Just like their musical tastes, cricketers have preferred venues where runs or wickets are music to their ears, and others venues which are big turn-offs.
PASCAGOULA -- The capital murder case of Steven McGilberry, convicted in the October 1994 baseball bat beating deaths of his mother, stepfather, stepsister, and her 3-year-old son, is headed back…
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The way Ricky Ponting rang the five-minute bell foretold all that was to come. It was a peremptory, no nonsense, no-time-for-ceremonies plu-ck on the rope, which seemed to say the team he once led were impatient to get out there and take up arms. When they had finally laid them down, centurions Chris Rogers and Steve Smith both undefeated, the scorecard conjured memories of the 1993 Ashes Lord’s Test, in which three Australia batsmen ventured deep into three figures, Mark Waugh perished one short of that landmark... Читать дальше...
LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - Australia were glowing with contentment after their batsmen dominated the first day of the second Ashes test against England at Lord's on Thursday.
BRUSSELS, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. conglomerate General Electric has offered concessions in an attempt to allay EU regulatory concerns and gain approval for its 12.4-billion-euro ($13.49 billion) bid for Alstom's power unit.
BRUSSELS, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. conglomerate General Electric has offered concessions in an attempt to allay EU regulatory concerns and gain approval for its 12.4-billion-euro ($13.49 billion) bid for Alstom's power unit.
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA is working to bring domestic diesel and gasoline prices into parity with international levels in order to attract downstream buyers or partners, a company executive said on Thursday.
It is only seven days since Andy Murray lost to Roger Federer in the semi-finals at Wimbledon but the world No 3 will be back on court at Queen’s Club on Friday afternoon to lead Britain’s Davis Cup team in their World Group quarter-final against France.
(Adds analyst quotes, table) By Sam Forgione NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based non-domestic-focused stock funds posted $3.7 billion of net outflows in the week ended July 15, marking the funds' biggest cash withdrawals since August 2011, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday. In particular, U.S.-based Chinese stock funds posted $735 million in outflows, the fourth straight week of cash withdrawals and the biggest weekly outflows for the
The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday designed to reduce the environmental impact of coal mining on the nation's streams, a long-anticipated move that met quick resistance from Republicans, even as...
EBay sold its Enterprise business for $925 million and topped Wall Street expectations for its second-quarter earnings as the online retailer prepares to spin off PayPal.
The latest on Greece's financial crisis (all times local):
For U.S. investors, low expectations are paying off.
BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters) - German lawmakers are expected to give Berlin a clear green light on Friday to start negotiations on a third bailout programme for Greece, despite Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble questioning whether it will succeed.
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday she was open to raising a threshold for determining a bank's systemic importance and indicated that U.S. lenders had made progress in their submissions of so-called living will plans this month.
(Reuters) - Planned Parenthood's president apologized on Thursday for the "tone and statements" of a senior staff member who was secretly recorded in a video that critics say suggests the U.S. reproductive health organization sells aborted fetal tissue.
(Reuters) - Planned Parenthood's president apologized on Thursday for the "tone and statements" of a senior staff member who was secretly recorded in a video that critics say suggests the U.S. reproductive health organization sells aborted fetal tissue.
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S&P Capital IQ's Scott Kessler speaks about the challenges eBay will have after its PayPal unit is spun off Monday, and his hold rating on the stock. Bobbi Rebell reports.
S&P Capital IQ's Scott Kessler speaks about the challenges eBay will have after its PayPal unit is spun off Monday, and his hold rating on the stock. Bobbi Rebell reports.
S&P Capital IQ's Scott Kessler speaks about the challenges eBay will have after its PayPal unit is spun off Monday, and his hold rating on the stock. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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As shelling continues, residents who haven't fled rebel-held Donetsk in eastern Ukraine struggle to carry on with daily life. Sean Carberry reports.
As shelling continues, residents who haven't fled rebel-held Donetsk in eastern Ukraine struggle to carry on with daily life. Sean Carberry reports.
As shelling continues, residents who haven't fled rebel-held Donetsk in eastern Ukraine struggle to carry on with daily life. Sean Carberry reports.