ASIF Pakistan da Nam Roshan kardita..

KARACHI: Pakistan whipped England 4-1 in their opening match at the IBSF World Team Snooker Championship in Carlow, Ireland on Tuesday.

The Pakistan team, comprising World Champion Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Sajjad dominated England. Though they lost the final frame, Pakistan ended the match with scores of 63-51, 100-0, 70-22, 106-12, 36-72.

Earlier World Amateur Champion Muhammad Asif got off to a winning start when he beat Poland’s Patryk Maslowski 4-1.

Asian 6-Reds Champion Asif was tied 1-1 after the first two frames. But he demonstrated strong potting and safety play to register an impressive 55-15, 0-53, 51-0, 65-0, 35-7 victory.

Cueists from 32-nations are taking part in the week-longevent.

Deserved to Be included In National Side

Del Bosque hints at Diego Costa call-up

Spain manager Vicente del Bosque has fuelled speculation that Brazilian-born Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa will be called up for the world champions two remaining World Cup qualifiers.

Del Bosque will name his squad for the games against Belarus and Georgia on October 11 and 15 respectively on Friday with Spain needing just four points to guarantee their place in next year's finals.

Costa has started the season in fantastic form and his eighth league goal in just seven matches was enough to hand Atletico a memorable 1-0 win over arch city rivals Real Madrid on Saturday.

That goal brought him level with Lionel Messi as La Liga's top goalscorer this season with his return in front of goal meaning Diego Simeone's men have barely missed the departed Radamel Falcao.

And Del Bosque is also convinced that his volatile nature wouldn't be a liability heading into the World Cup.

'He is doing well enough to be called up and his character wouldn't be a problem. He gives me the impression that he is a good guy. He has great spirit,' Del Bosque told Spanish television station Cuatro.

Costa is eligible to play for La Roja on residency grounds having lived in Spain since 2007.

The 24-year-old made two appearances for his native country earlier this year in friendlies against Italy and Russia, but he can still represent Spain as he hasn't played in a competitive match at senior level.

'If we call him up we are almost obligated to take him to the World Cup, but we still don't know if we can call him up or not.

'On Friday there will be a squad announcement and we will take those that are suitable. It will be a sporting decision,' he added.

Centre-forward is the one position Spain have been found wanting in recent years with Del Bosque choosing to play Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas in a somewhat unusual role up front as the form and fitness of David Villa and Fernando Torres has waned.

However, Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has criticised the potential move, claiming that the rules governing which countries a player may represent are outdated.

Four tonnes of radioactive water spilled in Fukushima

TOKYO: The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday workers had spilled four tonnes of radioactive water, likely contaminating the soil and possibly groundwater.

Workers were pumping rain water that was trapped in a concrete gutter into an empty 12-tonne tank that sat on open soil, said a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).

“Work crew started operating the pump around 10:38 am. At 11:50 am, they found water was spilling from the manhole on top of the tank,” the spokesman said.

TEPCO has estimated roughly four tonnes of collected rain water might have escaped. The extent of contamination was unclear, the spokesman added, although it was not thought to be highly polluted.

“The water itself was rain water. But it was from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and could contain radioactive materials,” he said, adding: “The water seeped into the ground”.

TEPCO has long struggled to control waste water at the plant.

The company poured thousands of tonnes of water onto runaway reactors to keep them cool, and continues to douse them.

TEPCO has so far disclosed no clear plan for disposing of the huge amounts of stored polluted water, which is stored at hundreds of tanks at the plant.

Some tanks have leaked highly radioactive waste water, which might have washed to sea.

Unilever sales hit by emerging markets slowdown

THE HAGUE: Anglo-Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever, seen as a bellwether for global consumer spending, warned on Tuesday of slowdown in sales growth brought on by weakened demand in emerging markets.

“Unilever has seen a weakening in the market growth of many emerging countries in the third quarter and now expects underlying sales growth of 3.0 to 3.5 percent, as opposed to a predicted 5.0 percent,” Unilever spokesman Flip Dotsch told AFP.

“The emerging market slowdown has accelerated as a result of significant currency weakening,” Unilever added in a statement.

The currencies of Brazil and India have been under serious pressure due to expectations that the US Fed will wind down its stimulus programme while growth has been slowing even in China’s powerhouse economy.

These emerging markets contribute to more than half of Unilever’s sales, as the owner of Dove soaps and other common household brands shifted its attention away from developed markets which Unilever said “remain flat to down.”

Unilever’s first half profits for 2013 had jumped by 14.0 percent, while sales were up 0.4 percent to $34 billion, mainly on the back of growth in emerging markets like China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Pakistan.

Decreasing number but still a alarming situation..

The number of world hungry has dropped to one in eight people, but undernourishment remains a significant problem in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, the UN’s food agency said Tuesday.

At the global level, 842 million people – 12 percent of the world’s population – did not have enough food for an active and healthy life in the period 2011 to 2013, down from 868 million reported for the period 2010 to 2012.

“Around one in eight people in the world were estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger” in the period 2011 to 2013, the Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) said in report on food insecurity in the world.

“Africa remains the region with the highest prevalence of undernourishment, with more than one in five people estimated to be undernourished,” it said.

Despite overall progress, marked differences across regions persist.

Sub-Saharan Africa is currently performing the worst on the hunger scale, though there has been some improvement over the last two decades, with hunger declining from 32.7 percent to 24.8 percent.

Southern Asia and Northern Africa also show slow progress, it said.

Western Asia shows no progress in tackling undernourishment: while there are fewer people going hungry here than in other parts of the region, the level of undernourishment has risen steadily since the 1990 to 1992 period.

The FAO said there had, however, been significant reductions in the estimated number of people going hungry in Latin America and Eastern Asia.

The most rapid progress was recorded in South-Eastern Asia, where since 1990 the number of hungry has dropped from 31.1 percent to 10.7 percent.

“Those that have experienced conflict during the past two decades are more likely to have seen significant setbacks in reducing hunger,” the FAO said.

“Landlocked countries face persistent challenges in accessing world markets, while countries with poor infrastructure and weak institutions face additional constraints,” it added

Finally Ancelotti make it clear..

Carlo Ancelotti spoke frankly on Tuesday at the press conference on the eve of Real Madrid's Champions League clash against Copenhagen, to issue a 'mea culpa': "It is normal that people are angry but this is my responsibility and I am going to fix things. It is an extra motivation for me because I want people to enjoy watching Real Madrid play", he said.

The Italian coach also took the opportunity to ask for patience from fans before they see his side in full flight. "The results were good until the last week. We have yet to start playing our natural game. We need a bit more time for the players to get accustomed to the system in the most fluid and natural way possible ".

Ancelotti described the meeting he had with the whole squad on Monday as positive. "It is very important to speak together so that we know what all the players are thinking. We are all in this together, through good and bad, and the player's opinion is crucial".

On the subject of Benzema and his on the field argument with Pepe, Ancelotti was non committal: "Nothing changes whether he plays or not. On the pitch it is normal that the players talk, if Karim does play he will have a good game".

Ancelotti also took time to discuss club President Florentino Pérez and his influence over player signings for this season. "He is the most important man at Real Madrid. He is very intelligent and when we sign a player it is because we are all in agreement", he commented.

Did you know? First Pakistani silent movie makes it to international film fests

One of the earliest silent films to have been released in the subcontinent was Daughters of Today, which was produced in Lahore in 1924. Now, a movie which will be Pakistan’s first silent film, is ready to be submitted to international film festivals including the Gandhara Film Festival & FILUMS (Lahore) festival in Pakistan in 2013-2014. Called Meeeowww Billi aur World War 3, the movie is inspired by the age of silent cinema with a political message on the current situation in Syria and the Middle East.

“When Pakistan came into being in 1947, the talkies or talking films were already the norm worldwide. So Pakistani cinema never experimented with silent films,” says Faraz Waqar, writer and director of Pakistan’s first silent film. “By the time of partition in 1947 and the creation of Pakistan, the age of silent films was over. There has been no silent film made by the film industry in Pakistan after partition.”

The film has been shot entirely in the United Arab Emirates and involves an international team of actors, cinematographers and crew from India, USA, UAE, Australia, Canada, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries.