Tag: Quit

Pakistan elite umpire Aleem Dar has made it clear that he will leave the arena the time he feels he has started to wilt...

Jamie Cox will resign his position as a national cricket selector, continuing a number of recent changes that has seen the Australian chairman of...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard vowed on Friday to battle on as leader of her unpopular government, dismissing media reports that some of her...

Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announced on Saturday that he will quit one-day cricket after the end of the series against England. The 38-year-old...

The chief minister of a southern Indian state who is accused of being at the centre of a $3.6-billion mining fraud will resign on...

Six ministers from the finance minister’s party quit the cabinet in Mauritius on Tuesday in protest against the arrest of the health minister by...

Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou said he would quit the government on Monday as political fallout mounted after a confiscated cargo of Iranian munitions...

Nine ruling Congress party members of India's parliament resigned on Monday to press their demands for a separate state of Telangana, roughly halving the...

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday survived a no-confidence vote by offering to resign once he has overcome the worst of the country’s...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday asked the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led federal government to quit and demanded fresh general elections under...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced growing pressure to quit as head of the IMF on Wednesday after his arrest and detention in a New York jail...

Shane Warne will quit professional cricket after the Indian Premier League (IPL) season after tormenting batsmen all over the world for two decades with...

BERLIN - Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer wept openly on Wednesday as he explained why he will not extend his contract, which runs until 2012, at Champions League semi-finalists Schalke 04. The 25-year-old has been with the Royal Blues since 1991, having supported the club as a boy, and said he wants to quit the Gelsenkirchen-based club to further his career. German champions Bayern Munich have already expressed an interest in signing the national team's goalkeeper this summer as

BERLIN - Real Madrid target Nuri Sahin could be set to quit Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season, the German league leaders admitted on Sunday. The 22-year-old Turkey midfielder is under contract until 2013, but Dortmund's bosses say they may lose him once the season ends on May 14.
"We're not crazy, we are aware that with the type of football we play, our players attract attention," said coach Jurgen Klopp after his side's 3-0 win over Freiburg on Sunday. "But we are in a

SANAA - Tension simmered in Yemen on Monday after a fruitless meeting with Gulf mediators and late night demonstrations turned violent in Sanaa. The streets of Sanaa appeared quiet on Monday following overnight clashes with security forces, an AFP correspondent reported.
Late on Sunday, hundreds of thousands of men and women protested against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's call for an end to men and women demonstrating together against the regime, and called for his ouster.

SANAA - Tension simmered in Yemen on Monday after a fruitless meeting with Gulf mediators and late night demonstrations turned violent in Sanaa.
The streets of Sanaa appeared quiet on Monday following overnight clashes with security forces, an AFP correspondent reported.
Late on Sunday, hundreds of thousands of men and women protested against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's call for an end to men and women demonstrating together against the regime, and called for his

CAIRO - More than 1,000 protestors ignored an army order to leave Cairo's main square on Sunday, taking their calls for a quick move to civilian rule and a deeper purge of corrupt officials into a third day.
Barbed wire blocked roads into Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11.
Protesters cried "revolution, revolution" and brandished an effigy of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the military council now