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Sri Lanka spin king Muttiah Muralitharan fears that the stigma of being called a 'chucker' will always live with him regardless of how many times he is cleared of the charge.
India will target Sri Lanka's in-form opener Sanath Jayasuriya when they bid to overcome a wretched recent record in tournament finals and lift the Asia Cup on Sunday.
Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath believes a month in county cricket as well as a clean bill of health will spark him into another Ashes demolition of England next year.
Ashley Giles and Jermaine Lawson starred with the ball for each side but England finished well on top after a fluctuating third day of the second test against West Indies at Edgbaston on Saturday.
Iranian dissident academic Hashem Aghajari was expected to be freed on bail later Saturday after nearly two years behind bars for questioning the Islamic republic's powerful Shiite Muslim clergy.
King Albert II visited victims of the biggest industrial disaster in Belgium's recent history on Saturday as rescue workers cleared debris from the site of a gas explosion that killed at least 15 people.
Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, the former exile once better connected in Washington's corridors of power than the backstreets of Baghdad, is building new, unexpected alliances.
Communist Vietnam aims to triple automobile output in 2005 to 120,000 vehicles from 2003 as part of a government plan to boost the transportation sector.
The International Monetary Fund on Friday praised Turkey's economic performance under a $19 billion loan program, but said the country's current account gap needs to be carefully monitored.
Iraq is urging foreign transport companies to employ Iraqis instead of foreign truck drivers in an effort to stem a growing wave of kidnappings, a senior government source said on Saturday.
Oracle Corp, the world's second-largest software maker, said on Friday its chairman and one of its directors set up plans to sell company stock as part of their individual long-term asset strategies.
Japanese automakers have started cutting retail prices of their vehicles in China in line with a recent drop in demand in a market that had expanded vigorously until this year, a Japanese business daily reported on Saturday.
Citigroup Inc wants its burgeoning international unit to make up half of the world's largest financial company's profits over the next several years, bank officials said late Friday.
Corporate Russia is issuing debt at a record pace in 2004 but rising borrowing costs, a short lived banking crisis and a messy dismantling of oil major Yukos are likely to slow the pace of new deals, portfolio managers say.
France's health minister said on Saturday French patients might have to pay more towards their medical costs, just a day after the assembly adopted the government's controversial health reforms.
The state of Washington and Morgan Stanley on Friday put to rest a dispute over unsuitable investment advice given to Microsoft employees, with the investment bank and brokerage paying $200,000 and agreeing to make changes to its business practices.
Microsoft Corp late Friday issued a widely expected patch for its Internet Explorer browser, which was known to have a flaw that would let hackers take control of computers and distribute malicious software code.
One in five Americans laid off from a long-term job in the last three years has not found a new one, and most who did are paid less than they were before, government data showed on Friday.
Consumer spending should pick up again in coming months as the job market improves and incomes rise, after Americans uncharacteristically turned frugal in the second quarter, economists say.
Recent figures show the US economy is turning around, President George W. Bush said Saturday, crediting his administration's tax cuts for bringing it out of a slump.
Shanghai copper futures extended gains on Friday after climbing by their daily limits the previous session, lifted by dwindling warehouse stocks, traders said.
Rising supplies of pepper from Vietnam, the world's top exporter, are pressuring prices in Asia despite the prospect of lower output in Indonesia and Malaysia, traders said on Friday.
Philippine preliminary coconut oil shipments slid 45 percent to 62,700 tonnes in July compared with actual exports of 114,466 tonnes in the same month last year, an industry group said on Friday.
Malaysian tin continued to ignore price fluctuations in London, staying at $8,900 a tonne for a second day, despite a jump in the metal's value on the LME.
US cotton growers will probably harvest 18.8 million bales of cotton, which would rank as the fifth-largest crop on record, a University of Missouri think tank said Friday.
NYBOT raw sugar futures settled largely softer on Friday due to producer and speculative sales, with the trade uncertain if the sweetener will grind its way higher from here, analysts said.
Soyabean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade sank on Friday, pressed by easing concerns about the US Soya crop after overnight rains in Illinois and Iowa and less threatening weather forecasts for August, traders said.
Comex gold futures finished the week with strong gains after two weeks of steep declines, but because the advance was won primarily on the back of a softer-than-forecast US GDP report, traders said they were not certain that gold prices have seen their ne
Comex copper futures ended at 11-day highs on Friday, boosted by a softer dollar in the face of weaker-than-expected US GDP data, while already low metal inventories fell further to give the market an added boost, dealers said.
Oil prices surged to record high points last week, fuelled by fears about tight supplies amid a worsening threat of disruption to Russian exports caused by the financial crisis at Yukos.
Argentine soya prices closed slightly lower on Friday, pressured by losses in Chicago's short-term futures, and trade was negligible for a third straight session, traders said.
The December vaida opened at Rs 422 and it was seen highest at Rs 423. Later trading depressed and it lost Rs 1.40 to turn lowest at Rs 421.60 and closing was seen at Rs 421.80.
Shipments through the Port of Vancouver, Canada's busiest port, increased by 16 percent in the first half of the year to 36.5 million tonnes, the port authority said on Wednesday.
Hong Kong, the world's busiest container port, is expected to see a rise in throughput this year, but operators are urging the city to cut red tape to help them compete with cheaper ports in neighbouring Shenzhen.
Russia will raise scheduled crude exports through its flagship Baltic port of Primorsk to a record 3.85 million tonnes (910,000 bpd) in August, according to official loading programmes seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
Panamax dry bulk rates have regained strength this week and are seen maintaining the trend given expectations of an increase in demand when new US crops become available in the autumn, brokers said on Tuesday.
Belgian shipping group CMB reported a 41 percent rise in first half net profits on Friday after freight markets remained strong, and gave a strong outlook for the rest of the year.
Belgian shipping group CMB reported a 41 percent rise in first half net profits on Friday after freight markets remained strong, and gave a strong outlook for the rest of the year.
Taiwan's Evergreen Group said on Tuesday it had signed a letter of intent to build and operate a section of a port on the east coast of China, the island's political arch-rival.
Neighbours Malaysia and Singapore pledged on Tuesday to step up military co-operation in an effort to protect the world's busiest sea lane, the Malacca Strait, from piracy and terror attacks.
A 30,000 barrel-per-day Russian oil terminal on the Baltic Sea will resume oil and product shipments by early October, a company official said on Friday.
The Karachi Port handled 78,189 tonnes of cargo including 50,807 tonnes import and 27,382 tonnes export cargo during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Saturday.
Chile's blue-chip stocks index closed almost unchanged on Friday, weighed by weak economic reports in the United States, high oil prices and end-of-the-month caution.
Yield spreads on investment-grade telecom companies narrowed on Friday, as investors shuttled money out of the recently downgraded AT&T debt and into other telecom companies.
Yield spreads on investment-grade telecom companies narrowed on Friday, as investors shuttled money out of the recently downgraded AT&T debt and into other telecom companies.
Toronto stocks closed firmer on Friday as strong oil prices sparked a rally among energy issues, but overall weakness through the month left the key index with its first monthly loss since April.
Brazilian stocks rose on Friday, erasing their losses so far this year after the latest US economic data soothed investors fears that the Federal Reserve might aggressively tighten monetary policy.
This could be the year major US cable companies begin generating substantial free cash flow, but do not look for much reaction in the US credit markets.
This could be the year major US cable companies begin generating substantial free cash flow, but do not look for much reaction in the US credit markets.
The most anticipated initial public offering of the year, the $3.3 billion IPO of Web search giant Google Inc, is now on the calendar for a mid-August debut, and for some, the deal cannot be over with soon enough.
Argentine shares closed firmer on Friday but trade was cautious, with investors waiting for long delayed approval of an IMF loan review and to see second quarter results due out next week, traders said. The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange's benchmark MerVal s
Mexican stocks rose on Friday, as copper miner Group Mexico rallied on news of a resolved strike, and the peso gained for a third straight session after weak US economic news.
Emerging market sovereign bond prices rose on Friday, recouping some of the week's losses, following a rise in US Treasuries sparked by weaker-than-expected US growth data.
Emerging market sovereign bond prices rose on Friday, recouping some of the week's losses, following a rise in US Treasuries sparked by weaker-than-expected US growth data.
US Treasury prices rose on Friday as the latest figures confirmed a second-quarter slowdown in the pace of economic growth and manufacturing data painted a mixed picture of the future.
US Treasury prices rose on Friday as the latest figures confirmed a second-quarter slowdown in the pace of economic growth and manufacturing data painted a mixed picture of the future.
The Canadian bond prices firmed across the curve on Friday as market players opted to focus on the softer-than-expected GDP figure, and shrugged off the relatively stronger headline numbers found in consumer sentiment and Midwest factory production.
The Canadian bond prices firmed across the curve on Friday as market players opted to focus on the softer-than-expected GDP figure, and shrugged off the relatively stronger headline numbers found in consumer sentiment and Midwest factory production.
US blue chips climbed for the fourth day in a row on Friday, but gains were capped by another surge in oil prices while economic reports cast doubt on the economy's strength.
Speculators in euro and Swiss franc futures dramatically scaled back their positions in these two currencies in the week ended July 27, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed on Friday.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $1.53 billion in the week to July 23, as the central bank dipped into its war chest to supply scarce dollars and aggressively support a beleaguered rupee, analysts said.
The dollar gained against the euro on Friday as traders viewed the latest batch of US data as positive for the currency ahead of next week's non-farm payrolls report.
Hong Kong's budget deficit fell 41 percent in the fiscal first quarter from a year ago, the government said on Saturday, reflecting improved economic conditions and a resurgent property market.
Germany's policy of staying out of Iraq will remain in place even if Democratic candidate John Kerry beats George W. Bush in the US presidential election and applies pressure, a top German official said on Saturday.
Ivory Coast's warring parties signed a deal on Friday after two days of talks in Ghana's capital Accra, setting out a timetable for political reform and rebel disarmament, according to a statement.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday those hiding former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic were endangering Bosnia's future and demanded the authorities find and hand over the accused war criminal.
Myanmar's prime minister shunned the international clamour for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi by avoiding his country's political crisis in a speech Saturday at an Asian leaders' summit.
Saudi police arrested on Saturday a foreigner who was hiding a cache of weapons and explosives at his home in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry and security sources said.
Angry villagers smashed windshields of buses and trucks in north India on Saturday when the vehicles tried to break a highway blockade imposed in protest against the kidnapping of three Indians in Iraq.
Talks on Saturday between an Iraqi mediator and a representative of a Kuwaiti firm to try to free seven of the company's employees have been positive but have yet to reach a final deal, the mediator said.
Nigeria's mainly Muslim state of Kano resumed polio immunisations on Saturday after a 10-month ban which health workers said was caused by authorities pandering to radicals.
Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz warned Saturday that suspected extremists who had failed to surrender under a royal amnesty would be "annihilated".
French anti-terrorism judges placed two Frenchmen released by the US military from Guantanamo Bay under formal investigation on Saturday, one step short of laying formal charges under French law.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government was under fresh strain on Saturday as coalition partners hurled insults at each other in parliament at a stormy meeting that included scuffles with the opposition.
Palestinian gunmen briefly abducted three foreign church volunteers and militants torched government buildings in the West Bank on Saturday, confronting Yasser Arafat with a fresh wave of lawlessness.
All prices and supplies boards are being activated in all district headquarters of Punjab. Official sources told Business Recorder here on Saturday that the step has been taken under the directives of the government for bringing down the prices of