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FIFA requests report into Egypt violence

Cairo: FIFA has requested a full report from Egyptian authorities into the violence at a soccer match in Port Said that left 74 people dead, world soccer's governing body said on Thursday. At least 1,000 people were injured in the violence on Wednesday when fans invaded the pitch after local team al-Masry beat Cairo-based Al Ahli, the most successful club in Africa. Most of the deaths were among people trampled...

Players give up football after Egypt violence

Cairo: Three Egypt internationals and Al-Ahly players have retired from all football after witnessing the deadly clashes between fans at their league game against Al-Masry on Wednesday. Mohamed Aboutrika and Mohamed Barakat, who both have at least 70 caps for Egypt, told Al-Ahly TV that they would quit immediately after the mass violence that left at least 74 people dead at a stadium in the Mediterranean city of Port Said....

Deadline day: Top clubs avoid big signings

London: European football's January transfer window closed on Tuesday with clubs reining in the lavish spending of recent years in an apparent response to UEFA's strict new financial controls. While 225 million Pounds were spent last January by English clubs alone, barely 50 million Pounds was outlayed by them this month. "It looks like economically the whole of Europe is becoming a bit more cautious," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said....

Man United lure young defender from rivals City

Manchester: Manchester United have lured a defensive prospect from Manchester City, with Frederic Veseli switching between the fierce rivals on transfer deadline day on Tuesday. Veseli failed to make a competitive senior appearance for Roberto Mancini's side and moves to Old Trafford with his City contract set to expire in the summer. The 19-year-old Swiss centreback will initially have to impress in United's reserve side to earn a spot in...

Man City get David Pizarro on loan from Roma

Manchester: Manchester City have added experience to their midfield for the Premier League title run-in by signing Chile international David Pizarro on loan from Roma for the rest of the season. The 32-year-old Pizarro played under City manager Roberto Mancini when both were at Inter Milan, before joining Roma in 2006. He won the Serie A title, the Italian Super Cup and Coppa Italia with Inter. City manager Roberto Mancini...

QPR sign strikers Djibril Cisse, Bobby Zamora

London: Queens Park Rangers signed French striker Djibril Cisse from Lazio and Bobby Zamora from Premier League rivals Fulham on January transfer window deadline day on Tuesday. The 30-year-old former Liverpool and Marseille player, Cisse has joined the Premier League strugglers on a 2--year deal. QPR manager Mark Hughes said Cisse is "a huge threat to opposition's defences. He's got great pace, power and movement and that's something we will...

Tottenham sign Saha as Pavlyuchenko, Corluka exit

London: Tottenham signed striker Louis Saha from Premier League rivals Everton and reached a deal to offload Roman Pavlyuchenko to Lokomotiv Moscow in the final hours of the transfer window on Tuesday. Manager Harry Redknapp signed Saha despite the 33-year-old Frenchman scoring just twice in 20 appearances for Everton this season and struggling with injuries in recent years. "He's got good movement, can score goals but probably needs a change,"...

Deadline for Chennai Monorail tenders is Feb 20

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that the tendering process for the Monorail project was going on well. Delivering his customary address at the on-going session, the Governor said, Towards the goal of achieving an Integrated Multi-Modal Urban Transportation System in Chennai, I am happy to note that the process of tendering to establish a Monorail system is progressing well. According to official sources,...

Kudankulam: anti-nuclear forum protests

Tirunelveli: An anti-nuclear forum spearheading the stir against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday staged a demonstration in a coastal village near the site in protest against moves to get it commissioned. Organisers of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy said PMANE activists staged the demonstration at Chettikulam after coming in a procession from Perumanalpuram. Both villages are about five km from the KNPP site. PMANE convenor SP Udayakumar and...

Pune road rage: List of the dead

Pune: Nine people were killed and 27 were injured after a bus driver ran amok and rammed an empty bus into cars and bystanders on Tuesday. Seven of those dead have been identified while two still remain unidentified. Those identified are: Milind Gaekwad Akshay Pise Puja Patil (19 years) Ram Shukla (28 years) Ankush Tikone (46 years) Pinkesh Khandelwal (20 years) Shubangi More (35 years) ...

Pak panel sets Feb 9 deadline for Ijaz to depose

Islamabad: The Pakistani judicial panel probing the memo scandal on Tuesday gave the controversial American businessman Mansoor Ijaz a final opportunity to depose before it on February 9 after the star witness failed to appear for the second time citing security concerns. The three-judge commission appointed by the Supreme Court issued the direction after Interior Minister Rehman Malik appeared before the commission this afternoon and gave an assurance that full...

UP: Fatehpur gang rape victim dead

New Delhi: The 20-year-old girl from Fatehpur in UP who was gangraped and set on fire on Sunday died in hospital on Wednesday evening. She had suffered about 95 per cent burns and had been in coma ever since. Three out of 4 suspects have been arrested. The Kanpur police claimed they had arrested one of the four accused in the crime. The victim from Shivpuri village was allegedly picked...

Lakhvi's lawyer dies after brief illness

Lahore: Khwaja Sultan Ahmed, the lawyer of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, died in Lahore on Saturday following a brief illness at the age of 82. Ahmed's son-in-law Muhammad Hasan told PTI that the noted lawyer had been admitted in Lahore's Ittefaq Hospital on December 29 after he was diagnosed with meningitis. "He recovered but a few days ago, he contracted pneumonia which proved fatal," Hasan said. He was a...

Ten killed in stampede in Ratlam

Ratlam: At least 10 people were killed when a stampede broke out in Hussain Tekri near Jaora town in the district on the occasion of Chellum, a Muslim religious observation that comes after Moharram. The stampede broke out when a huge crowd gathered at Hussain Tekri's main entry to take part in Chehllum were pushed backward by the police to regulate their entry after midnight. "Six women and four men...

Indian student shot dead in Canada

Toronto: An Indian student, working part time at a convenience store, was shot dead in the western Canadian city of Surrey, in a shocking Christmas Day attack. Alok Gupta, 27, had volunteered to work the afternoon shift to allow the store owners celebrate Christmas together, and was killed by an unidentified gunman. It is not yet clear whether Gupta was shot during a robbery attempt. Police is yet to make...