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MESAIEED - Australian Heinrich Haussler won the third stage of the Tour of Qatar Wednesday to take the race leader's jersey from Belgium's former three-time winner Tom Boonen. Haussler's second consecutive win on the race came after Boonen, the winner of stage one, suffered a puncture in the final 40km of the 150.5km race from Al Wakra to Mesaieed in the south of Doha.
Having joined a breakaway group of around 20 riders, Haussler put his "great" legs to optimal use in a bunch

LAHORE - PIA, WAPDA, NBP and SSGC have qualified for semi-finals of the 58th National Hockey Championship, to be played on February 12 at Faisalabad. Steel Mill, Navy, WAPDA and NBP on Wednesday moved past their rivals while PIA were held to a goal-less draw by SSGC. PIA remained on top in the points table.
Steel Mill beat PTV by a big margin of 5-2, Navy edged Port Qasim 2-1, WAPDA beat Army 1-0 and NBP halted HBL 2-1. Olympian K.M. Junaid witnessed the match between NBP and HBL

KARACHI - The estranged relationship of Pakistan and US has further deteriorated with the US administration suspending all official visits for the next couple of weeks, along with a threat to block aid over the fracas ensuing over the Raymond Davis case. The fresh development does not bode well with indecisive investors already nervous.
With sentiment being soured by rising uncertainty on market affairs, the KSE-100 index witnessed correction for another day. The benchmark index

Eight-time Grammy winner Barbra Streisand will give a rare, live performance at the upcoming Grammy Awards, organizers said on Tuesday in announcing other stars joining the show including Miley Cyrus. The 68 year-old actress figures to be a big part of the world's top music industry awards, the Grammys, when they are given out on Sunday, February 13.
Known for decades of work in music, theater and movies such as 'Funny Girl' and 'The Way We Were,' Streisand is nominated for a

DOHA - Belgian Tom Boonen, riding for the Quick Step team, won the first stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday, heading home a sprint finish ahead of Australian duo Heinrich Haussler and Mark Renshaw. Boonen, a three-time winner of the Tour - now with 18 stage victories under his belt, takes the race leader's golden jersey from Dutch rider Lars Boom, who won Sunday's opening prologue but who suffered during the first stage with stomach problems.
"This victory is my reward for all

ISLAMABAD - The issue of Raymond Davis, our mole said, worried President Asif Zardari the most and he visibly looked flustered while chairing the meeting of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s core committee on Tuesday night as he shared with his close aides the enormity of external and internal pressure he was faced with after the Lahore incident.
"It is a difficult situation," the president was quoted as saying while referring to the arrest of the American citizen who had

RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian garbage worker may be sharing the Oscar stage with the likes of Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp next month after his starring role in a documentary on the transformative power of art. In Oscar-nominated 'Waste Land,' Sebastiao Carlos dos Santos and a group of other workers at a huge, ugly Rio de Janeiro landfill become muses for artist Vik Muniz, who shines a light on an activity society would rather ignore.
Using blown-up photographs of themselves and the

ISLAMABAD - The relatives of 350 prisoners including 16 women in different jails of China staged a protest demonstration in support of the release of their dear ones on Wednesday. They demanded the government bring the jailed Pakistanis back to the country for trials under the Geneva Accord.
Wajahat Ali, who had been fighting to get his brother released for the last four years, said that Pakistan had inked an agreement with China in December 2007 for the repartition of the

FAISALABAD - A woman, allegedly murdered by her husband and in-laws, was found hanging with a ceiling fan, in Mohalla Razaabad under trhe jurisdiction of Ghulam Muhammadabad Police Station. Fauzia's husband and in-laws allegedly killed her and then hanged her body with a ceiling fan to stage a suicide drama.
The police registered a murder case against the husband and his family after the deceased's parents rejected the suicide version. According to details, a housewife, Fauzia,

ILLUNGA - Australian Cameron Meyer retained the overall lead at the Tour Down Under after Spaniard Francisco Ventoso won the fifth stage on Saturday. Movistar rider Ventoso caught the top sprinters snoozing as he launched his attack far from the finish line of the 131-km stage to beat Australians Michael Matthews and Matthew Goss.
Sprinter Goss, second overall and eight seconds adrift of Garmin-Cervelo's Meyer, will be the favourite to snatch the overall win in Sunday's sixth and

STRATHALBYN - Cameron Meyer grabbed the overall leader's jersey from fellow Australian Matthew Goss after winning the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under on Friday. Meyer, riding for the Garmin-Cervelo team, held off the sprinters and finished ahead of his breakaway companions, Vacansoleil's Thomas de Gendt and Laurens Ten Dam of Rabobank, after a 124-km ride from Norwood to Strathalbyn, near Adelaide. The main peloton arrived 24 seconds after the winner, meaning Meyer will go into

STIRLING - Michael Matthews won the sprint finish to claim the third stage of the Tour Down Under, while fellow Australian Matthew Goss reclaimed the overall leader's orange jersey on Thursday. The 20-year-old Matthews, considered one of the peloton's most promising riders, finished ahead of last year's champion Andre Greipel and Goss after a 129-km ride from Unley to Stirling, south of Adelaide.
"It's unbelievable, Rabobank's Matthews told reporters. "With one kilometre to go, I

LAHORE - The Government College University (GCU), Lahore, one of the most respected and widely-acclaimed institutions of the country, turned into a dance floor when renowned stage dancer, Deedar, notorious for her vulgar dances, performed at the Bonfire Night held at the varsity on Wednesday, which forced the varsity's former registrar to shake a leg on famous Indian songs, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Deedar performed on recent hit songs such as "Munni Badnaam Hui" and "Sheila Ki

LAHORE - The second phase of Chief Minister sports competitions (divisional level) opened up here at Punjab Stadium on Thursday with events starting at seven different venues of the city.
Provincial Sports Minister Tanveer ul Islam Rana inaugurated the competitions during the graceful opening ceremony.
The opening day results:
Faisalabad beat Sargodha 3-0. Gujranawala beat Rawalpindi 2-0. Sahiwal got walk over as DG Khan team did not arrive. Bahawalpur beat Multan 2-0.

COPIAPO - Carlos Sainz of Volkswagen won the ninth stage of the cars section of the Dakar Rally on Tuesday, a 235km special around Copiapo in northern Chile. The defending champion's victory saw him close in on overall leader and teammate Nasser Al-Attiyah, who finished second, despite a puncture, ending a run of two successive stage wins. Sainz, the defending champion, trimmed 1min 56sec off Al-Attiyah's lead to close the gap to 3min 18sec and said he was delighted to have won a

LAHORE - The Punjab University Inter-collegiate Badminton Championship reached the semi-final stage here on Wednesday.
Punjab College of Commerce, PU Teaching Department, Akhwan Science College and Punjab University Law Department reached the semi-finals.
On day two of the championship, Punjab College of Commerce beat Oriental College 2-0. Akhwan Science College beat Hailey College of Commerce 2-1 in a closely-contested encounter, PU Teaching Department defeated Elite

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) swings back to the treasury benches, the coalition survives and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stays in office. The chances of a no-confidence motion against him had already diminished as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the only party that could have unseated the government, decided not to act decisively and just presented a 12-point interim agenda to the prime minister with a 72-hour deadline to say a categorical "yes" or "no" to.