BANGALORE (AFP) - India made a spirited reply to Australia's 430 in the first Test here on Friday, reaching 68 without loss in their first innings by the close of the second day's play. Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir negotiated a tricky 18.1 overs before heavy rain brought an early ...

TORONTO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's latest spin sensation Ajantha Mendis took three wickets and was named man of the match as his side clinched a five-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first game of the Canada T20 event here on Friday. Mendis, recently named the ICC's Emerging Player of the Year, finished ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - World number one Jelena Jankovic of Serbia battled through the pain barrier on Thursday to beat Russian Vera Dushevina and advance to the quarter-final of the Kremlin Cup, a 2.4-million-dollar joint ATP and WTA event. But there was no such trauma for the ATP event's top seed, ...

RIGA (AFP) - If Russian president Dmitry Medvedev were to visit the zoo in Latvia's capital Riga this weekend, he would be sure to get a discount " not because of his position, but because of his name. Celebrating its 96th anniversary, the zoo is offering discounts on admission to people whose ...

WASHINGTON - The world is on "the cusp of a global recession," but if countries act together, the world economy would recover, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn says. Problems in the financial markets and in the global economy can be solved "if we act quickly, ...