Smith put a disappointing day behind him to pay tribute to Kallis' achievement, joining the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Allan Border on a five-figure Test aggregate.

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Although India insists on bilateralism even while sharing of river-flow data for flood forecasting, officials from Bangladesh have told the BBC that the idea has not worked well because they receive the figure of the flow only from areas nearby the Indo-Bangladesh border areas.

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Reports have also emerged that a senior figure in the main militant Islamist movement - Ansar Dine - has been captured near the Algerian border by a rival separatist group.

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Within hours of the Northern Alliance taking Kabul, this former governor of Kandahar and leading Pashtun figure led a force of men - numbers reported ranged from 200 to 1, 000 - across the border from the Pakistani city of Quetta towards the city he ruled before the Taleban took power in 1994.

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