A website reported that a witness came forward and told officials that Dutch national Raffles Van Excel, who was part of Whitney’s most recent entourage, was allegedly one of Houston’s cocaine suppliers and cleaned out her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel before the cops showed up. Although it was originally reported there was no [...]
Host Will Smith warned celebs at Nickelodeon’s 25th annual Kids’ Choice Awards Saturday after he kicked off the show by rappelling to the stage and deactivating a booby trap: “No one is safe from the slime.” And he meant you Justin Bieber, Halle Berry, Chris Colfer and Taylor Lautner! The first to be wearing the [...]
In Las Vegas singer Fergie bounced from the VIP table she shared with husband Josh Duhamel and Ne-Yo to the adjacent one where Michael Jordan was partying. This was a special celebration though – Fergie turned 37 on Tuesday and, in addition to the party for her, Duhamel knew just what to do. “I got [...]
MUNICH: Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger is backing Bayern Munich to finish off Olympique Marseille in Tuesday’s quarter-final, second-leg to reach the last four of the Champions League. Schweinsteiger is suspended for the return match at Munich’s Allianz Arena after picking up his third yellow card during last Wednesday’s 2-0 win in France which was secured by [...]
PARIS: Holders Barcelona and 2008 finalists Chelsea will look to set up a Champions League semi-final meeting this week when they face AC Milan and Benfica respectively in their quarter-final second-leg matches. Barcelona go into their second leg at Camp Nou locked at 0-0 with Milan as they bid to become the first side to [...]
AUGUSTA: Tiger Woods arrived at the Masters confident and fit on Sunday, playing a practice round over Augusta National’s front nine in advance of Thursday’s start to the first major of the year. Woods, a four-time Masters champion and 14-time major winner, snapped a US PGA win drought of 2 1/2 years one week ago [...]
LONDON: Reigning Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton has revealed how her relationship with an Australian member of the British team’s coaching staff caused bitterness among her fellow cyclists. Pendleton has since become engaged to Scott Gardner, an Australian sports scientist who worked for British Cycling in the build-up to the Beijing Olympics, where the 31-year-old racer [...]
Houston: Hunter Mahan fired a final-round 71 on Sunday to win the US PGA Tour’s $6 million Houston Open by one stroke over Sweden’s Carl Pettersson. Mahan, who won the elite World Golf Championships Match Play Championship in February, became the first two-time winner on the US tour this year. The victory will boost the [...]
Novak is the third man to achieve the feat after Agassi and Sampras MIAMI: World number one Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray 6-1, 7-6 (7/4) on Sunday to win his second straight ATP Miami Masters title and third overall. Djokovic, who won here for the first time in 2007, became just the third man to [...]
Emmanuel Adebayor scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur won for the first time in six Premier League matches with a 3-1 victory over Swansea that revived their push for Champions League football. London: Sunday’s success at their White Hart Lane home saw Tottenham draw level on points with third-placed north London rivals Arsenal. And it also [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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