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  • British Open squash World no.1 Nicol too hot for Joshana

    World No.1 and defending champion Nicol David outclassed India's Joshana Chinappa in the first round of the Allam British Open Squash Championships here Tuesday. The Malaysian squash great took 30 minutes to get past her 26th ranked opponent 11-4, 11-5, 11-4 at the KC Stadium. Joshana had qualified for the main draw. Dipika Pallikal, India's highest ranked player at 15, plays her first round ...

  • Bale to sign 150000 pound a week contract to stay with Spurs

    Gereth Bale has committed himself to represent Tottenham Hotspur for the near future with improved terms, despite the club's failure to make it to the Champions League. Missing out on Champions League has serious implications for Spurs' revenue streams and left the club vulnerable to bids for their better players. The Guardian quoted Spurs' chairman Daniel Levy, as saying that giving Bale ...

  • Apple accused of billion-dollar tax evading scheme

    Apple has been accused of evading taxes in UK by creating offshore entities that are not tax resident anywhere, a Senate committee has alleged. On the other hand, the tech firm claims to have paid six billion dollars to the US Treasury in 2012. According the Guardian, the scheme includes three subsidiaries, formed evidently in Ireland, that seem not to be designated as taxation proprietor ...

  • Sven-Goran Eriksson to reveal sexy secrets in tell-all book

    Sven-Goran Eriksson is planning to tell all about his time as England's football coach in a new autobiography. The Swede's memoir, Svennis, will talk about the time when he had affairs with Ulrika Jonsson, 45, and FA secretary Faria Alam, 47, the Daily Star reported. The 65-year-old former player told the publication that there has been so much said about him that is not true, so he wants to ...

  • Anderson most skillful fast bowler in the world England bowling coach David Saker

    England's bowling coach David Saker has described Jimmy Anderson as the most skillful bowler in the world, following the latter's astounding display during the Lord's Test against New Zealand. The ICC ratings place Steyn at number one, while Anderson languishes at sixth place, more than a hundred ranking points behind. But Saker admits that despite Steyn being an outstanding bowler, Jimmy has ...

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Everything Must Go

Everything Must Go

Writing five years ago about Will Ferrells initial step out of his comedic comfort zone into more dramatic acting in the off-beat Hollywood dramedy Stranger Than Fiction (2006), I described Ferrells performance as fine, although its really just subdued; Ferrell never g ... ...

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  • The day Man United signed RvP was when the crown was bound for Old Trafford Ferguson

    The retiring Alex Ferguson at the League Managers' Association awards said that the day Manchester United signed a 23 million pound deal with Robin Van Persie on August 17th was the day he thought the crown was bound for Old Trafford. Ferguson at the awards ceremony collected his trophies and said that he was glad the hard work was over. Referring to the last match under his guidance against ...

  • New England football kit compared to old German strip

    The new England football kit has been revealed and was instantly compared with West Germany's outfit in the 1960s and 70s by some fans. The kit was sponsored by 'Nike', who opted for a simple design, with a rounded collar and navy badge, Sky News reported. Fans took to social media to express their displeasure at the kit's likeness to England's great rivals. One user wrote: "The new England ...

  • Kiwi Everest climber Edmund Hillary hailed as a great Briton

    Sir Edmund Hillary - the first person ever to scale Mount Everest summit - has been called one of "those great Britons" by a conservative British newspaper. Britian's Daily Telegraph bestowed the dubious title upon Auckland-born Hillary, who conquered Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay about 60 years ago, Stuff.co.nz reported. The new nationality was given to Hillary in a small editorial on ...

  • Daniel Vettori set for NZ Test return this week

    New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori is set to return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury. Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of the squad for the two-Test series in England. But with Martin sidelined by the injury that prevented ...

  • UK mom spends 20k pounds on designer clothes for 8-year-old son

    UK Glamour model Vicky Antonia has bought a 20,000-pound designer wardrobe for her eight-year-old son. Little Zak has all the top brands including D and G, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Prada, the Mirror reported. He has more than 200 pairs of shoes and even his swimming trunks are from Armani. Vicky, of Epping, Essex, is a single mother and has splurged 5,000 pounds on her son's shoes, ...

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