(Dikemas kini) PETALING JAYA: Penulis blog Raja Petra Kamaruddin (gambar) didakwa di Mahkamah Majistret di sini Khamis lalu atas tuduhan memfitnah isteri Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor dalam akuan bersumpahnya, hari ini berhadapan dengan saman fitnah terbaru.
Hari ini, sepasang suami isteri, kedua-dua pegawai tentera, menyaman penulis blog Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin menuntut RM2 juta kerana mendakwa akuan berkanun [...]

MUHAMMAD Muhd. Taib (dua dari kiri, depan) mengumumkan pendirian beliau untuk bertanding semula kerusi Naib Presiden di Shah Alam pagi tadi. – foto The Star oleh RICKY LAI
(Dikemas kini) SHAH ALAM: Ketua Penerangan Umno, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd. Taib menawarkan diri untuk kembali merebut kerusi Naib Presiden pada pemilihan Disember ini.
Pendirian beliau diumumkan di sini pagi [...]

KOTA BHARU: Dalam kalangan pemimpin tertinggi PAS, hanya Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat dilihat menentang muzakarah parti itu dengan Umno mengenai masa depan orang Islam di negara ini.
Mursyidul Am PAS dan Menteri Besar Kelantan itu dengan lantangnya berkata muzakarah antara PAS dan Umno perlu dihentikan segera kerana jika ia diteruskan, PAS bakal menghadapi perpecahan.
Alasannya [...]

(Mutakhir) KUALA LUMPUR: Khalid Abdul Samad, Timbalan Pesuruhjaya II PAS Selangor, salah seorang daripada tiga pemimpin yang mengambil bahagian dalam pertemuan dengan Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dalam proses muzakarah kedua-dua parti itu, tidak mahu dialog seumpama diteruskan dan perlu dihentikan segera.
“Dari segi muzakarah ini tidak perlu diteruskan. PAS hendak berbincang soal Melayu dan Islam tetapi Umno [...]

LONDON: Arsene Wenger last night accused football’s big guns of bullying.
The Arsenal boss fears the game is heading for meltdown with Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid under fire for tapping up players.
Wenger rapped: “If you don’t show respect to other clubs I think that football is moving in the wrong way.
“You cannot come out [...]

DURBAN: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo would be doing the ‘worst thing’ for his career if he succeeding in engineering a move from Old Trafford to Real Madrid.
The 23-year-old Portuguese forward once again refused to rule out a move to the Spanish champions over the weekend, despite Ferguson’s insistence [...]

DURBAN: Manchester United’s Wes Brown is to fly home from the club’s tour of South Africa after the tragic death of his pregnant sister, according to club manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Monday.
Brown’s half-sister Claire Fallows, 36, died in hospital on Saturday.
She was three months pregnant and is understood to have had a history of [...]

Taskmaster now putting less pressure on his charges
KUALA LUMPUR: National doubles coach Rexy Mainaky knows very well that the pressure on his doubles charges will intensify as the Olympic Games draw nearer. And that managing the pressure will be just as important as their on-court preparations.
That’s why Rexy, who is known to be a taskmaster, [...]

PETALING JAYA: Indra Putra Mahayuddin scored a late equaliser to help Malaysia draw 1-1 against India in a friendly international in Hyderabad last night.
Indian star striker Bhaichung Bhutia, who had played for Perak and MK Land in the M-League, put the home side ahead in the 65th minute before Indra, the Selangor striker, found the [...]

GEORGE TOWN: Kedah skipper A. Victor hopes to put his injury troubles behind him when he returns to the fray today in the Malaysia Cup Group B match against Penang at the Darulaman Stadium.
Despite helping the Canaries to the Super League and FA Cup titles, the 32-year-old defender has endured an injury-plagued campaign.
He has been [...]