Nasim Ashraf has had a more incident-packed seven months than most chairmen do through their entire tenure. The doping scandal, religion, the change in captaincy, the World Cup and its aftermath through to what lies in the future: Cricinfo chats to the Pakistan chairman about a tumultuous period in Pakistan’s history.
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An Indian website has claimed that an alleged informer of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was arrested in Delhi while sending secret information of Indian armed forces to Pakistan via a man who was about to leave for that country.
Sleuths of the Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested Insaf Ali, […]
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This week, the Egmont Group — an international body of more than 100 national financial intelligence units (FIUs) — is holding its annual plenary session and working group meetings in Bermuda. One of the issues on the agenda is whether to admit a Syrian FIU into the group. Although Syria may in fact technically qualify […]
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Meg Gerrard will be the first to admit that unraveling the adolescent mind is not an easy thing. Like most parents, she’s even asked her teen daughters, “What were you thinking?” after one of them was caught in a risky behavior. But now it’s Gerrard — an Iowa State University psychology professor — who has […]
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Refuting previous studies, the authors show by computer simulation that modular structures can arise during network growth via a simple model of gene duplication, without a natural selection preference for modularity.
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The Tropical Eastern Pacific, a discrete biogeographic region that has an extremely high rate of endemism among its marine organisms, continues to yield a wealth of never-before-described marine animals to visiting scientists.
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Heavy metals and other toxins have been linked to many human diseases, but determining exactly how they damage the body remains a mystery in many cases. New research focusing on a relatively obscure, misunderstood protein suggests mercury’s link to heart disease can be traced to activation of this enzyme, which triggers a process leading to […]
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A team of astronomers with the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey have announced the discovery of their third planet, TrES-3. TrES-3 was discovered in the constellation Hercules about 10 degrees west of Vega, the brightest star in the summer skies. It is an unusual planet because it orbits its parent star in just 31 hours.
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Nami-Nami examines the menu of the Emperor of Japan during his recent visit to Estonia: “The only ‘outsider’ is the snow crab, which was caught in Kamtchatka.”
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The Macedonian Tendency posts a note on the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece.
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Darkness at Noon blogs on his scientific research from “a run-down bus station in a little village about 2 hours outside of Lipetsk, which is itself about 10 hours from Moscow by train”: “Never did I think I would long for Moscow so intensely, but after a week in and out of provincial towns and […]
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Russia bans export of biological specimens, Siberian Light reports.
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