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Liverpool are on the brink of qualifying for the Champions League after Philippe Coutinho inspired a 4-0 rout of West Ham, while Tottenham bid a fitting farewell to White Hart Lane with a 2-1 win against Manchester United on Sunday.

ATHENS One person died and two others were injured when a fire fanned by an early heatwave tore through a forested area in a town near Athens on Sunday, the fire brigade said. TV pictures showed plumes of smoke rising above the town of Agioi Theodoroi, some 65 km (40 miles) west of Athens, as the fire burned through large areas of woodland

Rafael Nadal's flawless record on clay this season continued as he outgunned the impressive Dominic Thiem to win the Madrid Masters for a fifth time 7-6 (10/8), 6-4 on Sunday.

Royal Challengers Bangalore ended their seven-match losing streak and ended a disappointing season on a high beating Delhi Daredevils by 10 runs, courtesy a half century from skipper Virat Kohli and a 3-wicket haul from Harshal Patel.

Rising Pune Supergiant captain Steve Smith on Sunday said the team will miss Ben Stokes in the IPL play-offs after they comfortably beat Kings XI Punjab in a do-or-die match at Pune.

VIENNA The leadership of Austria's conservative People's Party, the junior party in the country's coalition government, has appointed Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz as its new head, Kurz told a news conference on Sunday. Kurz, 30, is widely seen as the party's best chance of boosting its ratings and surpassing the far-right Freedom Party, which is running first in opinion polls, followed by Chancellor Christian Kern's Social Democrats. He has already called for a snap parliamentary election, which Kern has said is now inevitable. Читать дальше...

Catch all the live scores and updates for the last match of the league phase between DD and RCB here.

Arch-rivals Mohun Bagan defeated East Bengal 2-0 in a Kolkata derby to enter the summit clash of the Hero Federation Cup football tournament at the Barabati Stadium at Cuttack on Sunday.

India and Chile will implement a bilateral expanded Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA)from 16 May, it was announced on Sunday.

Three tourists from Tamil Nadu were killed and 14 others injured on Sunday when a Tempo Traveller they were travelling in fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district, police said.

Catch all the live scores and updates for the last match of the league phase between DD and RCB here.

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami here on Sunday in an apparent bid to woo the AIADMK ahead of Presidential election

RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday took a jibe at the BJP-led central government saying it should dissolve the current Lok Sabha and hold parliamentary polls simultaneously with the Assembly elections due this year.

The government on Sunday said it has activated a "preparedness and response mechanism" to prevent any major cyber attack from a new ransomware — "WannaCry" — which has infected computer systems around the world

Hull City crashed out of the Premier League on Sunday as Crystal Palace secured their own survival with a 4-0 thrashing of their relegation rivals at Selhurst Park.

Taking suo motu cognisance of a brutal gangrape in Haryana — reminiscent of the 2012 gangrape case in Delhi, the National Commission for Women has sought a fair and speedy trial in the case, its Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam said on Sunday.

Beijing: India boycotted China's high-profile Belt and Road Forum, taking its protest over a controversial economic corridor traversing through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to a new level despite Beijing's overtures to ensure New Delhi's participation.

A section of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation employees struck work in Thanjavur and in neighbouring Tiruchirapalli a day ahead of the state-wide stir call by the transport corporations

Sri Lanka's national cricket squad trained together for the first time in months at a high altitude location to prepare for June's Champions Trophy, the country's board said on Sunda

Srinagar: The people of Jammu and Kashmir have to choose between peace and violence, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said as she asked students to focus on their education by letting the elders address bigger issues.

The Centre will soon begin work on a Rs 11,000-crore project to provide road connectivity to 44 Naxal-affected districts, including Sukma in Chhattisgarh, which had recently witnessed one of the deadliest Maoist attacks.

Andy Murray, who said he has been talking to part-time coach Ivan Lendl "every Monday", is hoping fortune turns in his favour at Rome.

Mukherjee, in a veiled message to the party leadership to speed up decision-making in organisational matters, recalled the former prime minister's decisive style of functioning

The 2017 Champions Trophy is just a few days away, with the excitement rising as India sets out to defend the title, lets go through some of the best bowling performances of the tournament.

Lucknow: The UP government will take suggestions and change the syllabus to include "forgotten personalities" in history, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said underlining the need to "expose" those who have
distorted history.