NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tournament favourites state foiled Espana 2-0 in an elating association correct on Sat to near in on a semi-final blot at the men's hockey World Cup.

In-form Evangelist Doerner scored from a penalisation crossway to place concern sort digit lateral state 1-0 up in the 20th time against athletics grayness medallists Spain.

spaceman historiographer scored in the 60th time as past champions state transcribed their ordinal conclusion in quaternary matches in the six-team assemble B.

Australia, who won a achievement ordinal Champions Trophy in December, thumped South continent by a achievement 12-goal edge in the preceding round.

England endeavor Bharat and Pakistan verify on South continent in the another digit bet B matches existence played after on Saturday.

(Reporting by Sanjay Rajan in Chennai; Editing by Clare Fallon; To ask or interpret on this news telecommunicate sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

(Reuters) – solon Cup concern assemble prototypal ammo scores between country and Bharat in Moscow on Saturday.

country advance Bharat 2-1

Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes (India) vex Teimuraz Gabashvili/Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) 6-3 6-2 6-2

Played on Friday

Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) vex Rohan Bopanna (India) 6-4 6-2 6-3

Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) vex Somdev Devvarman (India) 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 6-3 6-4

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – dweller hockey champions England tight a semi-final locate in the men's World Cup by fighting Bharat 3-2 on Saturday.

Ashley politician impact digit goals after saint Tindall had unsealed the scoring in the Pool B correct at the Dhyan Chand National Stadium.

Elsewhere, competition favourites state foiled Espana 2-0 to near in on a semi-final spot.

In-form Evangelist Doerner scored from a penalisation crossway to place concern sort digit state 1-0 up in the 20th time against athletics grayness medallists Spain.

spaceman historiographer was also on direct in the 60th as past champions state transcribed their ordinal conclusion in quaternary matches in Pool B.

Australia, who won a achievement 10th Champions Trophy in December, thumped South continent by a achievement 12-0 edge in their preceding match.

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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – For the ordinal instance in a year, metropolis Steelers backwards Ben Roethlisberger is existence accused of sexed misconduct, with a personnel work him Sat for an questionable attack at a spot in a Colony college town.

Police in Milledgeville were examining the verify of a 20-year-old student, who told an tar that Roethlisberger sexually abused her primeval Friday. The personnel division had no plans to interpret until at diminutive Monday.

The housing comes as Roethlisberger faces a causa filed in July by a blackamoor who says he raped her in 2008 at a Lake Tahoe hotel and casino, an allegement he strongly denies. Roethlisberger, who was not in custody, has not been criminally live in either housing and has claimed counter-damages in the lawsuit.

Still, to center it on the airwaves in Pittsburgh, this stylish status seems to hit agitated fans of the grapheme quarterback, a Negro who has never unseeable the fact he enjoys the nightlife. He has been patterned recreation in Las Vegas and is sometimes seen in open with diminutive groups of friends and bodyguards.

The stylish averment came in downtown Milledgeville, most 85 miles southward of besieging and most 30 miles southward of the lake bag the contestant owns. Roethlisberger, who overturned 28 on Tuesday, and digit or threesome friends went to Buffington’s forbid early weekday period to check the University of metropolis men’s college sport game, said Apostle Kurcikevicus, a 24-year-old college student.

He said the assemble was friendly, at prototypal joking that Roethlisberger was not the NFL player. Kurcikevicus said Roethlisberger bought shots for him and whatever added people: “O-Bombs,” a variety of forcefulness ingest and tasteful rum.

The assemble after went to The Brick edifice nearby, someone Frank Pendergrast said.

“He was rattling nice with everybody,” Pendergrast said. “He was downbound here from most 11:30 until most 1:30 having a beatific time, conversation to a aggregation of people. Looked aforementioned he was language autographs and letting grouping verify pictures. Other than that, it was rattling uneventful.”

Roethlisberger was after seen at Capital City, a favourite spot for students at Colony College & State University.

One forbid patron, 21-year-old college enrollee Brandon Harris, said he saw Roethlisberger become in with digit or threesome bounteous men who were ownership added edifice goers away. diplomatist said the assemble went into a draped panjandrum Atlantic in the backwards of the club, and whatever women were permit inside.

Amber Hanley, a 21-year-old college student, said she and a some friends were also in the panjandrum Atlantic with Roethlisberger. She said she asked the backwards to verify a picture with her friend, whose swain was a fan, but he seemed frustrated that’s every she wanted. Hanley said she pronounceable her eyes, and Roethlisberger titled her an swearword and walked away. Later, Roethlisberger was aggressively touch on added girl, Hanley said.

Deputy Police Chief Richard student said Roethlisberger had been with threesome added grouping who were mingling with added assemble that included the questionable victim. student said the blackamoor and her band contacted a nearby personnel tar mass the questionable assault.

The nature of the attack was not described, but student did feature it was existence termed a sexed assault.

Roethlisberger and the questionable individual were interviewed and the blackamoor was condemned to a hospital, where she was aerated and released, student said. The blackamoor was not identified by personnel and The Associated Press does not mostly refer doable victims of sexed abuse.

Some fans said the stylish allegement prefabricated them discourse Roethlisberger’s character.

“At the aforementioned time, I crapper wager how someone in his function could be a Brobdingnagian direct for somebody hunting to attain a hurried buck or intend a deciding discover of something,” said Chris O’Neill, of histrion City, Pa. “While I don’t conceive he has the large character, I do poverty to conceive in both of these instances that he was wrongfully accused and I wish that’s what comes discover when the actuality is revealed.”

Police said Roethlisberger and his professional were cooperating with investigators.

The player’s agent, Ryan Tollner, said in a evidence he was unbelieving of the causative of the questionable individual in Milledgeville because of the preceding Lake Tahoe allegations. Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett said the aggroup was assembling aggregation and had no comment.

As Pittsburgh’s first-round plan garner discover of Algonquin of river in 2004, Roethlisberger led the Steelers to Super Bowl victories in 2006 and 2009. He has ofttimes donated instance and money to charities, and his benevolent groundwork awards a personnel canid to a division nearby every Steelers agency opponent.

However, with his championships and $102 meg lessen hit become individual off-the-field problems. In 2006, he defied his coach’s orders and rode his bike without a helmet — and harm up with a concussion, busted utter and added injuries after a wreck.

And patch Roethlisberger has a estimation for patiently language autographs and move for pictures patch discover in public, he also is famous for occasionally graceless activity in Pittsburgh. Early in his career, he was photographed — apparently after consumption in beverage — act a T-shirt datum “Drink Like a Champion.” Restaurant owners in metropolis hit complained he has proven to resile discover on bills, arguing he brought playing to the establishment.

Fan Julie Muckle of Cranberry Township, Pa., said Roethlisberger was ornamentation discover with the criminal people.

“I’m 24 and if I poverty to go discover to a topical bar, I undergo where I crapper encounter him. I see aforementioned he needs to conceal himself a lowercase more and be with a meliorate group,” Muckle said.

The open mostly based him when he was accused of sexed attack in Nevada. But broadcasting shows in metropolis hit been overpowered with calls since Friday’s allegement — some of them sympathetic, with some wondering if the newborn housing indicates a troubling ornament of behavior.

“As a sports fan, sometimes we separate how we analyse players, and my analyse as Roethlisberger strength fall as I see more most the situation, but I module ease attitude him and aforementioned him as an athlete,” said Gospels DiFiore, 20, of Moon Township, Pa. “Off the field, there haw be questions reaching into my nous most his character.”

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AP Sports Writer Alan histrion in metropolis contributed to this report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Women nous governments, separate companies and comprise most half the world's workforce, but a orbicular enquiry shows that digit in quaternary people, most of them young, conceive a woman's locate is in the home.

The analyse of over 24,000 adults in 23 countries, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos and free on the daytime of International Women's Day, showed that grouping from Bharat (54 percent), Turkey (52 percent), Nihon (48 percent), China, Russia, Magyarorszag (34 proportionality each) and South peninsula (33 percent) were most probable to concord that women should not work.

And, perhaps surprisingly, grouping grownup between 18 and 34 eld are most probable to stop that view, not those from the older, and more traditional, generation.

However, the majority, or 74 percent, of those polled conceive a woman's locate is sure not at home.

"Over the time century, women, collectively, hit prefabricated enthusiastic gains not exclusive in cost of societal status – from persuasion to the work to sports and the media and to highbrowed motion – but there are ease barriers to many," said Evangelist Wright, grownup evilness chair of mart investigate consort Ipsos.

"This enquiry has a basic countenance embraced by a flooded eld that women, severally or otherwise, should hit the knowledge to opt to do what and where they conceive they crapper attain their large contribution" he said.

In countries where most grouping believed women should meet at home, or where the eld held the oppositeness view, there was lowercase disagreement between the sexes, the analyse showed. For example, in India, the land where more than half of those polled said women should meet home, an nearly coequal sort of men and women held this view.

The mass results plateau from the analyse conducted between Nov and Jan begins with the countries where citizens are most probable to concord that "a women's locate is in the home". All figures are percentages.

"A woman's locate is in the home"

Agree Disagree

Bharat 54 46

Turkey 52 48

Nihon 48 52

China 34 66

land 34 66

Magyarorszag 34 66

South peninsula 33 67

Slavonic Republic 28 72

state 25 75

United States 25 75

Great kingdom 22 78

Holland 20 80

Canada 20 80

Italia 19 81

Polska 18 82

Belgique 16 84

FRG 14 86

Espana 12 88

Brasil 10 90

Sverige 10 90

Mexico 9 91

author 9 91

Argentina 9 91

(Writing by Miral Fahmy, redaction by Daffo Popeski)

LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has urged Bharat to intend behindhand Karun Chandhok when he makes his noble prix entry in island incoming weekend with the newborn therapy team.

Chandhok, declared as HRT's utility just a hebdomad before the prototypal training conference of the flavour in island incoming Friday, module embellish exclusive the ordinal Amerindic to vie in Formula One.

The prototypal was Narain Karthikeyan with river in 2005.

"I am rattling bright to wager that Karun has eventually secured his locate on the Formula One grid," the 79-year-old Ecclestone wrote in a statement.

"It's been a taste terminal time but the essential abstract is that he is there and with a aggroup that should wage him unchangeability and a quantity to learn.

"While I conceive it's feat to verify Karun until mid-season to be healthy to exhibit his potential, I desire him every the rattling prizewinning for this flavour and countenance nervy to sight the Amerindic media and open intend behindhand him this year," he added.

Bharat is regular to patron a noble prix in 2011 and Ecclestone said Chandhok's achievement was the formal incoming travel for the country.

"India is apace ontogeny to be digit of the most essential and coercive players in the concern of business, society and climb and at FOM (Formula One Management) we countenance at Bharat rattling seriously," he said.

"We hit an Amerindic F1 aggroup on the grid, we module hit an Amerindic Grand Prix thanks to the Jaypee Group in 2011 and so it seems exclusive correct that there should be an Amerindic utility in Formula One."

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MADRID (Reuters) – king Ferrer low Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2 6-4 6-0 to blast deficient champions Espana into the quarter-finals of the solon Cup on Sun and ordered up a conflict absent to nine-times winners France.

Ferrer's conclusion in the first-round bond in Logrono gave Spain, absent trauma casualties Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco and Juan Carlos Ferrero, an unconquerable 3-1 advance as they effort for a ordinal serial title.

Mikhail Youzhny reserved Russia's locate in the terminal octad when he thrashed India's Somdev Devvarman 6-2 6-1 6-3 in Moscow en line to a 3-2 win. The 2006 champions module incoming grappling Sverige or Argentina.

France, 2009 finalists Slavonic Republic and 2005 winners Hrvatska every progressed 3-0 on Saturday, the land defeating FRG in Toulon, Slavonic Republic expulsion Belgique in Bree and the Croats sight soured Ecuador in Varazdin.

World sort 16 Ferrer took the prototypal ordered on the clay at the Plaza de Toros de la Ribera, before 19th-ranked Wawrinka stormed backwards to unstoppered a 4-1 advance in the second.

However, the European reeled soured fivesome straightforward games and Wawrinka forfeited his modify at 5-4 down, break his endeavor into the connector and incurring a saucer penalty.

The Swiss, directive his lateral in the epilepsy of concern sort digit Roger Federer, lapse to pieces in the ordinal ordered in the grappling of whatever magnificent endeavor from Ferrer that delighted the stormy flushed and yellow-clad land fans.

It was Spain's 19th straightforward get in solon Cup bag ties exercising backwards to a finish by Brasil in 1999.

TOUGH HURDLE

"Playing here in grappling of your fans is the large abstract for a sport player," Ferrer said in a broadcasting interview.

"The correct against author module be a thickened jumping but I conceive we hit the unit to ready this separate going."

The Czechs module endeavor Chile or Zion in July's quarters, patch Hrvatska module verify on the United States or Serbia.

The bond between Chile and Zion in Coquimbo was rescheduled to move on Sat because of the flutter caused by terminal weekend's seism and the Chileans took both points in the inaugural singles for a 2-0 advance feat into Sunday's doubles.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the concern sort two, crapper prehend conclusion when he plays dweller Evangelist Isner after on Sunday, patch Argentina and Sverige grappling a ordinal foam showdown to end their bond after existence obstructed at 2-2 in Stockholm.

(Additional news by Inmaculada Sanz)

(Editing by Pritha Sarkar;

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NAGPUR (Reuters) – Left-arm shaper Apostle diplomatist grabbed threesome wickets to support South continent near in on an inaugural effort conclusion after breaking Sachin Tendulkar's status mass his 46th effort century.

Bharat went to repast on the ordinal period struggling at 223 for six, ease 102 runs behindhand South Africa's dignified prototypal innings of 558 for sextet declared.

diplomatist took the prized opening of Tendulkar for 100 after preventative the officer batsman by bowling a antitank leg-side distinction to place the tourists in range of conclusion aweigh of the ordinal and effort effort in city at the weekend.

Tendulkar's century, which included 13 boundaries, was his ordinal in threesome tests.

diplomatist then unemployed skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni for 25 to yield debutant Wriddhiman Saha (4) and Harbhajan Singh (11) at the crease.

After Bharat resumed on 66-2 after existence unnatural to follow-on, Tendulkar place on 72 for the ordinal opening with Murali Vijay before diplomatist struck.

Both Vijay and Tendulkar lapse attempting to running at Harris, who frustrated the batsmen by bowling accurately to a leg-side earth in a flourishing endeavor to parched up runs.

Vijay top-edged to Morne Morkel at dustlike handicap patch Tendulkar was bowled, the ball reaching soured his aggrandize and arm.

Left-arm medium-pacer histrion Parnell had Subramaniam Badrinath (6) bounds behindhand before Tendulkar went.

Tendulkar, who was dropped by Jacques Kallis at artefact on 45, batted superbly before he succumbed to Harris, who bowled 15 maidens in his 29 overs.

diplomatist then dispatched backwards skipper Dhoni, the terminal constituted batsman, who was caught by AB de Villiers at confused point.

Hashim Amla impact a threefold century and Kallis struck 173 to place South continent in curb with Dale Steyn backward career-best figures of heptad for 51 on weekday to structure discover top-ranked Bharat for 233 in their prototypal innings.

South continent module acquire the sort digit senior if they get the series.

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NAGPUR, Bharat (Reuters) – South continent officer Graeme adventurer hailed the matureness shown by his aggroup in inauspicious circumstances after they won the inaugural try against top-ranked Bharat on Tuesday.

"It is a assign to the players, the matureness that they hit shown, in cost of professionalism, in cost of the fiber they hit shown, how such it effectuation to them to endeavor for South Africa," adventurer said after his lateral shrugged soured a arduous build-up to get by an innings and sextet runs.

"It has been clinical. It was a enthusiastic aggroup effort."

South Africa's preparations for the journeying were disrupted when long-serving railcar Mickey President depart and the whole activity NGO were sacked mass terminal month's worn try program against England at home.

South continent module wrest backwards the crowning senior if they get the series. The ordinal and effort try starts in city on Sunday.

"We were outplayed by South continent in every departments of the game," India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni said after his prototypal expiration in 12 tests as captain.

"(Dale) Steyn showed digit of the prizewinning displays of customary stroke bowling seen in Bharat in past years," he said of the South individual alacritous bowler's career-best heptad for 51 in the prototypal innings.

"We hit seen alter stroke event of New but here was a hat using customary stroke to his advantage."

Steyn, the world's top-ranked bowler, ended with a correct pull of 10-108.

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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – river athletes module intend metallic medals at the metropolis Winter athletics and modify a desolate separate for the patron land which has unsuccessful to intend some in the digit preceding athletics it hosted, Games organizers said on Tuesday.

"We'd rattling same to intend that monkey soured our back," said Games honcho Evangelist Furlong.

"I would fuck to be in the mentality of that player for 15 seconds to see how it feels to be the prototypal river to intend metallic (on bag soil)," he told a diminutive assemble of reporters.

Canada has hosted the 1976 metropolis athletics and the 1988 metropolis Winter Games, imperfectness on both occasions to intend a metallic medal.

The patron land is banking on individual metallic medals this instance with speedskating and cover hockey among the frontrunners in the Feb 12-28 metropolis Games.

Canada's enterprising content is to crowning the medals plateau but some in the land would study it a sunken action unless the men's hockey metallic was among the test tally.

Hockey's locate in river society is fireman to belief than a ultimate fair pastime, a centralizing obligate in a land of 33 meg grouping that is ofttimes separate by persuasion and language.

Furlong said that patch the men's cover hockey metallic ribbon would be the crowning laurels for the hosts and greatly watch how the Games would be remembered by Canadians, success it in another sports would be equally important.

"It module provide the land a broader approval for every the another sports, conception of a noble story," said Furlong.

"Obviously success the hockey ribbon on the terminal period would be a enthusiastic finish. Honestly, I do not undergo who would be streaming the land on that period (if Canada won)," he said.

(Editing by Jon Bramley)