Brisbane [Australia], Jan 6 (ANI): World number nine Kei Nishikori defeated Daniil Medvedev of Russia in the summit clash to clinch the 2019 Brisbane International title here at the Queensland Tennis Centre on Sunday.
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): James Jeffrey has been appointed as the next US Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS after Brett McGurk stepped down from the position in December last year.
Perth [Australia], Jan 3 (ANI): American tennis ace Serena Williams on Thursday defeated Katie Boulter of Britain to register her third consecutive singles victory in the ongoing Hopman Cup.
Florida [USA], Jan 1 (ANI): Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka on Tuesday defeated Australian player Destanee Aiava in straight sets to become the first player through to the quarterfinals at the Brisbane International.
Saitama [Japan], Jan 1 (ANI): Lightweight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather handed over a crushing first-round defeat to Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in a New Year's exhibition match in Saitama, Japan. The victory earned the 41-year-old a hefty amount of $9 million.
Florida [United States], Dec 31 (ANI): American tennis star Serena Williams defeated her counterpart Greek player Maria Sakkari in straight sets in the Hopman Cup singles encounter on Monday.
Hyderabad (Telangana), [India] Dec 30 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao launched a scathing attack on his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu stating that the later would definitely receive a return gift from him in the form of defeat in the coming elections.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 23 (ANI): A day after Union minister Nitin Gadkari stoked controversy by saying that "the leadership should own up the defeat", the minister on Sunday said that his statements have been tweaked as per convenience.
Kolebira (Jharkhand) [India], Dec 23 (ANI): Congress candidate Naman Bixal Kongari on Sunday won Kolebira assembly by-poll by 9,658 votes by defeating Basant Soren of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Jasdan (Gujarat) [India], Dec 23 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kunvarji Bavalia has won the Jasdan assembly bypoll by defeating Congress' Avsar Nakiya by 19, 985 votes.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 23 (ANI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said party leadership should own up to defeat and failures, adding that nobody is willing to take responsibility of failure, unlike success.
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], Dec 22 (ANI): Debutant Real Kashmir FC pepped up the ongoing 12th I-League title race, inflicting the season's first defeat 1-0 on table-toppers Chennai City FC following an Abednego Kofi Tetteh penalty conversion late in the second half here at the Nehru sta