England v Pakistan series to go ahead

CARDIFF: The first Twenty20 international between England and Pakistan was set to go ahead as planned on Sunday despite the latest allegations in the fixing controversy, Pakistan manager Yawar Saeed said.

The Pakistan team held an emergency meeting after The News of the World reported that a fourth player was being investigated over match-rigging allegations, leading to speculation that they could pull out of the series.

“We are going to the ground for the match and that means the series is on,” Yawar told Geo Super Channel.

The newspaper quoted Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed as saying that some of his team mates were fixing matches.

Hameed again denied making these allegations, even though the newspaper released a video of the interview with him.

“I was approached by this guy about a deal for sticker sponsorship on my bat. It was a general

Ethiopia monitors to probe rigging in polls

European Union election observers in Ethiopia are investigating complaints of irregularities, but say it was largely peaceful and calm.
The opposition has complained of electoral malpractice, but the EU said the turnout had been encouraging. The ruling party of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is expected to win. The parliamentary poll is seen as a test for the country after the 2005 disputed election led to violence. The opposition may be citing irregularities but it knows it had little chance against the might of the ruling party machine, he says. Five years ago, Mr Meles had a shock as an opposition coalition came close to winning the election.
Protests against the result led to almost 200 opposition supporters being shot dead in the streets and opposition leaders were detained. This time, there would be much debate as to whether the ruling party’s certain victory is down to impressive efforts at developing the country or state harassment of the opposition, our reporter says. There were thousands of local observers spread out across the country although some in the opposition do not see them as neutral. The Ethiopian government banned foreign embassy staff from monitoring the poll. It did not see them as experts on elections and said it did not want diplomatic relations blurred. The European Union had 170 observers on the ground.
Some 32 million people were registered to elect the 547 members of the lower House of Representatives, along with regional councilors who in turn choose the upper house of parliament. Ethiopia’s electoral commission has until 21 June to declare the results.

Brazil to have nuke submarine reactor in 2014

Brazil will finish the first reactor for its nuclear submarine in 2014, the navy’s nuclear propulsion program chief Andre Ferreira Marques said in an interview.
The reactor will be powered initially with five-per cent enriched uranium and eventually with 20-per cent, he said in the interview with the state’s Agencia Brasil news agency.
Brasilia will begin building its nuclear sub in 2016 and complete it in 2021, an adaptation of the Scorpene bought from France. The sub reactor will be used as a model for future Brazilian nuclear power plant reactors, he added.
Brazil is working towards self-sufficiency in nuclear fuel from 2014, official said.

I Feel Lonely Inside: Shah Rukh Khan

MUMBAI: Thanks to his irrepressible sense of humour, Shah Rukh Khan comes across as an easy going person. But in real life the Bollywood star is little different and one of the things he is extremely finicky about is his socks.

“I have a strange attachment to socks. They should feel right. I could be missing a flight, but if my socks are wrong, I have to take them off… I won’t wear nylon socks with sneakers. The only time I get disturbed during shooting is over my socks. I hate brown socks and different-coloured socks,” said Shah Rukh said in an interview to a magazine.

In the interview, the 44-year-old also talked about his loneliness. “I can come across as a user, manipulator, disinterested, weird, reclusive, strange, arrogant from the outside. But the people involved know the truth…there are days I feel lonely on the inside. I guess that’s the way I am. I’ve never gotten into relationships because I’m scared to. I have a shield. I’ve lost my parents, so now I don’t like to lose relationships. I have to admit that at 44 I am socially and emotionally inept,” said Shah Rukh.

US Drone Strike kills 5 in NWA

MIRAMSHAH, Pakistan News: At least 5 people were killed and several injured when a US drone hit a suspected militants’ hideout in Deghan, North Waziristan on Tuesday. According to sources, the US drone fired two missiles at a house in Deghan, killing 5 people.
Several drone strikes have been carried out in the above-mentioned area in the last few days.
Earlier on Sunday in another incident at least 20 people were killed when a US drone hit Shaktoi, South Waziristan.

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US Drone Strike kills 5 in NWA was first posted on January 19, 2010 at 9:39 pm.

Plea Seeks Bar on AQ Khan’s Free Movement

Pakistan News: The federal government has filed a petition in Lahore High Court seeking to restrict free movement of Dr Abdul. The LHC has issued a notice to Dr A. Q. Khan in this regard for Jan. 25.
The federal government has maintained in the petition that during an interview to the Washington Post on Dec. 28 Dr Abdul Qadeer has shared sensitive information regarding the nuclear programme. Dr Qadeer has also disclosed the sensitive information regarding the cooperation of Pakistani army with North Korea and his role in it.
Dr AQ Khan should either accept or reject his comments in the interview so that a detailed inquiry could be initiated. Court has issued notice to Dr AQ Khan and asked him to submit his reply till Jan 25.

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Plea Seeks Bar on AQ Khan’s Free Movement was first posted on January 19, 2010 at 10:13 pm.

Israel Collected Organs in 90’s Without Permission

Israel Collected Organs in 90’s Without Permission, Israel has admitted forensic specialists harvested organs from bodies, including Palestinians, without permission from their families during the 1990s.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel’s main forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. An American academic conducted the interview in 2000, but decided to release it now because of a controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their organs. Israel fiercely denied the charge. In the interview, Hiss says corneas were taken from dead bodies without family consent. Hiss was dismissed from the institute in 2004, and Israel’s Channel 2 TV quoted the health ministry saying that the practice stopped a decade ago.

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Israel Collected Organs in 90’s Without Permission was first posted on December 21, 2009 at 4:12 pm.

Fred Rouse,Concordia College

TrendPK.com Fred Rouse,Concordia College:Fred Rouse is all set to appear on ESPN show in order to investigate and look into the academic standards in the sports department at FSU.
Outside the lines by ESPN will telecast today its report based on the interview with Brenda Monk, a former academic adviser at FSU, [...]

Demi Moore Photoshop Controversy

latets news about, Demi Moore Photoshop Controversy, Demi Moore Photoshop: Being an observer (and occasional shooter) of all things fashion, I was just was looking at December’s “W” cover [above and left] withDemi Moore.
In the interview she says she’d rather be a “puma” than a “cougar” – but apparently, the clumsy Photoshop artist decided she was looking too strong in the cover shots – and awkwardly chopped off part of her left thigh. Note how the upper part of her left thigh/hip is basically missing (our right). Did she have some sort of weird car accident that left a wedge of meat missing from it? The fabric even magically floats above the missing thigh. Ha!

I feel about this the same way I did about the Ralph Lauren model. I don’t buy (in the high fashion context, anyway) that there’s necessarily too much “Photoshopping”, or too much of a drive toward uber-skinny (which really seems to be a complex thumbing-of-the-collective nose at western indulgence by the fashion industry – another conversation entirely) but simply that it’s bad art (in the sense such mistakes clearly interfere with the photographers goal – let’s call it “aesthetus interruptus”).

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Demi Moore Photoshop Controversy was first posted on November 19, 2009 at 4:05 pm.