Attack
Aug 18 2008, Sreelata Yellamrazu

What a nightmare! The change in skipper has barely changed fortunes, although it is hard to blame the captain for the collective batting on show in the first innings of the first of five one day internationals at Dambulla between India and Sri...

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Soldiers guard a damaged police academy after a suicide car bomber rammed into it, in the town of Les Issers, in the Boumerdes region, 60 kilometers (35 miles) east Algiers, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. The attack occured as applicants lined up to register...