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Guwahati, Sept 23 : A two member team of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) visited Guwahati on Saturday to examine the venue and security arrangements made for the Pakistani team for the one-day-international match scheduled to be held in November this year.

The team comprised of PCB's technical officer Zakir Khan, who is also a former Test cricketer, and security expert Sohail Khan.

The duo, accompanied by Suru Nayak of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), also visited the hotel where Pakistani team will stay.

Karachi, Sep 23 : Pakistan’s Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani has accepted that the real opposition in the country is the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and said that the members of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) are "paper parties."

Durrani said that the APDM has announced its resignation 25 times, let’s see what happens the 26th time.

"The APDM was formed to break the Opposition and the ARD. There are aggressive members and there are political member in the APDM and their differences are showing," he added.

London, Sept 23 : A woman, who placed bets on eight soccer matches, has scooped a booty of 226,834.36 pounds in the stake with William Hill on Champions League games.

Kathrin Rotmann placed the 1,000 pounds roll-up bet on matches played by Arsenal, Manchester United, Rangers, Slavia Prague, Barcelona, Roma, Fenerbahce and PSV.

All the eight teams won the matches with combined odds of 226-1.

However, this is not the first time the German born has won soccer bets.

Washington, Sept 23 : Scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered a natural fruit-based extract that dramatically improves the growth and probiotic qualities of ‘friendly’ bacteria, such as the lactic acid bacteria, which are found in the most widely-advertised health supplement drinks.

There is currently a great deal of interest in the health-associated properties of probiotics, also known as ‘beneficial’ or ‘friendly’ bacteria, and prebiotics, the food needed for the growth of probiotic when inside our bodies.

Chennai, Sep 23 : Dravid Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) activists lead by State Information Minister Paruthi Ellamvazhuthi today ransacked Chennai office of the Bharatiya Janata Party, while protesting against the remarks made by Vishva Hindu Parishad leader Ramvilas Vedanti to behead their leader M Karunanidhi over his remarks on Lord Rama.

“Vedanti should withdraw his words against our leader, and the Central Government should take action on this,” Ellamvazhuthi said.

New York: Merck, US pharmaceutical company has stopped examinations of an anti-AIDS vaccine after an analysis proved it ineffectual.

The conclusion is seen as a delay for the cause of battling the wide-reaching AIDS outbreak as the vaccine known V520 was primarily billed as predicting.