British Airways says it is shedding 1,000 jobs, will reduce size of cabin crews at HeathrowOctober 6th, 2009 BA cuts 1,000 jobs, will shrink Heathrow crewsLONDON — British Airways PLC says it is shedding 1,000 fulltime jobs and putting 3,000 more employees on part-time work and reducing size of cabin crews at Heathrow in an effort to get the troubled airline's finances back in order. BA spokesman Paul Marston said Tuesday the company was in "a very serious financial position" and was working hard to turn itself around with an aggressive cost-reduction program.
Oops! Crews dredging PCBs from Hudson River rip out last remnant of Colonial fort in NYAugust 14th, 2009 Oops! Crews tear out last remnant of old NY fortFORT EDWARD, N.Y. — Crews dredging PCBs from the upper Hudson River have ripped away the last remnants of what was once Britain's largest fort in Colonial America.
Oops! Crews dredging PCBs from Hudson River rip out remnants of Colonial fort in NYAugust 14th, 2009 Oops! Crews tear out remnants of old NY fortFORT EDWARD, N.Y. — Crews dredging PCBs from the Hudson River have ripped away remnants of what was once Britain's largest fort in Colonial America.
Russian general says US Humvees seized a year ago in Georgian war will not be returnedAugust 5th, 2009 Russia keeping US Humvees as war trophiesMOSCOW — A top Russian general says Russia has no intention of returning U.S. Humvees that Russian soldiers seized during the brief war with Georgia a year ago.
Princeton will face Brown in all-American Temple Cup final at Henley RegattaJuly 4th, 2009 Princeton will face Brown in Temple Cup finalHENLEY, England — Princeton and Brown have advanced to the final of the Temple Cup for student eights at the Henley Royal Regatta on the river Thames in London. Princeton beat Amsterdamsche Studenten Roeivereeniging Nereus of Holland by three-quarters of a length on Saturday and Brown beat Melbourne University of Australia by 2¼ lengths to set up Sunday's all-American final, the only one at this year's regatta.
Archery World Cup: Indian men in final; women to play for bronzeMay 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Continuing the form that fetched them the men's recurve team gold in the World Cup Stage I, the Indian archers put the country in line for the yellow metal in the Stage II at Porec, Croatia Friday. The troika of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia would take on the Russian Federation in the final Saturday.
Australian boycott may end Hewitt's run in Davis CupApril 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australia's decision to pull out of the Davis Cup tie in Chennai may end the stellar Cup career of its most experienced campaigner, Lleyton Hewitt. Australia face suspension for their withdrawal from their Asia-Oceania Group I third round tie and can even be relegated to Group II.
Rohini Rau wins sailing bronze medalApril 14th, 2009 CHENNAI - Rohini Rau created history by becoming the first Indian woman sailor to finish on the podium in an international Olympic class Regatta when she finished third in the 2009 Izola Spring Cup, an International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Grade 3 event, in Slovenia. According to information received here, it was the 22-year old Chennai-based Rohini's first international medal in the single hander Radial Class, Sunday.
I am not quitting Man U, says FergussonApril 10th, 2009 LONDON - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson rubbished all speculation about his retirement at the end of the season and said he is targeting two more Champions League trophies. The 67-year-old Scot is a legend at Old Trafford and has won over 30 trophies during his 23-year tenure.
Somdev, Prakash crash out of Korat challenger singlesMarch 25th, 2009 KORAT - India's Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj bowed out of the first round of the $50,000 ATP challenger here Tuesday. While Amritraj went down fighting to top seed German Andreas Beck 5-7, 6-7(3), Somdev, seeded seventh, lost to Russian Alexandre Kudryavtsev 5-7, 3-6.
Sudarsan Patnaik greets 'Slumdog...' team with sand OscarsFebruary 24th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik Monday created images of the Oscar trophies on a beach in Orissa to congratulate the team of 'Slumdog Millionaire' that won eight Oscars, including for best picture. Patnaik sculpted eight Oscar trophies on sand with a 25-ft long movie reel on the beach in the coastal city of Puri, 56 km from here along with his students.
Australian Open resultsJanuary 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The following are the results at the Australian Open here Thursday:
Women's singles, semi-finals:
Serena Williams, 2, US, def. Elena Dementieva, 4, Russia, 6-3, 6-4;
Dinara Safina, 3, Russia, def.
Australian Open resultsJanuary 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The following are the results at the Australian Open Tuesday. Women's singles, quarter-finals:
Dinara Safina, 3, Russia, def.
Dixit, Japtap in Asian Junior squash semisJanuary 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - India's Ravi Dixit fought back to oust the higher seeded Kamran Khan of Malaysia in four games en route to the semi-finals of the boys singles in the Asian Junior squash championship at the ICL Academy courts, here Saturday. After dropping the first game, Dixit came back to win 5-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9 in a close match that lasted nearly an hour.
Bhupathi loses in doubles quarter-finals of Chennai OpenJanuary 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi (India) and Mark Knowles (Bahama) made their exit from the doubles competition in the $450,000 ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament here Friday, losing 6-3, 3-6, 8-10 to the Swiss combination of Jean-Claude Scherrer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the quarter-finals. In another last-eight round match, the German pair of Bjorn Phau and Rainer Schuettler overcame Spanish duo of Marcel Granollers and Santiago Ventura 6-3, 6-7 (4), 10-7.
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