US secretary of state Hillary Clinton told Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Saturday to abandon power and said rebels are gaining strength after he threatened attacks on Europe.

The criminal case against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, is on the verge of collapsing, the New York Times reported late on Thursday.

Time is running out for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Friday amid reports of anti-regime protests in the country’s second city Aleppo.

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels, who scored a gutsy 78 in the first innings of the second cricket Test, said he wanted to score a century against India on the third day here on Thursday.

Australian umpire Daryl Harper has admitted that he committed errors while officiating in the first cricket Test between India and the West Indies but said Indian players too did not play in the spirit of the game.

West Indian Chris Gayle will form a dynamic opening partnership with David Warner after signing for Sydney Thunder for Australia’s Big Bash Twenty20 tournament, Cricket NSW said on Thursday.

The controversy over poor umpiring in the ongoing Test series between India and the West Indies has taken a new twist as it has now emerged that Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given out off a no ball on the first day of the second match here.

A major tragedy was averted on Thursday in the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital when a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) was detected and defused by the police.

The world’s longest cross-sea bridge — the 36.48-km eight-lane Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China — opened for traffic on Thursday.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has asked Orissa to take urgent measures to safeguard the tigers in the state’s Similipal national park.