LEOMINSTER,UK TS A MADCAP gardener has spent three years and £20,000 buildingBritain’s biggest water-powered cuckoo clock - which is the size of a HOUSE. Dedicated Richard Pim, 72, constructed the 25ft-tall clock tower which houses a 3ft wooden bird which pops out every ...

MOSCOW - Russia will not revert to winter time ahead of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Fans have complained of the difficulty of following sporting events, such as soccer's Champions League, taking place in Western Europe after Russia moved to a four-hour ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has said that lawmakers holding fake degrees could face criminal cases and it gave 189 ex-lawmakers time until April 5 to submit their educational certificates for verification.Heading a three-member bench hearing the suo moto notice, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...

DOHA (AFP) - Nearly 200 nations launched a fresh round of United Nations climate talks in Doha on Monday, facing urgent appeals to scale up the fight against Earth-warming greenhouse-gas emissions.“Time is running out,” UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told a press conference. ...

A disturbed sleeping pattern can lead to illness, scientists say. Researchers have found that the circadian clock – the genetic mechanism which regulates our sleep – controls the level of a gene vital to our immune system.Scientists from Yale University linked the gene TLR-9 to the ...

TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday spurned a US offer to supply it with medical isotopes if it stops further enriching uranium as world powers warned the time for diplomacy was limited and the sanctions clock was ticking. The foreign ministry shunned the US offer as not logical, after State ...

HYDERABAD (APP) - The historic Novel Roy Market Clock Tower, named after Deewan Novel Roy, the first vice-president of Hyderabad Municipality, has been preserved as a result ofrepair and renovation carried out by the District Government here. The historic building built in the year 1915 was in ...

LONDON (AFP) - China's Peng Shuai was narrowly beaten by Polish number 11 seed Agnieszka Radwanska in a thrilling second round match at Wimbledon on Thursday. The Chinese number three lost 6-2, 6-7 (7/6), 9-7 in a three-hour clash on Court 14, but showed plenty of guts and determination ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Tuesday said that 250-mega watt electricity was being saved daily by advancing the official clock one hour. The Ministry of Water and Power had successfully saved about 500MW through the austerity drive that included the advancing ...

A US official warned on Monday that time was running out for a deal that he hoped would bring lasting peace to Sri Lanka as he pressed for both sides to halt the fighting. Sri Lankan authorities had set a deadline of midday (1230 PST) Tuesday for the surrender of Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai ...

LAHORE-The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started probing into the incident of a 120-year-old big clock's removal and later its disappearance from the Mayo Hospital, Lahore. The clock was replaced by a new one in the tenure of the former Medical Superintendent Mayo Hospital Dr. Fayyaz ...