MANCHESTER, Sept 27 (AFP): Sir Alex Ferguson admitted he was 'flabbergasted' after two goals from Maltese striker Michael Mifsud sealed a stunning 2-0 League Cup victory for Championship outfit Coventry at Old Trafford. Ferguson, who made eleven changes from the...
Bangladesh Special Olympics team left the city Thursday for China to take part in the Special Olympics Summer World Games (OSWG) scheduled to be held in Shanghai from October 2 to 11.The Bangladesh team consists of 48 players and 19...
Matuail Udayan Sangsad take on Lalbagh SC as the Metropolis 3rd Division Football super league begins today (Friday) at 1:45 pm at the Bir Shreshtho Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in the city.In the day's other match,...
COLOMBO, Sept 27 (AFP): Sri Lanka's tsunami-hit cricket stadium at Galle is embroiled in a heritage row as it races to host the final Test of the England tour in December, officials said Thursday. Jayananda Warnaweera, the curator overseeing its...
The Football Association has charged Chelsea for failing to control their players during the 2-0 defeat away at Manchester United Sunday, reports BBC. Assistant boss Steve Clarke has also been charged with using abusive and/or insulting words towards officials. Chelsea...
TIANJIN, Sept 27 (AFP): Norway's coach admits he faces an uphill battle lifting his shattered team for the World Cup third-place play-off after their demoralising loss to Germany. But Bjarne Berntsen said the 1995 champions, drummed out 3-0 late Wednesday,...
FE ReportJalal Ahmed joined the Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation (Petrobangla) as chairman on September 24.Earlier, he was the chief metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka for about three years. Ahmed, an officer of the 1982 batch of BCS, has...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (AP): Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that Iran's disputed nuclear programme is "closed" as a political issue and said Tehran will ignore UN Security Council demands and sanctions imposed by "arrogant powers" to curb its...
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 26 (AP): Pakistan's serpentine politics took another twist Wednesday after former Premier Benazir Bhutto's party declared it would contest the Oct. 6 presidential election - but only if President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is barred from running. The announcement...
BEIJING, Sept 26 (Reuters): China has banned "sexually provocative sounds" on television and pulled the plug on a show reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month. The order, issued by the State Administration...
YANGON, Sept 26 (AP): Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while hauling Buddhist monks away in trucks Wednesday as they tried to stop anti-government demonstrations in defiance of a ban on assembly. The junta had banned all...
Ecuador leader has nointerest in power NEW YORK, Sept 26 (AP): Ecuador's leftist president said he would not follow the lead of his close Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez and seek to abolish limits on his re-election, vowing he had no...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (AP): Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused the US of imposing a worldwide dictatorship and defended the right of Iran and North Korea to pursue nuclear technology in a speech Tuesday before the UN General Assembly meeting....
HANOI, SEPT 26 (AP): A bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 34 workers and leaving scores more trapped or injured, officials said.The Japanese-funded bridge was being built across the Hau River, a branch of the...
KABUL, Sept 26 (AFP): NATO and US-led troops backed up by warplanes have killed more than 120 Taliban insurgents in two major battles in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. One soldier was killed, a trooper with the 15,000-strong US-led coalition...
PANAMA CITY, SEPT 26 (AP): Six Syrians and a Cuban who were detained in Panama after a flight crew reported suspicious behavior told authorities that three of them had approached the cockpit by mistake, police said Tuesday.The men, who were...
Bangladesh's dream of having a nuclear power plant may at last come true. To this end, it will submit a comprehensive proposal to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the middle of next month. The energy adviser, after his...
Mir Hossain ZafarAPART from meeting domestic demand for all kinds of plastics products, the flourishing plastic industry is also found helping notably the value-addition of the readymade garments (RMG) industries. The RMG industries are presently the backbone of the country's...
Philip Stephens THE banks, we used to think, are as safe as houses. The trials of Northern Rock have left neither looking especially secure. After years in the stratosphere, house prices now look set to succumb to the force of...
THE economy, badly battered by two spells of flood in the country's north, north-east, central and south-central regions, is in recession. That is a hard fact of life and the government should take this into consideration while drawing up its...
BEIJING, Sept 26 (AFP): China has become a leader in tearing down barriers to business, a report from an arm of the World Bank said today. The world's fourth-largest economy has been "a standout in regulatory reform," the International Finance...
TOKYO, Sept 26 (AFP): Japan said today its trade surplus nearly quadrupled in August, marking the biggest increase in 24 years thanks to fast-growing exports to the rest of Asia and Europe. The sharp increase, driven in large part by...
KALMAR, Sweden, Sept 26 (AFP): A giant Chinese wholesale market hoping to attract retailers from across northern Europe opens in Sweden this week, but experts doubt whether merchants will actually flock to the venue. The Sweden-China commodity wholesale market, located...
SYDNEY, Sept 26 (AFP): Australia will not follow the United States and impose economic sanctions on Myanmar because doing so "would have absolutely no impact," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said. Downer, who is in New York for the United Nations...
SINGAPORE, Sept 26 (AFP): Oil prices rebounded from overnight losses in Asian trade today on expectations of a drawdown in US crude reserves, dealers said. At 2:15 pm (0615 GMT) New York's main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery,...
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 26 (AFP): Kuwait has again increased its budget for a new oil refinery to more than 14 billion dollars after scrapping an initial tender round because of high cost estimates from international bidders. "The new budget approved...
TOKYO, Sept 26 (AFP): The euro struck another record high against the dollar in Asian trade today on growing concerns that the world's largest economy is losing steam, dealers said. They said that another batch of sluggish data had sparked...
YANGON, Sept. 26 (Xinhua): India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh Ltd has signed production sharing contracts with Myanmar to explore natural gas in three deep-sea blocks in Myanmar's western Rakhine offshore areas, official press media reported today....
Tom Engelhardt Let's take a trip down memory lane. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is America's highest civilian award, ranking second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor. According to its official website, the medal "is reserved for individuals the...
Krishna Bagchi"Hi dad, bhaia is OK. My exam is going to begin next month and I'm coming home right after it. I just can't wait any more to see you and mom," Shammi Akhter Happy, a student of Dhaka University's...
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