London, Feb 28 : The US military is urging engineers to come up with designs for a robot that can rescue injured soldiers from the battlefield, with minimal or no help from outside. A posting on the Pentagon’s small business technology transfer website says that retrieving casualties while under fire is a major cause of combat losses, reports New Scientist. So, the army is asking inventors to design a robot with strong, dexterous arms and grippers that can deal with “the large number of body positions and types of locations in which casualties can be found”.
London, Feb.28 : Big-hitting Craig Kieswetter will take international cricket by storm, believes stand-in England captain Alastair Cook. The South African-born wicketkeeper has been a revelation on England’s tour of Bangladesh and will open the batting in today’s first one-dayer. After blasting a ton on his first England appearance last week, he has made a cast-iron case for inclusion ahead of the out-of-sorts Jonathan Trott.
Islamabad, Feb.28 : Describing the 17 year old left-arm spinner Raza Hasan as a ‘talented’ lad , Pakistan U-19 cricket coach Ijaz Ahmed has said he must be included in the 15 member squad for the ICC T20 World Championship, scheduled to be held in April in the Caribbean. “The pitches in the West Indies are going to assist spin and Raza should be taken in the final squad. He’s a very talented boy and has ability that defies the fact that he is only 17 years of age.
London, Feb 28: Chelsea defender Ashley Cole, dealing with the collapse of his marriage to Cheryl Cole, is believed to be in turmoil and has talked about walking away from football. According to reports, the fact that his divorce was sparked off by a series of love cheat exposes has piled more pressure on the 29 -year-old, who is recuperating from the broken ankle he sustained three weeks ago. “Ashley is in a very bad way.
Sydney, Feb.28 : Opening batsman Shaun Marsh will miss Australia’s one-day international series in New Zealand because of ongoing back problems, Cricket Australia said on Sunday. Australia’s two-match Twenty20 series against the Black Caps concludes on Sunday in Christchurch with a five-game ODI series starting in Napier on Wednesday. Marsh, 26, injured his back during the warm-up for the third ODI against the West Indies in Sydney on February 12, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
London, Feb.28 : Manchester United coach-cum-manager Alex Ferguson has said that winning trophies is not just about collecting trophies, but indicative of separating the winners from the losers over a sustained period of time. “From a personal point of view, I don’t add up all the trophies and think about how many I have won. For me, winning these trophies is about thinking of yourself as a winner and not a loser, so I look at it that way,” News of The World quoted Fergie, as saying.
Riyadh, Feb 28 – Saudi Arabia, with its close ties with Islamabad, could be a ‘valuable interlocutor’ in improving India’s ties with Pakistan, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said here Sunday. ‘We feel Saudi Arabia has a long and close relationship with Pakistan and that makes Saudi a more valuable interlocutor to us,’ Tharoor told Indian journalists here. He was responding to a question on whether India will seek Saudi Arabia’s support to influence Pakistan to address India’s concerns over terrorism emanating from Pakistani territory.
Sydney, Feb 28 : Even if you leave your car at home and catch a bus to work you’re doing no good to the environment. A new study says vehicles left in the sun for days at a time can emit damaging hydrocarbons – one of the main ingredients in smog. According to the Second National In-Service Emissions Study, hydrocarbons are in the vapour that escapes from petrol tanks on a warm day.
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