DANNENBERG, Germany (AFP) - A shipment of radioactive waste was nearing its final destination in Germany Monday on a five-day odyssey from France marred by sometimes violent clashes between police and demonstrators. The train with 11 containers of nuclear waste arrived in the northern town of ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Serbia and Kosovo are expected to resume negotiations on cooperation in the next week, a move that could end a standoff threatening Belgrade's aspirations to start accession talks with the European Union, an EU diplomat said on Tuesday. EU governments are expected to decide in ...

LAHORE Dacoits on Thursday made off with cash, gold ornaments, and other valuables worth Rs 1.8 million during several successful strikes from different parts of the Punjab Capital, police sources claimed. Two robbers equipped with pistols stormed into the house (No 3 Street No 11) of Liaqat Ali ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian hunger-striker Anna Hazare, who has led a huge public campaign against corruption, agreed to end his 12-day fast on Saturday after forcing new concessions from lawmakers. Addressing cheering crowds at his muddy camp in central New Delhi where he has fasted in front of a ...

ISLAMABAD - While the masses are suffering from long hours loadshedding, the government seems to take no interest in any long term or short term energy generation project as there is nothing in the pipeline at the moment. People are mistaken if they are thinking that the government is busy in ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE National Fertilizer Marketing Ltd (NFML) Managing Director Brig (rtd) Balal Ahmed Khan has said that he is not being removed, as President Asif Ali Zardari had specially appointed him in the corrupt organization in order to weed out unscrupulous elements so that this ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Instead of arresting the gangsters involved in auto-lifting, the City police have come up with a novel idea to control car-theft incidents here in the Punjab Capital as the policemen are puncturing the tyres of cars being parked alongside the roads or at unsafe parking ...

Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that he "cried like a baby" after shooting his final scenes for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The 21-year-old described his time on the magical movie franchise as "an extraordinary experience" and spoke of his determination to maintain the strong bond he has ...

LAHORE The Punjab Government has decided to constitute mechanical tanoor monitoring committees across the province. Each committee will comprise three members, including the imam of the local mosque, a school teacher (serving or retired) and a representative of the Social Welfare Department, said ...

A 'werewolf gene which causes hair to grow all over the body has been found by scientists, who say the discovery could lead to a remedy for baldness. They have tracked down a genetic fault which is behind a rare condition called hyper- trichosis, or werewolf syndrome, where thick hair covers the ...

KARACHI - Renowned economist Dr Shahid Hasan Siddiqui is of the considered view that Pakistans economy is in serious crisis and when the times are desperate, desperate measures are needed to solve the problem. Pakistan is faced by multiple financial constraints/crises and unless serious and ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian meteorologists on Wednesday declared La Nina, the disruptive weather pattern behind floods and cyclones that brought death and destruction this year, to have ended. The weather phenomenon, which began in earnest in December, was blamed for torrential rain and ferocious ...

OUR STAFF REPORTERT ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan's cricket team flew to Islamabad on Monday to play three one-day matches against the hosts' second side, ending Pakistan's two-year pariah status as an international host. Afghanistan are the first foreign squad to tour Pakistan since militants attacked ...

GLASGOW (AFP) - Neil Lennon collected his first piece of silverware since becoming Celtic manager as his side romped to a 3-0 win over Motherwell in the Scottish Cup final at a rain-soaked Hampden here on Saturday. It was a record-extending 35th win in the competition for the Hoops their first ...

LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has directed that extensive measures should be taken for the promotion of kitchen gardening in the province and a comprehensive system should be adopted for this purpose, and encouragement should be extended for the gardening of maximum ...

STOCKHOLM (AFP) Saabs survival is once again in doubt after a cash-injection deal with a Chinese automaker collapsed, a year after the brand was brought back from the brink when purchased by Dutch firm Spyker. Saabs plant is the southwestern town of Trollheattan has stood still for many weeks, ...

SIALKOT- Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said the government is committed to resolve all political issues through mutual consultations with all parties, besides strengthening democratic institutions at gross-roots level in the country. She stated this while ...

ISLAMABAD (app) Secretary of Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC), Bilal Satti said that as all the nation is working on to make better the Pakistan-India relations so the PBCC not lacking behind. He told that we are likely to host a bilateral Pak-India series at the end of this year in Dubai. ...

LAHORE The political situation at the centre is expected to remain uncertain and unstable in the foreseeable future because of the unpredictable state of relations between the PPP and the MQM and the PPP and the PML-Q, which the ruling party wants to take along in the absence of the Muttahida ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister (PM) Syed Yousuf Raza Gilanis claim to end loadshedding in Faisalabad within two months is based on false information provided to him regarding the present power projects status in the country, said sources in the Ministry of Water and Power. They revealed that the PM ...

Three of the BBC language services are going off air later, as a result of cuts to the World Service budget. The BBC Serbian and Latin American services end more than 70 years of broadcasting on radio, but the Latin American service continues online. The Portuguese for Africa service, which is ...

LAHORE - Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith chief Senator Sajid Mir has said that ongoing Namoos-e-Risalat movement will end only after reaching its logical end, while it will not be ceased with the mere announcement of prime minister in the Parliament. In a press statement issued on Monday, Sajid Mir ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Reconstruction Bureau has been dysfunctional since the PPP-led coalition government assumed power in the country but it became history about a month back when it was formally replaced with a Policy Analysis Unit. Established in November 1999 by the then military dictator ...

KARACHI Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Ahmed Khosa on Sunday underlined the need of unity for change in system, adding that vindictive politics should be ended to strengthen the nation. Talking to media at MQM headquarters Nine-Zero along with MQM Rabita Committee Deputy Convenor Dr Farooq Sattar, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Baseball saw pitching perfection aplenty and a title in San Francisco for the first time, but retirement, death and doping haunted the American pastime in 2010. The San Francisco Giants, who had not won the World Series since 1954 when they were based in New York, defeated the ...

ISLAMABAD - The government has decided to invite China and all other international market players of auto industry to invest in Pakistan for car manufacturing in order to break the monopoly in this industry in the country. While offering an attractive incentive of Custom Duty for new entrants for ...

SEPARATING coloured clothing from white clothing on laundry day is set to become a chore of the past after scientists developed a new type of dye that never runs. It is the bane of any laundry day - the stray red sock that finds its way into the load of white clothing leaving it an unintended ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan and Austria agreed on Thursday to capitalise on opportunities to forge cooperation in power sector to help overcome energy shortage that created hoe and cry in Pakistan over the last coupe of years. As a part of the Government's efforts to address the power shortages in ...

LAHORE A spokesman of PIA, in a written statement, has said that during the post-Haj operation, PIA has operated 116 flights and carried 48,063 pilgrims back to Pakistan till date, while the post-Haj operation of PIA will be completed on 21st December, 2010. According to a press release, PIA ...

LAHORE-The PPPs newly nominated Punjab President, Imtiaz Safdar Warraich said on Monday that he would galvanize the party in Punjab by removing groupings in consultation with party workers. Addressing a press conference at partys Faisal Town Secretariat, he said PPP will award tickets to workers ...