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“I am conceding. We have lost a good fight”, said former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The previous afternoon – in a World Cup final now remembered for Adam Gilchrist’s squash-ball-in-glove heroics, floodlight failures and farcical organisation – Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya had, for just over one quixotic hour, made the impossible seem plausible.

A pair of suicide bombers have detonated their explosives at the home of an anti-Taliban provincial minister, killing him and 13 others in eastern Pakistan, officials said.

The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption on Wednesday released an operational update, including details of the money so far spent probing the unions.

They found almost all lice populations had high levels of gene mutations linked to treatment resistance. One or two mutations were present in samples from four states; Michigan was the only state without any mutations. Now, however, lice and other pests are growing increasingly...

Chandimal’s unbeaten century helped Sri Lanka enforce a turnaround and beat India by 63 runs in the first Test after the hosts being in the dumps for the major part of the match.

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Airport operator Fraport, which is controlled by the German state of Hesse and the Frankfurt city utility, is paying 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for a 40-year concession to manage 14 regional Greek airports. The airport deal is the first major transaction under the...

Tropical Storm Danny is the fourth named storm of the 2015 Hurricane Season.

Earlier in the day, while talking to investors, Modi said India had an immediate investment opportunity of $1 trillion and the government will take urgent steps to address concerns of businessmen from this country and erase “deficit of 34 years“.

“We must treat catastrophic wildfire not like a routine expense but as the natural disasters they truly are”, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service, has said.

Interstate 93 northbound in Concord, New Hampshire has reopened hours after a large sinkhole formed and forced the road to close.

Scores of flights were delayed in New York and Washington, the Federal Aviation Administration said, the result of “technical issues” at an air traffic control center in Virginia.

Describing the task of cleaning up the rivers, including the Ganga, as a “scientific project”, the Prime Minister said it was a challenge to Indian scientists to come up with innovative solutions to achieve this goal.

The former Florida governor defended his support for Common Core education standards, saying, “if you don’t like Common Core, fine, just make sure your standards are much higher than the ones you had before”.