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ANKARA - The United States and Israel top the list of countries that Turks see as a threat, according to an opinion poll seen by AFP on Wednesday.
The survey, conducted by the Ankara-based Metropoll research company last month, found that 42.6 percent saw the United States as "the greatest external threat," with another 23.7 percent singling out Israel.
Turkey's eastern neighbour Iran ranked third, listed by three percent of the respondants, while another neighbour and

BRISBANE - The women's draw at the Brisbane International was thrown wide open on Tuesday after top seeds Samantha Stosur and Shahar Peer were bundled out in the second round by unheralded opponents.
World No.6 Stosur was beaten by fellow Australian Jarmila Groth 6-2, 6-4 in the tournament's biggest shock, while earlier in the day the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova outlasted second seed Peer 3-6, 6-1, 7-5. With third seed Nadia Petrova losing on Monday, Frenchwoman Marion

PESHAWAR - A top Al Qaeda leader and close associate of Osama Bin Laden is said to have been killed in a recent drone strike in North Waziristan Agency, security officials said on Sunday.
The officials said Bin Laden's personal assistant Nasir Al Wahishi, 32, was killed when an unmanned US drone fire four missiles on two compounds of local militants in Ghulam Khan Town, some 20 kilomters northwest of Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan. "The high value target was

LOS ANGELES - ere are two movies that figure in Hollywood's Oscar race, and there is good reason why "Toy Story 3" and "The Social Network" are the best-reviewed films of the year.
As 2010 draws to an end, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who received their Oscar nomination ballots this week, will be looking at which movies earned the most stars from critics.
Aimated film "Toy Story 3" is at No 1 with critics, scoring a 99 percent rating based on

LAHORE - Pakistan was the most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2010, said South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) General Secretary Najam Sethi, while presenting a report on attack on the press in South Asia.
Sethi presented his report, South Asia Media Monitor 2010, at a conference organised by SAMC and Media Commission Pakistan. Other high profile speakers including I A Rehman, Arif Nizami and Khalid Ahmad expressed their views on this report. Sethi said,

KARACHI - Iran will raise the issue of "unofficial trade" with Pakistan, which has expanded for the last few years, in the forth coming session of Pak-Iran Joint Ministerial Commission (JTC).
Iranian Commerce Minister, with other concerned officials, businessmen and importers/exporters would reach Islamabad by the second week of next month to attend the JTC, scheduled to be held in Pakistan on January 12-13, 2011, sources told Pakistan Today.
To prepare the workings of the

LONDON - QPR cemented their position on top of the Championship with a 4-0 rout of promotion rivals Swansea at Loftus Road on Sunday.
Neil Warnock's side made the perfect start to the frenetic festive period as two goals from Adel Taarabt and strikes from Jamie Mackie and Heidar Helguson opened up a four-point lead at the top.
Even the first half dismissal of Clint Hill, sent off along with Swansea's Alan Tate following an off-the-ball clash, couldn't disrupt QPR's

ISLAMABAD: Photo editing software developed by Pakistani technology firm Five Rivers became the best selling paid-for application for the Blackberry. Lahore-based Five Rivers said its Photo Editor Suite had hit the top spot across all sectors on Blackberry's AppWorld store.
"This is extremely good news for us and especially for the Pakistani IT industry," Mahe Zehra Husain, the head of operations and product management at Five Rivers Technology. "We feel we are on top of the

MELBOURNE: England's Kevin Pietersen Wednesday said Australia's current team could not out-sledge Test greats Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, dismissing a sharp rise in verbal clashes during the Ashes series.
Pietersen said he had faced some "pretty big verbal contests" during England's last tour of Australia, when the legendary bowlers were still playing, but had seen nothing unusual in this year's Tests. Both teams have acknowledged raised temperatures during the home team's

DUBAI: Prolific Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar has closed in on Kumar Sangakkara at the top of the ICC test rankings and can overtake the Sri Lankan captain with a good showing in the remaining two tests against South Africa. Second placed Tendulkar hit his 50th test century in Centurion and while it was not enough to avert India's embarrassing innings and 25-run defeat against South Africa, the batsman moved to within two rating points of Sangakkara in the latest ICC rankings

KABUL - International troop deaths in Afghanistan topped 700 in 2010, an independent website said Tuesday, with US military chiefs reportedly pushing to expand special operations ground raids into Pakistan.
The number of coalition forces killed fighting the Taliban this year - already the deadliest in the nine-year war - now stands at 702, around a third higher than last year, according to an AFP tally based on iCasualties.org. US troops account for 70 percent of the deaths and

PERTH: Australia face an uphill battle to regain the Ashes after another top order collapse on the first day of the crucial third Test at the WACA in Perth on Thursday.
England, who will retain the Ashes with victory in the match, won an important toss and reduced the hosts to 69-5 after sending them in to bat on a greenish pitch, before Australia's tail wagged to take them to a modestly competitive total of 268.
In reply, England edged safely to 29-0 at stumps, with

BEIJING - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is going to open a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the top private bank of China, during his visit to Pakistan, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.
The ICBC is the world's biggest bank by capitalization. Li Xiguang, a professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing said that the trade between Pakistan and China will be worth $7 billion with an annual growth rate of 29 percent by the end of this

LAHORE: National singles and junior champion Samir Iftikhar, Heera Ashiq, former Davis Cupper Rashid Malik and junior Davis cupper Faizan Khurrum reached the semi-finals of the Servis Cup Tennis Tournament here at the Bagh-e-Jinnah Courts on Monday.
All the top seeded players in the all the categories advanced to the semi-final stage of the tournament. Heera, Samir, Mohammad Abid and Faizan also reached the last four of the under-18 category. Mehak Khokhar, Sara Mahboob, Annosha

LAHORE: All the seeded players of the country advanced to the next round of the Servis Punjab Tennis Championship here at the Bagh-e-Jinnah Courts on Friday. National singles and junior champion Samir Iftikhar, junior Davis Cupper Faizan Khurrum and Pakistan's non-playing captain Rashid Malik won their matches.
Samir and Faizan clinched their under-18 and men's games while Malik won in the open category. All the seeded players have now reached the pre-quarterfinals stage of the

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday widened a probe into the country's biggest corruption case to include decisions made during the main opposition party's rule, a move that may take steam out of a campaign against the government.
The probe into the 2008 grants of telecoms licences that the state auditor said lost India $39 billion in potential revenue will now examine licencing procedures when the main opposition was in power and which have been cited in court as a precedent.