PARIS: Rafael Nadal's ruthless pursuit of a historic fourth straight French Open title is likely to deliver another, possibly fatal blow to Roger Federer's lingering dream of an elusive Roland Garros crown.
CHICAGO: National Football League team owners voted unanimously on Tuesday to terminate their labor contract with the players union early in a move to cut salary costs.
CHICAGO: Tiger Woods is superior to Jack Nicklaus in two areas of the game, according to fellow American golfing great Billy Casper.
Lawmakers will vote on proposals to reduce Britain's time limit for abortion from 24 weeks yesterday as parliament debates far-reaching changes to British fertility legislation.
Japan plans to double annual foreign aid to Africa by 2012, the government said yesterday, to strengthen ties with the resource-rich continent and win support for its bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Google Inc on Monday unveiled Google Health, a long-anticipated US health information service that combines the leading Web company's classic search services with a user's personal health records online.
Chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke, often associated with a Western lifestyle, have become the chief causes of death globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.
They were a sailor, a bookkeeper and a factory worker, men of humble roots and distant times whose kin would run for US president in 2008.
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