LONDON (Reuters) - A northern English city has found an "incredibly rare" symbol of wartime cowardice. Archivists in the city of Wolverhampton found a white feather -- sent to men accused of cowardice during World War One for not "doing their bit" for the war effort -- along with an anonymous ...

KARACHI Pakistan Chemical and Dyes Merchants Association (PCDMA) has detected several flaws and anomalies in the amended SRO-283 of the five zero-rated sectors, which is likely to be issued in next few days. According to the said amended SRO, twenty five new additional items will be included which ...

A proud Ferrari owner loves his sports car so much he parks it - in his lounge. Devoted Jon Ryder, 28, cleared the top half of his living room and drives the gleaming yellow Ferrari 355 Spider through a garage door at the end of the room. He can now stare lovingly at his pride and joy as he relaxes ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian oil and gas group MOL has found new oil and gas in the TAL block in Pakistan, the company said in a statement on Monday. Oil and gas have been encountered in the exploratory well, Tolanj X-1, which is being drilled in TAL Block, Pakistan, MOL said. The drilled section ...

DOHA (AFP) - A Qatar-led international team has made its first find in its search for planets orbiting distant stars - a huge gas giant 20 percent larger than Jupiter that orbits a star 500 light years away. The planet has been named Qatar-1b and its discovery is to be reported in the journal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghans are more pessimistic about the direction of their country, less confident in the ability of the US and its allies to provide security and more willing to negotiate with the Taliban than they were a year ago, a poll conducted in all of Afghanistans 34 provinces showed. ...

ISLAMABD - Auditor General of Pakistan has pointed out massive financial irregularities of Petrol Oil and Lubricant (POL) running into millions of rupees in the accounts of Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) in audit year 2009-10. Though ERRAs mission is to Convert this ...

Scientists are a step closer to creating an anti-ageing drug, after they discovered a key anti-ageing enzyme that stops our cells from decaying. It has long been known that reducing calorie intake can dramatically slow the process of ageing and improve health in later life. Now researchers from the ...

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, ...

NEW YORK - Two-thirds of Pakistanis oppose the US-led war in Afghanistan and roughly six in 10 think the US is an enemy, according to a new survey. The data, released Thursday by the non-partisan Pew Research Centre in Washington, underscores the challenges facing the Obama administration, which ...

A federal watchdog criticized U.S. agencies on Thursday for squandering taxpayer money on facilities in Afghanistan that are too complex and costly for the Afghan government to maintain. U.S. officials acknowledge that they plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to hire contractors to ...

People who regularly put in overtime and work 10 or 11-hour days increase their heart disease risk by nearly two-thirds, research suggests. The findings come from a study of 6,000 British civil servants, published online in the European Heart Journal. After accounting for known heart risk factors ...

Taking a swim in cold water may be invigorating, but it could increase appetite enough to cause weight gain, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The study may help explain why it is more difficult for some people to lose weight by swimming as opposed to other forms of exercise. The University of ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US radar that launched into space has detected craters filled with ice on the moons north pole, NASA scientists said Monday. The US space agencys Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in size from 1.6 to 15 kilometers, each full of water ice. Although the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Moderation appears to be the best approach to controlling blood sugar in a form of diabetes that affects many adults, researchers said on Wednesday, since lowering it too far can be as risky as letting it stay too high. The scientists also found that people suffering from type 2 ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) Reaffirming her full support for US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, PPP Central Secretary Information Fauzia Wahab on Friday underlined that everyone must think before he speaks against the US as it had given us a lot and in return we ought to ...

KARACHI Aqeel Khan moved into the semi-final of mens singles of the 8th Westbury open ranking tennis defeating seasoned campaigner Vinod Das 6-0, 6-3 here at Defence clubs hard court but in the process he showed some weakness in his court crafts. The top-seed and favourite was expected to overrun ...

PEOPLE who used an electronic lock-out system to reduce their television time by half did not change their calorie intake but did expend more energy over a three-week period, according to a report in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The ...

LAHORE - A scam of Rs 6.4 million has surfaced in the Internal Audit Report of the Lady Willingdon Hospital for the fiscal year 2007-08, The Nation learnt on Wednesday. It was also learnt that out of the total amount, not less than Rs 3.9 million had been misappropriated by Hospitals General Store ...

LAHORE - "I have checked three U20 players Harun Bhatti, Yousuf Butt and Bilal Butt keenly and am confident that these youngsters would implant a new life into the Pakistan team in forthcoming days. My European trip was successful as myself hunted out some new, young faces who are ready to offer ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Experiments on mice have revealed a gene that is linked to early hair loss, a Japanese researcher said Tuesday, sparking hopes for a treatment to prevent thinning and baldness in humans. The research team found that the absence of a gene known as Sox21 which it said is shared by ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its inspectors have not found that Iran is attempting to process low-enriched uranium into weapons-grade uranium, the Austrian Press Agency (APA) reported on Friday. The report quoted an anonymous IAEA expert as saying, "so far, Iran has carried ...

The American special envoy, Richard C. Holbrooke, wound down his whistle-stop tour of Pakistan on Wednesday with a brief visit to the lawless tribal areas, and then dinner with liberal intellectuals at a rooftop restaurant here in Lahore. He had come to listen, not to lecture, Mr. Holbrooke said. ...

LAHORE - Fast bowler Sohail Tanvir found the Australian conditions a useful addition to is career. "I have learnt a lot of things from a brief stint in Australia domestic cricket and hopefully it would help me during the forthcoming Australia series," he said on his return from Australia. He ...

MIRPURKHAS - Preliminary report of post-mortem of two women who had been tortured to death by an exorcist has been released by the special medical board, which proved that Fatima and Sakina were died of torture. Talking to newsmen, In-charge of the special medical board Dr Saleem Raza Memon said ...

Pakistan's allegation that flow of water in river Chenab was blocked earlier this year has been found unsubstantiated by a high level Indian team which visited that country last week. The team, led by Indus Water Commissioner G Ranganathan, will submit its report to the government shortly on its ...

KATHMANDU (AFP) - A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet. "The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, ...

SCIENTISTS using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly increases its apparent oblateness: the sun's ...

War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on their doorstep. An estimated 250,000 people have now fled the helicopters, jets, artillery and mortar fire of the Pakistani ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Phoenix lander's analysis of recent soil samples taken on Mars has found possible traces of perchlorate, a highly oxidising substance detrimental to life, Nasa said late Monday. Two separate soil samples were analysed within the last month by two onboard Phoenix ...