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World Cup hosts Qatar set sights on Pakistan Super League

Football World Cup 2022 host Qatar is poised to move into the lucrative international Twenty20 cricket market as the venue for the inaugural Pakistan Super League, officials said Tuesday. The head of the Qatar Cricket Association, Gul Khan said there was a “70 per cent” chance Doha would host the tournament, to be played in February 2016, following three days ...

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Federer wins 7th Cincy title, Serena gets her 2nd

Roger Federer jutted his right index finger toward the summer-blue sky to celebrate his latest Cincinnati title. He would have needed both hands to count all of them. Might as well just rename it the Federer Open. Or maybe subtitle it the Djokovic Heartbreak. Federer remained perfect in Cincinnati finals, winning an unprecedented seventh championship on Sunday while denying Novak ...

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Kumar Sangakkara could have been even bigger and better, says father

Kumar Sangakkara touched almost every cricketing high in an international career spanning 15 years. Father Kshema Sangakkara though mentored his cricket from an early age and feels there was still room for perfection. Cheered, celebrated and commemorated for being a champion cricketer, Kumar Sangakkara has been a leading face of international cricket for a decade and half. There is not ...

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Greg Rutherford wins World Championships long jump gold

Britain’s Greg Rutherford once again proved his peerless championship credentials as he added world gold to his Olympic, European and Commonwealth titles. Rutherford wins stunning world gold Only four other Britons – Daley Thompson, Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards – have ever held all four titles at the same time, but Rutherford deserves that illustrious company after another ...

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National Football team leaves for KL en route to Australia

The Bangladesh National Football team left Dhaka for Malaysia Wednesday en-route to Perth to play in the FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers/AFC Cup Qualifiers in a hope to display their ever-best performance against Asian champions Australia on September 3. Before depart for Perth on Sunday (Aug 30), Bangladesh team will play a FIFA International Friendly match against Malaysian National team ...

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Do you like salad? You’re a fool

Do you like salad? You’re a fool. Not because bacon is better (although, of course, it is) but because salad vegetables are nutrition-lite, resource-guzzling, pseudo-healthy food crimes that enable the overconsumption of blue cheese dressing. If they aren’t bringing foodborne diseases to your table, they are being chucked, soggily, into the bin. Tamar Haspel, the Washington Post’s food columnist, made ...

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Farming best fitness activity, says American trainer

The global master trainer of the brand Reebok feels that Indian farmers do the best fitness activity that comprises naturally-designed digging and dragging. (Source: Thinkstock Images)Indians are more concerned about their fitness now as they want to look and feel better, says David Jack. But the global master trainer of the brand Reebok feels that Indian farmers do the best ...

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Solo travellers are not lonely people

Are solo travellers lonely people who are deprived of a suitable company and forced to go alone? No, says a study, adding that they are actually the most fun-loving people who want to enjoy it alone. Solo travellers do not go alone because they have to. They do it because they want to, the team from Queensland University of Technology ...

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Treatment to reduce bed-wetting

Researchers have reported a method to reduce the frequency of night time bed-wetting and improve the quality of life for sufferers. Bed-wetting, or nocturnal enuresis, causes distress in children and young adults, as well as for their parents or caregivers. In the study, researchers found that repetitive sacral root magnetic stimulation (rSMS) can successfully reduce the frequency of night time ...

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Peek into your personality via selfie

Next time when you click a selfie with your friends, remember the way you take a selfie can actually reveal your personality, says a new study. How you would describe your own personality is pretty much in sync with what kind of selfies you take. The team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore surveyed 123 popular selfie-takers from the website ...

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