ICC Cricket World Cup, 12th Match, Pool A: Afghanistan v Sri Lanka Played at University Oval, Dunedin Afghanistan 232 all out 49.4 overs Asghar Stanikzai 54, Samiullah Shenwari 38, Malinga 3-41, Mathews 3-41, lost to Sri Lanka 236-6 48.2 overs, Jayawardene 100, Mathews 44, Perera 47* Hamid Hassan 3-45, Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets…
The United Kingdom is the fifth biggest in the world behind US, Japan, China and South Korea and largest app development market in Europe ahead of France and Germany. APPS generation has grown 75% and the revenues generated by Uk app downloads have grown as the smart phones sales have contributed to demand for mobile…
A Fire broke out on the 50th floor of the 79-storey, 676 residential apartments in Dubai Marina Torch skyscraper, 32nd tallest buildings in the World, caught fire on 21st February 2015, Saturday at 3:00am (23:00GMT), as thousands of residents were evacuated from the Marina Tower and adjacent buildings. In half and hour the fire reached 60th…
Bobby Beale an Californian teenager gets 1500 followers and 15000 retweets because she has the same name as the Lucy Beale’ skiller in the British Soap BBC TV “East Enders” whose 10 million viewers who were kept guessing for over a year and was finally furious as the unlikely culprit was unmasked as her 11 year…
10th match, Pool B Pakistan V West Indies played at Hagley Oval, Christchurch West Indies 310 for 6 Ramdin 51, Simmons 50, Sohail 2-62; Pakistan 160 all out Akmal 59, Maqsood 50, Taylor 3-15 Russell 3-33 West Indies won by 150 runs For the second time West Indies exceeded 300, through their highest scorer was…
9th match, Pool A New Zealand vs England played at Westpac Stadium Wellington New Zealand won by 8 wickets (with 226 balls remaining) New Zealand 125 for 2 (McCullum 77 Woakes 2-8) beat England 123 (Root 46, Southee 7-33) by eight wickets Tim Southee produced one of the great displays of ODI bowling 7-33 which…
The latest report by Wizsec, a five man security consulting firm, hints what could have happened at Mt Gox, which went bust almost a year ago saying it had lost track of 850.000 coins then worth almost $500m could have been an inside job. The bot known as willy assigned itself dozens of accounts with…
The collision between two regional trains Lausanne bound and the other travelling north from the same city, happened in Granges-pres-Marnand in Vaud canton, about 50km (30 miles) south-west of the capital, Bern Switzerland in the early evening. According to Swiss police, the driver of one of the trains died in the incident and his…
Three Red Bull stunt aircraft the “Flying Bulls” from Czech Republic, collided in mid-air on Thursday, while performing part of a three-plane inverted loop stunt at the Aero India defence expo Asian continent’s premier air show, in the skies above the Yelahanka Airforce in Bengaluru ( Bangalore) in Southern India. Two of these planes clashed…
8th Match, Pool B: United Arab Emirates vs Zimbabwe at Nelson- Feb 19, 2015 United Arab Emirates 285/7 (50/50 ov) Shaiman Anwar 67; Zimbabwe 286/6 (48/50 ov) SC Williams 76* Zimbabwe won by 4 wickets (with 12 balls remaining) Zimbabwe got away with the win, but only just 12 balls, with mature partnership between Sean Williams…