PESHAWAR, Pakistan: West Indies beat Pakistan by four wickets in the first one day ‘cricket international here today. Scores Pakistan 164 for seven’ (49 overs), West Indies 165 for six (45.3 overs).

BUNDABERG, Australia: England took four wicket sin the 90 minutes of play up to tea on the rain delayed second day of their three day cricket match against a Queensland country XI today.

RAWALPINDI Pakistan: West Indies lost the wicket of opener Gordon Greenidge cheaply today as they made a slow start to their three day cricket match against a Pakistan President’s XI,

SYDNEY, Oct. 19, Reuter: Wimbledon champion Boris Becker dropped the first set but came back to overpower Ivan Lendl 36,76 (72) 62, 60 in the final of the Australian indoor tennis championship here today.

BARCELONA. SPAIN: Barcelona is brimming with civic pride at being awarded the 1992 Olympic Games after yearning for World recognition for  more than a century,

Since the industrial revolution, this bustling Mediterranean Port near the French border has looked to northern Europe for inspiration and guidance. Its stormy relationship with the rest of Spain has been that of a precocious sibling trying to drag its Hispanic brothers into the modern World.

Article extracted from this publication >> October 24, 1986