INDIA WON THE IDEA CUP

This was the huge victory for the Indian team after losing in test series 2-1. The crucial match ,rain stopped the play yesterday,but today with great sun shine match started, after winning the toss India elected to bat first scoring 258 all out in the 50th over and fix the target 259 to sri lanka . The thundering starts of srilanka innings, sanath Jayasuriya smashes the ball and scores his half centuary.Then wicket falls to srilanka ,top order batsman fails to perform.so srilanka all out for 212 forward the victory of India.

AUSTRALIA TO CELEBRATES DON BRADMAN CENTENARY

Australians on Wednesday marked the centenary of their greatest sporting hero, cricketer Don Bradman, by celebrating the fact his unbeaten record is still untouchable 60 years after he quit the sport.

Bradman, who died in 2001 aged 92, played his last match in England in 1948 and retired with a yet-to-be topped Test batting average of 99.94.

Australian media used the occasion to revisit the legend of the 'Boy from Bowral' whose run-scoring feats lifted the hopes of the country during the Depression and inspired generations of sportsmen and women to come.

Newspapers splashed images of the small-statured batsman across their pages while television bulletins re-broadcast rare snippets from interviews with 'The Don', who loathed his celebrity.

In Bradman's boyhood home of Bowral, a small town south of Sydney, scores of children formed a massive 100 on the cricket oval on which he first played, and sang 'Happy Birthday'.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who will deliver the Bradman Oration at a dinner to be hosted by Hollywood star Hugh Jackman later on Wednesday, led tributes to the global cricketing hero.

"That Bradman made a century on average every time he batted is remarkable in itself, but to realise his batting average is virtually twice as high as anyone who played Test cricket for any length of time shows why he is one of sport's great stories," Ponting wrote in The Australian.

Ponting said sporting records were made to be broken, with the Beijing Olympics no exception with the breathtaking feats of swimmer Michael Phelps and runner Usain Bolt. But Bradman's was an "unassailable" record, he said.

"Of the 2,519 batsmen who have taken the crease in 131 years of Test cricket, Bradman stands alone and untouched," he said.

"I am no aware of any other sport which has one competitor so far above any other performer."

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GEORGE CLOONEY AND BRAD PITT COMES TO VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

Hollywood megastars Brad Pitt and George Clooney kick off this year's Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of the latest quirky offering from the Oscar-winning Coen brothers.

The festival, running through September 6, is set to bring a bevy of stars to one of the world's top cinema showcases, including Charlize Theron of South Africa and US star Kim Basinger, as well as new offerings by top filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano and Jonathan Demme.

Kicking off the celebrations but shown out of competition, the Pitt-Clooney crime comedy "Burn After Reading" by 2008 Oscar-winning duo Joel and Ethan Coen also stars John Malkovitch and Tilda Swinton.

LONGEST CONTINOUS UNMANNED FLIGHT

An ultra-lightweight plane built from carbon fiber and powered using paper-thin solar panels has broken the world record for longest-lasting unmanned flight, its manufacturer claimed Sunday.

QinetiQ Group PLC said its propeller-driven "Zephyr" aircraft flew for 83 hours and 37 minutes, more than doubling the official world record set by Northrop Grumman's "Global Hawk" in 2001.

The flight also went longer than a previous excursion by the Zephyr, which Qinetiq claims clocked up 54 hours of continuous flight last year.

However both the Zephyr's reported flight times are likely to remain unofficial because they did not meet criteria laid down by the world's air sports federation, the body responsible for measuring and verifying air and space records, QinetiQ spokesman Douglas Millard said.

"We were concentrating more on the flight than the record," he said.

No one at the Lausanne, Switzerland-based federation could immediately be reached for comment.

The 66 pound- (30 kilogram-) plane was launched by hand on July 28 in the Arizona desert in the United States and flown by autopilot and via satellite to an altitude of more 60,000 feet (18,000 meters), QinetiQ said.

Drawing on the power of the sun during the day, the plane stayed aloft at night using rechargeable lithium-sulphur batteries. Its more than three-day flight began on July 28 and was witnessed by U.S. and British defense officials, the company said.

QinetiQ said the Zephyr, which is funded by a host of U.S. and British military agencies, had potential in the fields of reconnaissance and communications

MADHUMITHA'S BETROTHAL FUNCTION

Actress madhumitha engaged with upcoming hero and also an industrialist siva Balaji and soon enter in to the wed lock.According to the sources they had fallen in love when the movie was made. So the elders of their families accept their love and arranged the grant betrothal function in Hyderabad.Siva Balaji said, 'Presently Madhu is busy with Tamil films. Once she completes all her projects, we will get married. Possibly the marriage would take place either in December or in January. We have not yet decided whether Madhu should continue in films or not

Trisha to pair kamalhaasan in MARMAYOGI

It was first reported that Kamal Haasan who directs the film was quite keen in casting Kajol, but then the actress could not make herself available due to various reasons. Then attention was turned towards Shriya Saran and Padmapriya. It is now confirmed that these actresses have nothing to do with the film. The latest news is that Trisha would be paring Kamal Haasan. However, it has been confirmed that the only actress to have signed on the dotted line is Jayapradha who would be playing quite a prominent role.

We'll have to wait and see if Trisha's involvement with the project holds water or not. Certain sources claim that Trisha has okayed a 100-day call sheet for the 'Marma Yogi' and that she's looking forward to acting with Kamal Haasan