LONDON: A young Arsenal side Thursday night beat seven time League Cup Champions Liverpool 2-1 in an absorbing Carling Cup fourth round tie at the Emirates stadium.
Fran Merida thundered in an 18-yard shot to put Arsenal ahead early in the first half as Liverpool’’s Emiliano Insua equalized 6 minutes later with a superb 25-yard dipping strike.
Nickolas Bendtner shot into the roof of the net in the second half to secure Arsenals place in the last eight.
At the Stamford Bridge, Saloman Kalou gave the home side the lead, Florent Malouda scored the second, A low drive from Deco sealed the victory and a header from substitute Didier Drogba rounded it off in style.
The 4-0 score line serves as testimony to a strong, cohesive performance from what was largely Chelsea’’s second string team.
In another tie of the night Manchester City cruised to a 5-1 victory over championship side Scunthorpe. In the mid week Serie A tie Juventus made it two wins on the bounce with a thumping 5-1 win over Sampdoria at the Stadio Olimpico.
Amauri ,Giorgio Chiellini, Mauro Camoranesi and substitute David Trezeguet scored the goals as Juventus produced their best performance of the season to leapfrog Sampdoria, for whom Giampaolo Pazzini grabbed a consolation, into second place.
And in tennis, Serena Williams will finish the year as world number one after Dinara Safina withdrew due to a back injury from the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha.
The Wimbledon champion Williams later won her second match of the tournament, defeating her older sister Venus 5-7 6-4 7-6.
Serena only had to win one more match than Russia’’s Safina to overtake her in the rankings.
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ISLAMABAD: Security forces have recovered a passport of German national, Saeed Bhaji, who allegedly chalked out the plot of 9/11 attacks.
According to sources, Saeed Bhaji was accused of carrying out 9/11 attacks.
The passport of Saeed Bhaji has an entry showing Karachi?s visit in the first week of September 2001. During the visit he informed Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan about the planned attacks.
Saeed Bhaji planned the US and Germany attacks in Afghanistan.
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ISLAMABAD: Barrister Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri has said he is prepared to appear on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari and defend the National Reconcil
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ISLAMABAD: The visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will hold meetings with National Assembly Speaker, Senate Chairman and members of Parliament here on Friday.
According to sources at Parliament House, the US secretary of state will undertake visit of Parliament House where she will meet NA Speaker Dr. Fahmida Mirza, Chairman Senate Farooq H. Naek, Deputy Chairman Jan Muhammad Jamali, Leader of the House in Senate Nayyer Bukhari, Leader of the Opposition Wasim Sajjad and members of National Assembly.
The present political situation of Pakistan besides law and order and economic condition of the country will come under discussion during tomorrow?s meeting.
The staff of US embassy and delegation of Hillary Clinton visited the Parliament House today to take stock of the security measures for tomorrow?s meetings.
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ISLAMABAD: Federal minister for information, Qamar Zaman Kaira clarified on Thursday Nawaz Sharif?s recent meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari was not a result of any foreign pressure.
Kaira told Geo News reporter, Asif Ali Bhatti in an exclusive interview that the parliamentary committee on limiting presidential powers, headed by Raza Rabbani, has completed most of its work. The committee will present the report to the parliament within the next few weeks.
He said that the National Assembly?s standing committee, has forwarded recommendation for prohibiting media from live coverage of terrorist attacks.
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Iranian Consul General Masood Mohammad Zamani has said that his country was ready to provide 1100 Megawatt (MW) electricity to contain
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LAHORE: Thin water flow in Mangla and Tarbela dams is causing 50 percent declined at in hydal electricity generation, whereas the unavailability of furnace oil has forced closure of thermal power houses. As a result, 8 to 15 hour electricity outages persist.
The load shedding hours have not decreased in winters owing to significant decline in hydel and thermal electricity generation.
Currently, hydel electricity production stands at 3,000 MW and thermal electricity generation at 6,000 MW.
Punjab is bearing 8 to 15 hours of unannounced power outages to balance the energy deficit.
The sources stated that supply of 600 MW electricity per day is being ensured to Karachi despite all kinds of difficulties.
PEPCO has cut down furnace oil purchases due to its worsening financial condition. The energy crisis is feared to grow in the coming days.
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KARACHI: Pakistan’’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $14,428.9 million on October 24, 2009, State Bank of Pakistan said Thursday.
According to break-up, foreign reserves held by SBP were $10,859.3 million while net forex reserves held by banks (other than SBP) $3,569.6 million.
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday returned two out of the three petitions filed by Justice (retd) Abdul Hameed Dogar, after raising some
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LAHORE
SENIOR Provincial Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad has said that all-out resources are being utilised by the Punjab government for maintaining l
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