MOORE, Okla -Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, houses and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb.The massive tornado on Monday afternoon flattened entire blocks of ...

 SADIQABAD Mentioning under-pressure economy, dearness, loadshedding and unemployment, outgoing Punjab governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood said that the crises-hit public vent their spleen on the PPP and its allies through their votes during the recent elections, and also claimed that the People's ...

 SADIQABAD - Mentioning under-pressure economy, dearness, loadshedding and unemployment, outgoing Punjab governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood said that the crises-hit public vent their spleen on the PPP and its allies through their votes during the recent elections, and also claimed that the ...

CAIRO : Egypt sent police reinforcements to the Sinai after an attack on a police camp on Monday in the wake of the kidnapping of seven security personnel in the lawless peninsula, officials said.According to one security official, 80 Central Security (riot police) units and 26 armoured personnel ...

CANNES - Jewellery worth more than $1 million due to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d’Or trophy was safe, officials said.In a scenario itself worthy of a movie, thieves entered the hotel room of ...

CANNES: Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi drew enthusiastic applause Friday for one of the most-keenly awaited films at Cannes, with a Paris-set tale about shifting relationships. “The Past” picks up many of the wrenching family themes and the taut drama of the Tehran-based “A ...

  NEW YORK   A new campaign by a family of information-stealing malware, which appears to originate out ofIndia, has been hittingPakistanhard over the last few months, according to American researchers. Citing researchers at Eset, Dark Reading, a comprehensive news and information portal ...

WASHINGTON:Chinalaunched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to aUSscientist atHarvardUniversity. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at theHarvard-SmithsonianCenterfor Astrophysics, said the rocket was launched ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Najam Sethi on Monday said that the provision of modern, safe and comfortable travelling facility is the responsibility of the government. He said that modern public transport system is the sign of a civilised society and travelling facilities can be improved by modernising ...

Karachi stocks hit an all-time high Monday following Nawaz Sharif's strong victory in landmark elections, which raised hopes the steel tycoon's pro-business agenda could spark an economic revival.The benchmark index of top 100 shares rose 1.68 percent to 20,250.42 points in afternoon trade, ...

MADRID - Real Madrid once again ensured Barcelona will have to wait a few more days before sealing the La Liga title as they beat nine-man Malaga 6-2 in a wildly open game at the Santiago Bernabeu.With any form of Madrid slip up mathematically handing Barca the title, Pepe's name was the big ...

ISLAMABAD : Caretaker Federal Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources Sohail Wajahat H. Siddiqui in a meeting has proposed to cut the gas subsidy to fertilizer plants which would cause further increase in the fertilizer gas price hike  The exercise is said to be aimed at bringing ...

DAMASCUS Israeli air raids on Syria at the weekend killed at least 42 soldiers, a watchdog said Monday, fuelling international concern over a spillover of the conflict, as Damascus warned it would strike back.UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte, meanwhile, said that rebels have used the ...

NEW DELHI :India's Supreme Court gave the green light on Monday to the commissioning of the nation's largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, despite widespread protests. "The plant has been set up for people's welfare," said the ruling on the Kudankulam plant. "Necessary ...

DHAKA :-Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves rose for a fifth straight month in April to a record high of $14.83b, the central bank said on Sunday.Strong remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, rising exports and slower imports helped build the reserves, a senior central bank ...

london - Global commodity markets were hit this week by weaker-than-expected manufacturing data in key consumers China and the United States, and news of record high unemployment in the eurozone, but many prices rebounded following the ECB interest rate cut and upbeat US non-farm payrolls ...

LAHORE - SALMAN ABDUHU - The growing user base of new messaging applications have severely hampered SMS revenue for telecom operators in markets like India, Singapore, Indonesia and Pakistan, industry sources said. According to them, messaging applications like Nimbuzz, are finding tremendous ...

MANHATTAN: A stage musical based on the hit film Rocky is to open on Broadway. Sylvester Stallone, who starred in and wrote the script for the Oscar-winning 1976 film, is co-producing the theatre version, which will open at the Winter Garden theatre next February. The show made its debut ...

LEEDS: Danny Cipriani had to be rushed to hospital on Wednesday night after being hit by a double-decker bus. Kelly Brook’s rumoured boyfriend is said to have been left concussed after a bus struck him during a night out in Leeds with his Sale Sharks teammates, The Sun reports. The bus ...

sydney - Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan on Sunday warned a high dollar and lower terms of trade had led to a $7.7 billion "sledgehammer" hit to budget revenues.Swan is due to hand down his annual budget next month ahead of national elections in Sept, having only in December abandoned his strident ...

TALAGANG:-Two poverty-stricken people committed suicide here Saturday. Thirty-year-old Mujeebur Rehman, a resident of Toha Mehram Khan, shot himself dead. Reportedly, the deceased was jobless. Separately, Ahmed Khan from Lawa committed suicide. The same reason was cited. Police registered separate ...

SINGAPORE - A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore over an online threat to bomb several locations in the city-state in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, police said Saturday.The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was arrested on Thursday after posting the ...

M RAFIQUE KAMBOkot radha kishan - Though all the political parties including PPP, PTI and the PML-N are claiming to bring about a change after coming to power, but the people are taking least interest in their slogans as they are disappointed with their oft-repeated manifestos, especially in Kasur ...

TEHRAN:- AFP A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Thursday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with Pakistan, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran University. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the latest quake which ...

TOKYO - Japan scrambled fighter jets in response to Chinese aircraft a record number of times in the year to March 2013, mostly after the nationalisation of disputed islands, the government said Wednesday.Jets were sent airborne 306 times over the 12 months, double the previous year and more than ...

Quetta - Aftershocks, as strong as magnitude six, jolted parts of Balochistan again on Wednesday morning, creating fear and panic among the people, while the death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake increased to 41.More than 20,000 people are still waiting for relief activities in tehsil ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen’s central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country plunged by a third, data showed on Sunday.The Arabian peninsula state, which relies on crude exports to ...

ONE Direction's Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson were reportedly barred from gambling by a security worker who was concerned they were under age.The Sun reports that the singers were stopped from using over-18s service station slot machines by a staff member who failed to recognise them. Despite a ...

STAFF REPORTER/AGENCIESMIRANSHAH/QUETTA/SWABI – With nearly a month to go for the historic national and regional polls, militants are looking to stoke violence through targeting election candidates, convoys of their supporters and their election offices and houses.Saturday witnessed a ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has underscored the need for accountability for countries and regions that have been ravaged by war and armed conflict to pave the way for rebuilding their societies and transition them towards reconciliation.Speaking in the General Assembly on the role of the ...