SEOUL, June 22 (AFP): US envoy Christopher Hill said Friday he has "useful and positive" talks on a rare visit to North Korea and the regime was prepared to shut down the reactor at the heart of its nuclear programme....
ISLAMABAD, June 22 (AP): From the dusty streets of Punjab to the privileged ranks of the ruling parliamentary party, the mood in Pakistan is turning against its military leader. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's bungled attempt to oust the country's top...
WASHINGTON, June 22 (AFP): Rebel Republicans vowed Thursday to use every legislative trick at their disposal to kill a fresh Senate bid to grant a path to eventual citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants. The measure, part of a sweeping...
BAGHDAD, June 22 (AP): US soldiers detained 18 suspected militants in raids targeting roadside bomb networks in the Baghdad area, a day after 14 more American troops were reported killed, most in powerful explosions that struck their armored vehicles. Iraqis...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 22 (AFP): A NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan early Friday killed 25 civilians, including nine women and three young children, a provincial police chief said. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed its troops called in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, June 22 (AFP): Bad weather forced NASA to abandon plans to land the space shuttle Atlantis in Florida Thursday, keeping the ship's seven astronauts in orbit for at least another day. The shuttle had two windows of...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 22 (AP): Sporadic gunfire and occasional blasts were heard Friday from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a day after Lebanon's defense minister declared that Islamic militants inside the camp were defeated and that major combat...
WASHINGTON, June 22 (AFP): US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday US forces face more tough fighting in Iraq and his top military adviser said the rising level of violence was the "wrong metric" for judging the surge. The comments...
Commercial Bank of CeylonJune 17 - June 21, 2007Local USD BDT market was eventful last week. Total volume of transaction was around USD 68.43 million against USD 77.10 million in the previous week.Average volatility of USD BDT rate throughout the...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate marginally eased last week in an active market despite withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills and Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills, fund managers said.The central bank, on...
Sri Lanka A raced to 170 for 4 in just 36.3 overs before rain caused play to be abandoned on the final day of their game against Bangladesh at the Colts Cricket Club ground in Colombo Friday, reports Cricinfo. After...
Bangladesh Navy blanked Narayanganj 3-0 in the Salton Pharmaceuticals National Hockey Championship at Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium in the city Friday, reports BSS.Bulbul Islam pulled off the lead for Navy with his seventh minute strike, while Mamun Hossain gave...
Four-times French Open champion Justine Henin took just 59 minutes to beat Marion Bartoli 6-1 6-3 and reach the final of the Eastbourne International, reports BBC. The Belgian top seed looked in great form a week before Wimbledon, breaking the...
Coaching hopeful Geoff Lawson believes Pakistan can produce the best cricket team in the world if express paceman Shoaib Akhtar stays fit for extended periods, according to Internet.After being interviewed in Pakistan this week for the position of national coach,...
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 22 (AP): Juan Roman Riquelme, hours after leading Boca Juniors to its sixth Copa Libertadores championship, joined the 22-man Argentine squad that flew Thursday to Venezuela for the Copa America.Hours before the team departed, Riquelme was the...
LONDON, Jun 22 (Internet): Paul Collingwood was named captain of England's one-day cricket team Friday.The allrounder succeeded Michael Vaughan, who stepped down after England's lackluster performance at this year's World Cup.Collingwood was one of the few team's few successes in...
CHICAGO, Jun 22 (Internet): Mexico and the United States will meet in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final Sunday, just as expected. But neither is looking very much like a favourite. "No, I'm not satisfied," Mexico coach Hugo Sanchez said. "I...
SEOUL, Jun 22 (AFP): South Korean striker Lee Chun-Soo has welcomed reports that Chelsea are interested in him, saying he is keen on a move to the English Premier League. Various reports in England have linked the Ulsan Tigers front...
CHITTAGONG, Jun 22 (UNB): Chittagong Abahani forced giant Muktijoddha Sangsad KC to a 1-1 draw in a return match of the B League at the MA Aziz Stadium here Friday.Despite the day's draw, Muktijoddha Sangasad regained the top slot securing...
Wari Club earned a straight 3-0 sets win over Dhaka Mariner Youngs Club in a match of the AB Bank Metropolis Senior Division Table Tennis League at the NSC Wooden Floor Gymnasium in the city Friday, reports UNB.In the day's...
Colin Montgomerie was the second big name to pull out of the BMW International Open in Munich, which started Thursday, reports, BBC. The Scot, who missed the cut at last week's US Open, flew to Canada Monday for a pro-am...
Tasnuva IslamThe terms governance and good governance are being increasingly used nowadays. Governance describes the process of decision-making, and the process, by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented).Good governance defines an ideal, which is nearly impossible or difficult to...
Kerstin SucherWeimar is small. It lies in the green heartland of Germany, in Thuringia, and has just about 65,000 inhabitants. Yet it still enjoys world fame as a city of literature, art, music and history. It was founded by many...
Syed Fattahul AlimPhilosophers and scientists of enlightenment freed human thought from the domination of papacy and the tyranny of bigotry born of religion. Since then science dominated human philosophy and thought and the course of his development path. Scientific revolution,...
Rita Bhoumick When the bus pulls up to a stop it is already filled with passengers, some of them standing on its door. Fatema is one of about a dozen people who rush to the bus to try to get...
Matthew Bigg The Umoja shantytown was intended to shock. Just a few miles (kilometres) from the luxury condos of Miami Beach, it stood as a protest at the lack of affordable city housing. Its shacks, made of cardboard and wood...
Martin Wolf"In Rome everything is for sale." - Prince Jugurtha in Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum "Yes to market economy, no to market society." - Lionel Jospin, French Socialist ex-prime minister.It is capitalism, not communism, that generates what the communist Leon Trotsky...
Vaclav KlausWe are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough ¨C irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent ¨C for the environmentalists and...
Ed Crooks and Javier Blas in LondonBiofuels will provide only a small proportion of the world's demand for fuel in the next decade, the developed countries' energy watchdog has said in an attempt to reassure Opec that the need for...
Anna Fifield in SeoulThe South Korean government must move beyond piecemeal financial liberalisation and institute fundamental structural reforms to generate new economic momentum, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says.In particular, Seoul should try to be more attractive to...
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