London Model Engineering Exhibition
The annual London Model Engineering show is the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK, with over 45 clubs and societies displaying nearly 2,000 different exhibits covering a wide range of modelling interests.
Sailing the East Coast
Sailors practising at Thengaithittu for first regatta, ‘Sailing the East Coast’, to be held on January 25th, which is organised by Pondicherry Sailing Association, in Puducherry on Friday.
Australian Open
France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in action during his match against Australia's Nick Kyrgios.
Australian Open is on at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia.
Dhoni sports new hair-style
Former India skipper M.S. Dhoni with India Cements Director Rupa Gurunath during launch of a promotional event in Chennai.
Former India skipper M.S. Dhoni was sported with a new hair-style. In Chennai for launching a new promotional offer for India Cements, Dhoni recollected his memories with Chennai Super Kings. The ace wicket-keeping batsman who played for Pune is back in the Chennai franchise.
Direct flight between Mumbai and Vijayawada
The maiden Mumbai-Vijayawada flight of Air India being given water salute on it's arrival at Gannavaram airport.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajpati Raju launched the Vijayawada-Mumbai flight service from Gannavaram Airport in Vijayawada. An Air India Express flight arrived at the airport at 9:45 am and departed to Mumbai at 10.30 a.m.
The flight will start from Mumbai at 8 a.m. and reach Vijayawada by 9.45 a.m. The airlines is operating services three days in a week on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.
Theresa May-Emmanuel Macron meeting
France's President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May meet at Sandhurst Military Academy, Britain on Thursday.
The leaders of Britain and France met on Thursday against a military backdrop to pledge closer cooperation on defense, security and borders after Britain leaves the European Union. But President Emmanuel Macron also delivered a firm message- the U.K. cannot keep coveted access to the EU for its financial sector after Brexit unless it continues to play by the bloc’s rules once it leaves.
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Pope in Peru
Pope Francis (C) smiles while walking with Lima's Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani (R) outside the nunciature, in Lima, Peru on Thursday.
Pope Francis arrived in Peru on the final leg of his South American trip, where he will meet indigenous people and hear firsthand how the country’s gold rush is destroying large areas of their Amazon homeland. Earlier, the pontiff highlighted the plight of vulnerable immigrants and robustly defended a bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse at the end of a visit to Chile overshadowed by controversy.
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Guptill scores century in fifth ODI
New Zealand's Martin Guptill celebrates 100 runs during the 5th one-day international cricket match between New Zealand and Pakistan at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Friday.
Martin Guptill scored a century as Pakistan limited New Zealand to a modest 271 for seven in the fifth one-day international in Wellington on Friday. Guptill and Colin Munro gave the hosts a flying start before Rumman Raees helped spark a mini-collapse that put the brakes on New Zealand's scoring.
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Qualifier Denisa Allertova in last 16
Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic celebrates winning against Magda Linette of Poland on day 5 of the 2018 Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne on Friday.
Qualifier Denisa Allertova became the first player into the last 16 at the Australian Open after romping through against Magda Linette 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday. The unheralded Czech took just one hour and 11 minutes to cruise past her Polish opponent to get to the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.
