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Bangladesh were dumped out of the Twenty20 World Championship on Tuesday after slumping to a 64-run defeat to Sri Lanka, whose miserly attack quashed early fears of an upset. Veteran seamer Chaminda Vaas, who took 2-14 off his four overs, and Dilhara Fernando were the stars for Sri Lanka.
Robert Mugabe, a largely unwelcome guest of the European Union at a summit this weekend, is a hero in the eyes of many Africans for daring to stand up to the West and seize land from white farmers. Many in Europe have been left scratching their heads over how Zimbabwe's president since independence still commands respect.
Israel moved to speed up construction of its West Bank separation barrier on Wednesday after a double suicide attack in the southern city of Beersheva that left 16 people dead. A senior government official said that work on the southern sector of the barrier will begin on Thursday.
The jailing of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son Omri has further thickened the stench of corruption in Israel, where the public has grown weary of political scandal in the newspaper headlines. Omri, a former MP, was handed a nine-month sentence over a string of charges linked to his father's leadership campaign just a day after another MP was found guilty of corruption.
Bangladesh were dumped out of the Twenty20 World Championship on Tuesday after slumping to a 64-run defeat to Sri Lanka, whose miserly attack quashed early fears of an upset. Veteran seamer Chaminda Vaas, who took 2-14 off his four overs, and Dilhara Fernando were the stars for Sri Lanka.
Robert Mugabe, a largely unwelcome guest of the European Union at a summit this weekend, is a hero in the eyes of many Africans for daring to stand up to the West and seize land from white farmers. Many in Europe have been left scratching their heads over how Zimbabwe's president since independence still commands respect.
Israel moved to speed up construction of its West Bank separation barrier on Wednesday after a double suicide attack in the southern city of Beersheva that left 16 people dead. A senior government official said that work on the southern sector of the barrier will begin on Thursday.
The jailing of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son Omri has further thickened the stench of corruption in Israel, where the public has grown weary of political scandal in the newspaper headlines. Omri, a former MP, was handed a nine-month sentence over a string of charges linked to his father's leadership campaign just a day after another MP was found guilty of corruption.
