AKRON, United States : Tiger Woods recovered from a rare run of bogeys to pull within one shot of leader Stewart Cink on Saturday after the third round of the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational. Woods, the overnight leader, stunningly
PARIS : Fly-half Cedric Rosalen kicked 20 points as Narbonne stunned French champions Biarritz 25-18 while Toulouse stayed joint top with Stade Francais. Narbonne, who suffered a 41-20 mauling at the hands of Montauban in their season-opener last weekend, enjoyed
DUBLIN, Ohio - Mexico's Lorena Ochoa, leader of the LPGA money list, fired a flawless 64 here Saturday to seize a two-shot lead after the third round of the LPGA Wendy's Championship for Children. While Ochoa has been one of
MADRID : Spaniard Carlos Sastre claimed the race leader's gold jersey after the first stage of the Tour of Spain, a 7.2km team time trial in Malaga. Sastre led his CSC teammates over the finish line in a time of
Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, a Kurd, cites progress and problems in quelling sectarian strife. He tells Debbie Elliott he sees hope in the trial of Saddam Hussein, but knows it won't be easy to craft a democracy in Iraq.
ROME : Italy's second-largest and third-largest banks, Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI, agreed to a merger which would see their new entity form the country's biggest bank and rank sixth in Europe. In separate meetings, the boards of Milan-based Intesa
MIAMI - Jamaica and the Cayman Islands issued alerts Saturday as Tropical Storm Ernesto churned in the Caribbean, gathering strength, the US National Hurricane Center said. Ernesto, the fifth named storm in the Atlantic this year, was heading west-northwest, and
N'DJAMENA - Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno on Saturday ordered the foreign oil firms ChevronTexaco and Petronas to leave the country from Sunday for non-payment of taxes, national radio reported. "From tomorrow, representatives of Chevron and Petronas must leave Chad
Far away from the epicentre of the reservation debate, international firms tucked away in Bangalore are focussing on how to make workplaces ``diversity-friendly.''
Midnights were their time-outs. He would be back around that time from a day of hard work, while she would be waiting all the while for the doorbell to ring...
Tired and relieved, Ayub Abdul Qadir Kolsawala, one of the 12 detained by the Dutch police, recalls his hours in a police cell and then in a hotel the next night in an exclusive conversation with Seema Chishti of The
SEOUL - North Korea has warned the United States it will take "all necessary counter-measures" against Washington for ratcheting up the pressure on the communist state through financial sanctions, state media said. "It is the height of folly for the
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces killed tribal rebel chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti in a major military operation in restive Baluchistan province, the information minister told AFP Saturday. "I can confirm that Akbar Bugti was killed in the operation," the
BAGHDAD : Iraqi kidnappers released a female lawmaker as tribal chiefs vowed to work together for peace in the war-torn country, in a double victory for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Some of the shine was taken off the government's successes,
PARIS : Five-in-a-row champions Lyon returned to the top of the table with a 4-1 win away at Nice. Nice actually led 1-0 at half-time through a delightful Marama Vahirua finish but Lyon did not panic and a storming second
NEW HAVEN, United States : America's Lindsay Davenport suffered an injury scare on the eve of the US Open when she was forced to retire from the WTA final here against Justine Henin-Hardenne. Davenport was trailing 6-0, 1-0 to the
