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January 5, 2014 7:16 PM

Australia beat England to seal 5-0 Ashes sweep

Australia on Sunday sealed a 5-0 Ashes series sweep with five dominant victories on home soil.It is only the third 5-0 sweep in the long history of Ashes series.The hosts recorded a thumping 281 run victory over England in the fifth and final Test at Sydney with more than two days to spare.The two s...

January 5, 2014 5:46 PM

Winter sports activities begin in snow-covered Kashmir

The winter sports activities in the snow-covered Kashmir began with the Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering's first skiing course of the season at the Gulmarg resort. A spokesman of the Institute said, IISM has taken the lead in conducting first ski course at Gulmarg despite low s...

January 5, 2014 5:45 PM

Lleyton Hewitt wins Brisbane Intl tennis

Australia's Lleyton Hewitt has won the Brisbane International tennis tournament. In the final in Brisbane on Sunday, he stunned top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland in three sets 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in two hours and seven minutes.It was Hewitt's 29th title on the ATP tour but his first ...

January 5, 2014 12:21 PM

Australia beat England in final test to win Ashes 5-0

Hosts Australia today completed the 5-0 Ashes whitewash, as they defeated England by 281 runs in the final test at Sydney, with two days remaining. With this, Australia have become just the third side in the 140-year history of the game to complete an Ashes whitewash. Resuming the third day at the o...

January 5, 2014 11:44 AM

Australia beat England in final test to win Ashes 5-0

Hosts Australia today completed the 5-0 Ashes whitewash, as they defeated England by 281 runs in the final test at Sydney, with two days remaining. With this, Australia have become just the third side in the 140-year history of the game to complete an Ashes whitewash. Resuming the third day at the o...

January 5, 2014 11:43 AM

Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka will clash with Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the summit clash of the ATP Chennai Open Tennis tournament today. Top seed Wawrinka made it to the finals yesterday, after Canada's Vasek Pospisil conceded the match due to a sore lower back. The semifinal ended, 6...

January 5, 2014 9:21 AM

Putin relaxes controversial ban on protests for Winter Olympics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has relaxed a controversial ban he had imposed on all public protests for the next month's Winter Olympics and Para-Olympics in Sochi. People will now be able to hold demonstrations in a designated area of the Black Sea resort but only if they obtain officia...

January 5, 2014 9:19 AM

Rafael Nadal wins Qatar Open Tennis Championship

The World Number One, Rafael Nadal has won the Qatar Open Tennis Championship. In Doha last night, he defeated Gael Monfils 6-1, 6-7, 6-2 in three sets. Despite recovering from an injury, Nadal showed his class and maintained his winning streak throughout the tournament to gain the first title of 20...

January 5, 2014 8:52 AM

Chennai Open: Wawrinka to take on Vasselin in Men's Singles final

Former champion Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland will take on 7th seed Edouard Roger Vasselin of France in the final of the ATP Chennai Open. In the semifainal yesterday, Swiss top seed Wawrinka lived up to his top billing by cruising into the summit clash by defeating his fifth seed opponent Vasek...

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