LOS ANGELES: TEEN sensation Justin Bieber struck a photographer with his Ferrari whilst leaving a Los Angeles comedy club on Monday night. The incident that police have said “was not a hit and run” happened after the star motioned the photographers to move out of the way and one ended ...

LAHORE - Shahbaz Sharif was sworn in as Punjab’s chief minister for the record third time on Thursday after the Punjab Assembly elected him as leader of the house with a thumping majority of 300 votes in a 342-member assembly. Later, Punjab Governor Makhdum Ahmed Mahmud administered oath to ...

ISLAMABAD -Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) central leader Khwaja Saad Rafique on Monday said that drone attacks are against the sovereignty of the country and it is hard to control suicide bombers unless drone strikes are stopped.Talking to media persons outside the Parliament House, Saad said that ...

AMSTELVEEN - JP Duminy scored an unbeaten 150 and Faf du Plessis' hit a quickfire fifty on their return to international cricket after injury breaks, thus helping South Africa to an 84-run win in the one-off ODI against Netherlands in Amstelveen. JP Duminy had not played any competitive cricket ...

PARIS - Thieves have made off with a high-priced necklace made by Switzerland's De Grisogono in the second jewellery theft at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the company said on Thursday."A necklace was stolen during the Cannes festival and we are working with the authorities," a De Grisogono ...

ISLAMABAD - Ali Kahn scored all four goals as Muslim Football Club thrashed Pindi United 4-0 in their DFA Rawalpini A League soccer match played here Thursday. Ali scored the first goal in the 15th minute, second in the 27th minute, third in the 52nd minute and last in 82nd minute to ensure a ...

WASHINGTON/MOOREA huge tornado cut a devastating path in suburban Oklahoma City Monday, slamming schools, a hospital, businesses and homes, and killing at least 24 people.The Oklahoma chief medical examiner's office previously said there were at least 51 confirmed deaths, according to television ...

CARACAS: Venezuelans have been hit by a chronic toilet paper shortage, leading to empty supermarket shelves and long queues to snap up the remaining rolls. When new stocks arrive at supermarkets customers have been rushing in to fill their trollies. Venezuela is used to a scarcity of basic food ...

KABUL  -  A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months.Forty people were wounded in the blast during ...

ISTANBUL - Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba has hit out at racist Fenerbahce fans who bombarded him with monkey chants. Drogba posted a message on the Turkish champions' Facebook page and also published a photograph depicting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution on the social media site Instagram. ...

LOS ANGELES: Kanye West was nursing more than a bruised ego during a house hunting trip in LA after he walked into a sign post in front of a group of paparazzi. The Stronger hitmaker was leaving a property viewing in Beverly Hills with his girlfriend Kim Kardashian when he accidentally walked ...

NEW YORK : The yen slid to a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar on Friday, triggering a sell-off in oil and gold as well as safe-haven U.S. and German debt, after recent signs of strength in the U.S. labour market added to bullish sentiment on the dollar. Wall Street surged at day's end, pushing ...

At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast which ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.Nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately.However, reports said the explosion took place near a passenger coach in Miranshah town, ...

MILAN - Hundreds of luxury Lamborghini cars powered through Milan on Wednesday at the start of a tour of Italy to mark the 50th anniversary of the company, which started out making tractors.The 350 sleek roadsters with a combined horsepower of 190,000 formed a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) long convoy ...

MADRID- RealMadridmanager Jose Mourinho has hit back at his own player Pepe after the defender said Mourinho ought to have more respect for club captain Iker Casillas. Mourinho believes Pepe's rebellion is purely because he himself has lost his first-team place to Raphael Varane. "It is very easy ...

JOHANNESBURG: More than a quarter of South African workers are now out of work, official statistics showed on Monday. Statistics SA said that 4.6m South Africans were unemployed in the first quarter of the year, 25.2pc of the eligible population. Broader statistics paint an even bleaker picture of ...

LAHORE - One more measles patient died at a local hospital on Saturday, taking the death toll in Lahore to 42.  Umaira, seven months, breathed her last at Children’s Hospital. Demand Pakistan Pediatrics Association Punjab chapter president Dr Syed Masood Saeed has said that the ...

charsadda/buner/mardan/swabi/peshawar - Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, said on Saturday that there will be no drone attacks on Pakistan if PTI voted to power on May 11.He said that tsunami of his party would sweep the political actors in the critical May 11 parliamentary ...

A car bomb has exploded near a government convoy in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least eight people, officials said on Sunday.A police spokesman told local media that a suicide attacker had driven a car laden with explosives at an armoured government vehicle.According to the same ...

ISLAMABAD - Earthquake tremors were felt in upper parts of the country including Jammu and Kashmir region, the Pakistan Metrological Department said on Wednesday. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 5.7 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in Indian held Kashmir, some ...

Karachi - The ex-coalition partners,-PPP, MQM and ANP, while joining hands, announced on Monday not to bow down to the religious extremists and Taliban and participate in the elections despite terror attacks and threats from the religious extremists. The leaders of the three parties, addressing a ...

PARIS  - The number of unemployed jobseekers in France surged by 36,900 in March to hit 3.224 million, beating a record set in 1997, the labour ministry said on Thursday.The previous unemployment record in France, the eurozone's second-largest economy, was in January 1997 when there were ...

LONDON:- Lancashire's Jordan Clark has become only the fifth batsman to hit six sixes in one over during a professional cricket match. The English County said in a statement on Wednesday that the 22-year-old had achieved the feat in a Championship Second XI game against Yorkshire to join an ...

DORTMUND - Poland striker Robert Lewandowski netted all four goals in Borussia Dortmund's 4-1 win over Real Madrid in Wednesday's Champions League semi-final, first-leg to strengthen the possibility of an all-German final at Wembley on May 25.After Bayern Munich's 4-0 hammering of Barcelona on ...

Islamabad/Karachi/Quetta - The election commission Thursday vowed not to delay the elections even by a ‘single day’ as polls related attacks killed at least six more people while Taliban distributed pamphlets in some cities warning citizens against participating in the elections.A bike ...

The advertisements being aired by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) are a pack of lies and must be condemned.This was stated by former chief minister, Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif while addressing a press conference here in Lahore on Friday.Criticizing the ‘advertisement campaign’ against the ...

HOLLYWOOD: Barbadian singer Rihanna has become the first artist to earn 10 No 1 songs on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart. Her chart-toppers since 2006 are “Stay,” “Diamonds,” “S.O.S.,” “Take a Bow,” “Disturbia,” “Live ...

RCB's Chris Gayle scored the fastest ever hundred in T20 cricket history against Pune Warriors at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore today. He made 175 runs off 66 balls with 13 fours and 17 sixes in the innings. Chris Gayle hitting off to a quick start as the match resumed at Bangalore. Earlier, the ...

A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 71 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.The earthquake occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) ...

islamabad  - With the firm stance to participate in May-2013 elections, Awami National Party (ANP) has chalked out a strategy to run its election campaign amid security threats and repeated attacks on party's public meetings."This is for sure that ANP will participate in upcoming elections at ...