Plucky Aiken holds firm for three-stroke victory in India

Vasco Sports Club huffed and puffed to a 2-0 victory over a plucky Luangmual Football Club in their I-League Second Division Group C encounter to keep their hopes of progressing to the final phase alive onTuesday. Bangalore boy and former HASC captain J ...

Hyderabad is a text-book nugget of the new India.The nation's ecomonic boom in the past decade can be seen all over this effervescent city, not least in the smart flagship hotel by The Park group. The Park Hotels Group has 12 properties in ten ...

We've all been there before ... you're curled up on the couch with a spoon of ice cream in one hand and a box of tissues in the other. In other words, you're going through a breakup. Instead of pouring your heart out to Ben & Jerry, how about ...

Consider the proportion of Nigerian roads that are paved. At 15% at the last count in 2004, that placed the country well behind the Asian tigers then hogging the limelight, such as India at 48.6%, China on 40.8% (how things change!) and even plucky ...

Match Facts May 16-20, Lord's Start time 11am (1000GMT) The Big Picture England versus New Zealand; the world's second best team against the eighth best; walkover. Those who said the same thing ahead of the series in New Zealand were left feeling ...

“Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,” sang Noel Coward. Clearly, he hadn’t heard of us. There we were, out on a hot Hyderabadi day. The sun blazed down in its untrammelled glory, turning the land into a skillet, ...

Puny humans lose legal challenge from mighty bee overlords - 10 Things Bees: they own everything. And they've just won a legal battle in their ongoing war against the humans in Europe as the EU enacts a ban on pesticides linked to the precipitous ...

"It smells like a dead body," the customs officer told me, as we opened a crate of smuggled ivory in the cargo terminal at Bangkok airport earlier this year. The pieces of tusk were so numerous that a total of 79 elephants had been slaughtered to ...

Breathalysers: they're not just for drunk drivers anymore! - 10 Things Sure, we've all gotten emails from the deposed family of African royalty, praising us for our internationally-respected levels of integrity and discretion and promising us a ...