Tag: Triumph

Celtic secured some consolation for losing out on the league title to bitter rivals Rangers by winning the Scottish Cup final with a 3-0...

NEW DELHI - An Indian septuagenarian whose 98-hour hunger strike against corruption ended with big concessions from government said on Sunday he had no idea his campaign would win national support.
"I did not know that this protest would spread throughout the country," said Anna Hazare, a Mahatma Gandhi devotee, a day after his demands for changes to a new anti-graft bill were accepted. Hazare began the hunger strike in New Delhi on Tuesday, winning wide support amid rising

MURIDKE - Lahore and Faisalabad girls crushed their opponents on the second day of 6th National Women's Sr. Cricket Championship, played here at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke. In the first match, Lahore women scored 232 runs in the allotted 50 overs against Peshawar. Sidra Amin (66), Namra Imran (51) and Malaqa Mansoor (29) shone with the bat. Ayshad Naeem took three wickets for Peshawar.
In response, Peshawar were unable to face the tight bowling and fielding of Lahore girls

LAHORE - Gaston Moore led Master Paints to an emphatic win, while Fernando Quinto Bourdieu and Shah Shamyl Alam unleashed a combined effort to seal victory for Ciros' Pomodoro/Al Khan in the Pakistan State Oil Aibak Polo Cup 2011 on Wednesday here at the LPC ground.
Gaston Moore scored six goals as Master Paints defeated half-goal handicappers Army/Adamjee Insurance by nine goals to five and a half. Moore struck three goals, while Hissam tapped home two goals as Master Paints led

MELBOURNE - Canadian Daniel Nestor and Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik won the Australian Open mixed doubles title when they beat Australian Paul Hanley and Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan Sunday.
The second seeds needed a deciding match tiebreaker to win the final 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 at Rod Laver Arena, where officials closed the roof as temperatures soared close to 40 deg C (104 F) on the hottest day of the tournament. Hanley and Chan started well, breaking serve in the third game of the

LAHORE - Kalakot thrashed Agra Taj 4-0 in Group C as two more league matches were decided in the PFF-KESC Lyari Football League 2011.
Asif struck goals in the 7th and 24th minute, followed by Abdul Aziz, who scored in the 26th minute. The winners led 3-0 at interval. Aziz fired another goal in the 44th minute. Asif Nawaz was named man of the match. Agra Taj finished Group C with only one point.
Earlier, Singolane overcame Baghdadi 3-2 in a tense Group B tie 3-2. Singolane's

SYDNEY - Dominant England claimed their first Ashes series in Australia for 24 years with their third innings victory over the home team in the final Sydney Test on Friday. England wrapped up an innings and 83-run victory early on the last day after victory was assured when they had Australia seven wickets down on Thursday's close.
It was England's first series victory Down Under since Mike Gatting's team beat Australia 2-1 in 1986-87. The tourists posted their highest-ever score

ZURICH: Russia and the tiny Gulf state of Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups Thursday after an acrimonious bidding war marred by allegations of corruption and illegal deal-making.
In a historic conclusion to two years of frenzied lobbying, world football supremo Sepp Blatter revealed the winners following a secret ballot of 22 FIFA executive committee members in Zurich.
The announcement means the World Cup will be staged in two countries which have never hosted

CAIRO: Egypt on Tuesday awaited the final results of a parliamentary election that are set to deliver sweeping gains for President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party and all but demolish the Islamist opposition. Rights groups say the vote was marked by widespread violence and fraud, while the United States has voiced concern over "intimidation by security forces" on election day.
According to government daily Al-Ahram, the National Democratic Party (NDP) won more than 170 of 508