In many areas of The Arts, there seems to nearly always be an artist who ultimately wears the crown for being the most superlatively gifted and talented of them all. This applied to Pavarotti and he is sorely missed on the circuit worldwide. With a personality as well as a talent that was larger than…
ICC World Cup Cricket County Ground, Taunton Australia Vs Pakistan Australia 307 ao (49 ov) Warner 107 off 111, 11 fours, 1 six; Aaron Finch 82 off 84, 6 four, 4 sixes, S Marsh 23 off 126, 2 fours, Amir 5-30, Shaheen 2-70, Hassan 1-67, Wahab 1-44, Hafeez 1-60. Pakistan 266 ao (45.4 ov)…
Embattled liquor tycoon and fugitive 63-year-old Vijay Mallya “King of Good Times” who is awaiting extradition to India, and wanted in India on charges of fraud, money laundering and defaulting on loans amounting £102m was met with chants of “chor chor” ( Thief, Thief) at The Oval cricket ground on Monday where he had gone…
I first met Marguerite Brennan when working at World Times 68 Fleet Street in 1980. As our Embassy Reporter, Marguerite had a job where she had not only to be on her very very best behavior but also needed to dress impeccably for every Embassy Party or Ambasadorial function wheresoever she went in London. That…
A helicopter twin-engine Agusta A109E, crash–landed on top of a skyscraper in Manhattan, which killed the pilot Tim McCormack. The incident sparks a rooftop fire, which was extinguished after some workers were rescued from the tower but none were hurt. The office building close to Times Square shook from the impact, New York Governor Andrew…
On Sunday Justin Bieber Challenged Tom Cruise to join him in the Octagib ( The Ultimate Fighting Championship ring) to solve a problem so fiendishly difficult no-one had previously bothered to think of it. The 25-year-old pop star who stands 5ft 9in ( 175cn) and sells over 150m records attracting over 106 million Twitter followers…
Rafael Nadal,33, is the first player to win 12 singles titles at the same Grand Slam and has now won 18 majors overall, but played just three events in 2019 prior to the clay-court season. Nadal beat Austrian fourth seed Dominic Thiem with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 in Sunday’s final at Roland Garros.…
ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, The Oval, London 14 of 48 India Vs Australia India 352-5 (50 ov) Shikhar Dhawan 117 off 109, 16 fours, Virat Kohli 82 off 77, 4 fours, 2 sixes, Rohit Sharma 57 off 70, 3 fours, 1 six, H Pandya 48 off 27, 4 fours , 3 sixes, Stoinis 2-62,…
The baby elephant is taking his first steps in life. The poaching of elephant and habitat loss has led to a dramatic decline in populations of both Asian and African elephants in recent decades. In 1930 there were about 10 million wild African elephant which has been reduced today to less than 400, 000 and Asian elephants…
Several thousands of people are marching in Hong Kong against a law that critics fear could let China target political opponents in the territory. Most protesters are marching in the sweltering heat dressed in white. The extradition bill would allow suspected criminals to be sent to mainland China for trial. The government says the…