Harbhajan Singh has been banned for five one-day internationals by the Board of Control for Cricket in India following his altercation with Sri Sreesanth.
Lord's tends to be batsman-friendly these days but James Anderson still relishes charging in at the famous ground. However, with competition for places he knows he needs to impress in the nets.
The People in Retail Awards 2008 are gearing up again for this year's ceremony on October 8 and retailers, hospitality and leisure operators are invited to nominate individuals and teams for the industry's most prestigious awards event.
Random House has acquired the craft, photography and reference publisher Watson-Guptill Publications from Nielsen Business Media (formerly VNU). The sale follows Nielsen's recent moves to get away from its book publishing-focused businesses. In a statement, Greg Farrar, president of Nielsen
Reading to young children stimulates their development and gives them a head start when they reach school, according to researchers who have reviewed studies on the effects of reading. Apart from helping their reading, sharing a bedtime story with a
Wikipedia got a new rival on Tuesday, when the French publisher Larousse introduced an online French-language encyclopedia inviting users to contribute content and offering free access to its dictionary, Agence France-Presse reported. But larousse.fr said its contributors, unlike Wikipedia's, would
Mark Coker, founder of a Silicon Valley public-relations firm that specializes in working with startups, says he started Smashwords.com as a way of trying to help authors deal with the realities of life online. An author himself - of a
Next month, Waterstone's is hoping to work something of the same abracadabra on behalf of English PEN and Dyslexia Action. A clutch of authors - including Sebastian Faulks, Doris Lessing, JK Rowling (is it rash to think this one will
They are petty, shabby and shallow, and tell us nothing about the real workings of government. No wonder the latest crop of backbiting political memoirs - from Cherie Blair, Lord Levy and John Prescott - make such compelling reading. But
Bookstore sales rose 1.3% in March, to $1.03 billion, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales have increased every month so far in 2008 and finished the first quarter up 5.1%, to $4.46 billion.
Matt Cain made sure the Astros couldn't mount a late rally to save Brandon Backe Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants. Cain dominated the Astros with his bat and right arm, throwing eight strong innings to give the Giants