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Dhaka mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her cantonment home on Thursday night.

REUTERS, QUETTA, Pakistan - An explosion killed five students at an Islamic school near the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, police said.

A meeting to call up the contributions of martyr Murdiul Alam will be held tomorrow at Engr. Abdul Khaleque Auditorium of Ctg Press Club, says a press release.

Tofael Ahmed, AL Presidium member and former minister will attend the function as Chief Guest.

AFP, BERLIN - A string of good performances on his first Bundesliga season and three goals in four games has brought Borussia Dortmund teenager Neven Subotic to the attention of Germany coach Joachim Loew.

Toure reveals Gunners snub

Sky Sports

Yaya Toure has revealed that Arsene Wenger and his brother Kolo tried to persuade him to join Arsenal in the summer, but he did not want to leave Barcelona.

AFP, SUNDERLAND - Sunderland striker Michael Chopra publicly expressed his gratitude to manager Roy Keane for giving himself time to sort out his life away from football.

The 24-year-old played for the reserves on Wednesday after a three-game ban imposed for a pre-season sending-off.

Move to help poor out of poverty

KEITH BRADSHER

HONG KONG — Tremors from Wall Street are rattling Asian confidence, leading many investors to question the wisdom of being invested in the United States to the tune of trillions of dollars.

AFP, BEIJING - Chinese authorities have found melamine in milk sold in stores, state television reported Thursday, widening a scare over contaminated powdered milk in which four people have died.

AP, WASHINGTON -- Scrambling to break the grip of a worsening global credit crisis, the Federal Reserve stepped up action Thursday pumping billions into financial markets here and abroad.

AP, WASHINGTON -- New applications for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week due to the impact of Hurricane Gustav, the government said Thursday.

AFP, JERUSALEM - Fresh from her election as the head of Israel's governing Kadima party, Tzipi Livni on Thursday set out to become the country's second woman prime minister and avert snap elections that could stall Middle East peacemaking.

AFP, NEW YORK - Central banks around the world on Thursday threw more than 300 billion dollars into the fight against the credit crisis as speculation grew over Wall Street legend Morgan Stanley and a top British bank was forced into a merger.

Your Money

TARA SIEGEL BERNARD

Money market funds have been among the few places that investors could put their cash and sleep peacefully.
At the moment, that is not necessarily true.

On Tuesday, the Reserve Primary Fund, a giant money market fund whose parent helped invent that investment, said its customers would lose money.

AFP, GENEVA - Malaria killed nearly one million people worldwide in 2006 with children under five and African countries bearing the brunt, the World Health Organisation said Thursday.

Party leaders believe president's position is untenable after court rules he influenced prosecutors against rival

The Guardian Online

Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, could be removed from office within days and replaced by an interim leader, it was reported today.

AFP, MOGADISHU - Somali pirates on Thursday seized a Greek ship and a Hong Kong-flagged vessel in the latest in a string of attacks that have prompted calls for international action, officials said.

AFP, HANOI - Researchers said Thursday they have found two hairy-nosed otters, which have been listed as the world's rarest species, in a national park in southern Vietnam.

Alaska governor criticised for avoiding transparency by using private account for official government business

The Guardian Online

FBI investigators are examining an email account belonging to the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after hackers broke into it and posted contents on the internet.

REUTERS

Thousands of Japanese bureaucrats are under investigation for possible involvement in a toxic rice scandal that has prompted a mass recall of alcoholic drinks and shaken the country's reputation for food safety.