England Test captain Andrew Strauss in a surprise announcement on Wednesday afternoon retired from all forms of professional cricket with immediate effect. He has been replaced as Test captain by England’s one-day international skipper Alastair Cook.

A contractor of Australia's supermarket chain Coles has come under fire for publishing a job advertisement, which barred Indians or Asians from applying.

The Indian boys did it again. Beating the defending champions Australia, India bagged the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Townsville, Australia.

American cyclist Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life, the US Anti-Doping Agency said on Thursday.

Dell said on Tuesday profits for the second quarter fell as the US tech firm faced a 'challenging' PC market and pursued efforts to shift into areas such as software and cloud computing.

US President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed.

India's tailenders held their nerves in the tense dying moments to edge out arch-rivals Pakistan by one wicket in a low-scoring thriller to cruise into the semifinals of the under-19 cricket World Cup here on Monday.

Japan's embattled Sharp is considering cutting thousands of jobs in addition to its current plan of slashing 5,000 jobs to repair its disintegrating balance sheet, a report said on Saturday.

Kevin Pietersen has apologised to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for text messages sent to South African players during the drawn second Test at Headingley, it was reported on Tuesday.

Mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles burst into applause and cheered as they received signals relayed by a Mars orbiter confirming that the rover had survived a make-or-break descent and touched down within its landing zone.