An Olympic flame reached the top of the world on Thursday. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags on Thursday on the top of Mount Everest.

He is 7 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 190 kg. Clad in a white summer shirt straining at the 63-inch chest, the Great Khali, an Indian professional wrestler who is the current rage on the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) television shows, lives up to his name.

Narain Karthikeyan gathered six points for Team India by finishing fifth in the 15-lap Sprint race of the A1GP championship at the Brands Hatch circuit here on Sunday.

It was only a sting, not a bite, and so it might turn out to be as Indian hockey attempts to cleanse itself of scandal and corruption, writes Anand Philar.

Newly appointed hockey selectors Friday dropped nine players from the team that played in the four-nation tournament in Australia while including seven junior players for the Azlan Shah tournament in Ipoh from May 8.