UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (AFP): The Security Council Friday unanimously agreed to expand the UN mission in Iraq despite the high level of insecurity in the country and resistance by United Nations staff. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said after the...
TEHRAN, Aug 11 (AFP): Iran and Iraq signed an agreement to build pipelines for the transfer of Iraqi crude oil and oil products, the state-run Iran news network Saturday quoted the oil ministry as announcing. The 32-inch (81-centimetre) pipeline will...
KENNEBUNKPORT, United States, Aug 11 (AFP): US President George W. Bush will greet French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy at his family compound in Maine Saturday for a casual lunch that could signal a new era of ties following chilly relations with...
ZAMBOANGA, Aug 11 (AFP): Thousands of people have fled their homes in the southern Philippine island of Jolo as troops pursue Muslim militants blamed for killing more than 20 soldiers, officials said today. Jolo brigade commander Colonel Anthony Supnet said...
GUWAHATI, India, Aug 11 (AFP): Suspected separatists in northeast India shot dead 11 people in the latest ethnic attack ahead of India's Independence Day celebrations, police said today. Separately, a child was killed and 18 people were injured in two...
STOCKHOLM, Aug 11 (AFP): Climate change and a potential water shortage in some regions, also due to the diversion of water to crops for biofuels, will be at the centre of the 2007 World Water Week which opens here Monday,...
M A IslamMANY students just read some chapters once and they go to exam hall only to face difficult time to reproduce what they have learned at home -ultimately they perform poorly in the exam. If you read any item...
AIM Jakaria RahmanTECHNOLOGY is for now and, thus, it is for the future. Information technology (IT) has forever changed the way the librarians serve their patrons. All indications are that the changes will continue. Librarians are adopting dramatically different roles...
Ishmam Raidah RahmanI looked into her deep blue azure eyes. They were sparkling and twinkling and looked full of energy. Her porcelain skin was glowing under the warm bright sun. Her full lips were coated in a warm red glow...
James Wilson AS competition for MBA students intensifies, the staff of Bradford University School of Management have cause to be satisfied with the performance of their often unfairly overlooked institution.Last year Bradford welcomed 156 people onto its full-time MBA programme...
FE ReportHundreds of organizations in Asia Pacific have tested or participated in previews of the latest release of the world's most popular database, Oracle Database 11g. With more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development,...
Anick JesdanunAdd gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes's dominance.The Cupertino, Calif., startup was forced out of a stealth mode when Universal Music Group announced late Thursday it would test sales...
Mike BantickThe NPD Group have released results from their "Next Gen Functionality & Usage" report and some of the results must be awfully disappointing to the marketing departments of the big electronic companies.Turns out that a large portion of next-gen...
In the mobile phone version of the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" video game, the torches hanging along the dark walls of Hogwarts glow in an eerily realistic fashion."We invented the technology, it's called 'dynamic lighting'," said...
Mike BantickBungie's third iteration of the popular Xbox exclusive is continuing the hype on the Xbox 360 with pre-orders for the soon to be released game reaching a milestone 1 million mark.Making it the official 'most anticipated' game in history...
A range of phones based on reference designs created by Microsoft is set to arrive in Australia in mid October. The highlight is the 'RoundTable' desktop conferencing phone developed over a four and a half year period by Microsoft Research.RoundTable...
England lost Kevin Pietersen shortly before tea and reached the interval at 210-5, still 454 runs behind, on day three of the final Test against India, reports BBC. Pietersen had shared 78 in 26 overs with Paul Collingwood when he...
LOS ANGELES, Aug 11 (AFP): French Open finalist Ana Ivanovic booked a semi- final berth at a 600,000-dollar US Open tune-up here Friday with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Russian Maria Kirilenko. Kirilenko, who upset sixth-seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli in...
UNB news agency reached the quarterfinals of the Meril Media Cup Football tournament as group champions with all-win record beating former champions Jugantor by 1-0 goal Saturday, reports UNB.Mohammad Russell scored the match-winner for UNB in the 7th minute and...
The Pakistan Cricket Board has taken note of scathing comments made by Abdul Razzaq on a TV show recently, though it stopped short of saying whether any disciplinary action would be taken against him, reports Cricinfo. Razzaq told Geo TV,...
World number two Rafael Nadal came through an unexpectedly tough battle to beat home favourite Frank Dancevic and reach the Montreal Masters semi-finals, reports BBC. Nadal fought back in Friday's night match to win 4-6 6-2 6-3 and set up...
Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, defended the board's decision to fine Shoaib Akhtar after he left the training camp in Karachi without permission. "No matter who the individual is he will not be given special treatment...
Jai Prakash Yadav, the Indian allrounder, has expressed an interest in joining the Indian Cricket League (ICL). Yadav is currently in negotiations with ICL officials and, if he does sign up, will become the first Indian player to do so....
Saiful KaiserEngland is looking down the barrel of a gun. However, they are not about to give up. Though Kumble struck twice to have them reeling at 124 for 4, Collingwood and Pietersen carried on to reach 184 without further...
Bangladesh national cricket team spent their first day in extensive training at the warfare wing of the Bangladesh Army's School of Infantry and Tactics (SI&T) at Jalalabad Cantonment in Sylhet Saturday, reports UNB.All the players except vice captain Mashrafee Bin...
Grouping and fixture of the Merdeka Cup Football Tournament'2007 have been changed following the last minute inclusion of Lesotho and Zimbabwe in the meet.Bangladesh, earlier placed in Group A, now have been put in the Group B along with Singapore,...
The International Youth Day will be observed today (Sunday) in a befitting manner in the country as elsewhere in the world, reports BSS. The theme of this year's day is " Be seen, Be heard: Youth Participation for Development".The Youth...
SIRAJGANJ, Aug 11 (UNB): Flood triggered by heavy rainfall and onrush of hilly waters paralysed normal life of the people of the district and killed at least 30 people in last two weeks.The flood has caused miseries to the life...
Ten persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Jhenidah, a man and his wife were killed in snakebite at Konagram in Moheshpur Upazila early...
FE Report The RDRS (Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Services), a non-governmental organisation, has provided food relief worth over Tk 18 million to about 30,400 flood-affected people in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat Districts. As immediate assistance in the second phase, the RDRS is distributing...
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