Flamboyant Indian batsman Virender Sehwag on Thursday created history by becoming the highest scorer ever in a one-day innings and the second cricketer after team-mate Sachin Tendulkar to score a double century in the fourth ODI against the West Indies here.

The US has discounted rumours of a 'silent coup' against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after reports that he had gone to Dubai following a heart attack.

Asif Ali Zardari, who is undergoing treatment in Dubai following heart complications, is in stable condition but would remain in hospital for few more days, authorities said, amid assertion by the US that the embattled Pakistan President’s UAE trip was not political and there was no sign of a "silent military coup".

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who abruptly left the Pakistan capital for Dubai, has suffered a minor heart attack and some in the US Government believe he may even resign on account of 'ill-health', a media report said.

India remains alert to the growing military might of China, even as New Delhi has sought to strengthen its bilateral dialogue with Beijing over the last two decades, a top Indian diplomat based here has said.

Troubled star Lindsay Lohan is all set to debut her nude Playboy pictures, for which she was reportedly paid $1 million, on a TV chat show.

Following his consistent performance in the recent past, India’s R. Ashwin broke into the top 20 of the ICC ODI bowling charts for the time in his career, while batsman Virat Kohli moved one rung to be placed fourth in the latest ranking released here on Wednesday.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari suffered a “minor heart attack” and has undergone an operation in Dubai, but is in good health otherwise and will return to Islamabad on Thursday, a minister told AFP.

In a case that has seen unattractive and raw human emotions at work, an NRI medical student ordered two "gangster friends" to kill a "besotted" Sikh television executive in revenge after he tried to rape her

Strongly favouring Labor Party decision to export uranium to India despite it being a non signatory to the nuclear non proliferation treaty, Australian defence minister Stephen Smith has said that he did not support the similar treatment towards Pakistan.