GLASGOW: A dominant Satish Sivalingam rewrote the Games Snatch record enroute to his gold medal winning performance while Ravi Katulu finished second behind him in the men's 77kg weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.

RAQQA (Syria): When his factory was bombed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the businessman considered two bleak options: to remain at home and risk dying in the next airstrike or flee like hundreds of thousands of others to a refugee camp in Turkey.

DOHA: Hamas today rejected a ceasefire to end 16 days of deadly fighting with Israel unless the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted, its chief Khaled Meshaal said in Doha.

NEW DELHI: Congress is on the toes that Natwar Singh's forthcoming autobiography can embarrass the leadership because he has been an insider in the party for three generations of the Gandhi family.

NEW DELHI: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that commissions of inquiry and tribunals, even if headed by sitting apex court judges, have no contempt of court powers.

London: Former Indian wicket-keeping great Farokh Engineer has questioned skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's ploy to stand back against spinner Ravindra Jadeja during the second Test at Lord's.

Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar has said that his career took off after scoring a century at Perth in 1992. Tendulkar, who was 19 at that time, said that scoring a hundred against a hostile Australian attack on a fast, bouncy pitch gave him immense confidence.

KHARKIV: Bodies and the flight recorders from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, destroyed by a missile last week over eastern Ukraine, were delivered safely from rebel control to this northeast Ukrainian city on Tuesday. Forensics officials raised the strong possibility that the remains of many victims still were buried in the wreckage and that identification work could take weeks or months to complete.

WASHINGTON: Senior US intelligence officials said on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for "creating the conditions" that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but they offered no evidence of direct Russian government involvement.

MAIDUGURI: A raid on an army base in northeast Nigeria and massacres of civilians in nearby villages at the weekend have left Boko Haram free to move unopposed in a strategic garrison town, witnesses and security sources said.