KEDAH’S enviable achievements this season have not gone unnoticed as they dominate the nominees for the 100PLUS National Football Awards which were announced yesterday.

Of the 10 awards at stake for the Aug 24 event at the National Sports Council in Bukit Jalil, Kedah have nominees in six categories.
Kedah, who have retained the Malaysian Super [...]

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian intelligence officers took acting classes to prepare for freeing Ingrid Betancourt and her fellow hostages, putting on Che Guevara T-shirts and pretending to be leftists out to help the insurgents.

Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos (C) speaks as he stands in between Gen. Freddy Padilla (L), head of Colombia’s armed forces, [...]

BOGOTA/PARIS (Reuters) - Colombia showed a video on Friday of the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages where their anger turned to ecstasy as theater-trained military agents duped and overpowered leftist rebels.

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt boards a helicopter during a rescue operation in Colombia July 2, 2008 in this frame grab taken on [...]

LONDON: Javier Mascherano will miss Liverpool’s Champions League qualifier to play in the Olympics.
Boss Rafa Benitez wanted his Argentine hardman, 24, to skip the Games in Beijing.
But the midfield ace has been named in Sergio Batista’s 18-man party along with other high-profile players such as Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero and Juan Roman Riquelme.
Mascherano, who is [...]

GEORGE TOWN: Cash-strapped Perak can hit the road again – at least for the next game – thanks to the generosity of their ardent fans.
Coach Steve Darby and his men were struggling to raise funds to make the trip to Kangar to take on Perlis in their Malaysia Cup Group C match at the Utama [...]

PETALING JAYA: Singapore hitman Noh Alam Shah is back.
The 28-year-old former Tampines Rovers striker, whose seven-month worldwide ban ends on Wednesday, is expected to see Malaysia Cup action with Police next week.
Police coach K. Thaiyanathan confirmed that Noh Alam trained with the team yesterday.
Freed: Noh Alam Shah will serve out his seven-month worldwide ban [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: National badminton chief coach Yap Kim Hock is confident that his charges will return from the Beijing Olympic Games with at least a medal.
That, he said, would be a perfect gift to mark the end of his four-year tenure as Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) chief coach.
When asked what if the team were [...]

PETALING JAYA: A statutory declaration is evidence given under oath which cannot be retracted, said a serving judge and several senior members of the legal fraternity.
They believed private investigator P. Balasubramaniam’s act of retracting his initial declaration, which made serious accusations against Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, could open the former to [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Americk Singh Sidhu, the lawyer who had prepared the first statutory declaration for private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, is convinced his client was intimidated to retract his declaration.
He believed the private eye had been coerced “by either threats or promises as I can think of no other reason”.
Balasubramaniam’s first statutory declaration which he made [...]

PETALING JAYA: Former student leaders who knew Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan expressed shock that the friendly and smart 23-year-old is involved in a sodomy case.
“I could not believe it, I was shocked beyond words when I read the news about Saiful’s allegation, it is so bizarre,” said Mohd Zuaril Akimi, 22.
Saiful, Mohd Zuaril and six [...]