&#39;Missing&#39; Lankan handball team baffles Germany
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The sudden disappearance of a visiting Sri Lankan handball team in Frankfurt has baffled German authorities and there is suspicion the team may have landed in Italy to seek employment as immigrants.
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Fireworks thundered and flashbulbs popped all around the darkened stadium, illuminating the German players&#039; brilliant white shirts and the thousands of flags that waved in their honor. Fans screamed and sang for an hour afterward, savoring the lingering moments as hosts of the World Cup. And that was after the consolation game.
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Indian batsman Virender Sehwag was handed his last chance to regain form ahead of the World Cup when he was recalled for the one-day series against Sri Lanka.
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Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was evacuated by the Sri Lankan air force on Tuesday from thehotel in Galle where he has been stranded since the tsunamis hit the South Asian nation, the air force said.
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World Cup champion Italy is held to a 1-1 tie by Lithuania during qualifying for the 2008 European Championship while Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands struggle to beat underdog opponents.
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GERMANY coach Juergen Klinsmann has expressed his surprise at the amount of criticism his recent decisions have provoked. Klinsmann was labelled a &quot;cold-blooded killer&quot; by former captain Lothar Matthaeus for
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The Netherlands beat Germany 2-0 to win the WomenÂ¡Â¯s Field Hockey Champions Trophy. The win earned the country some compensation for losing the gold-medal showdown at the Athens Olympics.
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Ambassadors from Germany, Italy and the US were wounded in Sri Lanka's shell attack Tuesday, while three others from France, Japan and the European Union escaped unhurt, officials said.
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German ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl is among tourists caught in the Asian tsunami while 1,500 Swedes are missing.
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Sri Lanka on Saturday named a 30-man preliminary squad for the inaugural Twenty20 world championships in South Africa in September.
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer attended a church service on Sunday in southern Thailand with tearful survivors of the tsunami that devastated coastal resorts popular with tourists from around the ...
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COLOGNE, Germany  - Hosts Germany won the handball world championship on Sunday with a lopsided 29-24 victory over Poland, which was a fitting final act to the most popular handball tournament ever held.
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A high-level Norwegian delegation led by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen arrived in Sri Lanka this week as part of international efforts to save the countryâs tottering peace process.
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Two Germans have been missing in Iraq for almost a week, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier confirmed on Monday.
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KARACHI, November 01 (Online): Danish Kaneria persevered unflinchingly to throttle Sri Lanka&#39;s aspirations of saving the Test with a bowling display that gave Pakistan hope, and asked questions the batsmen had no answer to.
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Senior Australian batsman Darren Lehmann claims in a new book that Cricket Australia did not fully support him during the Sri Lankan race row incident last year.
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The party atmosphere across Germany has spared the World Cup from major bouts of violence and hooliganism so far, security officials said Wednesday.