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IMAGE: Indian boxer L Devendro Singh. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Getty Images. Commonwealth Games silver-medallist L Devendro Singh (52kg) advanced to the final along with the young Ankush Dahiya (60kg) on another mixed day for Indian boxers at the Ulaanbaatar Cup in Mongolia on Saturday. Devendro defeated Mongolia's Gandulam Mungun-Erdene in a unanimous verdict, while Ankush, a former Asian youth silver-medallist, got the better of Russia's Radna Tsibikov in a split decision. However, three ...

IMAGE: Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford during a nets session. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Sri Lanka's Head Coach Graham Ford has resigned from his position, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) head Thilanga Sumathipala said on Saturday. The South African has had many differences of opinion with the SLC's local team managements during the unsuccessful campaign in the Champions Trophy held in England. Ford succeeded Australian Trevor Bayliss in 2016 when Bayliss took over the current England position ...

IMAGE: Kidambi Srikanth in action. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Newly-crowned Indonesia Open winner Kidambi Srikanth continued his rampaging run to advance to the men's singles semi-finals but it was curtains for P V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal at the Australian Open Super Series, in Sydney, on Friday.In the all-Indian quarter-final duel between Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth, it was the former who came out on top with a fighting 25-23, 21-17 win over his countryman in a 43-minute clash ...

IMAGE: Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo. Photograph: Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images Real Madrid’s star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo will testify in a case in which he is accused of hiding income from the tax authorities on July 31, court officials said on Tuesday. The Spanish prosecutor says the Real Madrid forward knowingly used a business structure to hide his image rights income in Spain between 2011 and 2014. Ronaldo has denied the ...

IMAGE: Roger Federer. Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images Top seed Roger Federer beat Germany's Mischa Zverev 7-6(4), 6-4 to advance to the last eight of the Halle Open on Thursday as the 18-times grand slam champion sharpens his grasscourt game ahead of Wimbledon. Federer, who skipped the entire clay court season after winning the Australian Open and claiming titles at Indian Wells and Miami this year, will next play defending champion Florian Mayer who beat Frenchman Lucas Pouille in three ...

IMAGE: Justin Gatlin reacts. Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images Who says the old man still can't run? Olympic silver medallist Justin Gatlin stormed to the lead in the final 20 metres and defeated favoured youngster Christian Coleman in the 100 metres final at the US nationals/world championships trials on Friday. Gatlin, 35, claimed the victory in 9.95 seconds in his best performance of an injury-plagued season. Coleman, 21, clocked 9.98 for second with another newcomer Chris ...

IMAGE: Australia cricket team. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Cricket Australia (CA) has offered players a revised pay deal in a bid to end a bitter dispute over a revenue-sharing model with just a week to go before the current agreement expires. Australia's top cricketers face being locked out unless a new memorandum of understanding is struck between CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) before the end of the month. At the heart of the dispute is a long-standing ...

If you don't, you are making yourself more vulnerable to hackers, stalkers and thieves. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images It lets you connect with your friends, know where they are, share where you are and what not! But with anything that powerful, you have to be careful how you deal with it. An anonymous hacker said they would easily be able to use the information people post in an 'Ask me 10 things' style questionnaire that people post to Facebook and then tag an inordinate amount of ...

Bolt to race in Monaco prior to London swan song IMAGE: Usain Bolt of Jamaica. Photograph: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt will run the 100 metres at the Herculis EBS meeting in Monaco on July 21, two weeks before his final world championships appearance in London, organisers said on Wednesday. The eight-time Olympic gold medallist, who ran his final race in his home country earlier this month, last raced at the Louis II Stadium in 2011. "Organisers of the ...