Indian captain Rahul Dravid will miss Wednesday's sixth one-dayer against Sri Lanka here as the hosts continue their rotation policy despite losing the previous match. Vice-captain Virender Sehwag will lead India in Dravid's absence, described

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Pakistan's fast rising leg-spinner Danish Kaneria started the mind games ahead of Saturday's first Test against England, saying he had a mystery delivery for English batsmen. "I have developed a mystery delivery and hope it

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England's problems mounted on Tuesday before their Test series against Pakistan with an embarrassing six-wicket defeat in their tour match at Bagh-Jinnah Stadium.. The tourists, already facing the possible loss of their captain Michael Vaughan

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A painting by an 86-year-old Chinese master has gone under the hammer for a record 30 million yuan ($3.7 million), highlighting soaring world interest in Chinese art. The work by Wu Guanzhong depicting a cluster

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Chile's Supreme Court denied bail to former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday as Peru worked to extradite him to face human rights and corruption charges. Fujimori was arrested on Monday after arriving in Santiago

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The violence sweeping France's impoverished suburbs triggered criticism from the Arab media on Tuesday over a failure to integrate immigrants, and raised fears that the riots' consequences could spread across the Arab-Muslim world. Pictures of

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Poland must rid its economy of the informal ties that link businesses, politicians and the secret services in order speed up economic growth, Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The conservative

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North Korea will be urged to adopt a step-by-step plan towards nuclear disarmament when the latest round of six-nation talks begins Wednesday, Japan's chief negotiator said. However, with the first phase of the fifth round

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Indonesia's military chief General Endriartono Sutarto has officially ordered the revival of a much-criticised community-based intelligence system to be used to fight terrorism, a report said Tuesday. Known by its local acronym Koter, the system

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Germany has finalised a long-delayed deal to sell 298 surplus Leopard 2 battle tanks to Turkey, a spokesman at the German Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The spokesman declined to give a price for the

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