"Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh ran through Delhi’s batting order and completed a 187-run win for Rest of India in the Irani Cup match in Vadodara. Delhi resumed on 113 for 3 but the collapse started in the second over of the day when Aakash Chopra was bowled by Zaheer...
"Dedicated Tim Elkins has finally finished building a scale model of the Titanic made out of 147,000 matchsticks - 15 years after he started. Builder Tim, 42, has slaved away for 3,500 hours erecting the 1:115 scale...
"Deccan Chargers are making significant changes to their top management in an effort to reverse their fortunes. The most expensive team in the IPL finished last in the eight team competition. Shishir Hattangadi, the head of cricket, and manager Vijay Mohan Raj won’t be...
Kenya's Sammy Wansiru beat the world today in the Men's Marathon through Beijing, as the Games draw to an end, in a time of 2:06:32 with the Moroccan, Jaoard Gharib, +7.50 behind, and in third, Tsegay Kebede of...
Kenya's Brimin Kiprop Kipruto ran a fantastically strategic race, holding off in seventh or sixth place, before storming around on the outside with pure grit and determination, to seize the gold, and leaving...
straight from my hometown paper in Moncton NB, i'll be at the final tonight too. "CHARLOTTETOWN - Ontario invader Mach It Paid has drawn the rail for the 49th running of the $60,000 Sobeys Gold Cup and Saucer race tonight at the Charlottetown Driving Park Entertainment...
Coventry successfuly defended her title at the 2008 Olympics. I managed to catch this on CBC's olympic coverage last night on the only channel i have. this woman's face was so composed the entire time i was completely impressed. "With the wider world waiting for Michael...
It's the second underground fire in Toronto in a week, and the third in Canada this month after last week's power-cutting Vancouver fire. While this one wasn't nearly as serious, hundreds of people were left without...
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" A headmistress is demanding her pupils' SATs papers be remarked after an exam paper littered with grammatical mistakes scored higher than a literate, fluently written one. Janis Burdin, head of Moss Side Primary School in Chorley, Lancashire released two examples - by...
Remember the tightwad tourist whose baggy shorts, frequent complaining and shouted questions about why none of the locals spoke any English made the ugly American the world's Visitor From Hell? Well, it's time for...
"Pacific Coast Motorsports' primary transporter parked alongside the Ventura County headquarters location getting filled with the tools for the rest of the 2008 ICS season. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (The EDJE) 2008...
"Peter Viles LA Times Wednesday, July 2, 2008 A financial analyst fresh from a tour of construction sites in the Inland Empire is warning Wall Street of a “ghost town” where finished homes sit vacant and additional homes are still under construction. “At several...
"It is breaking news. The match between Italy and France has just finished. Italy has won the match by and is now in the quarterfinal as the second position team from Group C of Euro 2008. It was an amazing win for Italy. "
I buy the Sunday Times every Sunday although I feel that it has a "slightly anti-Irish" view. While my belief that it is slightly anti-Irish may be due to my over avtive imagination there is no doubting the fact that...
Who would have thought a leisurely stroll with your dogs would result in one of them getting Pooper Scoopered into an oncoming street sweeper. Perhaps curbing ones dog to close to the curb isn't such a great...