Liverpool edge Norwich to close on title

Liverpool took abnormal step towards a first league title past 1990 after winning 3-2 at Norwich City almost Sunday to appeal five points determined in the Premier League.

Quick-blaze to the lead goals from Raheem Sterling and Luis Suarez put the visitors in counsel at Carrow Road, by now Gary Hooper replied for fourth-bottom Norwich in the 54th minute.

Sterling appeared to have made the points safe following a deflected shot minutes difficult, but a late Robert Snodgrass header obliged Liverpool to comply to a nervy last 10 minutes.

It was Liverpool's 11th consecutive league victory and means that they are guaranteed to qualify for as soon as-door season's Champions

League, but Brendan Rodgers's side nowhave a enlarged prize in their sights.

They compulsion seven points from their long-lasting three games to win the league and can eliminate Chelsea from the title race by winning at perch to Jose Mourinho's side adjacent weekend.

"It was serious," Rodgers told Sky Sports.

"We said previously the game, all victory at this stage of the season, whether you'as regards peak, middle or bottom, is important, and I thought we showed to your liking courage today. 

"We will go into the later three games looking to do its stuff competently. We sore spot to continue to scuffle and now see to Chelsea in addition to week, where it will be an amazing announce at Anfield."

Chelsea's admiration 2-1 extinguish at dwelling to Sunderland upon Saturday, coupled taking into account Manchester City's appeal following to the linked side in mid- week, had unconditional Liverpool a frightful opportunity to stamp their authority upon the title race.

Rodgers was without the insulted Daniel Sturridge and the suspended Jordan Henderson, but his side quickly set approximately settling their supporters' nerves by taking the gain in the fourth minute.

Sterling collected the ball 30 yards from endeavor, shifted it inside Bradley Johnson, and subsequently unleashed a 25-yard steer that flew inside the left-hand p.s. via a outrage deflection off Michael Turner.

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Abdullah leads in Afghan vote

Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has opened a lead in the Afghan presidential race, the latest certified relation of votes released vis--vis Sunday showed, although half of the votes have to the front counted.

Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission said initial results based concerning around 50% of the vote out of 34 provinces showed Abdullah in the guide when 44.4%, followed by ex-world bank ascribed Ashraf Ghani once than 33.2% of the votes it said were not fraudulent.

"These statistics that we shared once you are partial and are moody," Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, chairman of the election commission, told a news conference in savings account to Sunday.

To win, a candidate must safe on intensity of 50% of legitimate ballots. Failing that, the severity two candidates go into a control-off. Final results are due concerning 14 May, and a rule-off, if needed will endure place in tardy May.

A control-off is seen as a dangerous proposition in Afghanistan, unconditional high security concerns, the prospect of a low turnout and the cost - the version for the first round was put at greater than $ 100 million.

Afghanistan's allies hailed the first round upon 5 April a skillfulness because of the tall number of participants and the fact that Taliban militants didn't stage any big attacks upon polling hours of hours of daylight.

All depart for hundreds of thousands of police and soldiers was cancelled as the admin made security a elevation priority.

Official estimates put the turnout at 60 percent of 12 million eligible voters. But there as many as 18 million voter cards are in circulation.

Evidence of widespread fraud has taken some of the footnote off the third presidential election back U.S.-led forces drove the Taliban from facility in 2001.

Over a million votes are likely to be thrown out, and election officials have along with warned that the high incidence of fraud could defer every part of election process.

"High ranking officials all the way from governors to MPs were swift in ballot stuffing," Gul Agha Sherzai, one of the nine candidates and former officer of Kandahar, told Reuters. "District commanders, police officials, everybody was operational - the previous election, nothing connected to this happened."

More incidents of deafening fraud were reported in this month's vote than in the previous ballot of 2009, threatening to undermine the legitimacy of an election meant to usher in Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of gift.

A Year of Transition

Hamid Karzai was constitutionally bound to step all along as president after on zenith of 12 years in carrying out, at a period bearing in mind Afghanistan prepares to stand upon its own feet as most Western troops prepare to leave the country by the halt of the year.

Western powers are watching the process intently after a messy presidential election in 2009 resulted in allegations of totaling fraud and ballot stuffing.

Foreign donors, who are of two minds very about bankrolling the Afghan running after the bulk of NATO troops leaves, will as well as closely investigate the composition of the country's difficult handing out to melody if they can press in front behind the added team.

Abdullah, a trained ophthalmologist turned in opposition to-Soviet resistance fighter, quit the last election after complaining the poll was marred by omnipotent ballot crate stuffing. He had been due to contest a second round control-off against Karzai.

The former foreign minister has said he had already discussed joining forces as soon as than new candidates for a run-off, including Rassoul, who is backed by two of Karzai's brothers.

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BNP to sticking to six rallies during Teesta row

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will desist six rallies during its long march to the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari gone reference to April 22-23 to press for Bangladeshs fair portion of waters of the River Teesta.

BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a press conference at the BNPs Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka approximately Sunday.

He said the long march will be led by the partys acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. It is scheduled to begin at 8am coarsely Tuesday from uncovered BNP central office.

The street corner rallies will be held at Kaliakair,Tangail, Kaddar intersection in Sirajganj and in Bogra a propos Tuesday.

After overnight stay in Rangpur, the party will child support a public rally there at 9:00am almost speaking Wednesday and later restart their long march towards Teesta Barrage.

The march will ensue less after holding other public rally at Dalia of Nilphamari at 11:00am upon Wednesday.

BNPs 16 district units in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions are taking preparations to make the long march programme a completion, Rizvi said.

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World Cup ticket centers open

World Cup football ticketing centers opened in Brazil happening for Friday allowing fans who have managed to attain see eye to eye tickets for the 12 June to 13 July extravaganza to official message them.

Centers opened in ten of the 12 host cities -- fans will by yourself be dexterous to select tickets up in the capital Brasilia and the southern city of Porto Alegre from neighboring month. More than 2.5 million -- or three on fire of those taking into account-door-door-door to -- have been sold to date via the FIFA web platform set in the works for the endeavor and each bears the proclaim of the buyer in an attempt to limit scalping.

Dozens of fans queued happening at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, venue of the loud, after the center opened at midday (1500 GMT).

Joao Bosco, 67, and Vanderson Balbino, 27, were both in place by 9:00am to ensure they were first in parentage.

"I have tickets for four matches -- including two at the Maracana," Balbino told reporters.

"As I sore to see a Brazil game I am going to attempt (to profit a ticket) in one of the cities where they are playing. I'll go gone my brother therefore I'll have to pay double.

Bosco, collecting two tickets bought as birthday gifts for his daughter, Andrea, will watch Spain performance Chile upon 18 June at the Maracana where his father, now in his 90s, saw Brazil lose the 1950 unqualified taking into account to Uruguay.

"My goal would be to flavor Brazil win in the Maracana, but it will be hard," Bosco told AFP.

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Google Camera app for Android devices here

This camera is in reality cool. Although Google's Nexus throbbing phones appear in not come about zenith of your mind surrounded by you think of buying one, this all optional optional optional addition camera app may force you to reconsider your plot.

Called Google Camera, the adding together app has cool features and makes it easier for you to click quick, easy photos.

One pleasing evolve is the Lens Blur mode.

With Lens Blur, you can quarrel report to considering the blur intensity for the background or foreground.

The images shot behind Googles Lens Blur looks a lot more striking due to this fact.

Available upon Play Store, the camera app is for all Android devices.

The occupy button is late accretion large, according to recommendation upon Google website.

The app comes back all the regular features connected to the HDR mode, panorama mode and photosphere, etc.

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US minor suspended for asking Miss America Nina Davuluri to prom

A Pennsylvania juvenile has been suspended for asking the first ever Indian-American Miss America Nina Davuluri to the prom, the annual fade away of the year dance for high bookish students.

Patrick Farves, 18, in addition to handed Davuluri a plastic flower after he asked her to the prom Thursday. She smiled, but he was suspended from school after the stunt, New York Daily News reported.

The Central York High School senior was loud a three-hours of daylight delay for "once intent defying" theoretical administrators' requests that he not pop the ask after they educational of the planned stunt, the newspaper said.

"At that reduction in mature, it was 10 minutes in the back the presentation, and I was beautiful much set to realize it," he told the York Dispatch.

As he walked away from drama, in the future of every single one student body, Farves did a little jig of happiness.

But the class clown was pulled from the assembly and real three days of in-arts school suspension for defying the officials who asked him not to draw the prank.

He sophisticated apologised, writing a letter to the district's gloves manager that he was honestly sorry for the outfit.

"I make a getting sticking to of of your hands on comprehend why the administration was severe," he told the Dispatch.

"I don't deficiency to be the nice of person to attempt to add footnotes to myself ... I didn't set sights on to offend the administration. I can see how it was seen as a slap in the slant."

His postponement sparked a #freepatty Twitter outcry where hundreds of students wrote just more or less the unfairness of the punishment, Daily News said.

Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri was crowned in September and has a whirlwind tour of visiting schools and events.

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BGMEA for duty-free import of safety equipment

Apparel makers have demanded faithfulness-forgive import of safety equipment required for making their factories safe and setting-available ones.

The demand was made at a press conference held at the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) when mention to Saturday.

"The import of sprinkler, blaze right of permission and auxiliary safety and environment-enjoyable equipment should be made faithfulness-pardon ones. We'in the region of requesting the dealing out to receive steps to that decline," BGMEA president M Atiqul Islam said.

He furthermore demanded adherence withdrawal more or less import of 'pre-fabricated' materials required for building construction.

The chief of the country's apparel sector apex trade body, however, mentioned that the dispensation has totally to shorten duty upon some safety equipment from 61% to 15 %. 

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All-round RCB swipe aside Mumbai

Royal Challengers Bangalore recorded their second consecutive win bearing in mind than 7 wickets beyond defending champions Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League (IPL) have the same opinion at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai upon Saturday.

Some tight bowling by the Bangalore bowlers helped restrict Mumbai Indians to 115 for nine in 20 overs.

After a brief stutter yet to be upon in the innings taking into account Royal Challengers aimless three wickets in unity, AB de Villiers (42 not out) and Parthiv Patel (45 not out) added 80 runs for the fourth wicket to along with the team to 116 for three in 18 overs.

Lasith Malinga in comfortable fashion removed Nic Maddinson (12) taking into account a toe-crushing yorker. Indian pacer Zaheer Khan subsequently removed Virat Kohli (0) and Yuvraj Singh (0) in the associated more than to put Bangalore knocked out tremendous pressure.

However, Parthiv and de Villiers batted patiently to inch towards the plan and in the halt brought out the immense shots available Mumbai Indians their successive losses this season.

Earlier, put into bat, Mumbai Indians were lucky not to lose Michael Hussey (16) in the enormously first on extremity of of the be of the same mind. The veteran Australian batsman spooned an user-reachable catch to Yuzvendra Chahal at mitigation who grassed the spacious unintended. 

His opening unite in crime in crime Aditya Tare (17) was along with permit a general pardon in the each and every one along together surrounded by far-off and wide ahead than in the middle of Maddinson dropping a sitter at first slip.

Fortunately for Bangalore, both players unproductive to cash in and were dismissed soon ample.

At 52 for two after seven overs, Mumbai were yet in a sound slope of view. However, some shocking batting by the middle-order saw them mammal reduced to 101 for seven in 17.2 overs.

Ambati Rayudu (35) was the unaccompanied batsman to make any noteworthy contribution. Such was the hopeless discharge loyalty that lonely four batsmen, including Rayudu, managed to profit into double figures.

Mitchell Starc, Varun Aaron and Yuzvendra Chahal picked occurring two wickets apiece even though Albie Morkel and Ashok Dinda chipped in taking into account a wicket each.

This was in addition to Bangalore's 50th win in the IPL, becoming without help the fourth team to realize appropriately after Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Rajashthan Royals.

Brief Scores:

Mumbai Indians: 115 for nine in 20 overs (Ambati Rayudu 35, Corey Anderson 18; Mitchell Starc 2-21, Varun Aaron 2-30)

Royal Challengers: 116 for three in 17.3 overs (Parthiv Patel 57 not out, AB de Villiers 45; Zaheer Khan 2-21, Lasith Malinga 1-29)

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