Facebook today released an application that lets people create virtual “rooms” to chat about whatever they wish using any name they would like. ‘Rooms’ software introduced in the US and Britain for iPhone made its debut as Facebook tries to make peace with people unhappy that real identities are mandatedRead More

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no under-eye bags and myRead More

Paris, Ace India shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the French Open Super Series after going down to World No. 2 Shixian Wang of China in a hard-fought women’s singles quarterfinal contest here. Seeded fifth, Saina posed a quite a challenge to her Chinese rival but in the end itRead More

New Delhi, Provisionally suspended she might be but Indian boxer L Sarita Devi has not given up hopes of participating in next month’s World Championships, saying that she has written to the International Boxing Association (AIBA) presenting her case. Sarita, who was suspended for refusing to accept her Asian GamesRead More

Rafael Nadal suffered a 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) loss in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors to teenager Borna Coric on Friday and then shut down his season to undergo appendix surgery. The nine-time French Open champion and 14-time Grand Slam title winner confirmed he will have his appendix removed onRead More

Melbourne, A highly eventful round with six each of birdies, pars and bogeys saw 18-year-old Mangalore-born but US-based Rigel Fernandes emerge as the top Indian at the end of the third round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships. In a tournament that gives the winner a start at the famous AugustaRead More

Singapore: Sania Mirza and Cara Black showed nerves of steel as they saved three match points in the Super Tie Break against Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik to cruise into the summit clash of the WTA year-end finals, here on Saturday. The third-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair was trailing 6-9 but showedRead More

Caroline Wozniacki set her sights on winning her first Grand Slam title on Saturday as she expressed pride at emerging strongly from a difficult year including her break-up with golfer Rory McIlroy. Wozniacki’s narrow loss to Serena Williams in the WTA Finals semis did not stop her reflecting with pleasureRead More

Washington,US President Barack Obama has reviewed his administration’s strategy against the Islamic State with his national security team, during which he discussed the status of comprehensive campaign to counter the feared militant group in Iraq and Syria. Obama held the meeting at the State Department, which among others was attendedRead More

Marysville/Washington, One person has died and three injured in a high school shooting, north of Seattle, perpetrated by a lone gunman. The gunman has also died. Police responded on Friday to a high school north of Seattle after it was locked down amid reports of a shooting. The hospital saysRead More