LAHORE - A four and a half years old child broke his arm as he skidded off a slide at a fitness club. However, parents blamed the incident on the club management.Ali Rehman from Umar Block of Iqbal Town went to a fitness club with his family, where he was enjoying sliding when he had the ...

Islamabad- First he didn’t try traditional tactics to install a government of his own in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa even when Maulana Fazlur Rehman tried his best to provoke him, then he didn’t avail a chance to grab the top provincial slot in Balochistan when the mighty yet egoistic Murri ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) has learnt nothing from their past mistakes as instead of retaining the Asian Junior gold medal winning team, the federation has opted again trial matches. These trial matches would serve no purpose to either federation or to the players. The Asian ...

CHICAGO: A manager of Chicago’s Navy Pier rode the tourist spot’s Ferris wheel for more than two days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favourite. Clinton Shepherd spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier’s ...

KATHMANDU - BBC - British mountaineer Kenton Cool has reached the summit of Everest for a record-breaking eleventh time. Everest is the second of three summits he is attempting to reach in one continuous climb over the course of 10 days. If successful Mr Cool, who lives in Gloucestershire, will ...

BRUSSELS - The latest tit-for-tat EU-China trade disputes could signal worse to come but both sides have a lot to lose if things get out of hand and harm the much-needed economic growth they seek, analysts said.In May alone, the two have locked horns over solar panels, steel tubes and telecoms ...

Washington: Nasa’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope has been crippled by the loss of two wheels that control the telescope’s orientation in space. If engineers can’t find a fix, the failure means Kepler won’t be able to look for exoplanets - planets outside our solar system ...

LONDON: Emeli Sande has made chart history by breaking a record held by The Beatles for almost 50 years. The Heaven hitmaker’s first album Our Version Of Events has spent more time in the top 10 than any other debut record after notching up 63 consecutive weeks in the Official Album Chart. ...

DUBAI (AFP): Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have broken up an Al-Qaeda cell comprising seven Arabs who were plotting attacks in the Gulf state, an official statement said on Thursday.The UAE is one of the most stable countries in the Middle East and has so far not seen any attacks by ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, which has the world's largest HIV caseload, on Saturday unveiled a 1.5 kilometre (0.9 miles) long AIDS ribbon in Johannesburg, beating a record of one kilometre previously held by India. Created from over 6,000 red T-shirts pinned together, the ribbon was rolled out ...

A LOS Angeles man set a Guinness World Record for longest ride on a Ferris wheel by staying onboard for 25 consecutive hours.Gus Martinez, a detective who has been with the Los Angeles Police Department since 1994, climbed aboard the 130-foot-tall Pacific Wheel at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica ...

SWABI - Measles has broken out in the far-flung Gadoon Amazai mountainous region and the district health authorities have kicked off a vaccination drive in the affected villages, sending teams for immunisation of children, officials said on Tuesday.People of the remote areas confirmed that the ...

LAHORE – PML-N leaders have said that PPP has beaten all previous records of corruption during its four years in power. Central President PML(N) Lawyers Forum MNA Ch Naseer Bhutta, Shahnawaz Dillo and Miss Feroza stated Friday that President’s House has been turned into a PPP office ...

KATHERINE Jenkins had to be consoled by her musical director after performing a moving first song on the first night of her British tour in Oxford. The 31-year-old turned away from the audience after a rendition of Your Silhouette, which includes the lyrics, “lying in your empty bed” ...

ZAGREB (AFP) - Jamaican athletics superstar Usain Bolt ran a track record 9.85sec in the 100m at the athletics meeting here Tuesday, smashing longstanding American rival Tyson Gays mark of 9.92 set last year. The 25-year-old Olympic titleholder - who lost his world crown last month after being ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Several people were hospitalised in Tajazai area, as gastroenteritis broke out in the area, sources said Sunday. They said the disease broke out and spread in parts of Tajazai during the last couple of days hitting a number of residents, including children. The locals said that ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Many people fell ill as cholera broke out in different parts of Khyber Agency, sources from health department and the locals said Sunday. They said some 300 persons including women and children fell ill due to cholera break-out in various parts of the agency including Malagori, ...

ASUNCION (AFP) - There is a new hot dog in the Guinness Book of Records after a sausage in Paraguay claimed victory as the "world's largest" at record of 203.8 meters long, event officials said. Guinness representative Hessling, who traveled to the exhibition, confirmed that the Paraguay sausage ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A newborn who tipped the scales at more than 16 pounds (7.3 kilograms) broke the local hospitals weight records in Longview, Texas. The baby boy, named JaMichael, delivered by Cesarean section to parents Janet Johnson and Michael Brown early Friday, exceeded doctors weight ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Figures released on Tuesday by industry tracker comScore credited Google with being the first online operation to attract more than a billion visitors in a single month. Slightly more than a billion people went to Google websites in May in what comScore billed as an ...

LONDON (AFP) - Gold prices topped $1,500 this week for the first time on record due to concerns over rising global inflation and debt levels, while oil advanced in volatile trade. Markets will shut Friday on both sides of the Atlantic for the long Easter holiday break. PRECIOUS METALS: The price of ...

LAHORE - Government College University Lahore intermediate student Adnan Jahangir has broken the 47-year-old record in triple jump on the second day of the GCU 111th Annual Sports on Saturday. Adnan jumped to 13.64 metres to set the new record of GCU Sports. However, the previous best of 13.35 ...

HURTLING towards the ground at a speed of up to 200mph, these 41 brave and adventurous ladies have just set the new womens free-fly world record. Falling headfirst in a dive-bomb as opposed to a more traditional horizontal descent, the team more than doubled the number of women in the previous ...

MILAN (Italy) (AFP) Inter Milan captain Javier Zanetti became the oldest ever Champions League scorer as the reigning champions edged out 10-man Tottenham 4-3 in a thriller at the San Siro on Wednesday. This really was a tale of two halves as Inter romped to a 4-0 lead before the break while ...

Expectations of a bilateral meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly have been dashed with a war of words breaking out between the two sides. "I am genuinely disappointed over the unacceptable references made by the Pakistani Foreign ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Six weeks after Pakistan was ravaged by floods, the European Union is still struggling to decide how to help beyond emergency aid, with a plan to offer lucrative trade concessions locked in dispute. Last month, the EUs foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, urged member ...

High-dose vitamin D supplements could reduce fractures in the elderly by more than 20%, UK researchers said. The brittle-bone disease osteoporosis is common among the elderly, but scientists at the University of Cambridge in England have shown that large doses of vitamin D, taken only every four ...

ISLAMABAD - The apprehensions that rental power plants, which are being installed in the country, are old and outdated may come true as a newly installed Gulf Rental Plant has stopped energy production and is being repaired. The said power plant was installed hardly two months ago and has a ...

ROME (AFP) Champions Inter Milan scored two late goals to stun rock-bottom Siena 4-3 at the San Siro on Saturday to open up an 11-point lead at the top of Serie A. Earlier in the day 10-man AS Roma moved up to fourth and the final Champions League qualification position with a 1-0 home success ...

BRITNEY Spears has hit back at critical media reports of her Circus tour, saying she came to Australia for her fans. The pop star arrived in the country last week amid controversy over her lip-synching stage performance, and soon faced reports that disappointed fans walked out of her opening show ...