Nation mourns for Bangabandhu today, observes National Mourning Day after 6 years The nation today observes the 33rd death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of its independence, as uncertainty still hangs over the trial of his killers.

Pakistan's ruling coalition parties say they will begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf. Party leaders Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif made the announcement after three days of talks. They would need a two-thirds majority to impeach. Mr Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He gave up control of the army last year and his allies were defeated in February's elections but he retains the power to dissolve parliament. Mr Musharraf has previously said he would resign rather than face impeachment proceedings but he has made no comment yet on the latest move. The BBC's Mark Dummett in Islamabad says an impeachment would take Pakistani politics into new territory, since no Pakistani leader has faced it before.

A new search engine with the name Cuil.com launched yesterday. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge and it is pronounced "cool". Could Cuil be the new Google killer that so many companies tried to build? What's special about Cuil? During the past few years, many search engines have tried to be the next Google. None of them has succeeded. The difference between these companies and Cuil is the team that stand behind the project: Anna Patterson: worked on Google's search index Russell Power: worked on Google's search index Louis Monier: founder of the AltaVista search engine Tom Costello: worked on IBM's WebFountain project. The team behind Cuil knows search very well and they have worked behind the scenes at Google and other major search providers.

Athletes from Iraq have been banned from taking part at this summer's Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee has announced. The team was already the subject of an interim ban after the Iraqi government replaced the country's Olympic committee with its own appointees. Under the IOC charter, all committees must be free of political influence.

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The speech is being compared to those of presidents Kennedy and Reagan US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has told crowds in Berlin that the US and Europe have drifted apart and it is time for them to come together again. "If we're honest... we know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart and forgotten our shared destiny," he said. At least 200,000 people heard the Democratic Party candidate make the only public speech of his world tour. His words were broadcast live in Germany, where he is a popular figure