WASHINGTON  - Crime, corruption, and tax evasion cost the developing world $858.8 billion in 2010, just below the all-time high of $871.3 billion set in 2008, the year preceding the global financial crisis.  The findings are part of a new study released Monday by Global Financial ...

The US State Department has issued annual report of war on terror which revealed that 11,500 terrorism incidents occurred in Pakistan during 2010. Majority of these incidents occurred in the tribal areas as most of the terrorist outfits use the tribal areas as their bases to launch terrorist ...

Japan confirmed Monday that China's economy surpassed its own as the world's second largest in 2010 and said a late-year downturn was Japan's first quarterly contraction in more than a year.Japan's real GDP expanded 3.9 percent in the calendar year in the first annual growth in three years, but it ...

The United Nations' weather agency, says 2010 was one of the warmest years on record, providing further evidence that the planet is slowly but surely heating up. The World Meteorological Organization says global average temperatures last year were just over half a degree Celsius higher than the ...

The Islamabad-based NGO, Conflict Monitoring Center, revealed the details of the deaths by US drone attacks in its annual report. The report gives detailed accounts on how the CIA killed innocent people merely on the suspicion of being militants. In 2010, the CIA carried out an unprecedented 132 ...

The federal cabinet approved Reformed General Sales Tax 2010 bill, report said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani chaired the meeting. The meeting also reviewed the decisions of the Council of Common Interest (CCI) and the law and order situation. The finance minister brief the cabinet ...

Pakistan with twelve booths is participating in a big way in the INTRADE Malaysia 2010, one of Malaysia's premier International trade exhibition, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 9-11th November, 2010, says a press release received here on Monday, from Malaysia. According to press release ...

At least 1,034 people were killed in Pakistan's commercial capital in the first 10 months of 2010, most of them victims of target killings, a government funded watchdog has said. The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) a government funded watchdog organisation has said that the number of ...

Addressing the media on account of the International Labour Day on Saturday, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced the salient features of the new Labour Policy 2010. The new policy was approved by the federal cabinet on Saturday. The minimum wages for the labourer has been raised from Rs ...

The Punjab Assembly has passed Local Government Amendment Bill 2010 while opposition minister walked out of the floor in protest. Senior Minister Raja Riaz said that after this bill, administrators would be appointed which will work under Punjab government. The House rejecting the decision of US ...

Barack Obama and his Democratic Party were given clear warning yesterday that they face a potentially disastrous 2010 after big Republican victories on Tuesday signalled mounting voter discontent with the economy and the Presidents spending plans. The Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia ...

New Zealand has extended the duration of its troop deployment in Afghanistan for another year until September 2010, PM John Key said on Tuesday. The tour of duty for the 140-member provincial reconstruction team in Bamiyan province, west of Kabul, had been due to end in September this year. "The ...

The West Indies will host the World Twenty20 Championship in 2010, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced in Mohali Saturday. The event will be held in place of the Champions Trophy that was to be hosted by West Indies in 2010, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said at a press ...

New president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation Qasim Zia said that his first target is to achieve gold medal in the Asian Games 2010. In his first address to a press conference here at the National Hockey Stadium after being appointed the president of the hockey federation, Qasim Zia said that the ...