Pak forces face ignominy of being caught in Kunduz
Reports said the Pakistan Air Force had flown several missions since Sunday to evacuate top military commanders trapped in the northern Afghan town.

MIKE DENNESS CONTROVERSY
BCCI to challenge ICC decision
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said since Virendra Sehwag has been stood down, the third Test cannot be called unofficial.

Row unlikely to affect English tour: ICC
England is scheduled to play three Tests in India.

CRICKET COLUMN
Nothing official about it
Prem Panicker feels the ICC has just made a laughing stock of itself.

CRICKET
'Unofficial' India slump at Centurion
Deep Dasgupta continues his good work - the rest of the team continue their bad form.

THE AFGHAN CRISIS
Taleban fall triggered by ISI withdrawal?
The intelligence agency had pulled the plug on the Taleban just 48 hours before the regime collapsed and its forces fled Kabul, sources said.

Britain opens diplomatic mission in Kabul
It also welcomed the conference of major Afghan groups beginning on Monday in Germany.

600 bodies discovered in Mazar: ICRC
There have been reports of massacres in the city after the Northern Alliance occupied it.

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BUSINESS
PM seeks better East-West cooperation
Vajpayee blamed the divide between developed and developing nations for the global economic slowdown.

SPORTS
Beenamol erases P T Usha's record
The Kerala athlete won the women's 400 metres in 52.71 seconds, to imrove upon Usha's 1995 mark of 52.80 secs, at the National Games.

MOVIES
Wrong gear!
The Fast and The Furious  rushes to nowhere.

The Warrior  emerges victorious
Director Asif Kapadia's debut feature wins award at London film fest.

GUIDE TO THE NET
Eight sites on the city of joy
History, facts and tourism.

Pope is Osama's Christmas target: Ex-CIA chief
The attack will be in revenge for the West's bombing of Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, he said.

Hot coffee helps bandit rob eateries
A man has robbed at least four fast food restaurants in Florida this month by throwing hot coffee on the clerk and snatching the cash from the till while the injured worker recoiled in pain, a police spokesman said on Wednesday