Child mortality rate highest in India: UNICEF

A recently released annual report by the UNICEF says that of a nearly 10 million children dying below the age of five every year, 2.1 million are Indians.
And the real shock lies in the fact that all these lives could be saved with better child care facilities.

Ganguly, Dravid will be missed: Yuvraj

The drubbing in the Twenty20 against Australia notwithstanding, this is the best Indian one-day outfit and the young guns would fight back in the tri-series, vice-captain Yuvraj Singh has asserted.

Ronaldo puts Manchester United back on top

Cristiano Ronaldo struck both goals including a superb free kick as Manchester United beat Portsmouth 2-0 on Tuesday to cruise back to the top of the Premier League.

Benazir murder suspect says next target White House

Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has told the Al Jazeera television channel that he wants to destroy the White House, New York and London.

In his first-ever television interview that lasted 25 minutes, Mehsud was quoted by the Daily Times as saying: “Our primary aim is to finish Britain [and] the US, and to crush the pride of the non-Muslims.”

Osama patrols Colombian streets to ensure peace

On the streets of Bogota, Osama bin Laden, or at least his lookalike, has a new mission — to deter crime.
Fernando Aguirre patrols the streets of Santa Fe, one of Bogota's most dangerous neighbourhoods, dressed as the al-Qaeda leader and even claims to be his son.
Ever since September 11, 2001, Aguirre adopted the look of Osama bin Laden in the belief his presence on the mean streets of Bogota would help cut crime and bring order to an area rife with crime, prostitution and drug-dealing.

Yahoo has 'poison pill' ready against Microsoft

ahoo Inc has some defense at its disposal should Microsoft Corp's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid turn hostile, as the Internet company adopted a poison pill in 2001.
Poison pills are defense mechanisms companies put in place to fend off unwanted takeovers, typically working by giving shareholders the ability to buy stock at a bargain price in the event a predator buys a stake above a certain level.

Egg thrown on Murali, Sri Lanka demands security

Dust has barely settled over the Harbhajan Singh race row as another incident involving Muthaiah Muralitharan rocked the cricket world on Saturday.
A Sri Lankan newspaper revealed that the spin whizard had eggs thrown at him while returning to the team hotel in Hobert on Thursday evening along with three others. Cricket Sri Lanka has asked for security of the players to be beefed up and filed an official complaint with the police