BANGKOK (AFP) - John Daly said Tuesday he had heard no more from the Australian golf authorities over an incident in which he stormed out of a tournament last month after hitting six shots in a lake. "I haven't really talked to anybody and they haven't talked to me," said the fiery American, whose ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The most senior woman to have ever served at the Pentagon, Michele Flournoy, plans to step down from her policy post to spend more time with her family, officials said Monday. Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, has today announced her intention to step down, Defense ...

The United States-Pakistan relationship has reached a turning point reminiscent of the run-up to October 1958, when Washington encouraged General Ayub Khans coup, apprehending the coming into power of an elected government in Pakistan that might have refused to collaborate as the USs Cold War ally ...

LAHORE - The first phase of the worlds second largest preaching congregation concluded at Raiwind City after special prayers of mutual repentance and to seek forgiveness of wrongdoings from Almighty Allah and for the solution of hardships, which are being faced by the Muslim Ummah now a days and ...

LONDON (AFP) - Robin van Persie scored twice as Arsenal came from behind to defeat Norwich 2-1 and move up one spot to sixth place in the Premier League standings on Saturday. Van Persie took his goal tally for 2011 to a remarkable 31 in 29 games as Arsenal recorded their fifth consecutive league ...

Actress/model Elizabeth Hurley is in no rush to marry cricketer Shane Warne because she wants to spend more time getting to know her fiances family before they wed. The Australian sports star proposed to Hurley last month after a whirlwind romance, but the couple has yet to set a date for the ...

The Man Booker Prize would be a dull thing (except for the winner) if it didnt provoke discussion. No discussion, no controversy, no interest not very much, anyway. A good row gets people talking, and pleases the sponsors. Even when there is no serious disagreement, with judges coming close to ...

LAHORE The ruthless dengue virus put to sword seven more people including two women at different hospitals in the City on Wednesday. The death toll has reached to 232. Besides taking lives of seven people, the deadly virus forced hundreds of Lahorites to approach public sector hospitals and ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned to November 22 further hearing of a petition filed by the LPG Association of Pakistan. It questions the additional levy on them through LPG Policy 2011. The court of Justice Mansoor Ali Shah extended till next date of hearing the interim relief ...

Scientists in Norway say they have conclusive genetic evidence that sparrows recently evolved a third species. The Italian sparrow, they argue, is a cross between the ubiquitous house sparrow and the Spanish sparrow. Whether it is a distinct species has been the subject of a long scientific debate. ...

A US man has been arrested for stealing exotic snakes from a pet shop - by hiding them down his shorts. Eric Fiegel was allegedly caught on camera trying to smuggle five snakes from a store in Mesa, Arizona. The 22-year-old wandered round the store for about an hour with the snakes stuffed down his ...

FREEPORT (AFP) - Hurricane Irene ripped off roofs, downed power lines and demolished homes in the Bahamas and killed at least two people in Haiti as the US E. Coast on Thursday braced for its brute force. Packing winds of up to 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour, Irene brought destruction to the ...

SHANGHAI (AFP) - Chinese prodigy Ye Shiwen modestly played down her sensational 200m individual medley world title win after stunning the world and Olympic champions at the age of just 15. The Asian Games gold-medallist was down in fifth place with 50m to go but she made up nearly one-and-a-half ...

QUETTA - Unidentified armed assailants gunned down five labourers apparently in an incident of target killing in Nushki district, some 148 km from Quetta on Saturday. Assistant Commissioner Zahir Jan Jamaldini said five labourers were constructing a mosque in Kisankori area of Nushki when two armed ...

WOLFSBURG (AFP) - Japan forward Yuki Nagasato is refusing to be daunted by their women's World Cup quarter-final against hosts and defending champions Germany on Saturday. Germany are bidding for a third straight World Cup title and take on Japan for a place in the semi-finals in Wolfsburg on ...

WOLFSBURG (AFP) - Sweden take on two-time champions the USA here on Wednesday at the womens World Cup with midfielder Therese Sjogran insisting her side can beat the Stars and Stripes again. Both teams have already booked their quarter-final berths with 100 percent records, but Sweden beat the USA ...

Not so long ago I was in the grounds of the Intercontinental hotel in Kabul. I was sipping Afghan soup with an English-speaking Afghan student. She was sitting at a picnic table with her family. It could have been New York or Amsterdam. She explained that they had planned to go to the Kabul museum, ...

It turns out that killing Osama bin Laden was the easy part. Dealing with the political fallout from the May 2 raid on the Al-Qaeda leaders Pakistan compound is proving trickier. And Congress isnt helping. President Obama evidently made a calculated decision not to inform Pakistani leaders in ...

LAHORE As the dust over the extra-judicial killing that took place in Karachi and shook the entire country is yet to settle, policemen in Lahore pumped over a dozen bullets into the body of a 23-year-old motorcyclist, hours after the shopkeepers in Nishtar Colony area handed him over to the police ...

PESHAWAR - As many as 24 suspected militants were killed in a US drone attack in Shawal tehsil of North Waziristan on Wednesday. Sources said that a US unmanned aircraft fired at last five missiles on a house situated und in the Zawai Narai area, close to the Pak-Afghan border. The house was ...

DUSHANBE (AFP) - Tajikistan pulled down Central Asia's tallest statue of revolutionary Russian leader Vladimir Lenin as it sought to distance itself from its Soviet past, a city spokesman said Tuesday. "The Lenin monument was taken off its pedestal on Monday evening," the mayor's office spokesman ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The electricity shortfall on Friday downed at 1733MW, thanks to the change in weather and comparatively good generation from all the sources. The overall electricity situation was being described better across the country. The sources said that big cities of Punjab were ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday ordered the suspension of operations at an ageing nuclear power plant southwest of Tokyo because it is located close to a dangerous tectonic faultline. It comes eight weeks after a massive quake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi ...

ISLAMABAD PPP and PML-Q Friday had another round of talks at Presidency to further finetune the nitty-gritty of the broader deal agreed between the two political players a day earlier. Sources privy to the developments informed TheNation that yet another round of negotiations between the two sides ...

LAHORE The Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf Aujla on Thursday awarded death sentence to Aurangzaib on two counts for killing two persons. The court also ordered the convict to pay Rs.1,100,000 as compensation to the victim families. According to the case details, Aurangzaib ...

LAHORE A 30-year-old youth was gunned down by a rival group over old enmity near Bhogiwal in Gujjarpura police precincts on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Liaquat Ali, resident of China Scheme, Bhogiwal. Police investigators, associated with this case, quoting previous history said ...

LAHORE The federal government is seriously considering shutting down countrys first private detective company - Fact Finders- terming its functioning as illegal and unconstitutional, sources disclosed to TheNation here Friday. A leading intelligence agency has forwarded its report to the Interior ...

LAHORE Deficit-plagued Pakistan Railways has reduced its set revenue receipt targets from Rs 28.15 billion to Rs 18.19 billion and demanded Rs 15 billion more from the budget allotment of Rs 32.1 billion to meet its expenditures, the financial summary available with TheNation stated. According to ...

LAHORE Dacoits gunned down a 45-year-old storeowner and his worker on offering resistance here at busy Multan Road in Samanabad area and fled away after collecting cash and valuables worth Rs one million, police sources said late Wednesday night. Eyewitnesses said that four robbers, riding on two ...

KARACHI - Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Madani, leader defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and brother of slain party chief Maulana Azam Tariq, along with his son Abu Bakar was gunned down here in North Karachi on Saturday night. According to reports, Maulana Madni, 56, and his son - Abu Bakar - were on ...