Johannesburg, May 20 (IANS) Bangalore Royal Challengers kept their Indian Premier League (IPL) semi-final hopes alive with a comprehensive seven-wicket win over mighty Delhi Daredevils at the New Wanderers stadium here Tuesday.

The win catapulted Royal Challengers, who had four successive loses in the early stages of the tournament, to the fourth spot with 14 points from 13 matches.

Johannesburg, May 20 (IANS) Scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Delhi Daredevils and Bangalore Royal Challengers here Tuesday.

Delhi Daredevils

London, May 19 (IANS) Is Hollywood star Mel Gibson’s girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva pregnant with the couple’s first child?

The actor’s wife Robyn filed for divorce last month after 28 years of marriage amid rumours the actor had been dating the 39-year-old Grigorieva. Rumours are rife that Gibson has already told his estranged wife and their children that she is in her second trimester of pregnancy, reports thesun.co.uk.

Moscow, May 19 (Xinhua) Russia and the US have started the first round of talks here on a new strategic arms reduction treaty, the Russian foreign ministry said Tuesday.

The US delegation is led by Rose Gottemoeller, US assistant secretary of state and the Russian side is headed by Anatoly Antonov, director of the security and disarmament department of the Russian foreign ministry.

New York/Washington, May 19 (DPA) Former US president Bill Clinton will help jumpstart Haiti’s economic and social conditions in his new role as UN special envoy for the impoverished Caribbean nation, the world body said Tuesday.

Clinton was appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the new task months after the two of them visited Haiti to hold talks with government leaders about programmes to rebuild the country following last year’s devastation caused by consecutive hurricanes.

Los Angeles, May 19 (DPA) A spokeswoman for ailing US actor Patrick Swayze Tuesday refuted reports that the 56-year-old star of “Dirty Dancing” had died.

In a statement to KTLA broadcaster in Los Angeles, Annett Wolf said Swayze is “alive, well and is enjoying his life and he continues to respond to treatment” for his cancer.

Washington, May 19 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Tuesday proposed the country’s first greenhouse gas emission standards and ordered carmakers to increase fuel economy.

“What an extraordinary day,” Obama said at the unveiling of what he called “an historic agreement to help America break its dependence on oil, reduce harmful pollution, and begin the transition to a clean-energy economy”.

London, May 19 (IANS) Oscar winning actor Sean Penn is set to play a Nazi-hunting rockstar in a new movie.

The “Milk” star is in talks to headline Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s first English-language film “This Must Be the Place” and is slated to play a wealthy, retired rocker who embarks on a quest to find the German officer who executed his father, reports contactmusic.com.