventing them from firing at attacking troops.
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