Champion sprinter Usain Bolt said Sunday that he hopes to better his 100 metres world record to 9.4 seconds from 9.58 secs, which he clocked in Berlin last year, before retiring from athletics. The Jamaican said he has another four years left in him, after which he wants to become a professional footballer, and if he is able to touch 9.4secs, his record will never be beaten. "I have four more good years provided I train hard," Bolt told BBC Radio. On life after athletics Bolt added: "When I finish I'd like to play football for two years. I always watch those guys and I think I could be a

India will revisit a slice of history next year when it takes a specially curated show of paintings by Rabindranath Tagore to Paris after 81 years to mark his 150th birth centenary in 2011, Culture Secretary Jawahar Sircar said in the capital Sunday. "Argentinian poetess Victoria Ocampo had said to Rabindranath Tagore, who began painting rather late in life at the age of 60, that his art would sell. Tagore agreed to create a series of paintings for an exhibition in the mecca of art, Paris, in 1930," Sircar told reporters. Tagore created a pool of nearly 126 paintings for the show.

Relatives of the 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground for a month held an emotional videoconference after improved communications equipment was lowered to the workers. Each miner was given a minute to talk with three relatives, to bring them closer together during the ordeal, which could last until December. “It was exciting. I really wanted to reach in and pull him out of the television screen,” Antonia Godoy, mother of miner Richard Villarroel, told state television station TVN. The relatives said they were pleased to be able to see their loved ones, with

In a first in the military world, the BrahMos cruise missile being jointly developed by India and Russia achieved a supersonic dive after being fired from a defence base in Orissa as part of the trials to fine-tune its capabilities, an official said. "The missile flew in the designated complex trajectory conducting large manoeuvres and steep dive. This is the first time in the world that a supersonic dive has been realised by a cruise missile," said BrahMos Aerospace spokesperson Praveen Pathak. The Indian armed forces termed it a "perfectly precise flight

Pakistan Test batsman Yasir Hameed reportedly told a British tabloid that his teammates have been fixing "almost every match" and that he himself had refused bribes. However, he later denied his statements. In another sting operation by The News of the World, Hameed said that he had refused bribes worth 150,000 pounds from a corrupt bookmaker to throw matches and lost his own place in the squad that saw his career damaged as a result. Hameed's revelations come after the British tabloid promised that last week that it would come with more news on the spot-