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London, Mar. 20 (ANI): After a humiliating Champions League defeat, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has challenged his players to win the double to ease his pain.
The Italian admits he slept for just two hours on Tuesday night after losing to Jose Mourinho’’s Inter Milan.
“Everybody at the club is very disappointed to be out of the [...]

Australia’s first female Winter Paralympic Games medallist Jessica Gallagher is not doubting her ability to contend for giant slalom gold in Vancouver on Wednesday.
Gallagher took out bronze in the visually impaired women’s skiing at Whistler on Monday morning (AEDT), Australia’s first medal of the Games.
She posted a time of 0:57.77 to finish third behind Austrian [...]

London, Mar 16(ANI): Injured England midfielder David Beckham’s wife Victoria is on way to Helsinki to be with the shattered star.
Beckham had a successful two-hour operation in Finland on Monday, less than 24 hours after rupturing his left Achilles tendon during AC Milan’s Serie A game against Chievo at the San Siro.
The 34-year-old is likely [...]

The Smiths Beach Action Group says it feels let down by the Environment Minister who has upheld an appeal by Canal Rocks over the Smiths Beach Development near Yallingup.
Donna Faragher has given the green light for a smaller development which was agreed through mediation in the State Administrative Tribunal.
Laurie Schlueter, from the Smiths Beach Action [...]

The president urges uneasy rank-and-file moderates and progressives to focus on the positives rather than their deep disappointment with parts of his massive health care overhaul.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen Democrats from the House of Representatives to the White House, pleading with them to put aside their qualms and vote [...]

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London, Sep.17 (ANI): World Number three Andy Murray is of the view that winning a Grand Slam title in the present day and age is far more tougher than it was before, given the kind of talent on show in the tennis circuit.

He said that when players [...]

London, Sep 16 (ANI): A technology that was claimed as the ultimate solution to give a boost to women’s breasts by using fat removed from thighs is not viable as it seems, say experts.

Mel Graham, chairman of the Harley Medical Group, recently claimed that the “two for one” procedure could extract excess fat from where [...]

Kochi, Sep 10(ANI): With gold prices soaring across the country, bullion merchants, jewellers and even customers are a worried lot in Kerala.

The disappointment looms large particularly in the context of the ensuing festival season. In the past, people used to buy gold well before the festivities, [...]

New York, Sep.9 (ANI): British tennis star Andy Murray has said that he will come back a better player following his fourth-round straight-sets thrashing by Croat ace Marin Cilic.

“It’s the biggest disappointment of my tennis career. As an individual sportsman you have to take responsibility. I played poorly. I wasn’t myself and I’m disappointed I [...]

Baghdad (Iraq), Sep 1(ANI): Amnesty International on Tuesday said that even though Iraq has been free from Saddam Hussein’s regime for six years, more than 1,000 prisoners are still facing death penalty in the country.

It said that Iraq’s burdened justice system can barely cope with ordinary crimes, and punishment for crimes ranging from murder to [...]

London, Aug 31 (ANI): ‘Twittering’, ‘hmm’, and ‘heh’ are among the 267 words that have been added to this year’s Collins English Dictionary, all thanks to teenagers who use such words on social networking websites.

With teenagers increasingly using these grunts and sighs in words on Twitter and other such websites, the need to find spellings [...]

Oak Bluffs (Massachusetts, US), Aug.29 (ANI): President Barack Obama has tried to carry on with the vacation he set out to have here – strolling the beach, taking his daughters for a bike ride, playing golf.

More duties await – he’s working on the eulogy he’ll deliver for Senator Ted Kennedy on Saturday.

And there’s a [...]

Nagpur, Aug.29 (ANI): Out of favour Australian opener Phil Hughes is in Nagpur working on his apparent weaknesses against the short ball with his coach Neil D’Costa.

D’Costa is looking after a cricket academy here and raves about the facilities and future.

Hughes could have come home with his other New South Wales teammates this week, but [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26 (ANI): Malaysian Indian Congress chief S. Samy Vellu has expressed disappointment over reports that many top party leaders are indulging in caste politics in the wake of election for top party posts.

On the list could be former deputy president S. Subramaniam, who is [...]

Wellington, Aug 24 (ANI): Kiwi filmmaker Peter Jackson has revealed that he is driven by the fear that one of his mega-productions might end up becoming a flop.

Jackson, 47, became one of the most sought-after producers after the success of the ‘Lord of [...]

London, August 23 (ANI): An Italian punter has bagged a record 127 million pounds in a lottery jackpot.

Tourists from around Europe were said to have flogged Italy for the Suprenalotto.

But many had to face disappointment after a Bagnone player, in the province of Massa Carrara in Tuscany, picked the winning combination of 11, 27, [...]

Islamabad, Aug. 22 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), had no personal grudge against former President General Pervez Musharraf, but that it was a unanimous call of the country to try the former general under Article [...]

Hyderabad, Aug 21(ANI): Badminton star Saina Nehwal will not participate in the China Masters Open due to negligence on part of the Badminton Association of India (BAI), who forgot to send her entry for the tournament on time.

The World Number seven expressed disappointment over her [...]

London, Aug.19 (ANI): England cricket captain Andrew Strauss has refuted suggestions and allegations of him having a discord with all-rounder Andrew Flintoff because of the latter’s omission from the fourth Ashes Test at Leeds, saying both players understood each other well, and would be going into the fifth [...]