Uruguay have moved above Germany to become the second-highest ranked team behind world and European champions Spain in the latest FIFA rankings published on Wednesday.
Germany, who together with fourth-ranked Netherlands, Denmark (9th) and Portugal (10th) are all in a tough Group B at Euro 2012 which starts on Friday, have slipped to third.
Argentina climbed two places to seventh while Brazil (5th) and England (6th) also moved up one spot. Portugal were the big fallers, plummeting from fifth following a dismal start to the year in which they have failed to win in three matches, scoring just one goal.
Meanwhile, Nepal continue to lead the South Asian ranking. Nepal hold 149th position ahead of Bangladesh and India, residing at 152nd and 164th positions respectively. Nepal are in 22nd positon in the Asian ranking which is led by Japan. Nepal along with Bangladesh and India remained unmoved from their previous positions while Afghanistan moved two places up to 168th.
Shamyak Bhusan Bajracharya and Aryan Subedi breezed into the final of the U-10 boys’ singles category while Ira Raut overshadowed Karuna Gauchan in the longest rally of U-12 girls’ to parachute into the semi-finals of the First Borish Lissanevitch Memorial Junior Open Tennis Championship on Tuesday.
Bajracharya surpassed Bisrith Gurung 6-1, 6-2 and Subedi defeated Aryan Giri 6-3, 6-4 in straight sets while Raut toiled hard to get the better of Gauchan 8-6, 6-8, 7-5. He took 3:10 minutes to cap a famous win against the agile Gauchan.
Likewise, Mayanka Rana, Mahika Rana, and Any Mathema also booked their semi-finals berth in the U-12 girl’s singles category. In the other matches played at the court of All Nepal Lawn Tennis Association, Pranab Kayastha, Samgrakshyak Bhusan Bajracharya and Shatyap Ilim made it to the semi-finals in the U-12 boys’ singles.
In the U-14 boys’ singles, Abhaya Gauchan, Shakshyam Karki, Pranab Kayastha, and Avash Malla also marched to the semi-finals while Bibhuti Karki, Any Mathema, and Mayanka Rana in the girls.’ Milan Rokka and Ivanhoe Lissanevitch secured their berth in the semi-finals.
With two back-to-back blockbusters under her belt Sonakshi Sinha has much reason to be proud. And so, feels Bihar, do Biharis. There's a growing resentment in the state about the fact that the Bihar ki beti has not paid them a visit since her stardom in Dabangg. And now when her second film Rowdy Rathore too has acquired blockbuster status, the question being asked in Bihar is, where is Sonakshi?We hear the matter is finally being sorted out. And the young Sinha star is all set to pay her home-state a visit. Proud father Shatrughan Sinha who saw Rowdy Rathore in Delhi with bureaucrats and police officers and can't stop beaming with paternal pride, says Sonakshi's Patna visit is now being worked out.
Says Shatruji, "Her absence from Bihar is not intentional. Why would she not go home? Bihar is her home. She spent much of her growing years in our home in Patna when my mother was alive. Now when my mother is no more I stay in a hotel in Patna for convenience. But we are now coming to Patna and people there should stop sulking. She has just not had time to make that long-due visit. Even when the promotional tours for Rowdy Rathore were planned it isn't her fault that Patna was not on the promotional map."
Hosni Mubarak's health has deteriorated since the Egyptian ex-president was sent to prison on Saturday and it is likely he will moved to a hospital outside the jail where he is being held, the state news agency reported on Wednesday.
Mubarak, 84, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's popular uprising. He was moved to Tora prison in Cairo.
Mubarak was given artificial respiration five times in recent hours and doctors treating him recommended he be moved to a military hospital or back to the medical facility he was in prior to his conviction, security officials said.
"Official sources saw as likely the possibility of his transfer to a military hospital ... based on a medical recommendation from the doctors treating him," the state agency MENA reported.
A medical committee from the Interior Ministry visited Mubarak and concluded that he had suffered several "heart crises" and that his medical committee was deteriorating, the security sources told Reuters.
The report from the committee said that if the prison is not prepared to deal with Mubarak, then he should be transferred.
The deposed leader was suffering from nervous shock and an increase in his blood pressure, reported MENA, summarizing the findings of a medical team which examined him.
He is currently in an intensive care unit inside prison
To put an end to the cold war that began after their first film together, the actress visitedMadhur Bhandarkar and his leading lady on the sets of HeroineClose on the heels of her much publicised patch up with Karan Johar at Farhan Akhtar's house party, comes news of Priyanka trying to mend fences with Kareena Kapoor, whom she has never seen eye to eye with.
It is learnt that on Wednesday afternoon, Priyanka visited the sets of Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine to meet the director and his leading lady Kareena. A source from the sets told Mirror, "Priyanka was there at Filmistan Studios to promote her film as part of an upcoming dance reality show on television when she realised Madhur was shooting for Heroine next door. She immediately visited the sets to meet Madhur and Kareena."
Reportedly, Priyanka had been in the running for the lead after Aishwarya Rai quit Heroine due to her pregnancy. The source said, "Madhur was extremely thrilled to see his Fashion actress on the sets and even Kareena welcomed her with open arms. PeeCee spent around 25 minutes on the sets and was seen having an animated conversation with both Madhur and Kareena, putting to rest rumours of differences between them." Everyone on the sets was happy as most of them had also worked on Fashion. "It was nice to see PeeCee making efforts to end her ongoing rivalries in the industry," the source added.
When contacted, Madhur Bhandarkar said, "It was very gracious of Priyanka to come and see us at the shoot. She was shooting nearby and came over. She was happy to meet many of the crew members as she had worked with them in Fashion and stayed on for quite some time."
The rivalry between PeeCee and Kareena is no secret. The two had lots of issues while working together in Aitraaz, after which they never shared screen space. The actresses have openly taken digs at each other many times. It is rumoured whenever Saif Ali Khan wanted to work with PeeCee, it never materialised.
And to do that, he has pushed ahead the film by a month so as to start shooting beginning of August instead of the original September date. Earlier too, the director had wanted to start shooting in August but Emraan vetoed the plan because of time constraints. It was only when Raaz 3 got postponed that Emraan agreed to the August shoot.
Gupta plans to use secret cameras to capture the two popular stars. "It is going to be difficult but both are used to shooting in crowded outdoors," he said. The director hopes to wrap up the entire shooting by December. "We haven't got a release date as yet. But I am hoping it will be the 8th of any month in the first quarter of 2013," Gupta said.
None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again.
From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won't be for another 105 years."If you can see the mole on Cindy Crawford's face, you can see Venus," Van Webster, a member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society, told anyone who stopped by his telescope for a peek on Mount Hollywood.For astronomers, the transit wasn't just a rare planetary spectacle. It was also one of those events they hoped would spark curiosity about the universe and our place in it.Sul Ah Chim, a researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in South Korea, said he hoped people see life from a larger perspective, and "not get caught up in their small, everyday problems."
"When you think about it from the context of the universe, 105 years is a very short period of time and the Earth is only a small, pale blue spot," he said.The transit was happening during a 6-hour, 40-minute span that began just after 6 p.m. EDT in the United States. What observers could see and for how long depended on their region's exposure to the sun during that exact window of time, and the weather.
Those in most areas of North and Central America saw the start of the transit until sunset, while those in western Asia, the eastern half of Africa and most of Europe could catch the transit's end once the sun came up.Hawaii, Alaska, eastern Australia and eastern Asia including Japan, North and South Korea and eastern China get the whole show since the entire transit happens during daylight in those regions.
While astronomers used the latest technology to document the transit, American astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station was planning to take photos of the event and post them online.
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