Sachin Tendulkar Fires Record 200 Against South Africa

The 36-Year-old was in form as they Indomitable bludgeoned 25 fours and three Sixes in a stunning 200 off 147 balls.

It passed the previous best of 194 set by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar in 1997 and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry last year.

And it saw the India, aided by a fabulous cameo of 68 off 35 balls from Mahendra Dhoni, to a superb 401-3 from 50 overs.

Tendulkar, Whose previous best one-day knock was the 186 not out he scored against New Zealand in 1999, is already the leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket.

Bout To Have reached such a landmark, with a single in the final over, only serves to underline his class and add to the legacy that already Surrounds arguably the finest batsman To Have played the game.Read More Story,http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8534309.stm

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Joannie Rochette: Figure Skating's Moment Beyond Medals

Instead, there were tears, there was pride, and there was palpable sense among each person in the building that they had been witness to something that Will Linger in the memory for a lifetime, and medals had no part in it.

Sunday morning, Rochette's mother, Thérèse, passed away unexpectedly here in Vancouver, where she had come to watch her daughter skate. Tuesday night, Rochette skated as close to perfect as she possibly could.

(The Monitor spoke with Mrs.. Rochette in January. Read about the deep pride in her daughter's achievements that she shared in the interview.)

The judges put a value on its skating by sea, and even by that measure, it was the best short program of her season. In this case, however, the numbers were a poor indication of the enormity of the performance.Read More Story,http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Olympics/2010/0224/Joannie-Rochette-figure-skating-s-moment-beyond-medals

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UK Lawmakers Criticise Murdoch Paper Over Hacking

A Parliamentary committee has said in a media report it was "inconceivable" that managers at the News of the World did not know about the practice, the legislators said Which was more widespread than the Sunday newspaper had previously admitted.

News International, the British arm of Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA.O) which publishes the News of the World ", rejected the claims and the Committee Accused of bias against it.

"The reaction of the committee to its failure to find any new evidence has been to make claims of 'collective amnesia', deliberate obfuscation and concealment of the truth," it said.

In 2007, Clive Goodman, who reported on the British royal family for the paper, was Jailed for four months after writing stories based on phone taps of royal aides carried out by a private detective.

News International has always maintained that Goodman acted without the knowledge of senior editors and his actions had been an isolated incident.

But the cross-party parliamentary committee said in its report: "The evidence, we find, makes it inconceivable that no-one else at the News of the World, bar Mr. Goodman, was aware of the activities."

Last July, the left-Leaning Guardian newspaper said News of the World Reporters, with the knowledge of senior staff, had illegally accessed messages from the mobile phones of thousands of celebrities and politicians.Read More Story,http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE61N0OS20100224?type=marketsNews

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