The world number one turns 27 on the day of the Beijing opening ceremony and he will have to rediscover his A-game after also suffering a surprise defeat in the Toronto Masters to France's Gilles Simon.

Rafael Nadal stands on the verge of becoming the best player in the world, even if Monday's rankings showed that he was still number two.

As the Phoenix Mars Lander safely landed on Mars on May 25, Dr Prasun Desai and his colleagues released the breath they had been holding in, in a long exhalation of relief. "After months of work and days of high anxiety, now I feel relaxed," Dr Desai, senior engineer and Entry, Descent and Landing lead engineer at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, said.

Nirupama Vaidyanathan salutes the Belgian ace, who retired earlier last month as world No. 1.

Justine Henin's decision to call it quits earlier this month has not so much left a hole at the top of the French Open draw as a gaping chasm.

Bheja Fry director Sagar Ballary spoke to Nithya Ramani about the past, present, and the future.

Justine Henin lost her drive for success after reconciling with her estranged family, her coach said following her decision to retire.

Valmiki knew Ram to be a human, a noble man, the best of his era and in his time wrote the Ramayana as both were contemporary. He has also shown Ram to possess human traits and emotions, just like any ordinary person. We, in our blind faith, have accentuated the question marks on the historicity of Ram and Ramayana by treating Ramayana like a fable and depicting its noble characters as birds and animals.

Lindsay Davenport revived memories of when she was the game's top-ranked player by crushing Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-2 in Miami.

Venus is always the nicer one, Serena always the meaner. Venus again played the role of the elder sister to perfection in the latest rejoinder in the Williams Sister Act. Serena scrapped hard for almost two hours at the packed KSLTA stadium to beat Venus 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) and set up a final against Switzerland's Patty Schnyder at the WTA Bangalore Open on Saturday night.

Forget about black and silver. Your choice of mobile phone color signals something about you.

Bolly Woods does not think so.

Third seed Novak Djokovic survived an epic five-set encounter against Czech Radek Stepanek, fighting off exhaustion and crippling cramps to reach the third round of the US Open Friday.

Maria Sharapova has lost just two games in her first two matches but the 20-year-old Russian is taking nothing for granted in her drive to defend her U.S. Open title.

Nadia Petrova and Elena Vesnina beat Wimbledon champion Venus Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles contest to give Russia a 3-2 win over the United States in their Fed Cup semi-final on Sunday in Stowe, Vermont.

The young vocalist of 'Band Metro' is very thrilled with his newfound identity post Metro.

The world number 19 said her victory was reward for her father Walter.

Marion Bartoli had barely registered on the tennis scale before but that did not stop her from destroying Justine Henin's Wimbledon dream.

Serb Ana Ivanovic saved three match points in overcoming fellow teenager Nicole Vaidisova 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the quarter-final.

Elena Dementieva put retirement thoughts behind her on Tuesday after overcoming freezing temperatures and occasional snow flurries to beat American Meilen Tu 6-7 6-0 7-5 at the Warsaw Cup.

Astronomers have discovered a new planet circling a dim red star around 20 light years away from our solar system, which could be a "super earth" supporting life.

Top seed Maria Sharapova dodged the showers on her way to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan to set up a third round encounter against Venus Williams at the Sony Ericsson Open on Saturday.

Venus Williams recovered from a slow start to beat Ukraine's Yuliana Fedak 7-5, 6-2 in the first round in Miami.

The pretty actress is a hit with readers as she fields questions on kissing to the sexiest man alive, with aplomb

Darshan's 25th film is a typical potboiler with plenty of fights and punch dialogues to please his fans. All in all, an ok film.

Serena Willams said the Indian ace must strike a balance between tennis and other pursuits in life.

Astrologer Bejan Daruwalla cautions against superstitions about Aishwarya Rai.

Though the outlook for 2007 remains positive, market experts advice investors to tone down their returns expectations.

Fitness experts Shraddha Sheth and Nikhil Deodhar say you can't change your genetics, but you can make things better than what they are.

The former world number one is to return to professional tennis next year.

Shilpa Shetty unplugged, for rediff.com readers.

Venus Remedies has obtained permission from the Drug Controller General of India for conducting Phase III clinical trials of the new formulation developed by its research and development wing.