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April 2010
When Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik – an Indian tennis star and Pakistan's cricket hero – fell in love, it offended Hindu sensibilities and bolstered Muslim pride
Had everything gone to plan, Fiona MacKeown should have been sitting in a courtroom in Panaji, Goa, on Friday afternoon, giving evidence for the prosecution in the case of the two men charged with killing her daughter, Scarlett Keeling. Instead she is back home on her smallholding near the village of Bradworthy in Devon, cursing the Icelandic volcano that spewed ash into the skies of northern Europe, grounding her flight to India and confounding her hopes of testifying. The 45-year-old can barely keep the frustration out of her voice. This, after all, was meant to be the culmination of her efforts over the past two years to get justice for her daughter, whose bruised, semi-naked body was found on Anjuna beach in north Goa while on a family holiday in February 2008.
There may be scandal off the pitch and shock results on it, but the fans at the DY Patil cricket stadium are still enthralled
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Corruption
adds extra spice to the IPL's cocktail of Bollywood, rock and sport,