England turn to Pietersen for India tour October 18, 2012 ENGLAND have recalled controversial batsman Kevin Pietersen for the upcoming tour of India following talks with Andy Flower and Alastair Cook. The coach and Test captain met Pietersen alongside other senior players to discuss his potential international future following the South Africa text messaging scandal but after recently signing a new England contract he is [...]
Cavendish in Team Sky exit October 18, 2012 BRITAIN’S Mark Cavendish has confirmed he is quitting Team Sky after just one season in favour of joining Belgian outfit Omega Pharma-Quick Step on a three-year contract. The 27-year-old joined Bradley Wiggins in Dave Brailsford’s stellar line-up less than a year ago but admitted to frustrations during the summer that the team’s tactics did not [...]
Racing bullish on life after Frankel, insists chief of Jockey Club October 18, 2012 THE ‘sold out’ signs are already firmly in place outside Ascot Racecourse ahead of tomorrow’s Qipco British Champions Day, as 32,000 horseracing fans prepare to descend on Berkshire to get one last glimpse of Frankel before he takes up stud duties. It is difficult to evaluate the true Frankel factor but a capped growth just [...]
Powell blasts Uefa over Serbia racism October 18, 2012 CHARLTON manager Chris Powell has condemned the decision of European football’s governing body Uefa to charge both The Football Association and its Serbian equivalent for the violent scenes and racist behaviour witnessed during Tuesday’s fixture between the two nation’s U21 sides. Disciplinary proceedings have been opened against Serbia for racist chanting directed towards England’s black [...]
Axe relegation, says McGeechan October 18, 2012 RUGBY UNION: Coaching great Sir Ian McGeechan, leading a review of elite rugby in England, has called for promotion and relegation to be scrapped from the Premiership.
Shake-up for domestic format October 18, 2012 CRICKET: County Championship matches will start on Sundays while the Clydesdale Bank will change from a 40- to 50-over format from 2014.
BP eyes $28bn deal as oligarchs bow out October 17, 2012 A GROUP of oligarchs last night bowed out of buying British oil major BP’s stake in embattled Russian joint venture TNK-BP, opening the way for BP to begin talks on a multi-million pound deal in a Russian state oil producer. Russian consortium AAR last night called time on its troubled relationship with BP over joint venture [...]
Plot to bomb Fed Reserve foiled October 17, 2012 THE FBI last night arrested a man after he allegedly planned to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Officers swooped on the 21-year-old Bangladeshi national following an elaborate sting operation that involved an undercover agent providing him with a fake 1000-pound bomb. The FBI say Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis travelled to the United States in [...]
Tucker warns bankers the worst may be yet to come October 17, 2012 BANK of England deputy governor Paul Tucker warned the City’s largest lenders yesterday that they should guard against another potentially huge crash in global financial markets. Tucker, a leading candidate to replace governor Sir Mervyn King at the top of Threadneedle Street next year, was addressing the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) annual conference in London. [...]
Jobs are the one good news story in an otherwise gloomy UK October 17, 2012 REMEMBER all those people predicting that unemployment would rocket because of austerity? How the private sector would never be able to compensate for the cuts in the public sector’s workforce? Fortunately, it turns out that the doom-mongers got it wrong. The economy is hardly in a good state, of course, and tragically far too many [...]
