ISLAMABAD Major upsets were witnessed in the elections 2013 as several old guards tasted defeat while others staged a surprising comeback. PTI Chief Imran Khan returned victorious from two provinces, securing two seats fromPunjaband one fromPeshawarwhere he defeated Awami National Party ...

LONDONTottenham Hotspur sent the Premier League title towards Manchester United with a 3-1 win defeat of Manchester City on Sunday, on a day when Liverpool striker Luis Suarez created controversy once again. Spurs roared back from behind to stun defending champions City at White Hart Lane and ...

Tyrannosaurus rex had the most powerful bite of any creature that has ever walked the Earth, say scientists. Previous estimates of the prehistoric predator’s bite suggested it was much more modest - comparable to modern predators such as alligators.This measurement, based on a laser scan of a ...

THE new 'Twilight vampire movie opened with a massive $283.5 million in worldwide ticket sales over the weekend as passionate fans filled theatres for the beginning of a two-part finale for the hugely popular supernatural love story. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1? captured an estimated ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Despite their martial overtones, the attacks on credit card and other websites by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are more political protest than real cyber war, experts say. Over the past week, the Internet has rung with a call to virtual arms by Anonymous, a band ...

PARIS (AFP) - Governments must bite the bullet in the next three months and announce action to cut back huge debt and budget deficits, or dig themselves deeper into trouble, the OECD warned on Tuesday. They have to begin withdrawing crisis stimulus for their economies in 2011 so as to crack down on ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Teen vampire film "Twilight" sunk its fangs into the North American box office at the weekend, scaring up 69.6 million dollars on its debut, final figures showed Monday. The movie, based on Stephanie Meyer's best-selling novel follows the adventures of teenage heroine played by ...

The foreign ministers of Japan and China were to meet Sunday to discuss joint development of gas fields in the East China Sea and North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, an official said. The talks between Japan's Masahiko Komura and China's Yang Jiechi come amid rapidly warming relations ...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Until this year Fakharuz Zaman's Pakistani government salary was enough to get by on but now his weary wife lets their two-year-old son scrabble in the dirt for pieces of mouldy fruit. A wave of economic woes has plunged millions of families like Zaman's below the poverty line, ...