Several pirates operating off teh coast wee given special forces style training from western firms. Some security firms currently protecting shipping from the pirates had been engaged to train them a decade ago. One company, Hart Group, coached trainees to be the “coastguard” of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region – providing protection from illegal fishing in [...]
New Delhi: Vijender Singh continued his great run at the World Boxing Championship in Milan when the top seed in the 75 kg category made it into the quarter-finals on Tuesday. Vijender defeated Steve Rolls of Canada 4:2 in the pre-quarter-finals to enter the last eight of World Boxing Championship. Earlier, another Indian boxer Dinesh [...]
New Delhi: England, Brazil and Argentina will be in action in another round of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers will be played on Wednesday. Fabio Capello’s English team will take on Croatia at Wembley on Wednesday with a shot at booking their place in the World Cup if they win. England already lead the European [...]
Spain and their striker Fernando Torres enjoy a six point lead atop Group 5, but the situation is not as comfortable for some other international heavyweights who risk not qualifying for next year’s World Cup. South American powerhouse Argentina crashed to Brazil 3-1 at the weekend and sit precariously in the final automatic qualifying position [...]
Bangalore: Harbhajan Singh today found himself in a fresh controversy after jabbing at a photographer at the Bangalore International Airport before leaving for the tri-series in Sri Lanka. The feisty off-spinner, who very often finds himself in the news for all the wrong reasons, jabbed at a cameraman after the camera had hit him on [...]
New York: Rafael Nadal was kissed by a male fan who invaded the Arthur Ashe Stadium court after he beat Gael Monfils to reach the US Open quarter-finals on Tuesday. The Spaniard was returning to his chair having removed his shirt when the male fan put his arms around the former world number one and [...]
Valentino Rossi won the San Marino GP and extended his lead to 30 points in the world championship. Lorenzo ended up second and was well ahead of Dani Pedrosa as he went past the chequered flag at Misano as the Spaniard’s team-mate Andrea Dovizioso came in fourth. The fifth spot went to Rizla Suzuki rider [...]
Andy Roddick crashed out of the US Open after he lost to his fellow American John Isner in a classic thriller. The match went on for five sets and lasted for 3 hours and 51 minutes. After a superb match between Maria Sharapova and Melanie Oudin, Roddick and Isner continued the drama at Arthur Ashe [...]
New Delhi: Indian international Sunil Chhetri has been linked with Scottish giants Celtic FC after their scouts were in Barcelona to monitor the AFC Challenge Cup hero, though whether the trials are to take place this summer remains doubtful. The Dempo player, who has only just recovered from his ankle injury, scored the first half [...]
Asa Hill a 7 year old boy died after getting injured in a horrific accident. The boy was pulled out of a burning car on the Niagara Thruway on Thursday; he was critically injured and passed away the following night. Amilcar Hill and Rahwa Ghirmatzion hug their son goodbye and ended the funeral with their [...]
