As India seeks to control high inflation, RBI Governor D. Subbarao has said a little sacrifice in growth is 'inevitable' amid efforts to bring down prices to acceptable levels.

Subbarao said cr

Former winners Andy Roddick and Venus Williams moved into the US Open second round on Tuesday as defending champion Novak Djokovic and women's favorite Serena Williams prepared to make their bow.

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Defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the second round of the US Open on Tuesday with a 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 victory over Italy's Paolo Lorenzi.

Serbian second seed Djokovic was broken in the first

With memories of the 9/11 attacks etched in the psyche of New Yorkers, city police say they give particular attention to Urdu and Bengali speakers when they eavesdrop in restaurants and stores to gath

Third-seeded Maria Sharapova reached the US Open second round on Monday with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Hungary's Melinda Czink.

Sharapova, the 2006 champion, will face Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino for a

Maria Sharapova reached the US Open second round on Monday before jokingly admitting that the subject of pregnancy came up during recent tests into a mystery stomach problem.

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Roger Federer began his campaign to win a record sixth US Open with a comfortable 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory over America's Donald Young on Monday.

Top seed and world number one Federer, playing in his 52

Tennis, like other sports, was bound to have some players using performance-enhancing drugs, American James Blake said on Monday, but he felt authorities were doing all they could to ensure the sport

All nine people who were wounded in a shootout outside Empire State Building here were injured by shots fired by the New York police officers as they were confronting a gunman after he had killed his

Several people were shot on Friday near the Empire State Building, one of New York's most popular tourist attractions, police said.

"There are people who were shot near the Empire State Building," a