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They lost 3-6, 6-3, 9-11 in one hour and 20 minutes to Romanian-Czech combination of Monica Niculescu and Klara Zakopalova.

Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka beat Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 7-6 (8) Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals.

A Delhi-bound Air India plane was grounded when the pilot detected some technical snag just before take off on the runway at the Jaiprakash Narayan Airport here in Patna.

The towering England striker has now completed a permanent switch to the east London club on a six-year deal, with West Ham having the option of a further two years.

BJP on Wednesday mounted a frontal attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his "sudden love" for Congress and said that the day was not far off when JD(U) leaders, including Kumar, would raise slogans for Rahul Gandhi.

The baby's middle name is tribute to West's late mother Donda.

In the biggest ever penalty on an individual trader, the UK financial sector regulator FCA on Wednesday imposed a fine of nearly one million pounds on an Indian- origin realty broker for fraudulent sale and renting of homes.

The All England Club released the seedings on Wednesday for this year's championships, with the top five in the ATP rankings remaining in their positions.

Llambias resigned on Wednesday, the day after Joe Kinnear's controversial return to the Premier League club as director of football.

The rain and flood situation in Uttarakhand is quite serious and unprecedented, chief of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Wednesday said. DG Ajay Chadha said rescue operations will gather pace as the weather has improved on Wednesday and three bat...

Floods and heavy rains have damaged the training academy of paramilitary Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in Srinagar in Garhwal. The academy, according to its Director S Badhopadhyay, has incurred a damage of Rs 100 crore due to the current rains and all the tr...

Villas-Boas has opted to stay at Tottenham; partly in anticipation of facing his former mentor, Jose Mourinho, in league football.

Hoping to regain power in the Chhattisgarh assembly elections after a decade, the main opposition Congress party has decided to launch a "BJP step down, quit Chhattisgarh" agitation.

Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock loss to next World Championship challenger Magnus Carlsen and slipped to the joint seventh spot.

"I only know three or four Japanese players and the most talked about is the one that plays for Manchester United, Kagawa, "said De Rossi.

As per the 13th Amendment that followed the India-Sri Lankan Accord of July 1987, Sri Lankan government had agreed to devolve some authority to the provinces.