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After India claimed World Cup glory on the night of April 2, not many remembered that it was the spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan's last ever International match.

India has won the Cricket World Cup by beating out Sir Lanka by six wickets. Below are pictures from the championship game that gave India the victory.

India’s cricket team powered past rival and fellow co-host Sri Lanka to win the Cricket World Cup in front of rabid fans at the Wankhede Stadium in the city of Mumbai.

India just won the Cricket World Cup by edging out Sir Lanka by six wickets. A country crazy about the sport of cricket, its fans have gone wild in celebration.

The European Union filed an appeal against an aircraft subsidies ruling on Friday just hours after calling it a victory, a tactical move in a transatlantic game of global trade chess.

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Witticisms, super pranks, ultimate gags, hoaxes and plain lies are searching for fools this day. People turn the most cynical this day so that they don’t look naive, and turn on their gullibility meter at the highest level of alert. But a lot of us are caught off guard by some comic concoctions that mix contemporary humor with ingenious lies which are sometimes delectable.

April Fool's Day frenzy grips Twitter, with tweeps playing pranks, and a flood of jokes on celebrities like Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga.

A Chinese-Australian writer whose disappearance in China ignited alarm during a crackdown on dissent said on Friday he is safe and plans to return to Australia in coming days.

China has set its total output of rare earth at 93,800 tonnes this year, 4,600 tonnes more or 5.16 percent higher compared to last year's, the Ministry of Land and Resources said on Thursday.

The US corporate tax rate is supposed to be 35 percent. However, due to various rules and exemptions, the actual tax rate is much lower.

With the +1 button on its search engine, besides adding a social tinge, Google continues long-drawn war against Facebook.

Shares in Taiwan's AU Optronics Corp jumped as much as 6 percent on Thursday after a report that the world's No.4 LCD maker has won an order to provide flat panel screens for Apple Inc's hot-selling iPad 2 tablet.

Weeks after Rebecca Black released the song Friday, which got the internet buzzing about it being the worst song ever made, her name is still making rounds.

Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie isn't convinced that tablets will stick around.

The Australian dollar, which was free floated in 1983, just hit an all-time high against the US dollar.

Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International said it made an unsolicited $5.7 billion bid to buy Cephalon Inc and plans to make its case directly to Cephalon shareholders.

A lifesize train set - comprising a 120-year-old steam locomotive, antique carriages, almost nine miles of track and a railway station - is being offered for sale on a New Zealand auction website.

Australia's Qantas Airways plans to scale back some flights and cut management jobs to help offset soaring fuel prices and an estimated A$140 million ($144 million) hit to its earnings from a string of natural disasters in key markets.

Australia's Qantas Airways plans to axe capacity and management jobs and retire some aircraft early under cost-cutting measures aimed at offsetting soaring fuel prices and the impact of natural disasters in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

Amongst all the talk of war, when India faces Pakistan in the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup, it would be good to remember that at the end of the day, it is a Cricket match.