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India get a tough draw in women’s hockey World Cup
New Delhi, May 20 (Inditop.com) India have been clubbed with defending World and Olympic champions the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Japan and New Zealand in the women’s hockey WOrld Cup at Rosario, Argentina Aug 29 to Sep 11.
The teams...
Saudi army officer held in Iraq for World Cup terror plot
Baghdad, May 17 (DPA) A Saudi army officer was arrested in Iraq Monday for past attacks and for involvement in an alleged Al Qaeda plot targeting the World Cup events in South Africa, an Iraqi military spokesperson said.
Saudi Colonel Azzam...
Not an ordinary insect , it monitors FIFA World Cup
Shillong, May 14 (Inditop.com) You are not the only one waiting impatiently for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to start at Johannesburg in South Africa June 11 — a tiny insect in a remote corner of the earth is also expected to join the football...
I would love to play in 2011 World Cup : Jayasuriya
Barbados, May 10 (Inditop.com) Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya is hoping that his performance at the ongoing World Twenty20 would get him a berth in next year’s ODI World Cup in the sub-continent.
Jayasuriya, 40, wants to...
World cup to change perception of South Africa : Zuma
Durban, May 10 (Inditop.com) The success of the FIFA 2010 world cup is in the hands of South African people and this will forever change the world’s perception of the country, President Jacob Zuma has said.
“It is in our hands to...
Tutu : World Cup a ‘ shot in the arm ‘ for South Africa
Cape Town, May 6 (DPA) Hosting the football World Cup is a “shot in the arm” for South Africa, as it still struggles to overcome deep-seated divisions, according to one of the country’s moral heavyweights, Archbishop emeritus...
Durban’s new airport opens ahead of World Cup
Johannesburg, May 1 (DPA) A new 7.2-billion-rand ($986 million) airport went into service in South Africa’s third largest city of Durban Saturday, a little over a month before the start of the football World Cup.
Commercial airlines began...
World Cup returns to the Caribbean as Twenty20
Grost Islet (St.Lucia), April 29 (Inditop.com) After recent tremors that rocked their cricketers, Pakistan are confident of defending the World Twenty20 title they won nine months ago as their war-torn neighbours Afghanistan make their debut...
