Tag: Worst

DHAKA Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan said his team's nine-wicket rout by the West Indies on Friday was the "worst day" of his career, but insisted his side's World Cup campaign was not over. "We did not play well at all," said Shakib after Bangladesh were shot out for their lowest one-day total of 58 in just 18.5 overs, with the West Indies cantering home in the 13th over of their innings.
"I did not expect that we would play so badly. This has to be the worst day of my

Action flick "The Last Airbender" and comedy "Sex and the City 2" earned the wrath of Razzie voters in the annual Oscar spoof that spotlights Hollywood's worst performances. Valentine's Day stars Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Alba won Golden Raspberry Awards for worst actor and supporting actress.
Kutcher was also pilloried for his work in another film, Killers, and Alba for Little Fockers, The Killer Inside Me and Machete. The year's loudest Razzie went to director M Night

JALALABAD/KABUL - The death toll from Saturday's suicide attack in east Afghanistan has risen to at least 40, making it the deadliest nationwide for more than eight months, and the worst insurgent assault in that region. Seven gunmen and suicide bombers, dressed as border policemen, attacked an office of private Kabulbank in Jalalabad city, starting a gun battle which lasted several hours.
The last toll given on Saturday put the number of dead at 18. But on Sunday, Nangarhar

LAHORE - Fast bowler Mohammad Amir has said that he would go any length to come out of the match-fixing crisis he was going through. Amir was handed down a five-year ban by the International Cricket Council for spot-fixing and the bowler Tuesday showed determination that he would comeback from the "worst day of my life".
"What can I say about my feelings?," Amir told the BBC Monday. "When someone is seeing in front of him the end of his future, his career, then that is the worst

INNISFAIL - A terrifying cyclone barrelling towards Australia strengthened to the most dangerous threat level on Wednesday, shaping up as one most lethal storms in the country's history. As the winds whipped up by Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi began wreaking havoc along Queensland coast, state Premier Anna Bligh warned the region's one million residents it was too late to escape "the most catastrophic storm to ever hit our coast."
Yasi, the worst storm in a century, was expected

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was told on Monday that the lease of Reko Diq gold and copper reserves in Balochistan to a foreign company was the biggest case of bad governance and irresponsibility in the country.
A four-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a case against the lease of Reko Diq reserves, worth over $260 billion, to foreign exploration companies in

LOS ANGELES - If films starring Jennifer Aniston, Ashton Kutcher and the lovelorn cast of "Twilight" left you dumbfounded, you're officially in good company. All are prominent contenders for the Razzie Awards, an annual competition honoring Hollywood's worst movies, actors and filmmakers, its organizer said Monday.
Now in their 31st year, the Razzies are run by California movie buff John Wilson's Golden Raspberry Foundation as an antidote to the self-congratulatory seriousness

KARACHI - esidents of Orangi Town were confined to their homes on Saturday following the murder of MQM's former town naib nazim Badshah Khan.
The town wore a deserted look and fear prevailed in area because of intermittent aerial firing.
Some men kept firing at passers-by and shops and commercial centres in the town remained closed the entire day. The roads were also devoid of any public transport.
The residents faced a lot of troubles in buying items of daily-use due

TERESOPOLIS - Brazil is suffering its worst-ever flood disaster after mudslides near Rio de Janeiro this week killed more than 500 people, media compiling the deaths said Friday.
Municipal officials in the Serrana region just north of Rio said at least 506 people were killed, surpassing the 437 killed in a 1967 mudslide tragedy that had been previously considered Brazil's biggest disaster. More bodies were expected to turn up as rescuers finally reached villages cut off because

LAHORE - Calendar year 2010 was simultaneously the best and worst of years for agriculture. Experts believe that it was a positive year owing to surging commodity prices, while some are of the opinion it was the worst year as devastating summer floods washed away millions of rupees worth of agriculture produce.
However, the consensus is that any increase in commodity prices will not benefit farmers but only fuel further inflation in urban economy. Former Finance Minister Dr

KABUL: Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday.
"The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in need. Access for the ICRC has over the last 30 years never been as poor," said Reto Stocker, Afghanistan head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which rarely makes

SANTIAGO: Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital early on Wednesday, killing 81 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, prison officials said, in the worst-ever accident in the country's jail system.
Officials said the fire was triggered during an early-morning fight between inmates in one of the crowded prison's five towers. Television footage showed part of the San Miguel prison in flames, black smoke billowing from the building.
Frantic relatives of the

HAIFA: Thousands of Israeli firemen and rescuers fought Friday to control a massive forest fire that has killed 41 people, as global help poured in to battle the biggest inferno in the country's history.
As high winds drove the blaze towards the northern port city of Haifa, police and medical officials said rescuers had recovered another body, taking the toll to 41, and warned the number of dead could still rise.
"As of this morning, we have recovered 41 bodies, and there

BEIRUT: Lebanon braced on Friday for a fresh political crisis after Hezbollah urged a boycott of a UN-backed tribunal on the murder of former leader Rafiq Hariri and the United Nations warned of a "hyper-dangerous" situation.
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the militant Shiite party, called on all Lebanese on Thursday to end cooperation with investigators probing the ex-premier's 2005 assassination, warning "citizens and politicians alike" that further collaboration was equivalent to

Pop star Cheryl Cole has said that she can't wait for 2010 to end because it has been the "worst year" of her life. In the last few months, the pop star has had to cope with splitting from her soccer player husband Ashley Cole and has had to battle back from the brink of death after catching malaria.
"It has been the worst year, the worst in my life ever. You know what I want more than anything? Those last 10 seconds on New Year's Eve (31.12.10), `10, 9, 8.... 2011! I'm going to