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• Karachi: Two injured in hand grenade attack
• Hindus complain of forced migration
• Massive blaze hits east London
• Bolt considers Australian cricket offer
• Pietersen left out of England squad to play SA
• London hands over Olympic flag to Rio
• Olympics: Curtain falls on 'glorious' London Games
• US win medal count, and British celebrate as well
• USA take gold in men's basketball
• Russia defeat Brazil for Olympic volleyball gold
• France beat Sweden to keep Olympic handball title
• Croatia wins 1st Olympic water polo title
• Olympics: Kiprotich wins marathon gold
• Record breaker Asadauskaite wins pentathlon gold
• Britain's Joshua wins super heavyweight boxing gold

Karachi: Two injured in hand grenade attack Posted: Despite lofty claims by Karachi police, violence continues in Karachi. According to eye-witnesses, two motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade at a shop near UP More as a result two persons, who were sitting outside the shop received injuries.Fear and panic spread in the area after the attack and residents came out of their houses. According to owner of the shop, he did not receive any threat from the extortionists and he left the shop after Magrib prayers.

Hindus complain of forced migration Posted: A three-member committee set up by President Asif Ali Zardari to allay grievances of Hindus in Jacobabad met with representatives of the minority community on Sunday.The committee comprises of Senator Hari Ram, MNA Lal Chand and Federal Minister Moula Baksh Chandio.The committee will present a report to President Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Qiam Ali Shah regarding the grievances of the Hindu community.According to Moula Baksh Chandio the grievances of the Hindu community are justified.Meanwhile, 40 more families from Dharki have started their journey to Wahga on their way to India.

Massive blaze hits east London Posted: Firefighters battled a massive blaze at an east London recycling center Sunday as the city prepared for the closing ceremony of the Olympics. Officials said the blaze was the biggest theyd seen in the city for years, but that the games would in no way be affected.The fire about 7 miles (11 kilometers) east of the Olympic Park was brought under control by late Sunday. A London Fire Brigade statement said the whole of the 50 meter by 100 meter (165 feet by 330 feet), single-story recycling center had burned and that, at one point, a plume of smoke could be seen across the capital.Weve not seen a fire of this size in London for several years, London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said. Its certainly a dramatic end to the Olympics for the London Fire Brigade.The statement said more than 200 firefighters drawn from across the city had been sent to fight the fire in Dagenham, an industrial, riverside area at the very edge of the capital.I would like to reassure people that we are still able to attend incidents across the capital and the fire cover were providing at the Olympic venues has not been affected, Dobson said.In a message later posted to Twitter, the fire service said the Dagenham fire had been contained. Well be there during the night damping down, the tweet said. An Olympic effort by our crews. Enjoy the Closing Ceremony.The cause of the fire wasnt yet known. No injuries have been reported.A spokesman said the fire brigade didnt keep detailed logs on the size of one blaze or another, but mainly thought in terms of the personnel and equipment needed to tackle each fire. He said the last comparable fires he could remember included the inferno that broke out at Londons Camden Market in 2008 and a blaze that gutted the New Look store on Oxford Street in 2007.He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with office policy.

Bolt considers Australian cricket offer Posted: Olympic sprint star Usain Bolt has told Australian media he is considering an offer from former test leg-spinner Shane Warne to play Twenty20 cricket in Australias Big Bash League next season.The Melbourne Stars franchise, for which Warne is the marquee player, confirmed it has opened negotiations with Bolt through his management company.Bolt, who defended his 100 meters and 200 meters titles in London to take his Olympics gold medal tally to six, played junior cricket in Jamaica and has expressed a love for the sport.He told Australias Channel Nine if I get the chance I will definitely try because I know its going to be a lot of fun. I dont know how good I am. I will probably have to get a lot of practice in.

Pietersen left out of England squad to play SA Posted: Kevin Pietersen was left out of Englands squad on Sunday for the third test against South Africa after selectors said he failed to give assurances over phone text messages he allegedly sent to the South Africans which criticized his own teammates.Naturally Im hugely disappointed, Pietersen said in a statement. The fact is I love England, and I love cricket.Pietersen, who scored 149 in the second test, failed to make Englands 13-man squad for the test which starts at Lords on Thursday. The 32-year-old Pietersen reportedly sent the text messages during the drawn second test at Headingley.During the past week we have held several discussions with Kevin Pietersen and his advisers. Following a constructive meeting it was agreed that a number of actions needed to be completed to re-engage Kevin within the England dressing room, England cricket managing director Hugh Morris said.A fundamental item was to confirm publicly that no derogatory texts had been sent by Kevin to the South African team. This has not been forthcoming despite clear timelines being set to allow the selectors to pick the squad.The South African-born Pietersen had threatened to quit test cricket after the second test, blaming politics and leaks to the media while claiming it was tough being me. He reversed his position on Saturday in a video put on YouTube and made himself available again for his adopted country in all formats.Needing a win in the third test to stay top ranked in the world, Englands decision to drop its most naturally talented batsman took some observers by surprise.It is not often a player gets 149 in a test match and is left out the next week, former England captain Nasser Hussain told Sky Sports News.Pietersen retired from one-day internationals earlier this year, and as a consequence England ruled him out of the Twenty20 side to defend its world title in Sri Lanka in September. He now faces a tough challenge to play for his country again at test level.The success of the England team has been built on a unity of purpose and trust, Morris said. Whilst we have made every attempt to find a solution to enable Kevin to be selected we have sadly had to conclude that, in the best interest of the team, he will miss the Lords test.Pietersen has played 88 tests for England since his debut in 2005 with 7,076 runs at an average of 49.48 and a highest score of 227.South Africa leads the three-match series 1-0.

London hands over Olympic flag to Rio Posted: London Mayor Boris Johnson handed the flag to IOC President Jacques Rogge, who then presented it to Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes.Rio then began an eight-minute segment to showcase the Brazilian city, the first in South America to host the Olympics.The flag handover was one of the centerpiece moments of Sunday nights closing ceremony of the London Games.It followed the march of athletes into the stadium and musical performances by acts ranging from the Spice Girls to George Michael to Annie Lennox.

Olympics: Curtain falls on 'glorious' London Games Posted: The London Olympics closed in a blaze of music and colour Sunday after a two-week sporting festival that electrified the host nation and was watched by billions around the world.Olympics President Jacques Rogge praised the Games as happy and glorious before the sporting spectacular was brought to a close in a three-hour ceremony rounded out with a performance from British rock band The Who.Through your commitment to fair play, your respect for opponents, and your grace in defeat as well as in victory, you have earned the right to be called Olympians, Rogge said. These were happy and glorious Games.The Spice Girls, George Michael, Brazilian football legend Pele and a cast of more than 4,000 entertained a packed crowd of 80,000 at Olympic Stadium, the focal point of a Games which has borne witness to an extraordinary fortnight.The ceremony also saw the handover of the Olympic flag to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, a symbolic transfer which launches the four-year countdown to the 2016 Games to be held in the Brazilian city.Record-breaking sprinter Usain Bolt and swimmer Michael Phelps lit up Olympic Park, a former industrial site, and Jessica Ennis led an unexpectedly high number of British champions who kept fans excitement at fever-pitch.The United States topped the medals table with 46 golds, eight ahead of China, while Britain had 29 -- their best since 1904. It was the first Games where every team had at least one female athlete.After 16 full days of competition, 302 Olympic titles were handed out and 46 world records were broken. More than seven million fans came out to watch Olympic events, and Bolts 200m win generated a record 80,000 tweets a minute.Today was the closing of a wonderful Games in a wonderful city. We lit the flame and we lit up the world, said Games chief Sebastian Coe.Prime Minister David Cameron received congratulations from US President Barack Obama, who called him to praise the organisation and the performance of the British team.We reminded ourselves what we can do and, yes, we demonstrated that you should never ever count Team GB down and out, Cameron said earlier.Cameron said the Games had reflected the best of Britains multicultural make-up, taking the example of Mo Farah, the winner of the mens 10,000 title who went on to claim gold in the 5,000m on Saturday.Farah came to Britain as a refugee aged eight after spending his early years in Somalia and Djibouti.Its a Britain where a boy born in Somalia, Mo Farah, can come here, seize opportunities, and run his way into the nations heart, Cameron said.Its a Britain where we cheer ourselves hoarse not just for Team GB but for Team Jamaica or, as people have just done on the Mall, Team Uganda, he added, referring to the winner of Sundays mens marathon Stephen Kiprotich.Over the past couple of weeks, we have looked in the mirror and we like what we have seen as a country, he said.The final day of sport saw 15 medals decided, with the United States Dream Team wrapping up victory over Spain in the basketball final as the Americans cemented their place on top of the medal table ahead of China.The last day started in traditional style with the mens marathon, with Kiprotich delivering only Ugandas second ever Olympic gold medal in a race that finished in the shadow of Buckingham Palace.Kiprotich timed 2hr 08min 01sec on the spectacular course around the streets of central London, with two-time defending world champion Abel Kirui claiming silver in 2:08.27.Anthony Joshua handed Britain the perfect end to the Olympic boxing tournament with his super heavyweight triumph to win Britains 29th gold.Joshuas gold came amid drama as he clawed back a three-point deficit going into the third round against defending champion Roberto Cammarelle to level the bout at 18-all before being awarded the contest on countback -- the decision standing up on appeal.Ukraines lightweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko won a second successive Olympic gold medal when he added the lightweight title to the featherweight crown he captured in Beijing four years ago.Teenager Robeisy Ramirez joined the long list of Cuban Olympic ring kings with a victory in the flyweight final over Mongolias Tugstsogt Nyambayar.The moment I heard I won I fell on the floor because it was overwhelming. I am 18 years old and I am already an Olympic champion, said the teenager.

US win medal count, and British celebrate as well Posted: By any measure, the 2012 London Games will be considered a booming success for the United States.When the U.S. mens basketball team won the Olympic title Sunday, it clinched the 46th gold medal for Americans in London, marking the highest total the nation has ever taken home from a road Olympics. The U.S. winners of 104 medals overall in London, easily the most of any nation won 45 golds at Paris in 1924 and Mexico City in 1968.It means everything, U.S. basketball player LeBron James said.The final numbers for the Americans in London wont go down as record-setting, not coming close to the 83 gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and the 239 total from St. Louis in 1904, when U.S. athletes won roughly seven out of every eight medals awarded.Different eras, different dynamics.Many thought this would be the Olympics where the Chinese went home with more medals than the Americans, and that didnt come close to happening. China won 38 golds, its most ever on foreign soil, but finished 17 medals behind the U.S. overall and took a major step back from when it served as the host team four years ago.We are immensely proud of the success that our athletes had in London, U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun said Sunday.Host country Britain also had plenty of celebrate at these games: 29 gold medals, 65 medals overall, riding the wave of home-field energy for its best Olympic showing in more than a century to deliver on a promise of greatness in 2012 and possibly set the stage for continued emergence down the road.

USA take gold in men's basketball Posted: The United States beat an inspired Spain 107-100 in a fast-paced match to win the Olympic gold medal in mens basketball at North Greenwich Arena.With Kevin Durant leading the way with 30 points, the U.S. retained their Olympic title in a rematch of their closely-fought 2008 final in Beijing.Both teams pushed the ball upcourt in nonstop action to the roaring delight of the 20,000 fans packed in to see the gold medal game and were separated by just one point at halftime.The U.S. were still clinging to their one point lead at 83-82 going into the fourth quarter of a physical clash.Point guard Chris Paul and LeBron James, however, took control of the game at the start of the final quarter to give the United States some breathing room and the Americans built a nine-point lead at 95-86 midway through the fourth that they held on to.James scored 19 points as second-high scorer for the Americans behind Durant, while Kobe Bryant registered 17 points.Spanish centre Pau Gasol, who scored the first 13 points for Spain at the start of the third quarter to help them take a 71-70 lead, topped the scoring list for Spain with 24 points.Juan-Carlos Navarro, whose outside shooting fuelled the Spanish offense in the first half, had 21 points in the game.Croatia won gold in the mens water polo tournament, overpowering Italy 8-6 to win the countrys first Olympic title in the sport since its gained independence from Yugoslavia.The Croatians ran away with the match in the second half, with the Italians failing to threaten and struggling to find a way past the tournaments top-ranked goalkeeper in Croatias Josip Pavic.Both teams feature on the podium for the first time since 1996, when Croatia won silver and Italy took home bronze.Serbia won the bronze medal in a match against Montenegro.Lithuanias Laura Asadauskaite took gold in the womens modern pentathlon, storming to a convincing win in the combined shoot and run finale of the one-day event to bag the final medal of the Games.Britains Samantha Murray, who was in fourth place after the first three events of fencing, shooting and riding, took the silver to a deafening roar from the home crowd.The nail-biting combined finale, in which athletes shoot at five targets before running 1,000 metres, a procedure they repeat three times, is making its Olympic debut in London. The events were previously held separately.Brazils Yane Marques, who had gone into the shoot and run on level points with world number one Asadauskaite, stormed to an early lead after the first shoot but fell behind in the running laps around Greenwich Park, eventually taking bronze.

Russia defeat Brazil for Olympic volleyball gold Posted: Russia won the gold medal for the first time since 1980 with a come-from-behind five-set victory over Brazil on Sunday in the Olympic volleyball final.Second-ranked Russia dropped the first two sets before denying top-ranked Brazil match point twice to spark a comeback in the 19-25, 20-25, 29-27, 25-22, 15-9 victory, paced by middle blocker Dmitriy Muserskiy with 31 points.The Russians thought theyd won it on Muserskiys kill in the fifth set and began to celebrate, but the officials awarded the point to Brazil. After regrouping, Muserskiy came right back to spike match point.The win gives the Russians four gold medals in volleyball, most of any nation. But the last time Russia was atop the podium was at Moscow, when the former Soviet Union won gold on home soil.Russias victory denied Brazil a dual gold with its womens team, which beat the United States a day before in their Olympic final at Earls Court.Brazil also won the silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games, falling in an emotional final to the United States that came after U.S. coach Hugh McCutcheons father-in-law was killed at a Chinese tourist attraction a day before the opening ceremony.Italy won its fourth mens volleyball medal in the last five Olympics by beating Bulgaria for the bronze earlier on Sunday. The Italians won 25-19, 23-25, 25-22, 25-21, with captain Cristian Savani scoring a game-high 23 points.

France beat Sweden to keep Olympic handball title Posted: France beat Sweden by a single goal on Sunday to become the first mens handball team to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals.The world champions endured a tense second half to hold off Swedens comeback attempt and hold out for a 22-21 victory.We were superb. The players were outstanding and the fans incredible. What a magnificent game, atmosphere and occasion, said coach Claude Onesta. To win it four years ago was fantastic but to do it in London in the next Olympics was even better. We have a very experienced team which knows how to win the big occasions and we did it again.France took control of the game toward the end of the first half and led 10-8 at the break. The Swedes then came within one goal of drawling level three times in the second half but were unable to keep momentum against a French defense anchored by Didier Dinart, regarded as the worlds best backline player.The loss gave Sweden its fourth Olympic silver medal since 1992, having never won gold. Earlier, Croatia beat Hungary 33-26 to get the bronze.

Croatia wins 1st Olympic water polo title Posted: As grueling as winning Croatias first Olympic water polo title might be, celebrating it might turn out to be even more exhausting.Goalkeeper Josip Pavic anchored a sparkling Croatia defense, and Miho Boskovic and Maro Jokovic both scored twice in the second half as Croatia pulled away from Italy for an 8-6 win Sunday to claim the gold medal at the London Games.The win capped a perfect competition for Croatia, which rolled up an 8-0 record on the way to its first Olympic gold in mens water polo and second ever after its silver at the 1996 Atlanta Games.We played amazing the whole tournament, Boskovic said. I think we deserve 100 percent this medal. We played the best water polo and did our finest performance the last match.Now the hard work begins celebrating the win. For sure, we will not sleep the next two or three days, he added with a grin.

Olympics: Kiprotich wins marathon gold Posted: Marathon man Stephen Kiprotich delivered only Ugandas second ever Olympics gold medal on Sunday, celebrating victory in the shadow of Buckingham Palace as the curtain slowly dropped on the 2012 Games.Kiprotich timed 2hr 08min 01sec on the spectacular course around the streets of central London, with two-time defending world champion Abel Kirui claiming silver in 2:08.27.Another Kenyan, long-time leader Wilson Kipsang, took bronze in 2:09.37.I am very happy to win a medal for my country. I love my people. Uganda are very happy because we havent won a medal, said Kiprotich.

Record breaker Asadauskaite wins pentathlon gold Posted: Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania was crowned Olympic womens modern pentathlon champion on Sunday, the last of the 302 gold medals to be awarded at London 2012, with a new Olympic record.Great Britains Samantha Murray took the silver medal with Brazils Yane Marques coming in third.Asadauskaite, the 28-year-old world number one, proved too strong for fellow leader Marques in the combined running and shooting climax, taking gold with a record total of 5408 points.Murray, who had set off eight seconds adrift in fourth, put in a gritty effort in front of a near 23,000-capacity crowd at Greenwich Park, but had no answer to the winner.The 22-year-old local girl took silver with a points haul of 5356.Brazilian military officer Marques (5340 points) had set off at the same time as Asadauskaite but like Murray was unable to cope with the winners strength in the three 1000m lap finale.Asadauskaite, married to two-times Olympic medallist Andrejus Zadneprovskis, missed all of 2010 following the birth of her first child, but regained top spot in May.The world record for the five-pronged event of 5600 points is held by Germanys Lena Schoneburn, the defending champion from Beijing who had to settle for 15th place.

Britain's Joshua wins super heavyweight boxing gold Posted: Anthony Joshua won the super heavyweight gold medal in the Olympic boxing tournament Sunday in front of his hometown fans, rallying from a late deficit to beat defending gold medalist Roberto Cammarelle of Italy on a tiebreaker.Joshuas medal ceremony after his thrilling victory was delayed about 15 minutes while Italy protested the result, but its complaints were swiftly rejected by amateur boxings governing body. Joshua won Britains third boxing gold of its home Olympics, along with bantamweight Luke Campbell and womens flyweight Nicola Adams.Lightweight Vasyl Lomachenko completed his second consecutive domination of an Olympic tournament with his second gold medal, cementing his claim as the pound-for-pound champion of amateur boxing.

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