What is sometimes unofficially referred to as a new Green Fund will be an outcome of the Copenhagen accord.
Celina Jaitley chats with Rediff readers about her new film, Accident On Hill Road and more.
Phase-II yet to begin, will take three years to conclude.
A joint house committee of the Karnataka Assembly has also recommended 'appropriate action' against those, including Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, involved in the decision making process.
The prototype, which the Bengaluru Intel research team also contributed to, contains 48 fully programmable Intel processing cores, the most ever on a single silicon chip.
We recently discussed airline bloopers and invited readers to share their air travel stories with us. Here, reader Rohan Joshi shares two amusing experiences.
Bayern Munich secured a place in the Champions League last 16 with an impressive 4-1 win at Juventus as former European champions Real Madrid and AC Milan also advanced to the knockout stage on Tuesday. Juventus were eliminated after Bayern came from behind to end the home side's 16-match unbeaten home run in Europe's premier club competition.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski is expected to be released from jail on Friday and put under house arrest, say Swiss authorities.
Ireland have appealed to world governing body FIFA to be allowed to compete as a 33rd team in next year's World Cup finals, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Monday.
Venus Williams defeated Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-7, 6-0, 6-2 on Sunday to win the season-ending WTA Championships.
Cristiano Ronaldo's return to fitness has strengthened Real Madrid in time for their eagerly anticipated trip to face Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Sunday.
Bayern Munich, facing an early Champions League exit, revived their chances of reaching the last 16 on Wednesday as they beat Maccabi Haifa 1-0 and rivals Juventus lost at Girondins Bordeaux. AC Milan missed a chance to qualify when they were held 1-1 at home by Olympique Marseille and Real Madrid produced an uninspiring 1-0 win over Swiss champions FC Zurich in the same group.
Brazil continued their dominance over England with a 1-0 friendly win on Saturday but 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa's troubles persisted with a 0-0 draw at home to Japan on coach Carlos Alberto Parreira's second debut. Spain added to Diego Maradona's worries by beating his Argentina side 2-1 thanks to two Xabi Alonso goals, including a late penalty, as the teams already qualified for South Africa began their preparations.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona feels mistreated and persecuted but says he is focussing on his job, family and the support of "ordinary people."
Argentina coach Diego Maradona will appear before a FIFA disciplinary committee on Sunday over his foul-mouthed outburst last month, soccer's world governing body said on Tuesday. Maradona could be sidelined from matches in next year's World Cup if FIFA decide to hand him a stadium ban for his rant at the end of the 1-0 win in Uruguay that guaranteed his team a place at the finals in South Africa.
Arsenal's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League for the 14th time in a row were in the balance after a 1-0 win at home to Udinese in the first leg of the playoffs on Tuesday.
France must get past Ireland to reach the 2010 World Cup finals after they were drawn together on Monday for next month's two-legged European playoffs. Portugal, who scraped into the playoffs by winning their last three Group One fixtures to seal runners-up spot, face Bosnia, Euro 2004 champions Greece tackle Ukraine and Russia will play Slovenia.
AC Milan will be given a stark reminder of their current plight when they come face to face with former talisman Kaka in Wednesday's Champions League game at Real Madrid.
Switzerland has regretted not arresting Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski on his earlier visits to the country, a media report said.
Juventus lost their first Serie A game of the season when a pumped-up Palermo sealed a comfortable 2-0 home win on Sunday.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski has refused to get extradited from Switzerland to the United States where he is wanted on charges of unlawful sex with a minor, even as the issue snowballed into an international row, with France and Poland backing his plea for a bail.
European champions Barcelona may be without striker Thierry Henry when they host Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday looking for their first Champions League win of the season.
Real Madrid reaped their first Champions League dividends from Cristiano Ronaldo as the world's most expensive player converted two free kicks to help his team to a 5-2 victory over FC Zurich on Tuesday.
The fixtures for the group stages in the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League, which kicks-off on Wednesday.
World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has cancelled races in China and South Korea later this month and decided to bring his season to a close because of fatigue, the Jamaican wrote on his website on Friday.
European cities have emerged as the world's richest and most expensive places. By comparison, Indian cities are amongst the world's least expensive.
A fatigued Usain Bolt will wait until this weekend to decide whether or not to compete in China and South Korea later this month, his agent told Reuters on Wednesday, rebuffing media reports the world's fastest man had cancelled his Asian trip.
Triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt cruised to 200 metres victory in a Brussels Golden League meeting record on Friday while three athletes shared the final $1 million jackpot.
Usain Bolt is already a triple Olympic and world champion but he will not rest until he believes he has achieved the status of an athletics legend, the Jamaican said on Wednesday.
World 100 and 200 metres champion Usain Bolt is also fixing his sights on the long jump. Long jump world record holder Mike Powell said last Friday that Jamaican Bolt could jump nine metres in the event.
French club Olympique Lyon and Atletico Madrid of Spain booked their places in Thursday's draw for the Champions League group stages with convincing playoff wins on Tuesday.
Olympique Lyon virtually guaranteed their place in the Champions League group stage for the 10th successive season after thumping Anderlecht 5-1 in the first leg of their playoff final on Wednesday.
Indians might be known for their hard work, but when it comes to their wages, they are paid nearly 20 times less than their counterparts in the developed nations like the United States and Switzerland.
Celtic and Arsenal will meet each other for a place in the Champions League group stage after being drawn together in the final qualifying round at the draw Friday.
Cricket is set to touch a new high. Europe's longest glacier in the Swiss Alps will soon host an exhibition match between two all-star teams from India and England, at an altitude of 11,330 feet, surrounded by snow-clad peaks.
Sepp Blatter was re-elected unopposed as FIFA president on Wednesday, promising to use his final term to radically reform football's ailing world governing body.
On Naseeruddin Shah's 60th birthday, one of his oldest friends Rajat Kapoor wishes him all the best.
According to Colliers International's annual parking rate survey, average cost of parking a car in Sydney's CBD is Australian $733 a month, making it the fifth most expensive city in the world, AAP reported on Tuesday. The only more expensive city in the Asia Pacific for parking is Hong Kong, where the average price is $748 (Australian $939).
Markets became jittery over the Spanish government's take-over at the weekend of regional savings bank Cajasur, which raised speculation that more unhealthy financial institutions may have to be bailed out to prevent a meltdown of the country's banking system.
Two India-origin individuals -- Sandeep Malhotra and Sanjee Shah -- have found a place in the league of 40 rising stars in the European wealth management industry.
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