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Friday, April 17, 2009
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Half-Blood Prince Trailer Teases Potter Fans
Researchers may have found Cleopatra's final resting place
Shakhtar Donetsk eliminates Marseille
Building bridges in the Middle East
Google reports decline in first quarter revenue
Aid for Pakistan in terror fight
Captain Held by Pirates Flying Home to Vermont
Obama exempts CIA 'torture' staff
Anti-Thaksin Thai leader shot
Earthquakes kill at least 22
Yahoo! is preparing a new round of layoffs
WASHINGTON Yahoo! is preparing a new round of layoffs and several hundred employees could be affected, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported late Tuesday.The newspapers said the layoffs, which would be the first since Carol Bartz took over in January as chief executive of the Internet Company, could be announced as early as next week, when Yahoo! reports its quarterly earnings.The Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! cut some 2,400 jobs in 2008 and had 13,600 employees at the end of last year.Yahoo!, like other companies, has been suffering from the slowdown in online advertising and has been losing share in the lucrative online search market to Google.All Things Digital, a leading Silicon Valley technology website, reported last week that Yahoo! has held ‘early discussions’ with computer software giant Microsoft about possible Internet search and advertising partnerships.Microsoft tried last year to buy Yahoo! for 47.5 billion dollars in a vain effort to merge online resources to better battle Google, which rules more than 60 percent of the US online search market.
Shah Rukh expects foreign players to boost KKR
CAPE TOWN Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan is confident increased availability of international players will make the team more competitive in the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).The franchise finished sixth in the inaugural IPL when they struggled to build momentum with various departures and arrivals of non-Indian players, whose participation was cut short by international commitments.But while Australia captain Ricky Ponting has ruled himself out of this season’s glitz-and-glamour Twenty20 spectacular to rest, Shah Rukh believes the presence of other foreign stars will boost the Knight Riders.‘Internationally, I think the players will be more available, so we have the whole team to begin with,’ he told a media conference at a five-star hotel soon after arriving in this south-west city.‘We’ll have Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum, and then David Hussey will join us when Gayle has to leave. Brad Hodge is here, and so is Saurav Ganguly. Everyone has been practising over the past 10 days.’'We are working on amazing plans, including the captaincy issue, which has been a controversy over the past month. I think overall we are very well prepared,’ he added.‘Unfortunately, we do have injuries but we’ll be there, one hundred per cent trying to do much better than last year.’English stars are competing in the Twenty20 league for the first time, but none will represent the Knight Riders, due in no small part to high price tags.
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Obama wants a US-hosted World Cup in 2018 or 2022
United, Arsenal march to semis
China records slower growth
Palestinians must recognize ‘Jewish state,’ says Netanyahu
Russia 'ends Chechnya operation'
Blasts kill NATO soldier, Afghan policemen
Thaksin urges king to end crisis
Taliban: Nato chief 'major enemy'
Refugee boat blast kills three, several missing
US senator Kerry visits Sudan
N. Korea orders out nuclear inspectors
Kenya 'will try Somali pirates'
Lal Masjid’s Maulana Abdul Aziz released on bail
ISLAMABAD Pakistan late Thursday freed on bail the deposed chief cleric of Islamabad's radical Red Mosque nearly two years after he was captured during a bloody siege, his lawyer said.Hardliner Maulana Abdul Aziz, who called for Islamic law in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, was a brother of the main figurehead for radical militants holed up in the mosque during the deadly July 2007 government siege.Pakistan's Supreme Court had Wednesday granted bail to Aziz on a surety bond worth 200,000 rupees (2,500 US dollars).‘We submitted a surety bond on the Supreme Court's order. The bond was accepted by the authorities,’ Aziz's lawyer Shaukat Siddiqui told AFP.‘The release orders were then conveyed to police outside his house. Police have been withdrawn from his residence. He's a free man now,’ he added.Television footage showed Aziz sitting in a jeep being driven away from his residence where he had been detained in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and sympathisers said he was en route to the Red Mosque to give thanks.The last time he was at the mosque he was captured trying to flee the building disguised in a woman's burka.‘Maulana is on his way to the mosque. We welcome his release. He will offer prayers here and tomorrow he will lead the Friday prayers at the Red Mosque,’said Mufti Amir Azam, an official for hardline party Jamaat Ulema Islam.Around 50 burka-clad women students gathered outside the mosque, carrying baskets of fresh rose petals ready to shower Aziz in congratulations.