BWF rankings: Seven Indian men in top 50, Sindhu retains 5th rank

IMAGE: Betty Cuthbert of Australia is taken around the ground in a golf cart as she carries the olympic torch in the round eleven AFL match between the Hawthorn Hawks and the Essendon Bombers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground June 5 2004 in Melbourne, Australia. Photograph: Stuart Hannagan/Getty Images Australian sprinter Betty Cuthbert, the only athlete to have won the Olympic 100, 200 and 400 metres titles, has died aged 79 after battling multiple sclerosis for nearly half a century, ...

When he is not running Amazon, he buys museums to live in, donates mountains to geeky causes, works on space travel and does film cameos. Inside the super rich, super cool life of Jeff Bezos. He loves readingNot surprising considering he started Amazon as an online bookstore and gave us the Kindle. Photograph: Anthony P Bolante/Reuters He is a hands-on CEOFrom driving a truck in India to riding a Segway in New York City, he's done it all. Photograph: Abhishek N Chinnappa/Reuters Photograph: ...

Henry Blofeld, who charmed the cricket world for more than 40 years, bids farewell to the microphone come September.Haresh Pandya salutes the Master. IMAGE: Henry Blofeld always livened up proceedings -- especially on a dull cricket day -- with his humour. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Henry Blofeld will always be remembered as one of the most distinctive and vividly entertaining voices in cricket. Full of good humour, exuberance and outrageous candour, he was THE cricket ...

How did how a reluctant, chain-smoking, beer-swigging footballer captain the greatest football nation in the world?Dhruv Munjal salutes the memories of Dr Socrates. IMAGE: Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend. Photograph: Allsport/Getty Images Of Zico and Socrates, memories of another Cup In Brazil, the ball is the world Scanning through Andrew Downie's Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend, you're tempted to compare, for his affable smugness and towering persona, the ...

IMAGE: Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane watches over a team training session. Photograph: Denis Doyle/Getty Images It is hard to view Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane's playing career as anything other than outstanding. Arguably the finest midfielder of his generation, he would feature in many all-time best elevens. But Saturday's Champions League final against his former club Juventus is a reminder that the Frenchman hasn't quite had it all his own way. When Juve signed Zidane from French ...