Karachi, Jan. 16 : As Pakistan prepares to host Sri Lanka in a much needed one-day international series, coach Intikhab Alam has said that his side will offer a tough fight to the islanders, and hoped that it continues the winning streak from where it left in the last series against the West Indies.
Alam said that it was very important for Pakistan to win the home series after it swept the three match series against West Indies, 3-0, in November last year.
"It is also important for us to win the series after having done well against the West Indies in Abu Dhabi," The News quoted Alam, as saying.
He asked the Shoaib Malik led squad to play like a cohesive unit, and ensure that the series is pocketed by the home team.
New Delhi, Jan 16 : President-elect Barack Obama's `Call for Community Service' appears to have had a huge impact on most of the celebrities, as many of them have vowed to adopt positive changes in their daily living.
Remarkably, more than 50 Hollywood celebrities have pledged to take positive action, in a video from husband-and-wife duo Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore.
The video will premiere on social networking website MySpace. com, one day before Obama''s inauguration.
London, Jan. 16: The Independent, one of Britain's major dailies, has announced a new online partnership with Al Jazeera English for news bulletins from the broadcaster to appear daily on the Independent website.
According to the paper, the deal, a UK exclusive, means that Al Jazeera English channel''s video news bulletins, presented from the channel''s broadcast centres in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington will be regularly uploaded on to the Independent site.
The content is tailored to web users providing short, punchy news round-ups of two to three minutes duration and will be refreshed throughout the day.
Recent studies revealed that women should take break from work before and after birth of the baby.
In first study, Sylvia Guendelman, professor of maternal and child health at UC Berkeley''s School of Public Health and her collogues found that women who took leave before they gave birth were almost four times less likely to have a primary C-section as women who worked through to delivery.
New York/Beijing, Jan. 16 : China''s economic growth may fall to seven percent in the wake of a deepening global financial crisis, the UN has warned in a report.
It has also forecasted in its regional analysis that the Chinese economy can still maintain a high rate of 8.9 percent if the international community adopts united efforts as soon as possible.
New Delhi, Jan 16 : President-elect Barack Obama's `Call for Community Service' appears to have had a huge impact on most of the celebrities, as many of them have vowed to adopt positive changes in their daily living.
Recent studies revealed that women should take break from work before and after birth of the baby. 
New York/Beijing, Jan. 16 : China''s economic growth may fall to seven percent in the wake of a deepening global financial crisis, the UN has warned in a report.
