STOCKHOLM (UPI):  A Swedish lamp company has drawn criticism for selling products designed for the growing of marijuana in the United States. Heliospectra Chief Executive Officer Staffan Hillberg said US company Radiant has been given the license to sell the company’s florescent lamp ...

 A car bomb exploded Monday at a compound owned by a US-based construction company under contract to the Afghan army, killing at least one person and wounding 15, police said.Five foreigners including Americans and South Africans were among the wounded, a security source at the company told ...

LONDON - Prince William’s wife Kate will not be on her own during her husband’s tour of duty in the Falkland Islands: the couple have a new puppy, St James’s Palace said Wednesday. William is due to begin a routine six-week posting in the South Atlantic archipelago in early ...

ISLAMABAD – Wateen Telecom has been ranked the number one wireless broadband service provider by PTA in a survey for quality of service for all broadband service providers, says a press release. In pursuance of PTA’s role to safeguard of consumer interests and growth of quality ...

The activist hacker group Anonymous says it has stolen thousands of emails, passwords and credit card details from a US-based security think-tank. The hackers claim they were able to obtain the information because the company, Stratfor, did not encrypt it.They say Stratfor’s clients include ...

A company in China has discouraged Scorpios and Virgos from applying for their job vacancies. The job advertisement, which is seeking teachers and clerks, also states that Capricorns, Pisces and Libras would be favoured over other candidates, reports local newspaper Chutian Metropolis Daily. "We ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the BHP, an internal exploration company, that it had to satisfy the court about the legality of relaxing mineral rules for exploration of copper and gold at Reko Diq. A four-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...

KARACHI (APP) - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sindh, has arrested CEO of a private company which caused a loss of Rs 195 million to the PIA. According to a notification issued by the Sindh Chapter of NAB, Sohail Hassan, CEO, M/s Cargo Aids Private Ltd, was arrested on allegations of ...

LAHORE - MetLife, Inc has completed its acquisition of American Life Insurance Company (Alico) from American International Group, Inc for $16.2 billion. With our acquisition of Alico complete, MetLife has become the premier global life insurance and employee benefits powerhouse, said C Robert ...

LAHORE The Pakistan and India celebrity couple of Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza are spending quite moments in an Indian state of Jharkand. According to reports, Sania during their visit to the city, will inaugurate a state-of-the art Tennis Academy, set up by Jharkhand State Cricket Association, ...

LAHORE Pakistans junior tennis sensation Samir Iftikhar has been honoured to join the prestigious Head Team Elite, a global sponsorship program aimed at promoting young and talented tennis players in more than 40 countries around the world. Renowned Head NV company which is a leading global ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2010 (AFP) - Internet giant Google said Friday it has purchased database company Metaweb to help improve its search engine. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Weve acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things in the world, Jack Menzel, a ...

QUETTA - Unknown militants fired a rocket targeting Bolan Mining Company in Khuzdar, 360 kilometres away from Quetta, on Wednesday night. As per reports, the rocket landed in the premises of mining company and exploded with a big bang smashing the windowpanes of the building, however, no loss of ...

We are pleased that we have received unanimous support in principle of the CoCom on the headline economic terms to our restructuring proposal, said Chief Restructuring Officer of Dubai World, Aidan Birkett. This is an important milestone and reflects our efforts to achieve the best possible ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - The government on Thursday disbanded Thar Coal Company and handed over all the powers to Thar Coal Energy Board (TCEB). This was decided in a meeting of Thar Coal Energy Board (TCEB) chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to resolve the issue of the ownership of ...

LONDON - The Church of England in its recent decision has diversified its investment from famous company Caterpillar, which supplies bulldozers to Israel to destroy Palestinian homes. In an interview with a local newspaper, the head of the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr ...

JENNIFER Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony are taking legal action against a British pram firm. According to the lawsuit obtained by Access Hollywood, the couple claim Silver Cross used a photo of them without permission. Jen, 39, and Marc, 40, splashed out 2,070 each on two pushchairs from the ...

LEAKED images of what appears to be the world's first Lego mobile phone have appeared on the internet. The brightly coloured Alcatel phone has been styled to look like as if built of red, blue and yellow Lego bricks. Lego is known to be keen to enter the digital age and is planning to release a ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that provision of better transport facilities to the people is in his top priorities and measures are being finalized for this purpose. He also gave formal approval to set-up Lahore Transport Company for solving transport ...

ABU DHABI (APP) - Abu Dhabi National Energy Company on Tuesday showed its keenness to invest in Pakistan's energy sector, particularly for setting up of a coal-based power plant in the country, which has plenty of untapped coal reservoirs. The interest was shown by Vice President of the company ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Asia's top oil refiner Sinopec has signed a deal to buy Canada's Tanganyika Oil Co. for 2.07 billion Canadian dollars (2 billion US), Chinese state media said Saturday. China's Sinopec has agreed to pay 31.50 Canadian dollars per share, an 8.8 percent premium on the company's ...

National Assembly session will begin at 5:00 pm today (Wednesday). Ruling coalition members in the National Assembly on Tuesday called for former president Pervez Musharraf's trial under Article 6 while opposition members asked the government to move on by setting aside the past and asked ruling ...

KARACHI - Indus Motor Company has organised Pakistan's first National Auto Journalists Awards on Friday at a local hotel. Arif Nizami, Editor, The Nation and President Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) was the chief guest of the event. The seven-member jury announced the winners of ...