Scorching knocks of 88 and 51 by Nicky Boje and Stuart Binny helped Hyderabad Heroes to defeat Mumbai Champs by 79-runs in the ICL 20s Indian Championship match at Tau Devi Lal Stadium.

Batting first, Heroes piled 214 runs, the highest score in the tournament. Chasing this imposing total, Champs could manage only 135 runs losing six wickets in their allotted 20 overs.

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court on Friday ordered the release of a popular anti-government blogger, ruling that his detention under a draconian security law was unlawful.

Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin was arrested on September 12 under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after the government said his articles incited hatred and racial discord as well as insulted Islam, the official religion.

The editor of the popular Malaysia Today website had denied the allegations and appealed against his detention, which could have been indefinite under the ISA's provisions.

Malaysia's High Court ruled that Raja Petra would be brought to court later Friday and immediately released from the detention centre in the northern Perak state.

Washington, Nov 7 : Women who cohabit with more than one partner serially are less likely to marry than females who stick to a single partner, a new study has found.

What’s more, even if serial cohabiters do marry, they are twice as likely to get divorced.

During the study, Daniel T. Lichter of Cornell University and Zhenchao of Ohio State University tracked the experiences of serial cohabiters, or women who have cohabited with more than one partner.

Seoul - South Korea's central bank Friday lowered its key interest rate for the third time in less than a month, saying the cut was made necessary by a persisting domestic economic slowdown.

The Bank of Korea's fiscal policy committee decided to cut the benchmark seven-day repo rate by 0.25 per cent to 4 per cent. The cut comes after a dramatic 75-basis-point cut in late October which followed a cut by 25 basis points earlier that month.

Tata-owned steel giant Corus has decided to axe 400 jobs at its distribution unit due to global economic downturn.

The proposed job cuts will be spread across United Kingdom, comprising 100 in the West Midlands, around 100 in North Wales, 50 in South Wales and 50 in Leeds.

The company stated that its distribution business had been operating in an unstable and irregular market since the start of the year.

Islamabad, Nov 7: Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has reportedly expressed concern over the detention of Kashmiri leaders by Indian authorities, and called for their release.

Talking to reporters in Istanbul, Professor Ihsanoglu condemned the continued use of force against Kashmiri people in Kashmir, the Daily Times reported.