American financier R. Allen Stanford and his wife owe back taxes, penalties and interest of at least $226.5 million, the IRS said in court documents filed in Dallas, Texas.
Sri Lanka's Australian-born coach Trevor Bayliss has backed up criticism of security in Lahore after being caught up in the terror attacks which left eight dead last week.
Eleven-year-old Hassanin stares at a photo of his uncle in quiet disbelief that the man in the picture lost his life just two days ago.
The match referee hailed as a hero for shielding a wounded colleague during an attack by gunmen on the Sri Lankan cricket team has criticized Pakistani security forces for failing to protect players and match officials.
Pakistani authorities released photos of two suspects Wednesday as they continued to hunt for the gunmen responsible for an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team which left seven people dead.
Former England batsman Chris Broad has emerged as a hero after the armed ambush in Pakistan that killed seven people and wounded eight Sri Lankan Test cricketers.
Cricket has long been considered the gentleman's game -- a sport in which the tenets of fair play and respect for authority are so revered that it introduced a colloquialism to describe something unacceptable: "It's just not cricket."
The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan has sent shock waves around the sporting world and raised fears about the future of international cricket matches, including the 2011 World Cup, in Pakistan.
At least six security personnel were killed and eight members of Sri Lanka's cricket team hurt -- including two with gunshot wounds -- in an attack Tuesday on the team's bus by gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan.
The ambush by up to a dozen gunmen of a bus carrying members of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore is the realization of fears long held by the sport's leading players.
American financier R. Allen Stanford and his wife owe back taxes, penalties and interest of at least $226.5 million, the IRS said in court documents filed in Dallas, Texas.
Sri Lanka's Australian-born coach Trevor Bayliss has backed up criticism of security in Lahore after being caught up in the terror attacks which left eight dead last week.
Eleven-year-old Hassanin stares at a photo of his uncle in quiet disbelief that the man in the picture lost his life just two days ago.
The match referee hailed as a hero for shielding a wounded colleague during an attack by gunmen on the Sri Lankan cricket team has criticized Pakistani security forces for failing to protect players and match officials.
Pakistani authorities released photos of two suspects Wednesday as they continued to hunt for the gunmen responsible for an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team which left seven people dead.
Former England batsman Chris Broad has emerged as a hero after the armed ambush in Pakistan that killed seven people and wounded eight Sri Lankan Test cricketers.
Cricket has long been considered the gentleman's game -- a sport in which the tenets of fair play and respect for authority are so revered that it introduced a colloquialism to describe something unacceptable: "It's just not cricket."
The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan has sent shock waves around the sporting world and raised fears about the future of international cricket matches, including the 2011 World Cup, in Pakistan.
At least six security personnel were killed and eight members of Sri Lanka's cricket team hurt -- including two with gunshot wounds -- in an attack Tuesday on the team's bus by gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan.
The ambush by up to a dozen gunmen of a bus carrying members of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore is the realization of fears long held by the sport's leading players.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged businessman Robert Allen Stanford with orchestrating an $8 billion fraudulent investment program.
In India he's an icon and to the rest of the cricketing world he's simply known as one of the greatest ever batsmen.
Growing up in a small Sri Lankan fishing town, cricket changed Sanath Jayasuriya's life. But his association with the game and humanitarian work has also helped transform the lives of many others.
The half-dozen Jamaican cricketers crowded into Barrington Bartley's sagging Ford Windstar and left Brooklyn, bound for suburban Washington, D.C., and the title game of the Washington Cricket League. Midnight came and went as they rode through the trapped fog and odd yellow light of the New Jersey Turnpike. They drank Red Bull and played home-burned mixes of reggae and dance hall. Beenie Man might have been on as they passed Exit 7A, or Damian Marley at a Delaware pit stop; nobody was paying too close attention. In the trunk, more reminders of home: flat wood cricket bats and a mishmash of white uniforms made of nylon and polyester, laundered in hot water but still bearing the stains of past games.
Former England cricket captain Michael Atherton has called him "ruthless," but for Lalit Modi, the man behind cricket's revolutionary Indian Premier League and vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), this is less of a criticism and more a statement of fact.
Viewpoint: The newly-conceived Indian Premier League will surely be a success. So why does it give a TIME writer cause for concern?
India's tour of Australia has been overshadowed by ugly allegations of racism -- a row in which both sides feel offended
Jamaican police put an end to a sports world mystery: the coach of Pakistan's World Cup team died of a heart attack
The coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer in Jamaica last month has been delayed due to "significant" new developments in the police investigation, officials said.
Cricket's World Cup will continue despite the murder of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer which has cast a pall over events on the field at the tournament in the Caribbean.
The announcement by Jamaican police that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death is being treated as murder has shocked the cricketing world during one of its biggest events.
Jamaican police gave taken DNA samples from the entire Pakistani contingent to the Cricket World Cup in their investigation into the strangulation of Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer earlier this week, a team spokesman said.
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The game of cricket might be centuries old, but modern tactics are increasingly being used to improve players' performances.
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A 21-year-old crowd-controller has been charged with assault and released on bail following the death of former Australian cricketer David Hookes.
Former Australian cricket great David Hookes is in critical condition after being apparently bashed during a brawl outside a hotel late Sunday night in the southern Australian city of Melbourne.
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