Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Thursday.

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German automobile major Mercedes-Benz on Thursday launched the new version of its M-Class sports utility vehicle and open-top sports car SLS AMG roadster.

The SLS AMG roadster is powered by a 6.3 lit

Repairs of the Yekaterinburg nuclear submerine, damaged by fire while in dry dock near Murmansk city, will take at least an year, said a spokesman for the Zvezdochka shipyard.

The outer hull of the

Traces of radioactive iodine, most likely from Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors, were detected in New York, news reports said on Wednesday, citing the state's health department.

New York officials

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to ban flights in Libya's airspace and authorised military action to implement the ban, triggering intervention by individual countries and organizations like Nato.

Tokyo: A magnitude-7.9 earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Friday, generating a tsunami as high as six metres that was likely to hit the coast of Miyagi, the Meteorological Agency said.

A tsunami ad

Brussels: The world will not allow the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to continue attacking anti-government forces without trying to stop him, NATO's secretary general has said.

NATO has so

One of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons has warned that civil war would break out if his father is ousted, saying that 'the situation is very dangerous', the broadcaster Al Arabiya reported on Monday on its website.

Geneva: The luxury car maker Rolls-Royce will unveil at the Geneva Motor Show a purely one-off electric version of the Phantom to gauge customer reaction, the company has announced.

"We have engineer

Wellington: Three hundred people are missing and 75 bodies have been recovered from the quake ravaged New Zealand city of Christchurch, local authorities said on Wednesday.

Christchurch Mayor Bob Pa