November 10, 1997
COLOMBO, NOV 9: Sri Lanka may hold a referendum on a controversial ethnic peace plan amid an outright rejection from Tamil Tiger rebels and...
November 9: Gold purchases in Southeast Asia have dropped more than 20 per cent in some countries due to the currency crisis afflicting the...
November 9, 1997
CHICAGO, Nov 8: Playing only her 12th professional match, 16-year-old Serena Williams stunned former world No 1 Monica Seles on Friday to a...
November 8, 1997
BAGHDAD, Nov 7: The United States Air Force has deployed additional military aircraft at the joint Turkish-American airbase of Incirlik nea...
STOCKHOLM, NOV 7: Greg Rusedski beat Lionel Roux of France 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) to reach the quarterfinals at the Stockholm Open after spending t...
November 7, 1997
MOSCOW, Nov 6: Russia ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) yesterday, obliging Moscow to destroy its huge arsenals and convert pr...
November 6, 1997
HONG KONG, NOV 5: Sky-high home prices in Hong Kong are set to plunge by at least 25 percent, while a drop in transactions could force thou...
LAHORE, Nov 5: A rampaging Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva proved too hot for Pakistan to handle as Sri Lanka coasted to a comforta...
MANCHESTER: Wasim Akram had two reasons to celebrate yesterday after being appointed Lancashire's captain shortly after leading Pakistan to...
November 5, 1997
TORONTO: Pakistani cricket star Inzamam-ul Haq and a heckling fan, both arrested after a fight during a match in Toronto's Sahara Cup serie...
BRISBANE, Nov 4: New Zealand's cricketers have been told to dig deeper after a disastrous start to their Australian tour, while star Austra...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4: Iraq has threatened to shoot down United States surveillance planes (U-2 spy planes) that fly over its airspace as p...
November 3, 1997
LAHORE, NOV 2: World champions Sri Lanka lived up to their status as they powered their way to an easy seven-wicket win over West Indies in...
October 25, 1997
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 24:The Judicial Magistrate First Class here, C Arumughan, today rejected the bail application of Congress MLA, K Su...
KUWAIT: Britain's Peter Nicol, who handed world No 1 Jansher Khan a rare defeat in the semifinals, won the Kuwait Open squash title beating...
October 23, 1997
MELBOURNE: Talks between the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) over rights and salaries broke...
WASHINGTON, OCT 22: South African President Nelson Mandela on Tuesdaylashed out at the United States for its ``arrogance'' in objecting to ...
HONG KONG, Oct 22: Hong Kong stocks, hammered lower by currency jitters and interest rate fears, suffered their heaviest one day loss this ...
October 20, 1997
NAIROBI, OCT 19: Zimbabwe won the three-nations President's Cup today, beating Kenya by 82 runs in the second match of the best of three fi...
October 7, 1997
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina coach Daniel Passarella faces up to six years in jail for alleged evasion on customs duty for a yacht which sees hi...
October 6, 1997
October 5: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) inaugurated trading on a new cheddar cheese futures contract that is expected to help buye...
BASEL, Oct 5: Fourth seed Greg Rusedski and Australian Mark Philippoussis set up a final showdown between the game's biggest servers by pos...
October 4, 1997
NEW DELHI, Oct 3: The Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir remained tense today as Indian and Pakistani troops continued to trade hea...
LONDON, Oct 3: British banking group Barclays Plc on Friday threw in the towel and admitted defeat in its attempt to make its investment ba...
COLOMBO, Oct 3: The influential Buddhist `Mahasangha' of Sri Lanka split vertically today with a section of its member monks coming out in ...
