Sachin Tendulkar falls short in his bid to become the first player to score 100 international centuries, after earlier passing 15,000 runs in Tests in India’s five-wicket win against the West Indies.

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Tendulkar misses out on milestone

The opposition candidate in next week’s presidential run-off in Liberia, Winston Tubman, says he will not take part after earlier voicing concerns about the poll’s fairness.

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Liberia’s Tubman to boycott poll

NEW DELHI — Indian police arrested the country’s leading anti-corruption campaigner and detained at least 1,400 of his supporters Tuesday morning, hours before the veteran activist was due to begin an indefinite hunger strike to demand tougher laws against graft. Anna Hazare , dressed in homespun white cotton and a white cap, waved to supporters as he was driven away from his lodgings in the Indian capital in a police vehicle, after earlier being denied permission to stage his protest. Fellow activists said Hazare, a 74-year-old disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, had begun his fast in police custody. Read full article > >

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Anti-corruption activist arrested in India, begins fast in custody

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye says he has been allowed to return home ahead of President Museveni’s inauguration, after earlier being barred.

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Uganda’s Besigye ‘allowed home’

Kim Clijsters takes on Dinara Safina in the Australian Open night session after earlier wins for Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal.

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