London, Sep 3 – The International Cricket Council (ICC) Friday said that Pakistani players Salman Butt, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Aamer have a case to answer and defended its decision to suspend the trio for alleged spot-fixing, insisting that there is no conspiracy against Pakistani cricket.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan attacked the ICC for

London, Sep 3 – Two-time European champion long distance runner Mo Farah of England and 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya Friday joined the growing list of star athletes skipping the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games.
Both Farah and Rudisha cited fatigue as the reason for their pullout. Athletes Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser and

Beijing, Sep 3 – A traffic jam more than 100 km long has formed in China just one week after gridlock led to tailbacks lasting 10 days northwest of Beijing.
‘The motorway is blocked again,’ a spokeswoman from the highways authority in Jining in Inner Mongolia told DPA Friday.
Traffic has mostly come to a halt for

New York, Sep 3 – India’s Sania Mirza’s run in the US Open tennis tournament ended with her losing in the first round of the women’s doubles event.
Sania and Russia’s Vera Dushevina went down fighting 6-7(6), 2-6, 6-7(3) to 11th seeded Russians Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova here Thursday.
Sania was already out of the

Dushanbe, Sep 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A police officer was killed and 30 people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Tajikistan, officials said.
Earlier reports said 25 people were injured when a GAZ-24 car exploded after crashing into the main building in the yard of a police station in

Beijing, Sep 3 – China Friday marked the 65th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and paid homage to soldiers who died fighting during the Second World War, Xinhua reported.
At the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and other officials presented bouquets

Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 76 people were killed and more than 160 injured in three powerful explosions in Pakistani cities Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35 people.
This is the largest number of killings in a day after 117 people died in a blast