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Pulitzer Prize winning New York columnist Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies
• 8 years agoBreslin, who died Sunday at 88, was a fixture in New York journalism, notably with the New York Daily News, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for pieces that, among others, exposed police torture in Queens and took a sympathetic look at the life of an AIDS patient.
New York Imam, assistant shot dead; community points to increasing Islamophobila in US
Fp Staff • 9 years agoImam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and his assistant, 64-year-old Thara Uddin, were shot at point-blank range just before 2 pm on Saturday in Queens, New York.
Ivan Lendl back in Andy Murray's court in time for Wimbledon 2016
• 9 years agoBritish tennis player Andy Murray boosted his bid for a second Wimbledon title on Sunday by recalling Ivan Lendl, who coached him to his success on 'home turf' in 2013, to his team.
Rafael Nadal's Wimbledon hopes dim after withdrawal from Queen's
• 9 years agoRafael Nadal's hopes of winning a third Wimbledon title are in doubt after he withdrew from the key warm-up event Queen's on Wednesday due to the wrist injury that brought to a halt his French Open campaign.
All Stars T20 cricket in New York: Tendulkar, Warne, Ganguly, Sehwag, bring your woollens along!
Nikhila Natrajan • 9 years agoSachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne, who retired from the game in 2013, will each captain a team of some of the finest international players of the past 35 years. Some of the players are as old as 52, playing three exhibition Twenty20s in New York, Los Angeles and Houston.
Paes-Nestor reach Aegon Championships semifinals
Fp Archives • 10 years agoIndian Tennis Star Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor beat Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal in straight sets to enter the semifinals of the ATP Aegon Championships.
Tennis: Nadal sent packing at Queen's, Wawrinka and Murray win
Fp Archives • 10 years agoJust when it seemed safe for Rafa Nadal devotees to peer up from behind the sofa the Spaniard suffered another horror show at the hands of Ukrainian spin wizard Alexandr Dolgopolov at Queen's Club on Tuesday.
US woman faces 25 years in prison for killing Indian man
Fp Archives • 10 years agoA 33-year-old woman in the US faces up to 25 years in prison for pleading guilty to pushing an Indian man to death in front of a subway train in 2012
NRI pleads guilty to killing homeless Indian man in New York
Fp Archives • 11 years agoAn Indian-origin man has pleaded guilty to beating to death another Indian homeless man after he made disparaging remarks about his sister and faces 11 years in prison.
New York to get ballots in Bengali
Fp Archives • 12 years agoSouth Asians in Queens locality of New York will for the first time find ballots translated into Bengali, the first new language to be introduced at city polling booths in more than a decade, election officials said.