Reuters - Three Indian swimmers, including two from the country's Commonwealth Games squad, were provisionally suspended on Sunday for failing dope tests.

Reuters - The first Twenty20 international between England and Pakistan was set to go ahead as planned on Sunday despite the latest allegations in the fixing controversy, Pakistan manager Yawar Saeed said.

Reuters - India on Sunday test-fired an advanced version of a supersonic cruise missile, officials said, as part of the country's drive to boost its defence system. The Brahmos, which can travel at up to 2.8 times the speed of sound and has a range of 290 km (180 miles), was tested at a test range in Orissa.

Reuters - The grit and grime of rural India, its people and problems are all finding their way into the glamorous world of mainstream Bollywood films.

Reuters - Japanese Moto2 rider Shoya Tomizawa has died after suffering a shocking crash during the Sunday's San Marino Grand Prix.

Reuters - The International Cricket Council (ICC) will appoint an independent commissioner to determine the fate of the three Pakistani players fighting spot-fixing charges.

Reuters - G20 delegates agreed on Saturday global economic recovery would endure although the speed of expansion may slow, a South Korean official said.

Reuters - Karun Chandhok declared South Korea's new, and as yet unfinished, grand prix circuit to be in good shape after becoming the first person to drive a Formula One car around it on Saturday.

Reuters - Delhi's chaotic preparations for next month's Commonwealth Games proved India was not capable of hosting major international events, Games ambassador Saina Nehwal said on Saturday, before retracting the statement hours later.

Reuters - With last year's strong election victory India had appeared set to push swift economic reforms, but tackling stubbornly high inflation, a political hot potato, has largely distracted the Congress party-led government.

Reuters - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to create a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.

Reuters - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar advised young cricketers on Friday to resist the lure of money and play the game in the cleanest possible way.

Reuters - Britain's European 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah withdrew from next month's Delhi Commonwealth Games on Friday and said he will not race on the track again this year.

Reuters - Authorities declared a state of emergency after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city early on Saturday, bringing down power lines, ripping up roads and wrecking building facades, but authorities reported no deaths.

Reuters - Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes the new domestic one-day format could damage the World Cup preparations of fringe players.

Reuters - Thousands of flood-displaced people in India's Himalayan region will have to spend the harsh winter season without homes, mainly due to a scarcity of labour and difficulties in getting construction supplies to the remote area, said aid workers.

Reuters - Bharti Airtel, India's No.1 mobile operator, appointed the son of its billionaire founder-chairman as a manager, raising speculation he was being groomed for a top position in the $27 billion company.

Reuters - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week and piling pressure on a U.S.-backed government overwhelmed by a flood crisis.

Reuters - Maartje Paumen scored her second hat-trick of the women's hockey World Cup as favourites Netherlands beat Australia 4-1 in Pool A on Friday.

Reuters - India should move toward capital account convertibility on a calibrated basis according to domestic and global factors, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Duvvuri Subbarao said on Friday.