shahid Afridi apologises nation for ball-tempering

PERTH: Cricket star Shahid Afridi has sought apology from the nation after admitting that he tempered the ball ‘for helping the bowlers’ in the last ODI against Australia played here on Sunday.Talking to Geo News, Shahid Afridi said: “Actually I wanted to help out my bowlers,” adding, “every team has been involved in ball-tempering.” However,...

Obama's $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion. Still, the administration's new budget to be released Monday says deficits over the next decade will...

Dubai police say Mossad may have killed Hamas chief

Yahoo Daily News 2010-01-31DUBAI (AFP) – Dubai's police chief said Sunday that Israel's spy agency, Mossad, could be behind the murder of a top Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel room. "It could be Mossad, or another party," police chief Dhahi Khalfan told AFP. "Personally, I don't exclude any possibility. I don't exclude any party...

Haitian earthquake victims at risk’

Doctors had to use a private jet to rush three children from Haiti to the US for life-saving treatment yesterday after military evacuation flights were grounded by a bureaucratic dispute. Medics had warned that the children could die, along with scores of other patients, after the US military stopped airlifting patients to Florida,...

Blair v Chilcot. No contest: we and the truth are the losers

The Star ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi failed in his attempt to stay on as chairman of the African Union for another year after African leaders on Sunday chose Malawi's...