DUBLIN - Ireland once again underlined their ability to compete with the heavyweights of world cricket, coming agonisingly close to recording another famous victory over Pakistan but in the end had to settle for a tie in the first One-Day International at Clontarf in Dublin.Paul Stirling's second ...

IRVING - South Korea's Bae Sang-Moon won his first US PGA title on Sunday, firing a one-under par 69 to win the $6.7 million Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes over American Keegan Bradley.In windy conditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, the 26-year-old South Korean finished on ...

KATHMANDU - GN - Mountaineer Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain with a peak at 8,848 metres.Baig completed the climb to the summit at around 7:30am local time with her brother Mirza Ali, who becomes the third and youngest ...

BEIJING - Xinhua - During his first international trip as a government head, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is on an official visit to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany till May 27."Li's visit is an important diplomatic activity of the new Chinese government toward neighboring countries and ...

UNITED NATIONSThe United Nations General Assembly Hall, the only conference room in the entire building carrying UN emblem, is undergoing its first ever repair work in the last 60 years.With a seating capacity for over 1,800 people, the General Assembly Hall is the largest room in the United ...

LAHORE - After taking charge of the government, PML-N has started deliberations over such measures which will provide an overview to the people of its bona fide intentions in its first 100 days of governance. Able and competent individuals are being put in charge of institutions, and made members ...

LONDON - New Zealand took charge of the first Test at Lord's on Thursday, reducing England to 160 for four when rain forced an early close to the first day. England captain Alastair Cook won the toss and batted but his side rarely got out of first gear in the face of some accurate bowling by the ...

KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia's economy grew a solid but slower than expected 4.1pc in the first quarter as weak manufacturing and mining dragged on overall performance, according to data announced Wednesday. The numbers from the central bank came on the heels of a 2012 fourth quarter in which Southeast ...

EDINBURGH: Susan Boyle is heading out on tour for the first time after finally feeling ready to perform a string of live shows. The unlikely superstar shot to fame in 2009 when she auditioned on Britain's Got Talent. She has restrained from touring in subsequent years, but has now confirmed she ...

WASHINGTONThe US Navy successfully launched an unmanned plane off the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday, in what officials called a breakthrough for robotic aviation.The bat-winged X-47B drone took to the air after being launched by a catapult aboard the George H.W.Bush ...

  LONDON     New Zealandseamer Tim Southee has been passed fit to play in the first Test againstEnglandat Lord's on Thursday. The 24-year-old paceman limped out of action during last week's drawn match with the second-string England Lions in Leicester, the tourists' final match ...

NEW YORK: Lady Gaga returned to the stage on Sunday for the first time since undergoing hip surgery after making an unannounced appearance at a New York bar. The Poker Face hitmaker has been in recovery since receiving treatment on 20 February to fix a hip injury which prompted her to cancel the ...

ESCONDIDODutchman Lieuwe Westra seized the yellow jersey at the Tour of California after winning the 165 kilometre (130 mile) opening stage on the outskirts of San Diego on Sunday.Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) outduelled Spaniard Francisco Mancebo in a sprint over the final kilometres while Slovak Peter ...

  MULTAN   A couple deciding to celebrate their marriage on the polling day reached a polling station along with their guests (baraat) to cast their votes. This incident was reported from Multan NA-151, where a Christian couple decided to celebrate their wedding on the polling day, so ...

LONDON - Despite an indifferent conclusion to England's overseas winter in New Zealand, the selectors are unlikely to see the need for significant changes for the start of the home summer that will be dominated by the Ashes but firstly includes the return series against Australia's close ...

ISLAMABAD - Shaikh Saqib, Farhan Zaman, Tayyab Aslam and Mansoor Zaman booked their berths for the second phase of trial matches here at Mushaf Ali Mir Complex on Thursday. The trials were conducted for the selection of Pakistan squash team for the upcoming World Team Squash Championship to be held ...

ISLAMABAD - Chaudhry M Zaka Ashraf managed to become the first elected PCB chairman for tenure of four years as prescribed in the newly drafted PCB constitution after the first Board of Governors (BoG) meeting held here at a local hotel on Wednesday. The International Cricket Council (ICC) directed ...

BAKU : The Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday approved a prisoner amnesty proposed by the country’s glamorous and powerful first lady that will likely see thousands of convicts released. The move — put forward by Mehriban Aliyeva, the influential wife of strongman President Ilham Aliyev ...

    Austin, US BBC The world’s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in theUS. The controversial group which created the firearm, Defence Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the ...

islamabad - A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said on Monday."The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access in June last year," the World ...

MASSACHUSETTS: Scientists at Harvard University have created a flying robot that can sit on a fingertip. Inspired by the biology of a fly, the robot is able to perform the agile movements of an insect. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) put a decade’s ...

manama - Oman is considering whether to issue a U.S. dollar-denominated sovereign bond, its first international bond since 1997 and its second ever, to facilitate debt sales by its private sector, finance minister Darwish al-Balushi told Reuters.“This year we do not plan but maybe for next ...

PARIS : Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to mark Socialist President Francois Hollande’s first year in office by accusing him of turning his back on the left. On the eve of the anniversary of his May 6 win last year over right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy, the ...

  OEIRAS   Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beatSpain's Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5, 6-2 on Saturday to win the Portugal Open and claim her first trophy on clay. The third-seeded champion, coached by former Swiss great Martina Hingis, earned the fifth title of her career while leaving her ...

KARACHISaleh Mohammad on Friday became the first Afghan to win the amateur Asian snooker title, expressing hope that his victory would lift the game in the war-ravaged country.The 40-year-old, who also represented Pakistan at a regional and world level from 1988 to 2006, beat Syria's Omar al Kojah ...

karachi - Pakistan stocks closed record high after posting major earning announcements for quarter end session at KSE led by second and third tier stocks on strong valuations.With the addition of 52.11 points Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark KSE-100 share index closed at the new all-time high at ...

KARACHI : Meezan Bank Ltd has recorded 9pc growth in its profit-after-tax of 1st quarter ended 31st March 2013 which increased to Rs.982m compared to Rs. 903m earned in the corresponding period of 2012.  The Earnings per Share of the Bank increased to Rs. 0.98 (March 2012: Rs.0.90) on the ...

WASHINGTON: An international team of surgeons has successfully given a South Korean-Canadian toddler a life-saving windpipe transplant made from plastic fibers and some of her own stem cells. Hannah Warren, 2, was born without a trachea and is now the youngest person to ever receive a ...

SYDNEY (VOA)  - A Pakistan-born migrant is to become the first Muslim woman to serve in an Australia parliament.Mehreen Faruqi, a prominent figure in environmental engineering, has been chosen by the New South Wales Greens to fill a vacancy in the upper house of the state legislature. She ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Nawaz Sharif has said the day of May 11 will be the first step towards progress and prosperity of Pakistan.Addressing a public gathering at Yazman in Bahawalpur on Thursday‚ he said his party will change the destiny of people if it is voted into ...