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Osama bin Laden dead: reports
Monday, 2 May 2011 - 10:06 AM SL Time


US President Barack Obama is expected to confirm the death of the world`s most wanted man about 1.15pm (AEST).

DNA tests are believed to have confirmed bin Laden`s death, although it was not immediately clear how he had been killed.

The Saudi-born leader of al Qaida had been hunted since a series of attacks on Western targets including the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington that levelled the twin towers of the World Trade Centre and hit the Pentagon.

More infomation to follow...
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Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Sangakkara To Deliver Collin Cowdry Lecture At Lords
Thursday, 19 May 2011 - 12:46 PM SL Time

Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara has become the first international activate cricketer to deliver the Collin Cowdry Lecture at Lords in England on 04th of July as he is invited to deliver the Lecture.This lecture which is inaugurated in 2001 is delivered in the memory of former England Cricketer Collin Cowdry.

Sangakkara has also become the first Sri Lankan to deliver the Cowdry Lecture at lords and the lecture was scheduled to held a day after the Sri Lankan Cricket Team played a one day international in lords against the hosts England.The former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Sangakkara is the youngest ever cricketer to deliver the lecture following the former Australian Cricketer Adam Gilchrist who delivered the lecture in the year 2009.Former English Cricketer Geoffry Boycott,Former Pakistani Captain Imran Khan and South African Activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu were amongst the famous people who delivered this lecture in the past.

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