BERNE, Switzerland, Oct 10 (Reuters): Five members of Italy's 2006 World Cup winning side have been named on the 30-strong shortlist for FIFA's 2007 World Player of the Year award. Last year's winner Fabio Cannavaro features once again alongside team-mates...
LONDON, Oct 10 (AFP): Steve McClaren has signalled his intention to ignore Newcastle's anxiety over Michael Owen and ask the injury-prone striker to lead England's attack against both Estonia and Russia. Estonia should not present Wayne Rooney and co. with...
LONDON, Oct 10 (AFP): Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez is being linked Wednesday to a January move for Dutch club Heerenveen's Brazilian front man Afonso Alves. The rumours are bound to fuel rumours that Peter Crouch is on his way out...
TOKYO, Oct 10 (AFP): Scottish champions Celtic want to keep Japan star Shunsuke Nakamura "as long as possible" and will let him name the length of his next contract, a report said Wednesday. Chief executive Peter Lawwell said Celtic wanted...
STOCKHOLM, Oct 10 (AFP): James Blake struggled for two and a half hours to maintain his perfect career mark at the Stockholm Open, earning his 11th win in a battling victory over Jonas Bjorkman 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 6-3. The American's...
VIENNA, Oct 10 (AFP): Top seed Novak Djokovic made a positive start to his Vienna campaign when he defeated American Robby Ginepri 6-3, 6-4 to reach the second round of the CA-BA Trophy Tuesday. There were a remarkable seven breaks...
CAPE TOWN, Oct 10 (AFP): World football's governing body FIFA said Tuesday that South Africa's programme of stadium building remained on schedule, despite a recent strike by construction workers in Cape Town. "So far, things are all right," FIFA spokesman...
BAGHDAD, OCT 10 (AP): Guards working for an Australian-owned security company working for a company contracted by USAID fired on a car as it approached their convoy Tuesday, killing two women civilians before speeding away from the latest bloodshed blamed...
COLOMBO, OCT 10 (AP): Separatist Tamil Tiger rebels attacked government soldiers guarding the front lines in northern Sri Lanka, setting off gunbattles that killed 12 rebels, the military said Wednesday. A separate clash in the east killed one rebel. A...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Oct 10 (AFP): Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen offered funeral prayers Wednesday as they buried 50 people killed in military air strikes after days of heavy clashes near the Afghan border, officials said. The army said it had only...
PESHAWAR, OCT 10 (AP): The government of a troubled Pakistani province was dissolved Wednesday amid differences between rival Islamist groups that could strengthen President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's hold on power.Gov. Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai dissolved the Provincial Assembly of North...
WASHINGTON, OCT 10 (AP): Congressional Democrats have put off action on legislation that would order US troops home from Iraq and are turning instead to other war-related proposals that Republicans are finding hard to turn down.The legislative agenda marks a...
KAMPALA, Oct 10 (AFP): The United Nations food agency and charity group Oxfam warned Tuesday that thousands of Ugandans affected by recent floods will face months of starvation if assistance is not stepped up. "The situation is dire for hundreds...
Malaysia to allow maids from India, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 (AFP): Malaysia will allow householders to employ maids from India, Laos, Nepal and Vietnam as the government seeks to counter a shortage of domestic workers from Indonesia,...
JESSORE, Oct 9 (BSS): Members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) seized 50 packets of smuggled Indian powdered milk, Tk .10 million in cash and arrested two persons along with a pick-up van from in front of Akij Filling Station on the...
KHAGRACHHARI, Oct 9 (BSS): Helen Keller Inter-national (HKI) Bangladesh will improve the distribution of vitamin A capsule among the hard-to-reach children in the Chittagong Hill Tracts through community mobilisation project.This three year project (2007-10) will be funded by Standard Chartered...
JAMALPUR, Oct 9 (UNB): The police in a drive arrested three drug peddlers along with 3kg hemp and huge amount of Indian birth control pills at Sanandabari Sylhetpara in Dewanganj Upazila here Saturday morning.The police said acting on a tip-off...
SATKHIRA, Oct 9 (UNB): Indian Border Security Force(BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles exchanged gunfire on Taluigachha frontier in Sadar Upazila Monday midnight.BDR sources said as BSF members of Tarali camp fired 10 rounds of bullet towards Bangladesh border without any provocation...
COX'S BAZAR, Oct 9 (UNB): Burglars stole a century old brass-made statue of Buddha from a temple of an indigenous group at Gorokghata in Maheshkhali Upazila early Monday.Local people said a gang of burglars took away the precious statue weighing...
Dhaka University conferred Ph.D degree on Md Tawhidur Rahman at a syndicate meeting recently. His thesis entitled "Allama Abul Hashim's Philosophy of Life and His Contribution to Islamic Hhought" was supervised by senior professor ABM Habibur Rahman Chowdhury, Depart-ment of...
Deputy Managing Director of Oman Bangladesh Leasing and Finance Limited Asadul Hoque passed away due to massive heart attack Saturday at the United Hospital in the city at the age of 57. He left behind his wife, one son, one...
Bangladesh won two more gold medals in the Special Olympics World Summer Games (SOWSG) 2007 Tuesday now being held in Shanghai, reports UNB.The athletes earned two gold medals, one in 100-metre sprint and the other in shot put, according to...
LAHORE, Oct 6 (BBC): South Africa finished day two of the final Test against Pakistan on top after reducing the hosts to 140-4. The tourists were bowled out for 357, with Danish Kaneria claiming 4-114 after Mark Boucher (54) and...
COLOMBO, Oct 9 (BBC): Paul Collingwood has set his sights on sealing a first one-day series triumph for England in Sri Lanka by winning Wednesday's fourth game in Colombo. The captain was passed fit after a precautionary scan on his...
Darrell Hair has dropped his claim of racial discrimination against the International Cricket Council, reports BBC. The Australian took action after being dropped from the elite umpires list following the controversial Oval Test between England and Pakistan in 2006. The...
LOS ANGELES, Oct 9 (AFP): Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has been stripped of her gold medals from the 2000 Olympics and asked to repay more than 100,000 dollars in prize and bonus money, the United States Olympic Committee said Monday....
India have called up uncapped batsman Subramaniam Badrinath to replace groin injury-victim Gautam Gambhir for the fifth one-day match against Australia, reports BBC. Badrinath, 27, has been prolific in domestic cricket and will join the squad in Vadodara for Thursday's...
The national booters undergoing residential training under the supervision of coach Nayeemuddin at BKSP are going on Eidul Fitr holidays today (Wednesday), reports UNB.National team coordinator Amirul Islam Babu told the news agency that the booters would resume training on...
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will not be risked in the remaining two one-day games against England as he is still struggling with a biceps injury, reports BBC. Muralitharan's manager Kushil Gunasekera said: "He has just started to bowl and...
The government has decided to call back two officers from the Bangladesh Mission Labour Wing in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and cancelled licences of four recruiting agencies amidst the on-going row over employment of the Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, reports UNB....
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