Asia Cup 2018: Bangladesh beat Pakistan by 37 runs to play against India in the final

Mushfiqur's 99 and Mohammad Mithun's 60 were instrumental in Bangladesh's win against Paksitan. Bangladesh will now take on India in the title clash in Dubai on Friday.

Asia Games 2018: Gritty Bangladesh set up a final clash with India in the Asia Cup after stunning Pakistan by 37 runs in the last Super Four match, riding on Mushfiqur Rahim's valiant 99 here.

Mushfiqur notched up his 30th half-century, while Mohammad Mithun made 60 to lift Bangladesh to a decent 239 all out from a precarious position after skipper Mashrafe Mortaza opted to bat in the virtual semifinal on Wednesday night.

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Mushfiqur was unlucky as he fell one short of what could have been his seventh ODI century but did enough to rescue Bangladesh with a 144-run fourth wicket stand with Mithun after they were reduced to 12 for three inside five overs.

Later, opener Imam-ul-Haq (83) turned out to be the lone bright spot for Pakistan as they faltered in pursuit of the modest chase and were restricted to 202 for nine.

Bangladesh will now take on India in the title clash in Dubai on Friday.

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Nepal Plane Crash: 50 dead on US-Bangla flight; Oli assures probe; updates

US Bangla passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed in Nepal, It was flying from Dhaka to Nepal.

Latest  News : At least 50 people were killed and 22 injured when a passenger plane of the US-Bangla Airlines crash-landed and exploded into a ball of flame at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here on Monday, authorities said.

Highlights

1.  Prime Minister of Nepal K P Sharma Oli tweeted: Extremely shocked by unfortunate carsh of US_ Bangla Aircraft carrying 67 passengers and 4 crew members. Express deep sorrow on loss of lives and condole to bereaved families and also wish for early recovery of injured persons. Govt will investigate the incident immediately.
2.  The plane caught fire after it careened off the runway during landing and crashed onto a football ground near the airport, the TIA spokesperson Prem Nath Thakur was quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post.
3.  The plane was a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400
4.  50 bodies recovered so far from the plane crash in Nepal; more deaths feared.
   Victims’ bodies have been recovered from the wreckage, an official said. “We just pulled out dead bodies and injured from the debris,” government spokesman Narayan Prasad Duwadi told AFP.
5.  Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport has been closed for all arrival and departures
6.  The aircraft took off from Dhaka and landed at the airport at 2:20 pm (local time).
   Nepalese rescuers work after a passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo: PTI/APKathmandu: Nepalese rescuers work after a passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo: PTI/AP
7.  US-Bangla Airlines is a unit of the US-Bangla Group, a U. S. Bangladeshi joint venture company. The Bangladeshi carrier launched operations in July 2014 and operates Bombardier Inc and Boeing aircraft.
8.  In early 2016, a Twin Otter turboprop aircraft slammed into a mountainside in Nepal killing all 23 people on board. Two days later, two pilots were killed when a small passenger plane crash-landed in the country’s hilly midwest.
9.  Rescue operation underway.
10.  Live footage posted on Facebook showed the towering columns of smoke rising behind the runway, where another plane stood waiting on the tarmac.

Mountainous Nepal is notorious for air accidents. Small aircraft often run into trouble at provincial airstrips. A Thai Airways flight from Bangkok crashed while trying to land in Kathmandu in 1992 killing all on board.

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Pope Francis in 2017: Portugal, India, Bangladesh, Colombia, Africa

Pope Francis will visit Portugal in 2017 and is "almost sure" he'll go to India and Bangladesh.

Still to be determined is where in Africa he'll visit and whether Colombia's peace accord is "certain, certain, certain" enough to enable a papal visit.

Francis outlined his 2017 travel plans while flying home from Azerbaijan on Sunday. Complicating his travel schedule is that 2017 is already full of appointments with visiting bishops whose 2016 visits were put off due to Francis' Holy Year of Mercy, which ends in November.

But Francis confirmed that as of now, he planned a May 13 trip to the famed Marian shrine at Fatima in Portugal.

India and Bangladesh were planned as well and an Africa trip was under study. The destination depends on weather conditions, time of year and regional political and conflict situations, he said.

Francis had said previously he would visit Colombia if the government and rebels reached a peace accord. Colombians voted on Sunday in a referendum to enshrine the accord ending Latin America's longest-running conflict.

Francis said he would go to Colombia "when everything is certain, certain, certain, when they can't go back, when the international community has agreed that no one can make a (legal) recourse, that it's finished. If it's like that, I could go. If it's unstable? It all depends on what the people say. The people are sovereign."

One place Francis likely won't be going is China.

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