New York, Apr 23 (ANI): Miss California Carrie Prejean is dating Olympic champion, according to reports.

New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah Wednesday backed India to host the 2018 Asian Games in Delhi.

Delhi had narrowly lost the bid to hold the 2014 Asian Games to Incheon City, Korea.

Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) Two descendants of Chhatrapati Shivaji, three central ministers, and a few gen-next politicians are among candidates whose electoral fortunes will be decided Thursday as around 37.7 million voters in Maharashtra choose 25 representatives to the Lok Sabha.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar (Madha), Minority Affairs Minister A.R. Antulay (Raigad) and Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde (Solapur) are among the 372 candidates in the fray in the second phase of the polls.

Hong Kong, April 21 (DPA) Students and politicians in Hong Kong Tuesday hit out at comments by movie star Jackie Chan that Chinese people should be controlled and that too much freedom could harm China.

The “Rush-Hour” star sparked a growing controversy by saying at a business forum Saturday that freedoms had made Hong Kong and Taiwan “chaotic” and adding: “We Chinese need to be controlled.”

London, Apr.21 (ANI): Soccer legend David Beckham and British tennis No1 Andy Murray took each other on at their rival sports at the home of English football yesterday to launch new charity Malaria No More UK.
According to The Sun, malaria strikes down as many as 250 million people a year, killing more than a million, […]

New York, April 20 (ANI): Jay-Z has defended Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps’s pot smoking incident, saying it was a young mistake.

Madrid, April 20 (DPA) Dinara Safina made tennis history for herself and her family when she officially climbed to the world No.1 position in the women’s rankings Monday.

Safina, 22, is at the top for the first time. Her brother Marat Safin led the men’s rankings for nine weeks in 2000, making them the first brother-sister act to be number one in the singles rankings.

Kathmandu, April 19 (IANS) Ahead of Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda’s second visit to China next month, Beijing has stepped up its aid bonanza for its smaller southern neighbour, increasing development assistance by 50 percent.

From the earlier 100 million yuan (about $14 million), Beijing has upped its aid to 150 million yuan (over $21 million), Nepal’s state media said Sunday.