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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Reds midfielder will be sold for the right price Sky Sports Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has refused to rule out the possibility of selling Xabi Alonso. The Spain international appears to have become the victim of the Reds' continued pursuit of Aston Villa midfielder Gareth Barry. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Glasgow Rangers scraped a narrow 1 – 0 win away at Falkirk earlier this afternoon in the first afternoon of Scottish Premier Fixtures, reports socerway. Suffering from their shock defeat on Tuesday in the Champions League qualifiers, it took them over an hour to find their composure. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Valencia striker an option for Premier League new boys Tony Pulis has confirmed Stoke City are holding talks with Valencia striker Nikola Zigic, reports Sky Sports. The imposing Serbian has been linked with a move to the Britannia Stadium after struggling to establish himself at Valencia. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Aston Villa are expected to make a bid for Blackburn Rovers’ striker Roque Santa Cruz, reports socerway. One can expect Aston Villa’s manager Martin O’Neill to make an official bid within the next few days. The signing of Santa Cruz will further strengthen an already formidable attacking force. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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AFP, WASHINGTON - Struggling mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae unveiled Friday a steeper-than-expected quarterly loss and announced dramatic measures to weather the worst US housing slump in decades. Fannie Mae reported a net loss of 2.3 billion dollars in the second quarter that followed a first-quarter loss of 2.2 billion dollars. Fannie Mae plans to slash its dividend, raise fees and end home loans known as Alt-A, considered riskier than prime loans but less risky than the subprime loans at the epicenter of the housing market crisis. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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AFP, WASHINGTON - Swiss banking giant UBS joined Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and other major banks Friday as US regulators announced it had agreed to buy back 18.6 billion dollars' worth of stressed securities. Regulators had said earlier Friday that the UBS buy back amounted to 19.4 billion dollars, but the actual tally is 18.6 billion dollars, the bank said. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Before flying with his family for a week's holiday in Hawaii yesterday, Barack Obama expressed concern about taking a break in election year. "During the middle of a campaign you're always worried about taking some time off," he said, reports AP. He may have good reason to worry. He leaves behind a Democratic party that over the past fortnight has been showing signs for the first time of nervousness about the November 4 election. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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AFP, TBLISI - Georgia declared a "state of war" on Saturday as Russia bombed the country and their armies battled for control of the separatist region of South Ossetia. International concerns mounted as Russia stepped up its military onslaught against Georgia's attempt to seize back control of South Ossetia, bombing the key Georgian port and oil staging post of Poti. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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AFP, PARIS - Western leaders called Saturday on Russia to curb its military onslaught against Georgia over a breakaway region and Poland demanded an emergency EU summit to discuss the Caucasus crisis. "We have urged an immediate halt to the violence and a stand-down by all troops," US President George Bush said in Beijing. "We call for an end to the Russian bombings and a return by the parties to the status quo of August 6th." |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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AFP, HARARE - South African President Thabo Mbeki heads to Harare Saturday for meetings with the country's political rivals as the parties draw closer to a power-sharing deal to end Zimbabwe's political and economic crises. The Herald newspaper quoted President Robert Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba as saying Mbeki's visit was "to hold consultations with the principals of negotiations". |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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The Times John Edwards, the Democrats’ 2004 vice-presidential candidate, admitted last night that he cheated on his wife during his latest bid for the White House – a bombshell revelation forced out of him by reports that he had fathered a love child. Mr Edwards, whose wife Elizabeth suffers from incurable cancer, said that he had repeartedly lied to the public about the affair with Rielle Hunter, 44, a film maker who travelled with him for much of 2006. He said that he had never loved Ms Hunter, and denied he was the father of her child. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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AFP, LAS VEGAS - A US military computer science professor has warned that a trend to push software into the "clouds" exacerbates privacy risks as people trust information to the Internet. Websites routinely capture data that can reveal pictures of users' lives, US military academy professor Greg Conti told an audience at the annual DefCon hackers gathering in Las Vegas. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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When the yacht Kaz II was found off Australia's Great Barrier Reef, drifting and no one on board, there were many theories about what could have happened to its three middle-aged crew members, reports The Guardian.. There were suggestions the skipper, Des Batten, and brothers Peter and John Tunstead staged their own disappearance for insurance purposes or suffered at the hands of drug smugglers or pirates. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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ISLAMABAD, Aug 09 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - An old political ally of President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday Pakistan's embattled former army chief will not use his powers to dissolve the National Assembly to pre-empt moves to impeach him. Facing what could be his final challenge, Musharraf called on his foes in the assembly to convene on Monday, knowing the country's four-month-old civilian coalition intends to force him into a confidence vote or impeach him. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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QINHUANGDAO, Aug 9 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - World Player of the Year Marta was on target as Brazil, helped by two defensive lapses, beat North Korea 2-1 for their first win of the Olympic women's soccer on Saturday. World champions Germany and Olympic champions United States also won their first games, beating Nigeria and Japan respectively on a day which produced only nine goals in six games. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 09 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The African Union will suspend Mauritania until democracy is restored in the West African nation where soldiers overthrew the president this week, AU chair Tanzania said on Saturday. "African Union will suspend Mauritania until the country returns to a constitutional government," Tanzanian Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe said in a statement on behalf of the continental organization. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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HERAT, Afghanistan, Aug 09 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Afghan soldiers backed by international air support killed around 20 Taliban insurgents and wounded 14 more in western Farah province on Friday, the provincial police chief said on Saturday. Violence has surged in Afghanistan this year with around 2,500 people, including 1,000 civilians, killed so far this year in fighting between Taliban insurgents and foreign and Afghan forces, aid agencies say. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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GORI, Georgia, Aug 09 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Georgia called for a ceasefire on Saturday after Russian bombers widened an offensive to force back Georgian troops seeking control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. President George W. Bush said Russian attacks on Georgia outside South Ossetia marked a "dangerous escalation" of the crisis and urged Moscow to halt the bombing immediately. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Delwar calls on party adherents Staff Correspondent BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain on Saturday called on party adherents to build up a movement for release of detained chief Khaleda Zia. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Says adviser Desk Report The procedure to release BNP chief Khaleda Zia is at final stages, education adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said on Saturday. "The result is likely very soon. Many problems of BNP will be resolved as soon as Khaleda Zia is freed," Zillur told reporters after inaugurating a government project at Local Government Engineering Department. "There were some problems, which are being resolved to ensure the release procedure." |
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