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• World AIDS day today
• Blocking NATO supply will increase unemployment: Altaf
• Egypt panel begins voting on draft constitution
• 20 dead in air raids on Syria's Aleppo province: NGO
• Seven dead in renewed Iraq bloodshed
• EU urges end to Bangladesh poll violence
• Nigeria's Boko Haram kills 24 in two separate attacks
• Arsenal powers 7 points clear in Premier League
• Newcastle win 4th in a row to go 5th in EPL
• Bales nets 3 in Madrid win over Valladolid
• Australia regains World Cup, beats NZ 34-2
• Alpine skiing: Gut wins women's World Cup super-G
• Ireland retain ICC World Twenty20 qualifier crown
• England's Bell wants to bat at number three
• Dunya News celebrates 5th anniversary today

World AIDS day today Posted: ISLAMABAD (Online) - World AIDS Day is being observed today (Sunday) to create awareness about AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.World closing in on Millennium Development Goal 6‚ globally the AIDS epidemic has been halted and reversed—race is on to reach universal access to HIV treatment.New HIV infections among adults and children were estimated at 2.3 million in 2012‚ a 33% reduction since 2001. New HIV infections among children have been reduced to 260 000 in 2012‚ a reduction of 52% since 2001.AIDS-related deaths have also dropped by 30% since the peak in 2005 as access to antiretroviral treatment expands.By the end of 2012‚ some 9.7 million people in low- and middle-income countries were accessing antiretroviral therapy‚ an increase of nearly 20% in just one year. In 2011‚ UN Member States agreed to a 2015 target of reaching 15 million people with HIV treatment.Despite a flattening in donor funding for HIV‚ which has remained around the same as 2008 levels‚ domestic spending on HIV has increased‚ accounting for 53% of global HIV resources in 2012. The total global resources available for HIV in 2012 was estimated at US$ 18.9 billion‚ US$ 3-5 billion short of the US$ 22-24 billion estimated to be needed annually by 2015.In 2012‚ an estimated 35.3 million [32.2 million - 38.8 million] people globally were living with HIV‚ 2.3 million [1.9 million - 2.7 million] people became newly infected with HIV‚1.6 million [1.4 million - 1.9 million] people died from AIDS-related illnesses.

Blocking NATO supply will increase unemployment: Altaf Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) - Addressing the launching ceremony of his book, The Philosophy of Love, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said that blocking NATO supply will increase unemployment in country.Altaf Hussain said that protesting at the NATO supply routes will make poor truck drivers jobless. He asked Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) to stage protest demonstration outside Prime Minister House and demand of the government and armed forces to shot down drones.The MQM chief further said that the Ameer JI, Syed Munawar Hassan should have been prosecuted under Article 6 of the Constitution for declaring Hakeem Ullah Mehsud as ‘Shaheed’.

Egypt panel begins voting on draft constitution Posted: CAIRO (AP) - The panel amending Egypts suspended constitution began voting Saturday on some 250 changes, the first step toward democratic rule following the July military coup that ousted the countrys president.The constitution before the 50-member committee makes drastic changes in ensuring civil liberties, fighting discrimination, criminalizing torture, protecting religious freedoms and giving lawmakers power to remove the president. Yet the draft also allows Egypts powerful military to choose its own chief and try civilians in military tribunals.The constitutional changes come amid a heavy handed crackdown on dissent thats left the country largely divided between supporters and opponents of the military that toppled Mohammed Morsi, the countrys first freely elected president.This is the path of rescue from the current condition, said Amr Moussa, the elder Egyptian statesman leading the constitutional panel. It is the transition from disturbances to stability and from economic stagnation to development.The military suspended the Islamist-drafted, voter-approved 2012 constitution in the July 3 coup that ousted Morsi. The constitutional panel, dominated by secularists, has been working on changes as part of a military-backed timeline that calls for voters to approve it. It plans for parliamentary and presidential elections to be held early next year.On Saturday, 48 panel members began voting on the changes in a session aired live on state television. Most articles passed unanimously. One issue the panel faced was how the principles of Islamic or Shariah law, already called the main source of law in Egypt, should be defined. Some feared a definition would allow for a heavier implementation of Shariah and the creation of a religious state.The panel voted to refer to Supreme Constitutional Courts limited definition of Shariahs principles. That didnt appease the Islamist representative, said panel member Kamal el-Helbawi, an independent who once belonged to Morsis Muslim Brotherhood.The panel voted for an amendment banning slavery, human trafficking and the sex trade. The panels sole Islamist party representative opposed the amendment, as some say the article restricts early marriages.The panel also voted in favor of abolishing the upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, as well as an amendment defining Egypt as a civilian government in Arabic. That term angers Islamists, who say it means secular.Among articles the panel will vote on Sunday is one allowing lawmakers to vote out an elected president and call for early elections if they have a two-thirds majority. Another allows parliament to prosecute the president for violating the rules of the constitution.A proposed change also prohibits the establishment of political parties on religious grounds, meaning the Brotherhoods Freedom and Justice party and Al-Nour, the political arm of Salafi Call movement, could be banned.Other controversial changes up for a vote include one giving the military the right to choose its own army chief, who serves as the defense minister, over a transitional period of eight years. Another gives the military the right to try civilians in front of military tribunals for a series of crimes. The tribunals are known for swift and harsh verdicts that cannot be appealed.

20 dead in air raids on Syria's Aleppo province: NGO Posted: BEIRUT (AFP) - At least 20 people, including seven women and a child, were killed in an aerial bombardment on Saturday of Al-Bab in Syrias Aleppo province, an NGO said.Regime helicopters dropped explosive-laden barrels on the town in the northern province causing widespread damage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Footage posted by activists on YouTube showed chaos in the aftermath of the attack.Clouds of dusts and smoke hung in the air, and rubble from surrounding buildings was strewn on the streets and across vehicles.Two men tried to open the door of a red pick-up truck that had been completely mangled by the blast, its ceiling caved in and an apparently dead man lying across the front seats.Another man lay on the ground, still astride his tipped-over motorbike, with his head in a pool of blood.A third man, seated in the front of a truck, was slumped against the window, with an apparently fatal head wound visible.The Syrian regime has regularly been accused by the opposition, foreign governments and rights groups of using so-called barrel bombs against civilians.The US State Department has described the weapons as incendiary bombs which contain flammable material that can be like napalm.Al-Bab, in northeastern Aleppo, has regularly been targeted by air strikes, including one on a field hospital in September that killed 11 people, according to the Observatory.

Seven dead in renewed Iraq bloodshed Posted: BAGHDAD (AFP) - Attacks near Baghdad and north of Iraqs capital left seven people dead on Saturday, amid a protracted surge in bloodshed fuelling fears the country is slipping back into all-out sectarian war.Iraqs worst violence since 2008 has left more than 650 people dead already this month and forced authorities to appeal for international help in combatting militancy just months before a general election.No group has claimed responsibility for most of the unrest, but officials have focused on resurgent Al-Qaeda front groups emboldened by the civil war in neighbouring Syria that has given militants room to plan and carry out attacks.Violence on Saturday struck near Baghdad, as well as in and around the main northern city of Mosul and the ethnically-mixed town of Tuz Khurmatu, all areas that have been hit hard in recent months.A car bomb and two roadside bombs in towns on the outskirts of the capital killed four people, security and medical officials said.And attacks in Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, and near Tuz Khurmatu left three more dead.More than 6,000 people have died in violence so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical officials.Security forces have trumpeted operations against militants primarily in Sunni-majority northern and western Iraq, which they say are having an impact.But diplomats and analysts say the government has not resolved the underlying problems fuelling the bloodshed, namely anger in the Sunni Arab minority over alleged mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities.

EU urges end to Bangladesh poll violence Posted: BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union on Saturday called for an end to deadly pre-election violence in Bangladesh and said the bloc was willing to consider sending observers to the January 5 polls.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she remained concerned about the anti-poll unrest that has killed 20 people since Monday, bringing the death toll to 50 since late October when the government first announced the date of the general elections.We urge political leaders to refrain from any actions that could spark further violence, Ashton said in a statement, pressing Bangladesh to respect human rights and democratic principles.One demonstrator was shot dead by officers Saturday and another died late Friday as police used live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters.Opposition groups led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as well as its Islamist allies are demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign and make way for elections under a neutral caretaker government.Hasina has rejected their demand and is sticking to her January poll plans.The EU calls on the leaders of all political parties to agree on a mutually acceptable formula so as to facilitate the holding of elections which fully reflect the wishes of the people, Ashton said.The EU is ready to consider sending election observers as it did in 2008. However, this depends on the political and security situation in Bangladesh, she added.

Nigeria's Boko Haram kills 24 in two separate attacks Posted: MAIDUGURI (AFP) - Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 24 people in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, just as the military vowed to ramp up security over Christmas.Seven fishermen were ambushed and killed in the first attack in Baga, a fishing community on Lake Chad in Borno state, one of three in the northeast of the country under emergency rule since May this year.Seventeen people died in a separate attack on Thursday, other eyewitnesses said, when gunmen in pick-up trucks torched more than 100 shops and vehicles in the Sabon Gari area of the Damboa district, 90 kilometres (56 miles) from the state capital, Maiduguri.There was no immediate confirmation of either attack from the military or local authorities.They killed seven fishermen, injured 15 others and burnt some local boats and nets used for catching fish, fisherman Ibrahim Gambo said in Maiduguri, where he had brought his brother for treatment.It was a reprisal by insurgents because the soldiers have two weeks ago clamped down on them, added another fisherman, Sheriff Bababa.They (the military) even arrested some of their members, including a leader, with the assistance of youth vigilantes.Human Rights Watch on Friday said Boko Haram fighters were carrying out reprisals on civilians in retaliation for intelligence on supposed militant activity passed to the military by civilian vigilante groups.It urged the militants to stop targeting civilians and the vigilantes to stop using minors in counter-intelligence and security operations.In Sabon Garin, villagers told reporters that the attack happened at about 11:35 pm (2235 GMT) on Thursday and those responsible were chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great) as they arrived.The violence lasted until about 4:00 am, they added.News of the attacks, which are often slow to emerge because of a communications black-out in Borno designed to disrupt militant planning, came as Nigerias military pledged to step up security in vulnerable border areas.Boko Haram, which wants to impose a strict form of Islamic law or sharia on Muslim-majority northern Nigeria, has previously launched deadly attacks on and around the Christian festival.A wave of attacks against churches and police on December 25, 2011, left 49 people dead.Nearly 200 people, including soldiers, insurgents and scores of civilians, were killed in fierce fighting between troops and Islamist insurgents in Baga in April this year.Area army spokesman Colonel Mohammed Dole said troops had been deployed to frontier villages and towns in Borno state that have been targeted while suspected Boko Haram bases were being cleared, backed by air support.

Arsenal powers 7 points clear in Premier League Posted: CARDIFF (AP) - Arsenal powered to a provisional seven-point lead in the Premier League after beating Cardiff 3-0 on Saturday, with Aaron Ramseys prolific season touching new heights with a double against his former club.There was more misery for Fulham at the other end of the standings, with a demoralizing 3-0 loss at fellow struggler West Ham keeping the team in the bottom three and leaving beleaguered manager Martin Jol fighting for his job.Ramsey marked his return to his boyhood club by taking his remarkable goal tally for the season to 13 in all competitions. Mathieu Flamini scored in between in the leaders 10th victory in 13 games.This is where I started my career and where everything began, and hopefully theyve seen the player they produced today, said Ramsey, arguably the Premier Leagues star player so far this season.Everton moved level on points with second-place Liverpool and third-place Chelsea, which both play Sunday. Everton, now fourth, had a crushing 4-0 home win over Stoke that was rounded off by Romelu Lukakus eighth goal in nine league games.And in-form Newcastle is just one point and provisionally one place further back after a 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion secured by goals from Frenchman Yoan Gouffran and Moussa Sissoko in the teams fourth victory in a row.At the bottom, Crystal Palace dropped to last place by losing 1-0 at Norwich in Tony Pulis first match in charge of the London side.Jol acknowledged on Friday that he could be fired if he lost against West Ham at Upton Park and again at home to former club Tottenham onWednesday. The Dutchman is halfway there after this fifth straight league defeat.It is not in my hands, Jol said. If I have to worry, I was probably worried a couple of months ago because it is not one day and then the other. It is probably the last two months we have been inconsistent.Sunderland climbed off the bottom with a 0-0 draw at Aston Villa in Saturdays other game.By the end of his latest goalscoring display, both Arsenal and Cardiff fans were singing Ramseys name.The midfielder left the Welsh capital to join Arsenal in 2008 as a 17-year-old hopeful and has taken his time to mature into the kind of free-scoring player that Premier League defenses just cant cope with this season.Ramsey headed in a cross from Mesut Ozil in the 29th minute to put Arsenal ahead, and finished off the victory on a counterattack in injury time. He refused to celebrate either goal.It shows you how much Aaron Ramsey has improved, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. We came here two or three years ago and he had a nightmare here in a cup game.You are always torn between being happy to score and happy you can win the game, Wenger added, but out of respect for the club where he was educated he didnt celebrate.Ozil set up Flaminis goal, too, slotting a perfectly weighted pass into the area for the France midfielder to hammer into the net in the 86th.When you play first (on a Premier League weekend), you can only do your job and see what happens after, Wenger said after Arsenals sixth win in seven away matches in the league. But if you do your job well, you can relax.Gerard Deulofeu, on his first league start, Seamus Coleman and Bryan Oviedo joined Lukaku in scoring in Evertons easy win over Stoke to stay undefeated at home in the league in 2013.While a lot of the plaudits fell once again on Lukaku, the performance of 19-year-old Deulofeu who is on loan from Barcelona also stood out after being handed his starting debut by Catalonia-born manager Roberto Martinez.It was the most satisfying individual performance that we had because he had to wait for so long to get his chance, Martinez said.Fulhams loss was West Hams gain on Saturday as goals by Mohamed Diame, Carlton Cole and Joe Cole ended the Hammers five-match winless run which had left them just above the relegation zone.It remains to be seen whether Jol keeps his job through to the Tottenham game in midweek.The manager takes all the flak really but, ultimately, the players need to take massive responsibility, Fulham midfielder Scott Parker said.He is the one that picks us and we are the ones who go out there. It is not nice being down at the bottom of the table and obviously confidence is low but I dont think it is a fact that the players are not willing to put in the hard work, because we are.

Newcastle win 4th in a row to go 5th in EPL Posted: NEWCASTLE (AP) - Moussa Sissokos thunderbolt fired Newcastle into the Premier Leagues top five as the Magpies beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 for a fourth successive victory.The Frenchmans 57th-minute strike from 25 yards killed off a spirited fightback by West Brom after the Baggies had responded to Yoan Gouffrans 36th-minute opener to level within eight minutes of the restart through Chris Brunts equally explosive finish.Sissokos effort ensured the Magpies collected a fourth straight league win for the first time since the closing stages of the 2011-12 season, when they went on to finish fifth.However, West Brom gave as good as it got in an end-to-end encounter in front of a crowd of almost 50,000.

Bales nets 3 in Madrid win over Valladolid Posted: BARCELONA (AP) - Gareth Bale scored three goals and set up a fourth to make sure Real Madrid didnt miss injured star Cristiano Ronaldo as it cruised to a 4-0 win over Valladolid in the Spanish league on Saturday.With Ronaldo out nursing a hurt hamstring for a second straight game, Bale took up the scoring duties in the 32nd minute then found Karim Benzema to make it 2-0 four minutes later.Bale got his second in the 64th and third in the 89th against Valladolids bewildered defense to give him five goals since Ronaldo was sidelined.Madrids fifth league win in a row following its loss at Barcelona lifted it three points from the defending champions and Atletico Madrid, which won 2-0 at Elche on goals by Diego Costa and Jorge Koke Resurreccion.Barcelona can reclaim sole possession of the league lead from Atletico at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.Bale, who joined Madrid on a world record 100 million euros transfer from Tottenham this summer, showed with his first hat trick for Madrid that he has certainly shaken off his injury problems from earlier this season.His adjustment period is over, Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said about Bale. He has confidence, he is important to the team, and he played very well.Bale has seven goals in league play, leaving him third for Madrid behind Benzemas eight and Ronaldos 17, which lead the league. Bale also has scored twice in the Champions League.Marcelo, however, made it clear who Madrids No. 1 is.Gareth is a great player but you cant compare him with Cristiano because Cristiano is above all the rest, Marcelo said.Also, Celta Vigo came back to beat Almeria 3-1 for its first home victory at Balaidos Stadium in eight attempts this season under first-year manager Luis Enrique.With Ronaldo unavailable, Angel Di Maria started and wasted little time in controlling a clearance outside the area before rattling the bar with a left-footed shot on either side of two Sergio Ramos headers that sailed high.The overmatched Valladolid rarely managed to shift the action out of its area, and Bale found himself in perfect position to nod in a rebound of Di Marias curling effort that goalie Diego Marino parried directly to the Wales winger.Bale then picked out Benzema with a pinpoint cross to thump the ball beyond Marino and put the result beyond doubt before halftime.Bale was again aided by a poor clearance for Madrids third. This time it was defender Jesus Rueda, who knocked Marcelos cross back for Bale to fire home.But Bale wasnt finished and he started and finished off a late counterattack by charging forward to tap in Marcelos low cross.With Elche hanging tough, Atletico coach Diego Simeone sent on Raul Garcia and Adrian Lopez and the changes paid off to earn Atleticos 17th win in all competitions to go with four draws and just one loss.Atletico broke through seconds after Garcia replaced David Villa. Koke pounced on a rebound from Garcias shot that Manuel Herrera saved but failed to clear, leaving the Elche goalkeeper strewn on the turf with defender Alberto Botia and Diego Costa after they collided.Diego Costa secured the three points in the 74th by scoring from Lopezs perfectly placed chipped pass. It was Diego Costas 15th league goal this season, the second highest tally in the competition after Ronaldo.The entrance of Raul Garcia and Adrian (Lopez) gave us two bursts of creativity when the game had gotten bogged down, Simeone said. We have to keep going forward this way and remain realistic. I know its a good moment for Atleticos fans, but we are focusing on one game at a time.Celtas much-needed win lifted it three points from the relegation zone, while Almeria stayed among the bottom three. After Jesus Suso Fernandez opened for Almeria, Fabian Orellano scored one goal and set up another to lead the fightback.Real Sociedad visited Espanyol later.New world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took the honorary kickoff at Madrids Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Australia regains World Cup, beats NZ 34-2 Posted: MANCHESTER (AP) - Australia reclaimed the Rugby League World Cup from New Zealand with 34-2 five-try romp on Saturday in the most one-sided final in the competitions 59-year history.Billy Slater and Brett Morris both crossed twice and Cooper Cronk added the other try as the Kangaroos produced a devastating performance to win the trophy for the 10th time in 14 editions.It is one of the best team performances I have ever been part of, said Australia captain Cameron Smith, who was sprayed with champagne by his jubilant teammates as he lifted the trophy to the backdrop of fireworks at Old Trafford.New Zealand forward Sonny Bill Williams was bidding to become the first player to win World Cups in both rugby codes but a subdued performance by the world player of the year was summed up when his pass was intercepted in the lead-up to Australias final try, a length-of-the-field score finished off by Morris in the 72nd minute.The Australians finished the tournament without having conceded a try in 404 minutes since their win over England in the opening match five weeks ago. In their five games since then, they shipped only four points in five matches, scoring 244.For Australias 30-year-olds Smith, Greg Inglis and Johnathan Thurston, who kicked all seven of his goals, it completes the resumes of three of the modern-day rugby league greats in probably their final World Cup. And it goes a long way to making up for the 2008 final, when New Zealand stunned its fierce rival in Brisbane to claim the sports biggest prize for the first time.Five years is a long time to get another opportunity, Smith said, but a little bit of that disappointment has been taken away by this win.This was the heaviest victory in a final, eclipsing Australias 40-12 victory over the Kiwis in the same stadium in 2000.I thought their performance was pretty faultless, New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney said.Australia hadnt been beaten in three years heading into the match but, crucially, New Zealand had defeated its great rival in three of the last four major finals they had met in that 2008 World Cup and in the Four Nations in 05 and 10.It quickly became apparent, though, that there would not be another upset here in a match played in front of 74,468 a record crowd for an international.Australia was sharper around the play-the-ball, made big yardage through the forwards and had a kicking game through the man-of-the-match Thurston that tormented New Zealands defense. The Kiwis werent helped by the seventh-minute withdrawal of right winger Roger Tuisava-Sheck, who sustained a suspected hairline fracture of his right shin in his first carry. Australia made a raft of incisive attacks down its left channel in Tuisava-Shecks absence, with two of their tries came down that flank.A halftime scoreline of 16-2 didnt flatter the Kangaroos. The Kiwis walked off with hands on hips, a punishing first 40 adding to the weariness after that epic semifinal victory over England last weekend.Thurston and Shaun Johnson kicked goals in the opening 16 minutes before Australias attack started making serious inroads and Thurstons perfectly judged kick was collected by the leaping Slater soaring way above Kieran Foran for the opening try in the 19th.

Alpine skiing: Gut wins women's World Cup super-G Posted: BEAVER CREEK (AFP) - Lara Gut won the womens alpine World Cup super-G here Saturday, her second triumph in two days continuing the Swiss racers red-hot start to the Olympic season.The 22-year-old again demonstrated her mastery of the new Raptor course built for the 2015 World Championships, clocking 1min 18.42sec to beat Austrian Elisabeth Goergl by an emphatic 0.9sec.Goergl the 2011 super-G world champion, clocked 1:19.32. Another Austrian, Anna Fenninger, was third, 0.92sec behind the winner.Guts victory came a day after she won the first downhill of the season, and shell go for a sweep of all three Beaver Creek races in Sundays giant slalom.Its two days that Im skiing so fast, she said. Theres another race tomorrow, Ill try to do it again.Gut notched the sixth World Cup victory of her career and her third this season. She opened the 2013-14 campaign with a giant slalom triumph in Soelden, Austria.It all augurs well for Guts Olympic bid in Sochi, Russia, in February, where shell be aiming to erase the bitter memory of missing the 2010 Vancouver Games recovering from a hip injury.Slovenias Tina Maze, the reigning giant slalom and overall World Cup title holder, endured another tough day, finishing 15th -- more than two seconds adrift.Liechtensteins Tina Weirather, second to Gut in Fridays downhill, failed to finish.

Ireland retain ICC World Twenty20 qualifier crown Posted: DUBAI (AFP) - Ireland won the ICC World Twenty20 qualifier title for the third time in four appearances with a 68-run victory over Afghanistan in Saturdays final in Dubai.The defending champions posted an impressive 225 in their innings with Trent Johnston the star, smashing a career-best 62 off just 32 balls, with four sixes and five fours.Australian-born Johnston then returned bowling figures of three for 34 to deservedly take the man-of-the-match award, but was ably supported by opener Paul Stirling, who top-scored with a 43-ball 76.Stirling and Johnston put on 64 in just over five overs for the third wicket.Earlier, captain William Porterfield with 27 and Kevin OBrien with 20 had kept the scoreboard ticking over.In reply Afghanistan managed just 157 and were bowled out in 18.5 overs.Gulbodin Naib struck 43 runs off just 19 balls and Mohammad Shahzad hit eight boundries and one six in a rapid 38, but the Asians lost their last four wickets for just 28 runs.Hamza Hotak was the pick of their bowlers claiming three for 39.In the third-fourth placed play-off Nepal beat hosts United Arab Emirates by five wickets.

England's Bell wants to bat at number three Posted: ALICE SPRINGS (AFP) - Englands Ian Bell said Saturday he wants to bat at number three after Jonathan Trott pulled out of Thursdays second Ashes Test against Australia in Adelaide.Im absolutely willing to go to number three, said regular number five batsman Bell, who with three centuries was the star of the last Ashes series in England.But that decision is probably out of my control.Weve got a number of options with the batting and balance of the side... but I put up my hand to go up the order.The withdrawal of regular number three batsman Trott with a stress-related illness following the first Test in Brisbane has left a hole in Englands top order.Bell and number six Joe Root are vying to slot into first-drop.And Zimbabwe-born Gary Ballance, who was man of the match during Saturdays draw in Alice Springs for his first-innings 55, is pushing for his Test debut in Adelaide in the middle order.Test offspinner Graeme Swann gained some confidence following his mauling at the hands of Australias batsmen in last weeks first Test by picking up four for 56 in the game against the Australia Chairmans XI.Test hopeful Monty Panesar claimed three for 41.Trailing one-nil in the Ashes series, England may be tempted to recall Panesar in a twin-spin attack for Adelaide.It is a possibility. Weve got that flexibility, two spinners, that he could play, Bell said.England head to Adelaide on Sunday to prepare for the second Test.

Dunya News celebrates 5th anniversary today Posted: LAHORE (Dunya News) – After launching its broadcast services in 2008, Dunya News is celebrating its 5th anniversary today.Dunya News project was initiated in 2006 but it launched its broadcast services in 2008. Within short period of time Dunya News has secured a position among the top three channels of the country.In order to achieve the goal of timely and impartial reporting of news Dunya News established 12 bureau offices and a network of hundreds of reporters across the world. Dunya News covers all important national and international events along with sports, cricket, weird, science and technology news.

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