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Brazil’s Rafaela Silva overcame top seed Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia to win Gold in the women’s -57kg judo, sending the crowd into joyous celebration of their first Olympic Gold as host country. Silva raised her arms to the crowd in triumph as she beat Dorjsuren on a Waza-ari, following a pulsating semi-finals victory that went into extra time against Romania’s ...

An open letter signed by 50 republican national security experts has warned that nominee Donald Trump “would be the most reckless president” in US history. The group, which includes the former CIA Director Michael Hayden, said Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president. Many of the signatories had declined to sign a similar note in March. In ...

At a rally in St. Petersburg, Florida, democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she would raise taxes on the wealthy unlike her rival Donald Trump whose tax plans, she claimed, would give tax breaks to the wealthy. Clinton was addressing the rally in St. Petersburg just hours after trump addressed the Detroit economic club where he proposed sweeping tax breaks, ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terrorist bombing at a hospital in Quetta. In a statement, he termed it appalling and urged the government to do its utmost to ensure safety of the people and bring to justice the perpetrators of the attack. He also extended his heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families. Turkish foreign ministry ...

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Boxing and modelling would hardly seem to be two professions that go together too well. But that does not stop Britain’s Josh Kelly, the self-declared “pretty boy” who made a winning start at the Rio Olympics on Monday after climbing off his sick bed. Kelly, who said he had been on antibiotics and had a ...

It is quite obvious for any of the Bollywooder’s to get worried after seeing the path breaking success of Salman’s ‘Sultan’. But it becomes difficult for anyone to believe that success of ‘Sultan’ has pushed even the ace performers of the Bollywood on the back-foot. Thinking whom? Well here we are talking about none other than Mr Perfectionist Aamir. If ...

When people tell me that our President has delivered his 7th State of the Union speech recently, I always correct their mistake and tell it was eighth, in fact. On February 24, 2009, the start of Barack Obama’s 2nd month in office, he made an extensive speech on then ongoing Great Recession crisis. He tried to show what his personal ...