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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair canceled a launch party for his new book in London Wednesday because of planned protests, his spokesman said. It's his second London cancellation this week. Blair "did not want to put guests through the unpleasant consequences of the actions of demonstrators of what should have been an enjoyable evening for friends and family," the spokesman said, declining to be named in keeping with British tradition. "The party has been postponed indefinitely, (and) will be held sometime in the future. Guests were informed yesterday evening," the spokesman said in a statement. Blair canceled a central London book-signing event for his new autobiography "A Journey" over concerns of the "inevitable hassle" that will be caused by protesters, his office said in a statement Monday. Blair's decision came after police made some arrests Saturday in Dublin, Ireland, where he was due for another signing event for hi...

Real Madrid says its earnings have increased 8.6 percent year-on-year, seemingly dispelling fears that the Spanish powerhouse would suffer financial woes after having spent heavily to buy players and still not won major silverware. The club says on its website Wednesday that its gross revenue increased from € 407.3 million ($517 million) in the previous season to € 442.3 million ($561.6 million) in 2009-10. Madrid drew criticism last year for its heaving spending and was one of the main reasons why UEFA’s Professional Football Strategy Council introduced “financial fair play” regulations stating European clubs should break even from 2012 or face being barred from the Champions League. Madrid, now coached by Jose Mourinho, had spent record sums to acquire Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso.

In the latest ranking of Men's Singles Rafael Nadal of Spain secured the top position achieving  10745.00 points while Roger Federer of Switzerland bagged  the 2nd position with 7215.00 points. The ranking was published earlier on September 8, 2010. Rafael Nadal Besides, Novak Djokovic of Serbia secured 3rd position with 6665.00 points,  Andy Murray of  Great Britain 4th position with 5125.00 point ,  Robin Soderling of Sweden 5th position with  4910.00 point ,   Nikolay Davydenko of Russia with point of 4285.00 6th position,  Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic with point of3860.00 7th position,   Fernando Verdasco of Spain with point of 3330.00 8th position,   Andy Roddick of United States with point of 3225.00 9th position and Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina with point of 3170.00 grabs 10th position.

Rafael Nadal has won all 12 sets he’s played so far at the 2010 U.S. Open. He’s also won all 61 games he’s served. Nadal moved into the U.S. Open quarterfinals and stretched his winning streak at major tournaments to 18 by beating 23rd-seeded Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in a match that finished at 1:16 a.m. Wednesday. The top-seeded Nadal saved all four break points he faced against Lopez and has erased all 13 he’s had to deal with this year in New York. “I am playing well, but I am not playing - yet - at my highest level,” Nadal said. “To be in (the) quarterfinals of the U.S. Open without losing a set and without losing serve, two things must work very well: concentration and the serve.” Nadal finished with an impressive ratio of 34 winners to 14 unforced errors against Lopez. It was a point Nadal lost, though, that might have included his top shot. Early in the third set, Nadal did his best Roger Federer impression, chasing down a lob and, with his back to the net, hitting the ball...

Bangladesh is rewarded with many of natural beauties where sundarban, the largest mangrove forest of the world, is the most attractive for its natural beauty and its contribution to the lives 17 crore people of the country.  Conservation of sundarban is very priority issue for the country to save bio-diversity inside of the tidal forest and to save lives of people from natural calamity like flood and upsurge of sea water from Bay of Bengal. Here, the Royal Bengal Tiger, deer, pythons, different flora & fauna of mangrove forest land and different fishes inside of canals are very marvelous & amazing to the tourists.  India is soon to sign a protocol with neighboring Bangladesh in a bid to protect the Sundarbans which is part of both the countries, sources said on Tuesday. "Details are being formulated and soon both the countries will be signatories to the protocol. The aim is to protect the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world," the s...

Barack Hussein Obama was born August 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English, but also some German, descent. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama is the first President to have been born in Hawaii.Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.The couple married on February 2, 1961,but separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964.Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982. After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii. When Suharto, a military leader in Soetoro's home country, came to power in 1967, all Indone...

Julia Gillard's Labor Party (ALP)has won support from Independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott which empowers the ALP with a majority in the Australian Parliament. Julia Gillard (L),  Oakeshott (Top) & Windsor Earlier, independent Queensland MP Bob Katter shocked observers by splitting from the two other independents in joining Tony Abbott's Coalition. Today's announcement ends a two week period of horse-trading after Labor won 72 seats and the Coalition 73 in the August 21 election. Independent Andrew Wilkie and the sole lower chamber member from the Greens party Adam Bandt had previously pledged allegiance to Labor. The two MPs will give Labor a 76 to 74 majority in the Australian Parliament. Mr Windsor - who announced his decision first - said broadband and renewable energy policies were deciding factors for him, as well as producing a government most likely to last a full-term, reported The Australian. "We've also looked at issues of stabilit...

In a heated exchange, Dr Condoleezza Rice had to argue with the US president George Bush, who was in Florida, telling him not to return to the White House because it was a potential terrorist target. She told the British Channel 4 documentary: ''The president got on the phone and he said: 'I'm coming back.' Condoleezza Rice ordered George Bush not to return to Washington after the 9/11 attacks before Get off the phone, the former national security adviser has revealed in a documentary interview. ''I said: 'You cannot come back here. The United States of America is under attack, you have to go to safety. We don't know what is going on here.' ''He said: 'I'm coming back.' I said: 'You can't.' ''I said to him in a raised voice, and I had never raised my voice to the president before, I said: 'You cannot come back here.' I hung up. ''The president was quite annoyed with me to say the least … I k...

India leads the latest ICC Test Championship ranking made on August 29, 2010 India achieved Rating score of 127 playing 31 Matches to earn 3944 Points to grab the top position of test cricket while South Africa held second position securing rating score of 119 playing 29 matches favouring 3463 points. Then, Sri Lanka achieved rating score of 115 playing 23 Matches to earn 2635 points placing them as third in ranking while Australia became fourth achieving rating score of 113 playing 34 Matches to earn 3830 points. England achieved rating score of 112 playing 39 Matches to earn 4355 points and Pakistan gained rating score of 83 playing 23 Matches to earn 1918 points and West Indies took rating score of 79 playing 21 Matches to earn 1668 points. New Zealand also did some comparable score of 78 playing 25 matches achieving 1946 points. But the least scorer Bangladesh pictured them with very unexpected rating score of 7 playing 19 matches and achieving very negligible 131 points onl...

Any attack on Iran would lead to the destruction of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Sunday. "The U.S. and the Zionist entity will not be able to hit Iran right now. This is a wish ... Any Israeli attack against Iran means the elimination of the Zionist entity from the world map," he told a news conference in Doha. He spoke in Farsi through an Arabic interpreter. Ahmadinejad, in Western allied-Qatar for talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, has often called for the demise of the Jewish state. Iran does not recognize Israel, which it refers to as the Zionist regime. Israel, believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East, regards Iran's nuclear programme as a threat to its existence and has not ruled out military action to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb. International sanctions have been imposed on Iran to force Tehran to halt sensitive nuclear work. ...

From emerging of Imperial Cricket Conference firstly (1909 - 1963) involving three countries England, Australia and South Africa; then International Cricket Conference (1964 - 1988) and finally International Cricket Council since 1989 with present member of 105 . A special meeting in 1989 agreed a set of rules effectively banning from Test cricket players who had sporting links with South Africa. In July of the same year, the ICC had another name change - to International Cricket Council - but still retained the three initials that had served from its inception. This was also the year in which the practice of the President of MCC automatically assuming the chairmanship of ICC came to an end, but with the election of Colin Cowdrey, it was still a British hand at the helm. The newly-named organisation had more teeth: it was no longer confined to making recommendations to national governing bodies; now it could impose binding decisions on Members. UAE joined as an Associate in 1990. ...

Eoin Morgan and Michael Yardy rescued England from a batting collapse to help record a five-wicket win over Pakistan on Sunday. The pair put on an undefeated sixth wicket stand of 67, after Shoaib Akhtar and Shahid Afridi had reduced England to 62-5. Morgan (38 not out) and Yardy (35 not out) batting superbly together to continue England's good form after it had won the ICC World Twenty20 in May. Earlier, England's spinners had combined to help restrict Pakistan to 126-4 off 20 overs in the opening T20 match of the series at Cardiff. Graeme Swann bowled an excellent spell of 2-14 off four overs, dismissing Shahzaib Hasan and Mohammad Yousuf, while Yardy bowled a tidy four overs, taking 1-21. Pakistan never really got going against an England bowling attack, who generally performed well in the field apart from a Luke Wright dropped catch running in from the boundary. Umar Akmal top scored with an unbeaten 35 off 30 balls, while Fawad Alam struggled managing just 20 o...

The world economy is recovering moderately but still faces challenges such as the need for medium-term fiscal consolidation, the IMF's First Managing Director, John Lipsky, said on Sunday. "They are mainly confident that there is a moderate recovery underway globally," he told reporters, referring to delegates at the G20 meeting of deputy finance and central bank chiefs in South Korea. "Obviously there are risks and challenges, but things seem to be moving more or less in line with our forecast," he said, listing well-designed exit strategies and medium-term fiscal consolidation as challenges. He said some good progress has been made in discussing changes to the IMFs executive board, but did not elaborate. G20 members have pledged to reach an agreement on the issue by the time leaders meet in Seoul in November. The United States, frustrated at Europe's refusal to share more IMF power with emerging economies, took unprecedented action last month to block...

Pakistan One-day captain Shahid Afridi apologised on Saturday for the 'spot-fixing' row engulfing the tourists, and said the team had been warned not to discuss it. Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif have been charged with various offences under the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption code and provisionally suspended, while the trio have all been interviewed by police. The three were withdrawn by Pakistan from their Twenty20 and one-day series against England after being allegedly caught up in a plan to deliberately bowl no-balls during the fourth Test against England at Lord's last week. "I think this is very bad news," Afridi said at Cardiff on Saturday, where the first of two Twenty20 internationals against England takes place on Sunday. "On behalf of these boys - I know they are not in this series - I want to say sorry to all cricket lovers and all the cricketing nations." He added: "These ...

Symbol: DSE NEWS News: Today's (05.09.2010) Total Trades: 205,694; Volume: 73,638,613 and Turnover: Tk. 16,228.35 million. ALARABANK News: The Bank has informed that the Board of Directors of the Bank has decided, among others, to purchase 5,000 sft. (approx.) floor area with proportionate land at the 1st floor of Al-Shahani Complex situated at 130/1, Biren Bosh Street, Chawk Moghaltuli, Dhaka-1100, at a cost of Tk. 15,000.00 per sft. totaling Tk. 8,47,50,000.00 (approx.) including registration cost subject to obtaining approval from Bangladesh Bank. Symbol: PEOPLESINS News: Ms. Nabiha Patwari, one of the Sponsors of the company, has further reported that she has completed her sale of 5,000 shares of the company at prevailing market price through Stock Exchange as announced earlier. Symbol: SHAHJABANK News: Mrs. Nasima Akhter, one of the Sponsors of the Bank, has further reported that she has completed her sale of 20,000 shares of the company at prevailing market price through S...