LONDON -  British Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police.Prime Minister Cameron said there were ‘strong indications that it is a terrorist ...

MOSCOW Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF : A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 14 people including a local politician in the latest attack to target provincial officials.Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who ...

        BAJAUR AGENCY A personal of Bajaur levies force was gunned down when unknown armed persons attacked a polio vaccination team in the border area of Tehsil Mamond in Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning. Locals and officials of the political administration of Bajaur said ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) took notice of acid attack on a woman and her daughters after they resisted a rape attempt in Multan District on Saturday. The court directed District & Sessions Judge concerned to probe into matter and submit a detailed report regarding steps taken by local police ...

  NEW YORK   A new campaign by a family of information-stealing malware, which appears to originate out ofIndia, has been hittingPakistanhard over the last few months, according to American researchers. Citing researchers at Eset, Dark Reading, a comprehensive news and information portal ...

NEW YORK - Bleeding and hunted by police, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for U.S. wars in Muslim countries, CBS News reported on Thursday.The ...

PESHAWAR  - Five security personnel were killed and six inured in an attack by militants on Engineer Battalions vehicle near Sara Khawara area in Mattani on the border of the restive Dara Adamkhel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reported a private TV channel.The militants also attacked a ...

NEW DELHI: 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 Sharma was rushed to the state-runLokNayakHospitalinNew Delhion Tuesday with chest ...

  BARCELONA     Red Bull team boss Dietrich Mateschitz on Monday launched a scathing attack on the current state of Formula One, amid widespread calls for a return to hard-wearing tyres after the Spanish Grand Prix was marred by multiple pit stops. Mateschitz, whose money and vision ...

FRANKFURT : Deutsche Telekom has given its US operations more autonomy, positioning its business to compete better with bigger and smaller rivals, CE Rene Obermann told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper. In an effort to turnaround its US business, which has lost customers to AT&T and ...

ISLAMABADThe Pakistan govt has expressed anguish at the tragic loss of precious lives resulting from the terror attack in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, killing and injuring many innocent people Saturday last.In separate messages of condolence, addressed to President Abdullah Gul and Prime ...

cairo - Egyptian security forces have thwarted a plan by an al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior minister said on Saturday.Mohamed Ibrahim said the men, who he accused of having links to militants in the Middle East and ...

ISLAMABAD -Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has strongly condemned blasts in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) and Balochistan, while he has also condemned an attack on the convoy of PTI leader Ayla Malik near Mianwali, besides expressing shock over the death of an independent ...

  KARACHI - MANSOOR KHAN - Ahle-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat leader Maulana Orangzeb Farooqi survived an attack by some unidentified armed assailants near Korangi seminary on Thursday. However, his four guards sustained severe injuries in the attack.Farooqi was on his way to Korangi to attend his ...

Two people were killed and 23 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.The attack came in early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife ...

LAHORE - Former interior minister Rehman Malik has challenged Sharif Brothers to have a debate with him over corruption charges.Addressing a press conference in Lahore, he claimed that the PML-N chief had laundered money to Saudi Arabia. He said former federal minister Ishaq Dar admitted in his ...

CHICAGO : The FBI said Monday it has thwarted a terror attack in a small town in Minnesota after discovering home-made bombs and guns in the home of a local man. The agency provided few details, saying the investigation into Buford 'Bucky' Rogers, 24, was "ongoing." "The FBI believes that a terror ...

MANCHESTER: Veteran soap star Liz Dawn is recovering after suffering a heart attack. The actress, a former smoker who played Vera Duckworth on long-running TV series Coronation Street, was taken to a hospital in Manchester after experiencing chest pains. Dawn, who was diagnosed with incurable lung ...

BERLIN :-A German soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, the German army said. German special forces had been supporting an Afghan operation near the northern city of Baghlan when insurgents opened fire on the Afghan and Nato ...

MOGADISHUAround 11 people were killed in Somalia's capital Sunday when a suicide attacker from the Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy carrying officials from Qatar, police said."Several people have been killed, the blast was big ... the number of ...

UNITED NATIONS  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday expressed his “grave concern” over the Israeli air strikes in Syria, and called on all sides to exercise restraint.A statement issued by his spokesman said, “At this time, the United Nations does not have details of the ...

Quetta - Three people, including an attacker, were killed and another wounded in a bomb attack on convoy of an independent election candidate for PB-21 in Sibi district, some 160 kilometres southeast of Quetta, on Sunday.A security official said one of the attackers was killed in trade of fire with ...

sialkot/new dwlhi/muzaffarabad - our staff reporter/ agencies - Sanaullah Haq, a Pakistani prisoner, died at a hospital in Indian city of Chandigarh on Saturday after being attacked by an inmate at a jail in Held-Kashmir a day ago in what appears to be a retaliatory attack from the neighbouring ...

Militants ambushed a security checkpost in Ladha area of South Waziristan tribal region on Friday.One security personnel was killed during the attack whereas retaliatory action by security forces killed four militants.

GABORONE,Botswana: Botswana's President Ian Khama has received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, a government spokesman said Monday. The incident occurred at a Botswana Defence Force barracks last week, spokesman Jeff Ramsay told AFP. "He was scratched by a cheetah last ...

nawabshah - The Shalimar Express survived a terror attack on Sunday as explosives planted near the railway track went off just 15 minutes before arrival of the train.Terrorists had planted a bomb at railway track near Nawaz Dahri Railway Station here and it went off 15 minutes before arrival of the ...

Lahore - A high-profile condemned prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, who is an Indian citizen, was shifted to a local hospital in a critical condition on Friday evening after he was attacked by two inmates. Sarabjit had been awarded death sentence by a Pakistani court on terrorism and spy charges. On the ...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the attack in Kot Lakhpat jail on the Indian prisoner, Sarabjeet Singh, as a dastardly act and called upon the governments of Pakistan and Punjab to make a thorough inquiry into the matter and punish the guilty persons. In a statement ...

Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has revealed that Taliban started attacking them after he refused to provide them passage for hitting Punjab.In an exclusive interview with Private TV, ANP chief said "Taliban leader Fazlullah, in a telephone call, had asked me to provide him ...