Pakistan faced a record-breaking pursuit of 440 to win the first Test against Australia at Lord’s here on Thursday.

Australia were bowled out for 334 in their second innings at tea on the third day, with tail-ender Ben Hilfenhaus piling on the agony for Pakistan with a Test-best 56 not out.

The highest total ever scored in a fourth innings to win a Test is the 418 for seven made by the West Indies against Australia in Antigua in 2002/03.

Pakistan’s equivalent record is the 315 for nine they compiled against Australia at Karachi in 1994.

“We have postponed the talks until August 17 in order to grant legislators more time to study the draft bill and to find a solution that suits everyone concerned,” MP Robert Ghanem told AFP after the parliamentary meeting.

“A patrol of eight enemy (Israeli) soldiers crossed the line of withdrawal at the town of Kfar Shuba in an attempt to abduct a shepherd,” an army spokesman told AFP.

He said the shepherd had managed to escape but the troops had crossed 20 metres (22 yards) past the UN-drawn Blue Line, an informal border established after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in 2000, following a 22-year presence.

The aim of the Developing Eight (D8) summit was to improve trade among members, but issues including new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme could also be addressed.

Turkey’s damaged relations with Israel after a deadly raid on an aid ship bound for Gaza may also be discussed, with Turkish President Abdullah Gul among those attending.

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The freestyle and snowboard site, just to the north of Vancouver, has been plagued by a drastic lack of snow caused by the warm temperatures which have seen the city enjoying unseasonal highs of around 10C (50F).

In an effort to get the venue ready, organisers took the controversial decision to ban media from the site until Tuesday when training resumes.

Total circulation for 472 titles was 328.4 million for July to December, down 2.23 percent compared with the same period the previous year, the ABC said.

Single copy, or newsstand, sales fell 9.1 percent to 35.7 million while paid subscriptions were off 1.12 percent at 278.9 million, it said.

Thain, a former head of Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch, on Monday took the reins earlier in the day as chief executive and chairman of CIT, a major business lender that recently emerged from bankruptcy.

CIT said its board of directors had “authorized the voluntary prepayment of 750 million dollars on its 7.5-billion-dollar first lien credit facility.”

An agitated crowd of around 100 people continued to wait well into the afternoon at the drop-off site close to the town hall in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville as others clamored to get tickets valid for Tuesday.

“We need food!” one old lady shouted at a guard charged with manning the steel bars blocking the entrance to the town hall offices.

“A Finnish research group has proved that the present standard measurements underestimate the effect of climate warming on emissions from the soil,” the Finnish Environment Institute said in a statement.

While using “webcams” to keep watch is nothing new, the California-based start-up has eliminated the need to sift through hours or days of video for portions containing folks whose activities or lack thereof may be of interest.

Surveillance webcam software that detected motion routinely vexed users with emails or alerts triggered by any motion, be it a passing bird or swaying branch. Vitamin D is crafted to recognize people.

In another blow for inter-Korean ties the two sides failed to agree on restarting a tourism project.

Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s international department, met senior communist party official Choe Thae-Bok to reaffirm the two countries’ friendship and exchange views “on other issues of common concern,” Beijing’s Xinhua news agency said.

The Mao dog, which boasts gold and red-coloured maple leaves made out of yuba (a type of dried tofu skin), is the brainchild of Noriki Tamura whose husband runs the family stand.

“Why? Because I am Japanese. We hope she will get the gold medal,” Tamura told the Vancouver Sun.

The advertising agency representing the 173 dealers told the affiliates last week that the move was prompted by “excessive stories on the Toyota issues,” ABC News said on its website. The decision only affected local advertising.

Researchers collected data on the consumption of soft drinks, juice and other dietary items, as well as lifestyle and environmental factors of 60,524 people who were part of the massive Singapore Chinese Health Study, following up with study participants for up to 14 years.

Cases and deaths from pancreatic cancer for participants in the study were taken from official Singaporean registries.

Arsenal enjoyed plenty of possession when the two clubs met at Stamford Bridge but it was Chelsea who ran out 2-0 winners with Wenger complaining post-match that “we didn’t get a demonstration of football”.

Ballack’s response was to point out that Arsenal’s pretty football was not achieving the results they would like.

“Google lodged an appeal on January 21″ of the Paris court’s verdict in late December that also ordered it to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages to publishers here, said lawyer Alexandra Neri.

The ruling capped a three-year-old case brought by one of France’s biggest publishing houses, Les Editions du Seuil, which claimed that thousands of its works had been digitised by Google without consent.

The 42-year-old, who has struggled with alcoholism and depression, was arrested after officers were called to a disturbance at a takeaway restaurant in Leeming Bar, Yorkshire, northern England, on Sunday evening.

Gascoigne claimed last year to have given up drinking but he was arrested and fined in December for being drunk and disorderly in his hometown of Newcastle, northeast England.

Staffordshire Police said a 21-year-old man had suffered minor facial injuries that did not require hospital treatment following an incident in a nightclub in the Stoke area at around 0100GMT on Sunday.

Fuller, 30, has not been charged with any offence and was bailed until next month pending the outcome of enquiries by the police, who have appealed for witnesses.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office confirmed on Friday that criminal charges would be filed against Conrad Murray following a painstaking seven-month investigation by police and federal agents.

Law enforcement sources have told AFP Murray will be charged with involuntary manslaughter when he appears at Los Angeles Airport Courthouse at around 1:30 pm local time (2130 GMT).

The pro-Palestinian activists — one Spanish and the other Australian — were freed on a bail of 25,000 shekel (6,700 dollars) each, and the court banned them from re-entering the occupied territories, Omer Shatz told AFP.

The court “acknowledged the illegality of what happened,” he said.

Laurent Collet-Billon, an official in charge of armaments programmes, told reporters “you can’t fix a horizon for negotiations,” adding however that “we will continue to discuss with Airbus at a sustained pace.”

European countries badly need the new transport aircraft but the project is more than three years behind schedule and billions of euros over budget.

Audi said it sold 77,800 vehicles last month, thanks to jumps of 9.3 percent in Germany, 23 percent in Europe and 114.9 percent in China.

The number of autos sold was 11,657 in Germany, 33,300 in the rest of Europe and 16,798 in China, a statement said.

“In light of the number of current orders, we expect a solid first quarter in 2010,” sales director Peter Schwarzenbauer was quoted as saying.

“American and Crusader interests are everywhere and their agents are moving everywhere,” Shahri said. “Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can.”