Marseille edge Lille

Marseille took a significant step towards their first French league title for 17 years when they came from a goal down to win 2-1 in a tense match at Lille on Sunday.
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WI build on Gayle ton

England's bid for a series-levelling victory ran into trouble when West Indies avoided following on in the fifth and final Test on Sunday.
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Australian Open<br>SECRETS

US star Serena Williams pumps her fist after defeating Yuan Meng of China during their Australian Open match in Melbourne on Tuesday. Williams won 6-3, 6-2. Photo: AFP

Hayden still in Aussie plans

Matthew Hayden will not use the Sydney Test as a farewell and he remains in Australia's plans for 2009, according to the chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch. Hayden has held onto his spot for the third Test at the SCG and he is in a 12-man squad with the Victoria all-rounder Andrew McDonald and the fast bowlers Ben Hilfenhaus and Doug Bollinger, who won selection because of injuries to Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson.
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'We are not chokers'

Architect of South Africa's historic win over Australia, pacer Dale Steyn Tuesday said if the Proteas continue to play with the same zeal they would soon get rid of the 'chokers' tag.
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Local Snippets

Jagannath Hall became champions and Zahurul Haq Hall finished runners-up in the Dhaka University inter-hall swimming competition yesterday.
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Historic moments of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

I had the opportunity to travel to Europe on quite a few occasions in the past, on both personal and professional business. So, I had some ideas about their culture, tradition and advancement in different aspects of their life. Although I was scared of the shivering cold of the Scandinavian countries especially Norway situated in the extreme north of Europe, yet the thought of cold could not scare me from visiting Norway for a special reason this time. The reason was plain and simple -- witnessing Bangladesh's greatest achievement. Needless to mention, how glorious it is for a country or a nation to get a Novel Peace Prize and Bangladesh achieved it on the 35th year of its Independence. Whatever negative image we had in the world as a country of natural calamities and man-made...

Agency, inequality and human rights

Salma Sobhan at Cambridge University, where she and Amartya Sen first met in 1955

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