LAGOS: A sweeping offensive against Boko Haram has left dozens of insurgents dead, the defence ministry spokesman told AFP Friday,...

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ISLAMABAD: Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the Indian Occupied Kasmir dispute is a...

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China’s environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country’s tallest hydroelectric dam despite...

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Water from the world’s shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003...

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WARSAW: For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses...

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A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday opens the first in a series of investigative hearings in Congress on...

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President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure...

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside...

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Bangladesh began cleaning up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes along its coast while breathing a...

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NEW YORK: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral...

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NEW YORK: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral...

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WASHINGTON : President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal...

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TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively...

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KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people...

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A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a Shi’ite mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday, killing...

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A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at...

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WASHINGTON: New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits jumped sharply last week after coming in unexpectedly low for several weeks,...

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BAGHDAD: At lease 14 people killed in three blasts, which have hit the markets in Shia districts in the Iraqi...

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NEW DELHI: Indian international fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two teammates have been arrested for spot-fixing in a domestic Twenty20...

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UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more...

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KATHMANDU: A small plane carrying 18 passengers skidded off the runway of a high-altitude airport on Thursday and plunged into...

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14th May 2013

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday congratulated Pakistan’s incoming premier Nawaz Sharif on his resounding election victory and praised his commitment to economic reform. Cameron broke off from a trip to Washington to speak to Sharif...

• Oxford University sets up Thatcher honorary scholership

• Police arrest 17 over $50 mln Brussels diamond heist

• UK man jailed for selling fake bomb detectors

• Willem Alexander becomes the King of Netherlands

9th May 2013

BUKAVU: Two people suspected of being involved in an ambush on a United Nations convoy, in which a Pakistani peacekeeper was killed in the strife-torn Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, were arrested on Wednesday just as Pakistan called...

• Nelson Mandela in hospital

• Buddhists-Muslims violence spreads in Myanmar

• Mosques torched in deadly Myanmar riots

• At least ten dead in Myanmar riots: MP

15th May 2013

NEW DEHLI: A defendant on trial over a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said Wednesday, weeks after the main accused died in the same jail. Vinay...

• Pilot locked out of cockpit, plane makes emergency landing

• Manmohan Singh turns down Nawaz’s invitation

• Indian army, police continue massive operation in kupwara

• Indian SC quizzes govt over Sanaullah attack

14th May 2013

ISLAMABAD: The Australian Government has congratulated Pakistan and its people on the successful completion of elections that will see first transfer of power from one democratically elected civilian government to another in country’s 66 year history. In a...

• China calls U.S. the “real hacking empire” after Pentagon report

• Israel police detain top Palestinian Muslim cleric

• Pakistani arrested in Indonesia for human trafficking

• Elections were unfair: Malaysian watchdogs

16th May 2013

KABUL: A suicide bomber in a car targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, Kabul Police Chief Ayoub Salangi told Reuters. Salangi said he feared there were casualties from the...

• Walmart to inspect all Bangladesh factories

• Bangladesh to allow unions for garment workers

• Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer

• Woman pulled alive from collapsed Dhaka building after 17 days

14th May 2013

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry is hoping to visit Pakistan soon, once the new government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is in place, a US official said Monday. The two men already spoke on the phone...

• US stance over next Pakistani Government

• No permanent military base in Afghanistan: US

• Cyber bank robbers stole $45 million: US

• Syria drops off Internet, reasons unclear