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Reuters: Spain stretched their winning run in tournament qualifiers to 23 as they began the journey to the 2014 World Cup with a 1-0 victory in Georgia on Tuesday but along with Germany and Italy they struggled to take the points. The world and European champions, who last failed to win a qualifying match five ...
Country fourth fastest growing economy in the world, but Bourse is world’s third worst performer The dichotomy of Sri Lanka of being among the fastest growing emerging economies and worst performers when it comes to the stock market appears to be correcting, according to broking firm DNH Financial. It said contrary to some market commentators, ...
Reuters: Ukraine’s Vitaly Klitschko retained his WBC world heavyweight title on Saturday when the referee stopped the contest against Manuel Charr in the fourth round after the German sustained a deep cut above his right eye. The 41-year-old Klitschko controlled the fight
Reuters: Usain Bolt and Jamaica’s speedsters smashed the 4×100 metres world record, Britain’s Mo Farah brought London to its feet with another golden distance win and Mexico broke Brazilian soccer hearts in a thrilling penultimate day of Olympic action. But Saturday’s sporting highs were tempered by news that a Syrian runner was expelled from the ...
Reuters: The United States won the women’s 4×100 metres relay in a world record time at the London Olympics on Friday, completing the lap in a sizzling 40.82 seconds to win the title back for the first time since 1996. Bungled handovers had denied the Americans gold at the last three Games but Tianna Madison, ...
LONDON (Reuters): The last American male boxer exited the London Games on Tuesday to complete a humiliating first Olympics without a medal for the most decorated nation in the sport as Cuba, Ukraine and Britain added to their tallies. Welterweight Errol Spence lost 16-11 to Russian Andrey Zamkovoy
In Sri Lanka to empower and enlighten Sri Lanka’s business community and budding entrepreneurs, Chair Emeritus and board member of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab Gigi Wang will host a seminar titled ‘Success drivers of Silicon Valley – venture capital, investment and business opportunities for Sri Lanka’ tomorrow in collaboration with Infotechs Ideas. Speaking to the ...
Reuters: Germany ended up with gold in the Olympic women’s track cycling team sprint on Thursday after original winners China were relegated to second for a takeover infringement having earlier broken two world records. Hosts and medal hopefuls Britain had been disqualified in the first round for another illegal changeover. Gong Jinjie and Guo Shuang ...
Internet pioneer and Silicon Valley insider Gigi Wang will have the full attention of decision makers, policy makers, technology professionals, university professors and students, bankers, entrepreneurs and women in business when she addresses an all day seminar on ‘Lessons from the Silicon Valley for Sri Lankan organisations – Success Drivers, Investment, Business and Venture Capital ...
Reuters: The World Bank on Monday said it stood ready to help governments respond to a broad-based run-up in grain prices that has again put the world’s poorest people at risk and could have lingering detrimental impacts for years. “We cannot allow short-term food-price spikes to have damaging long-term consequences for the world’s most poor ...
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals in June rose 21.6% from a year earlier, welcoming 65,245 tourists, whilst first half performance has lost momentum in comparison to corresponding period of last year. Data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority showed arrivals in the first half at 452,867, up 18.7% from first six ...
KIEV, July 2 (Reuters) :Andres Iniesta, who helped Spain to a second successive European Championship triumph in Poland and Ukraine, was named the best player at the tournament by UEFA on Monday. Iniesta played a central role for Spain in Sunday’s 4-0 win over Italy
Reuters: A touch of star quality from Mario Balotelli plus a familiar mixture of experience and canny defending saw Italy quash a young Germany side 2-1 on Thursday and book a place in the Euro 2012 final against holders Spain. The semi-final victory thanks to Balotelli’s first-half double extended Italy’s unbeaten run against Germany in ...
Reuters: Loose global monetary conditions are stoking credit and asset price booms in some emerging markets that could lead to a new financial crisis, the Bank for International Settlements warned on Sunday. Such a boom-and-bust cycle might have severe global repercussions, not least due to the increased weight of emerging markets in the world economy ...
Reuters: Holders Spain set up a European Championship semi-final with Iberian rivals Portugal after an uninspiring 2-0 win over France on Saturday which featured yet another headed goal but prompted boos from a sometimes bored crowd. The tournament has generally been graced by high quality, exciting soccer so far but for all Spain’s skill at ...
REUTERS: Cristiano Ronaldo stooped to conquer the Czech Republic and send Portugal deservedly into the semi-finals of the European Championship on Thursday as the tournament re-started after a temporary lull in proceedings. The world’s most expensive player produced a classic diving header with little more than 10 minutes remaining in Warsaw to break the deadlock, ...
Reuters: Daniele De Rossi is arguably Italy’s most English-style player, relying on power rather than finesse, but the midfielder acknowledges he has not yet “exploded” ahead of Sunday’s Euro 2012 quarter-final against England. Sometimes described as the Steven Gerrard of Serie A, the AS Roma player started the first two games at Euro 2012 in ...
Broadband has passed another major milestone, according to the latest figures published by the Broadband Forum and prepared by broadband industry analysts Point Topic. The global total of broadband subscribers soared to over 600 million in the first quarter of 2012, indicating a further acceleration in growth as over 100 million new lines were added ...
Reuters: England and France took the last places in a heavyweight final eight at Euro 2012 on Tuesday, with Ukraine joining co-hosts Poland on the sidelines after a 1-0 loss to the English marred by a controversial disallowed goal. In a tournament heavy on goals and drama but relatively free
Reuters: European soccer’s major powers looked set to dominate the final stages of Euro 2012 after a testing evening for Italy and Spain ended with them both easing through on Monday to join Germany, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Greece in the last eight. France and England lead the running to fill the final two ...
Reuters: Cool-headed Germany extended their Euro 2012 winning streak to reach the last eight with a solid 2-1 victory over Denmark on Sunday as two goals from an inspired Cristiano Ronaldo put Portugal through and sent the Dutch packing. Lukas Podolski marked his 100th appearance for Germany with a 19th-minute goal in Lviv, before Michael ...
Reuters: Germany beat the Netherlands 2-1 on Wednesday to move within touching distance of the Euro 2012 quarter-finals and Portugal kept their chances alive with a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Denmark. Mario Gomez scored twice for Germany, taking his tally to three goals in two games and leaving the Dutch needing victory over Portugal in ...
Reuters: Euro 2012 got off to an incident-packed start on Friday with Group A favourites Russia thrashing the Czech Republic 4-1 while Greece spoiled the party for co-hosts Poland in a drawn opening match as both teams finished with 10 men. Russia captain Andrei Arshavin turned in an inspired performance as his side put on ...
Reuters: Spain will try to become the first team to win three successive major international titles while Germany will hope to lift their first trophy since 1996 when Euro 2012 kicks off on Friday. The backdrop of the three-week tournament being staged by Poland and Ukraine across a vast stretch
Reuters: Italian professional soccer should be halted for two or three years to get over the match-fixing scandal which has spattered its image, Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Tuesday. The soccer federation and several clubs rejected the idea, which is Monti’s personal opinion and is not binding. The widening scandal has seen a number ...
Reuters: Ukraine, which hopes to produce more maize in 2012, plans to sell about 3 million tons to top consumer China, which has not so far been a market for Ukrainian grain, farm minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said. “We want to export the first three million tons of corn to China in the 2012
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rose 9% to 69,591 in April from a year earlier, continuing the growth momentum established in 2010. Data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority yesterday showed arrivals topping 330,116 during the first four months of the year, an 18.3% increase from the period a year ago. ...
Reuters: A Ukrainian women’s rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kiev-based Femen women’s rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer ...
LONDON (AFP): Spain will begin as hot favourites to complete an unprecedented treble next month when the European Championship ventures into new territory in Poland and Ukraine. Winners of Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup, Spain will become the first footballing nation to complete a hat-trick
Inclusion on list carries no threat of sanctions IP-intensive industries support 40 million U.S. jobs NAFTA member Canada continues to make list WASHINGTON(Reuters): The United States on Monday again put Russia and China on its annual list of countries with the worst records of preventing the theft of copyrighted material and other intellectual property (IP), ...