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The board of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Ltd will decide on a long-term action plan, including a possible sale, in the next 7 to 10 days, its chairman said on Monday.
Kiran Karnik, who was last week appointed by the government as the chairman of the Satyam board, told Reuters a clear picture would be available [...]

Harare/Johannesburg – Another round of talks between Zimbabwe’s leaders that had been billed as make or break for the country’s power-sharing agreement ended late Monday in stalemate.
“We came to this meeting hoping that we put the people’s plight to rest,” opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told reporters after around 12 hours of closed-door talks in [...]

Melbourne – Realistic Roger Federer is well aware that a jam-packed annual tennis calendar will almost certainly not allow the Australian Open to move from its traditional January date.
Despite voicing the opinion this week that the Open would be more pleasing to players were it slid a few weeks into February – more time [...]

Sydney, Jan 9 (ANI): Western Australia’s coach Tom Moody has said that he has no contact yet with English cricket authorities about the vacant national coaching position, but admitted if a call did come, he would have to listen.
Moody’s name has risen to the top of the list of candidates to replace Peter Moores, who [...]

Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): Kevin Pietersen’s good friend and former Hampshire teammate Shane Warne has warned that Pietersen would be an even more dangerous and committed player now that he has relinquished the England captaincy.
Pietersen resigned from his leadership duties on Wednesday after a bitter feud with coach Peter Moores, who was sacked soon after [...]

Sydney, Jan.8 (ANI): Australian cricket’s chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch has given opener Phillip Hughes a ringing endorsement as Australia looks to replace Matthew Hayden
Hilditch’’s comments are a sign the selectors are seriously considering the 20-year-old for higher honours in the not too distant future.
“As far as Phillip Hughes is concerned, he is a very [...]

Sydney, Jan.8 (ANI): Proteas captain Graeme Smith has declared England favourites for this year’’s Ashes series in a parting shot at Australia’’s fading Test team.
Speaking after the conclusion of the third Test at the SCG, Smith predicted arch-enemy England would prove too strong for Australia when the fight for the Ashes resumes in England in [...]

Washington, Jan.8 (ANI): The United States has said that terror strikes in India, which are often termed by terror groups as a part of a ‘holy war’ or ‘Jihad’ to set Kashmir free from Indian clutches, are actually harming the cause of Kashmir.
Referring to the November.2008 Mumbai attacks, the US Assistant Secretary of State for [...]

London, January 8 (ANI): Amy Winehouse reportedly took to the piano to serenade her alleged new man in a Caribbean hotel bar.

The ‘Rehab’ hitmaker, who has reportedly parted ways with jailbird hubby Blake Fielder-Civil, was said to have paired up with budding actor Josh Bowman after meeting on a holiday in St Lucia.

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London, Jan.7 (ANI): British tennis star Andy Murray has said that money has never been a reason for him to chase or achieve glory in the sport.
Murray, who has so far earned 3.9 million pounds in his career, was quoted by The Sun as sayingin Doha, Qatar: “Money was never the reason why I played [...]

Dubai, Jan.7 (ANI): A.C. Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti has praised England football star David Beckham for his performance on debut in a friendly victory over Hamburg last night.
Becks played the opening 45 minutes of the showpiece clash in Dubai, which the Italian giants won 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
The former England skipper, 33, [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): James Bond star Daniel Craig may star in big screen adaptation of comic hero Thor.
According to the sources, Craig is considered “ideal choice’ for the role, based on the God from Norse Mythology.
The movie is due to released in 2010 and it is hoped discussions with the star could commence soon.
“Daniel [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): In a NASA-funded study, researchers at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington have detailed how extreme solar eruptions could severely affect for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.
The study offers some of the first clear economic data that effectively calculates today’’s risk of extreme conditions in space driven [...]

Sydney, Jan.5 (ANI): Injured Australian pacer Stuart Clark remains convinced that the Australians will recover rapidly from their home series loss to the South Africans, comparing the current Tests against the Proteas to the 2005 Ashes defeat.
“I see things turning around very quickly. It hasn”t been the most ideal series, but at the same time, [...]

London, Jan 5 (ANI): It would indeed be a sad day for cricket if England coach Peter Moores is relieved of his position at skipper Kevin Pietersen’s behest, who has maintained that he is unable to form a constructive working relationship with the latter.

Hugh Morris, the Managing Director of the England cricket team, is in [...]

Sydney, Jan 4 (ANI): Commenting on Australia’s cricketing woes after series’ losses to India and South Africa, former New Zealand cricketer Craig McMillan has said that Ricky Ponting’s captaincy is suffering from “the mediocrity around him.”
Writing a column for the Sunday News, McMillan said: “Their captain Ricky Ponting is a great batsman and one of [...]

London, Jan 3 (ANI): An archaeological team has uncovered a 4,500 year-old limestone plaque at south of Chester, in Cheshire, England, bearing a mysterious crisscross pattern, which indicates a direct link with the Stonehenge.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the closest parallel is a chalk plaque found in 1969 on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, [...]

Melbourne, Jan 3 (ANI): South African skipper Graeme Smith has said that Australian selectors are in chaos and confused and the squad picked for the Sydney Test confirms it.
After Ben Hilfenhaus was chosen to carry the drinks for today’s SCG Test, Smith said the Aussie selection panel again had got it wrong by naming left-arm [...]

London, Jan 02 (ANI): Hollywood babe Kelly Brooks is these days busy toning her body, and has asked rugby star beau Danny Cipriani for some hands-on help, it has emerged.
The 29-year-old was so bowled over by Cipriani’s toned body and insatiable appetite for food that she has decided to go his way to achieve an [...]

London, Jan 2 (ANI): A man dressed as Norse god ‘Thor’ for a New Year party scared off a burglar who was trying to break-in his house.

Torvald Alexander, 38, a construction firm manager, was returning home wearing a red cape and the thunder god’’s silver-winged helmet when he caught the burglar red handed during [...]