Rome, July 29 (DPA) Mary Descenza Wednesday broke the world record in the heats of the women's 200m butterfly at the world championships, while Aleksandra Gerasimenya set a new ch...More

New York, July 29 (DPA) Internet search firm Yahoo and software giant Microsoft announced Wednesday a 10-year deal in search and advertising operations in a bid to challenge the o...More

Abu Dhabi, July 29 (IANS) Aabar Investments, the biggest investment fund of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has entered a strategic partnership deal with British billionaire Richa...More

Hinwil (Switzerland), July 29 (DPA) Team founder Peter Sauber admitted Wednesday that the BMW-Sauber team will struggle to maintain a presence in Formula One following BMW's decis...More

London, July 29 (IANS) Bad weather threatens to play a spoilsport in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston starting Thursday. The weather forecast in Birming...More

Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) A 40-year-old priest from India's Jharkhand state, teaching underprivileged children in Nepal for almost a decade, has been attacked by a group led by an...More

Nairobi/Abuja, July 29 (DPA) Nigerian security forces Wednesday laid siege to the compound of an Islamist leader whose followers have been battling police for four days. ...More

Hamburg, July 29 (DPA) BMW is to pull out of Formula One at the end of the 2009 season, chairman Norbert Reithofer confirmed Wednesday at a press conference at the carmaker's head...More

London, July 29 (IANS) England captain Andrew Strauss says Australia have lost their previous aura and opposition teams are no longer in awe of them. Eng...More

London, July 29 (IANS) The much awaited long list for the Man Booker Prize was announced here Wednesday with heavyweights J.M. Coetzee and A.S. Byatt leading the pack of 13 - and ...More

London, July 29 (IANS) England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff needed two more injections and has been sleeping with an ice-pack around his right knee to ensure his participation in t...More

London, July 29 (IANS) Two years after the British army abandoned a proposal to raise a Sikh regiment, the country's reining monarch has got her first Sikh bodyguards. ...More

New York, July 29 (DPA) Internet search firm Yahoo and software giant Microsoft have reached a 10-year deal in which they hope to tackle the online dominance of Google, media repo...More

Mexico City, July 29 (Xinhua) The education ministry in Mexico has received about 50,000 applications for teacher posts in less than 24 hours following the government's resolution...More

Paris, July 29 (DPA) French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that his recent collapse while jogging was just a matter of running out of gas. 'I r...More