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Azarenka reached the quarter-finals by defeating No. 33 Magdalena Rybarikova 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday at the Western and Southern Open.

Five farmers, including two women, were killed after being struck by lightning in separate incidents in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh today.

Saina prevailed over P V Sindhu of Awadhe Warriors 21-19, 21-8 in the women's singles of the Indian Badminton League.

A wave of car bombs in the Iraqi capital on Thursday killed 31 people and wounded dozens, the latest attacks in a months-long surge in violence.

Egypt's interim vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, resigned on Wednesday after the security forces used force to crush protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, but fellow liberals did not follow suit.

The death toll from political violence in Egypt has climbed to 421, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Jennifer Lawrence is struggling to come to terms with her real life.

Saeed said he was not a terrorist, and asked for an independent probe by judges from India and Pakistan to find out whether he was guilty.

Bad weather has wrought havoc with the US Open schedule in recent years.

Micromax co-founder Rajesh Agarwal and six others, arrested in connection with a bribery case, were on Wednesday remanded in CBI custody till August 19 by a Delhi court after the agency said their custodial interrogation was necessary to unearth the large...

Sushil came up with the suggestion that Poonia and Sodhi be jointly conferred the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.

Narendra Modi on Wednesday seemed to have already donned the mantle of BJP's prime ministerial candidate when he said the nation would be comparing his speech with that of Prime Minister on Independence Day on Thursday.

Shivesh Bose's family members allege that he was killed.

Ansar Ali Mollah, the prime accused in the Kamduni rape and murder case, hospitalised after inmates assaulted him inside the Dum Dum Central Correctional Home, police said Wednesday.

Judicial work in 21 districts of western Uttar Pradesh came to a standstill on Wednesday as lawyers went on a week-long strike over their demand for the setting up of a bench of Allahabad High Court in the region.

Amid sky-rocketing prices, Ganjam district administration in Odisha has started selling onions at wholesale rate in ration shops in Berhampur town. At least 37 fair price shops started to sell onions of Nasik quality at Rs 45 per kg on Tuesday and one can...