United Nations, United States: The UN Security Council will hold urgent talks Tuesday on Iran´s test-firing of a medium-range missile, diplomats said. The United States requested the emergency consultations after the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations called for council action.
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump fired the federal government's top lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. Yates said late on Monday that the ...
KARACHI: Enraged citizens in Karachi's Landhi area nabbed a robber red handed and then burnt him alive after torturing. According to Sindh police spokesman, two robbers attempted to loot a milk shop in Landhi but a mob surrounded them after hearing the gunfire. They caught one of them and burnt h...
KARACHI: Donald Trump's executive order to ban people from seven Muslim countries and to build a wall along Mexico have received criticism from all over the world including leaders of some European countries. The executive order halts the flow of all refugees into the United States for 120 days, p...
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA: NASA on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of its moon program's fatal Apollo launchpad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test. NASA astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grisso...
MELBOURNE: Serena Williams beat her sister Venus 6-4 6-4 in the Australian Open final on Saturday to win her 23rd grand slam singles title and become the most successful tennis player in the open era. The 35-year-old American's victory gave her a seventh Melbourne Park crown and sent her clear of ...
BEIJING: China wants dialogue with the new U.S. administration to manage disputes and promote bilateral relations, but only on the basis of respecting each other's core interests, like the "one China" principle, China's foreign minister said. U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugura...
SYDNEY: Australian paceman Joe Mennie suffered a "minor brain bleed" and fractured skull after a ball hit his head during training, Cricket Australia (CA) said Wednesday. Mennie was bowling at a nets session with his Twenty20 Big Bash League team the Sydney Sixers in Brisbane on Monday w...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected the statement of Maryam Nawaz on Tuesday as it did not bear the signature of the Prime Minister's daughter. As the Supreme Court of Pakistan resumed its hearing regarding the Panama Leaks and Prime Minister's disqualification case, Maryam Naw...
SEOUL: It has been an inauspicious return to crisis-plagued South Korea for former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, once the odds-on favourite to be the next president, who has been ensnared in a family corruption scandal and struggled with a sceptical press. Ban, 72, has been unable to capitalise on his m...
MELBOURNE: Rafa Nadal held off a fierce challenge from one of the hottest prospects in the game when he outlasted German teenager Alexander Zverev 4-6 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 to reach the last 16 of the Australian Open on Friday. The Spaniard, champion here in 2009, needed to be at his resilient best t...
SEOUL: The head of South Korea's giant Samsung Group faces a long day in court on Wednesday as a judge decides whether he should be arrested for bribery in a corruption scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye's administration. Investigators questioned Jay Y. Lee for 22 hours last week as...
LONDON: People recovering from depression but struggling with its effect on memory, concentration and cognitive function may benefit from the stimulant modafinil, according to results of a small study published on Tuesday. Modafinil is a generic drug usually prescribed for sleep disorders such as ...
At least 10 people were killed in a car crash on GT Road in Jhelum on Sunday, Ten others were injured, out of which three are in critical condition. The van, which was on its way from Jhelum to Rawalpindi, collided with a car on its way to Islamabad. One of the tyres of the car burst, maki...
The attacker who shot dead 39 people on New Year's night at an Istanbul nightclub has been identified as an Uzbek member of the militant Islamic State (IS) group, Turkish press reports said. There had been confusion over the identity of the attacker ─ who remains on the run ─ with reports initiall...
FAISALABAD: As Pakistan slowly emerges from a long-term power crisis, its once booming textile sector is scrambling to find its feet -- but high energy costs and a decade lost to competitors mean recovery is far from assured. Energy production was severely depressed for more than 10 years due to c...
WASHINGTON: As Barack Obama prepares to leave office on January 20, here are nine things his presidency may be remembered for: Making history If historians were to write only one thing about Barack Hussein Obama, they would likely note that -- 143 years after slavery was abolish...
BEIJING: China´s foreign exchange reserves fell by $320 billion last year, Beijing announced Saturday, as authorities sought to support the...
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday announced to introduce an ordinance which will impose lifetime ban on public servants inv...
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday ordered police to find a ten-year-old maid who was allegedly tortured by her employers, and dem...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police shot dead two militants on Friday in a gunfight in Dhaka, including a prime suspect in the killing of 20 hostages...
