At least 500,000 flood-hit Pakistani women, lactating or pregnant, require special food and nutritional support, a World Health Organization (WHO) report said Friday. The recent worst affecting floods displaced more than 20 million people from their homes in different parts of Pakistan and among ...

The brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a half-million pound profit in eight months on a luxury villa in Dubai bought with a loan from the bank at the centre of a financial and political crisis in Kabul. Mahmoud Karzai, a high-profile businessman in Afghanistan, borrowed seven million ...

FILM director Roman Polanski agreed to pay a 13-year-old girl $500,000, it has emerged. Polanski, who was detained in Switzerland this week, made the offer to Samantha Geimer in 1993, 15 years after he had illegal relations with her. Court records do not say whether the Oscar-winning director ...

WASHINGTON - The US government paid Pakistani military a $500,000 bounty to capture Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian citizen facing terrorism-related charges, according to Canadian media reports, citing Federal Court documents made public Monday. Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley issued a decision ...