• Govt mulling a new law to deal with betting in sports

  "Yes, I talked to (sports minister) Jitendra Singh.We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law minister Kapil Sibal said on Sunday. (TOI ...

• Hundreds of students athletes get free sports physicals

  BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Local physicians helped hundreds of South Mississippi high school students wanting to throw, kick or dribble a ball get the medical all clear to play. Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists and Encore Rehabilitation gave free sports physicals to 1,400 students on Saturday for the 2014 - 2015 school year. The students attend 14 high schools in Harrison and Jackson counties. ...

• Sports Ferdinand to sign new Man Utd deal

  The deal - approved by incoming manager David Moyes - ends any doubts over the future of the 34-year-old, who would have been out of contract next ...

• Sport picture of the day David Beckham bows out in Paris

  At the point where David Beckham sees his number is up during the second half of PSG's Ligue 1 match against Brest, the former England midfielder becomes emotional, applauding the crowd as he is ...

• Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review

  Melvyn Bragg 's latest novel, the 71-year-old John coaxes his 92-year-old mother into a chorus of the Hokey Cokey. "Their voices rose and the nurse who had stopped outside beckoned a fellow nurse and her patient in a wheelchair to listen." Slowly the song builds momentum: "The audience and the chorus swelled along the corridors of the nursing home as they all sang." ...

• Top beers for outdoor adventures this summer

  Being outdoors beer in hand – it's the definition of what long weekends ought to be about. As much fun as it can be to let it all hang out for a few days, it’s important to remember that there are some activities that don’t mesh well with drinking beer. Any activity that involves an outboard motor is the kind that you should not mix alcohol with. Same goes for fireworks. ...

• Mutko Lauds Rebirth of Sports Units in Russian Army

  MOSCOW, May 19 (R-Sport) - Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has hailed the arrival of the first all-athlete military units since Soviet times. Thirty-six athletes who could represent Russia at the Sochi Olympics took their military oath Sunday at Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow. "Sports units are the right decision from the point of view of the economy and the strategy for ...

• I dont want children but worry my husband is getting broody

  A young woman loves her lifestyle too much to want children, but worries that her husband feels differently. Mariella Frostrup says suffragettes did not fight for such shallow ...

• Lawyers treatment of Oxford abuse ring victim prompts call for reform

  Campaigners demand urgent shake-up of court procedure after seven barristers cross-examined a girl every day for three weeks in Oxford child-grooming ...

• Lifestyle Why better sound is big business

  Tinie Tempah's Pass Out , some Jessie J and One Direction. I downloaded the tracks I didn't have and at the party, after an hour's football, followed by snacks and one of those mass pile-ons that small boys love (why?), I put my phone into the dock and pressed ...

• European Union finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil

  Brussels: Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil.From January 1, 2014, eateries will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping bowls, and forced instead to use pre-sealed, non-refillable bottles that must be disposed of when ...

• Sports David Beckhams emotional farewell

  As he left the pitch, an emotional Beckham clapped his supporters. He later lifted the Ligue 1 trophy. Speaking after the match, Beckham said, "The emotion started kicking in, it was hard to run, let alone kick a ball." "I still feel good, but I know it's the right time [to ...

• South Africa IFP Wants R65 Million Sports Awards Budget Readjusted

  "Our nation's sportsmen and women must be celebrated for their achievements and rewarded accordingly. However, spending R65 million on an event is beyond excessive and the department needs to cut down the amount of money used for the Sports Awards", said the IFP spokesperson on Sports and Recreation, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa MP. The IFP's main concern revolves around the fact ...

• Saudi woman scales Everest summit as country warms to women in sports

  Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on ...

• Sports Briefing | Track and Field Jamaicans Capture Sprint Races at Diamond League Meet

  Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the ...

• Sports Briefing | Basketball Mike Krzyzewski Could Coach United States Team

  Mike Krzyzewski is no longer ruling out a return as coach of the United States Olympic ...

• Sports on the air

  Web.com Tour, BMW Charity Pro-Am 2 p.m. LPGA Tour, Mobile Bay Classic 9:30 p.m.* Auto racing 9 a.m. IRL IndyCar Indy 500 Bump Day 11 a.m. ARCA Toledo 200 SPEED 1 p.m. Australian V8 Supercars Austin 400 SPEED p.m.* NHRA Kansas Nationals Motorsports a.m. MotoGP World Championship French Grand Prix SPEED 9 a.m.* MotoGP Moto2 French Grand Prix SPEED Extreme sports a.m. X Games Barcelona Cycling Tour ...

• Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

  An elderly couple feed their great-grandson with a piece of cake as they sit under the sun in winter in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, January 9, ...

• UPI Sports Calendar for Sunday May 19

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• Lifestyle block-living still the Kiwi dream

  Figures released by the Real Estate Institute show lifestyle block-living is still the New Zealand dream. 16 per cent more lifestyle blocks were sold during the year ended in March, compared with the previous year. Auckland had the largest increase, with about 150 more sales recorded during this time. A spokesman from the institute Brian Peacocke says the lifestyle market ...

• Sports Briefing | Soccer Paris St.-Germain Victory in Last Home Game for David Beckham

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic stole some of the spotlight from David Beckham, scoring two goals to lead the French champion Paris St.-Germain to a 3-1 home win against Brest. Beckham, who announced Thursday that he would retire at the end of the season, was given a standing ovation as he left the field in the 81st ...

• Inside Llewyn Davis Cannes review

  Cannes 2013: The Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' is a close-to-the-bone tale of the early-'60s New York folk scene, but it is also (what else?) a perverse Coen ...

• Sports Briefing | Golf Keegan Bradley Holds Lead at Byron Nelson

  Keegan Bradley overcame two early bogeys and maintained his lead at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Tex., with a two-under-par 68 in the third round. Bradley has a one-stroke lead over Sang-Moon Bae. ¶ Chella Choi shot her second straight six-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead over Jessica Korda and Anna Nordqvist after the third round of the Mobile Bay L. ...

• Sports Briefing | Hockey Sweden Tops Finland and Advances to World Hockey Championship Final

  Sweden reached the final of the world championships by beating its fellow co-host and rival Finland, 3-0. Dallas Stars forward Loui Eriksson scored ...

• SNL Ben Affleck on deck

  ‘s 38th season finale that I hardly know where to begin! Maybe it’ll help to organize them as a list: 1. Tonight marks Ben Affleck’s fifth time ...

• Sports Briefing | Cycling Mauro Santambrogio Wins 14th Stage of Giro dItalia

  Mauro Santambrogio of Italy won the 14th stage of the Giro ...

• Get the look Slouchy trousers

  If you're asking whether loose trousers perversely make you look fatter than slimmer-cut styles, then no. It's just that they don't necessarily make you look slimmer either. For a flattering result you need to consider fabric and ...

• A cure for HIV is now a a realistic possibility

  This week in Paris, the world's leading Aids scientists will gather to mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV. At least one of them, who won the Nobel Prize for her work, is quietly confident that very soon something approaching a cure for HIV will be ...

• The Oxford child sex abuse case shows how the media talks in stereotypes but misses the big picture

  Nothing sells newspapers like a combination of depravity and self-righteous indignation. There can be no dispute about the depraved behaviour of the gang of Oxford men just convicted of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 11. They were found guilty of 23 rapes, 15 conspiracies to rape and offences including trafficking, sexual exploitation and having sex with a child. The detail of the ...

• Sri Lankan prawn curry

  The combination of earthy spices, sweetness from the coconut and heat from the chillis makes this my perfect kind of curry. You can serve it simply with some plain rice, to soak up all those juices and mellow the heat, but I love a roti (see recipe below) with a wet curry, and the messy eating only adds to the ...

• Sports board elections New wine in old bottles

  Despite the recent election of boards of various sports federations (sports governing bodies), nothing has really changed. We are known to be ingenious about changing 'ogas at the top', but never bother to correct fundamental structural defects that impede real development in sports. Of course, there will be lots of the usual expression of confidence in newly elected officers and ...

• Heres a solution Its time for a global companies to pay a Global Profit Tax

  The cascade of revelations in recent months showing multinational companies doing a huge amount of business here and yet paying virtually no corporation tax has provoked widespread public demands for something to be done. But people tend to be rather hazier on what that "something" should ...

• Spiced carrot beetroot and coconut salad

  The raw vegetables and coconut taste so fresh and bright, yet the spices and chilli give it a warmth that you don't usually get from raw salads. ...

• Heaton Butler and Bayne Floral Street London

  Heaton, Butler and Bayne is named not for the restaurateur behind it - that's Robert Siegler, who also owns the excellent Market Caf in Broadway Market, east London, and nearby Le Deuxime - but the manufacturers of stained-glass windows whose factory was here from 1855 ...

• Daily grind An experts guide to making the perfect cup of coffee

  If you thought that making a cup of coffee simply involved a teaspoon of instant and a splash of milk, wake up and smell the proverbial! The 14th World Barista Championship takes place this week, and here we provide an expert guide to perking up, courtesy of Ryan Cross of Ristretto Roasters in Portland, ...

• Motoring review Jaguar F-Type V6 S

  As gestations go, this must be a record. The predecessor of the squat-looking sports car you see here was launched in 1961 and ended production in 1974. That predecessor was Jaguar's ultra-famous E-type, a two-seater fantasy on wheels and the cheapest way at the time to do (a claimed) 150mph. Since then, Jaguar has periodically tantalised us with ideas for "the new E-type", ...

• One for the Road A car thatll take care of itself

  I know that Samuel wants an easy car to live with that is also as good as new and he couldn't get much better than an automatic, diesel-powered Toyota Yaris. It will be easy to live with because it won't break down. It also fulfils the economy criteria because the 1.4 D-4D will officially return 62.8mpg, but I would deduct several miles from that because of the automatic gearbox and ...

• Wines of the week Loimer Kamptal Gruner Veltliner 2011 Reserve Combes AOC St Chinian 2011 Minarete Ribera del Duero 2011

  Austria's vinous pride and joy, Gruner Veltliner gets a top-quality outing in Morrisons' revamped range. A highly individual grape, its flavours of wood smoke and white pepper, with touches of apple and citrus, make this full-bodied and satisfying. Great with roast pork or chicken with tarragon sauce. ...

• Casualty in crisis AE - a service in meltdown

  Doctors were placed under "unprecedented pressure" to go live with the new NHS 111 helpline before some were ready, contributing to the A&E crisis in Britain's hospitals, documents seen by The Independent on Sunday ...

• The experts guide to summer From getting fit for the beach to recreating that Olympic buzz

  The real surfing pros make gliding along waves look as effortless as zipping up a wetsuit. But as any seasoned amateur will tell you, neither of these are as simple as they appear.Let's start with the wetsuit. You're not going diving, so the zip goes at the back. Forget this and you risk getting an almighty chafe on your chest, not to mention a weird crotch bulge in the fabric where ...

• Obsessive compulsive hoarding A serious health risk in store

  The sunny 63-year-old former television engineer now stores far less clutter. His quarter-acre garden in the pretty village of Westcott, Surrey, now holds the rotting hulks of only 16 cars, surrounded by tyres, walking frames, shopping trolleys and chairs. A marquee holds some of his collection of 36 years of newspapers and magazines.Inside the house, three fridges, old TV sets, drinks cans and ...

• Style shrinks Our experts analyse Tess Dalys Bafta tribute to the Golden Age

  Rebecca: Don't be scared by the rocks that she got - the Art Deco design of her huge pendant earrings keeps the Golden Age going.Hugh: If caterpillars did Art ...

• The help desk A faint-hearted feminist

  Louisa Saunders is associate features editor of The Independent and writes a weekly advice column, The Help Desk, for the Independent on Sunday's New Review ...

• Foodie alert Goat has been neglected by chefs in the UK but the worlds favourite ruminant is becoming increasingly common on menus

  It is the most popular meat in the world and far healthier than the leanest chicken breast. Yet goat has long failed to butt its way on to British menus. The nearest many will have been to goat is purchasing a curry at the Notting Hill carnival and feeling daringly ...

• How to improve female fertility avoid selfish men | Barbara Ellen

  Kate Garraway , made up to look elderly and pregnant. Her wrinkles and white hair juxtaposed with a fecund belly illustrate the main thrust of the campaign - to make British women aware of the decline in fertility by their 30s and 40s.However, is there a grown woman left in Britain who's not already aware of this? Moreover, when are we, as a society, going to address a painful truth: that ...

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