NEW YORK Dogs, cats, horses, toasters: You name it, it has a Facebook page. Facebook now has one billion users - but ten per cent of them are not human, according to new research. At least 100 million of Facebook’s ‘monthly active users’ are pets, brands and companies - ...

karachiThe caretaker government of Sindh has set up Sindh Human Rights Commission, said Mrs Anis Haroon, minister for women development and human rights.She said that a law was passed by the Sindh Assembly in 2011 which came into force since May 1, 2013 after the approval of caretaker Chief ...

  RIOALEJANDRO     With jaws of steel that have earned him the nickname "Coconut Peeler," Andres Gardin, at the tender age of 64, is hell-bent on gnawing his way into the Guinness Book of World Records. Sure, lots of gents his age might be thinking about retirement or whiling away ...

lahore - SALMAN ABDUHU  - Taking serious note of the large scale import of virus-infected poultry products from bird flue hit China, the poultry industry has said that non-stop entry of unhealthy chicken is not only a serious risk to humans but also a great threat to local poultry sector due ...

washington - A U.S. report on human rights has sharply criticized Pakistan's record in the field last year, saying Lack of government accountability remained a pervasive problem.  "The most serious human rights problems were extrajudicial and targeted killings, forced disappearances, and ...

After living abroad for few years, our expat community, while deciding to travel back home, normally decide to take the national carrier as an act of patriotism, so that the homeland can benefit out of this act. However, what they come across is something which can only be narrated by my relative ...

BEIJING (AFP) - A seven-year-old girl is Beijing's first human case of H7N9 bird flu, local authorities said on Saturday as China's outbreak of the disease spread to the capital.The girl, whose parents are poultry traders, was in a stable condition in hospital, the Beijing health bureau said. Her ...

ISLAMABAD – The International Day of Human Space Flight will be marked tomorrow across the globe including Pakistan. As a day that is epic in every sense of the word and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first female flight in space, the theme of year 2013 would be “Women and ...

HOT on the heels of a dog with a human face comes a fish with teeth that look like those of a person. This sheepshead fish has a certain human quality to it, its dentures look eerily similar to ours. It can be found in North America and is widely known for its black and white stripes. But this ...

KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) has urged the Ministry of Education to include human rights as a subject in the curriculum of schools, colleges and universities to educate the masses about their rights and duties.President Unisame Zulfikar Thaver said it is very ...

CHICAGO - Investigators are confused why a package containing 18 human heads was flagged by US Customs officials at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the Sky News reported. Initially it seems it was unclear whether the heads - which were reportedly still covered in skin - were legitimate ...

LAHORE – FIA on Saturday claimed to have arrested two accused allegedly involved in human smuggling and recovered 60 passports from their possession. Spokesman of FIA said that FIA received information that International Training and Test Center Khalid Ali road Sialkot was involved in human ...

A JAPANESE man has invented a tail for humans which wags when the wearer is in a good mood. The ‘Tailly’ is attached to a belt with sensors which take the wearer’s pulse. When their heart beats faster, it wags faster. Inventor Shota Ishiwatari is convinced it will be a hit and ...

As we look around the world and see people celebrating Human Rights Day, the day to affirm rights established by the UN Declaration of Human Rights such as right to life, liberty and security etc; our urge to lose all hope is but very human. The citizens of Pakistan enjoy no such rights and this is ...

LAHORE – The Arman Foundation and Bhagat Singh Society take out a vigil to mark the International Human Rights Day at Chairing Cross on Monday.The participants were holding placards and banners inscribed with slogan of peace. Addressing the participants, the speakers stressed the need for ...

LAHORE - Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) Barrister Sarah Bilal, lawyer for ten Pakistani detainees held by the US military in Bagram, on Wednesday warned that Pakistan is violating the Geneva Conventions by failing to repatriate its citizens.The rendition of a Pakistani man by UK and US forces to ...

Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday said Pakistan strongly supports the promotion and application of universally recognized human rights.In her opening statement at the 14th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Foreign ...

TO promote the upcoming Progressive International Motorcycle Show, advertising and branding studio i.d.e.a. created a series of human motorcycles from the contorted bodies of yoga experts and circus performers. We’ve seen impressive body-painting and displays of yoga skills before, but these ...

The snippets appearing on the lower half of your ‘showbiz page’ interest me so much that I clip the strange, interesting and exciting ones and collate them. The picture of a Chinese boy who goes to school walking upside down on his hands which appeared the other day was, however, highly ...

The snippets appearing on the lower half of your ‘showbiz page’ interest me so much that I clip the strange, interesting and exciting ones and collate them. The picture of a Chinese boy who goes to school walking upside down on his hands which appeared the other day was, however, highly ...

BAHAWALPUR - Police claimed to have busted a gang of human traffickers who kidnapped particularly young girls and sold them out, with arrest of four alleged members of the gang. Deputy Superintendent of Police Mirza Arif Rasheed said that the police have also recovered 12-year-old Asma who was ...

NEW YORK - Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog body on Thursday urged Pakistan to act to protect the Shia community and not stand by as members of the country’s religious minority are “slaughtered.”“Deadly attacks on Shia communities across Pakistan are ...

AN army of 1,001 Chinese volunteers has set a new Guinness world record for “mattress dominoes”.The volunteers, most of whom were domino lovers, first carefully arranged and leaned against 1,001 mattresses in an empty section of a shopping mall in Shanghai. They were careful not to fall ...

SCIENTISTS have grown human bone from stem cells in a laboratory. The development opens the way for patients to have broken bones repaired or even replaced with entire new ones grown outside the body from a patient’s own cells. The researchers started with stem cells taken from fat tissue. It ...

HUSSAINABAD  - The smell of burning filled the air at the scene of Friday’s deadly plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad, where chunks of charred wreckage lay scattered across farmland.The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 from Karachi came down at dusk as it tried to land at the city’s ...

MOHAMMAD AL MUTAWAPolitical decadence seems to be continuous in many Arab countries, whether they are republics or autocracies. These regimes have destroyed human beings as well as any chance of growth or development. No matter how these regimes move — upwards or downwards — their ...

Hundreds of people got knocked over onto mattresses in New Orleans in a bid to break the ‘human dominoes’ record.A total of 850 volunteers and their mattresses were pushed over backwards in turn, each one knocking over the next person. The aim was to beat the previous Guinness World ...

A senior British journalist wrote a book a few years ago about how difficult it is to assist, or force, developing countries in their transition from one-party to multi-party states, that is, from dictatorship to democracy. Paradoxically, military force is sometimes used, such as in Iraq and ...

SADIQABAD - The teachings of Prophet Muhammad (SAWW) should be followed by the Ummah and the Muslims should make an all out-effort to live according to the commandments of the Last and Final Messenger. These views were expressed by Anjuman Fidayaan-e-Mustafa founder and president Hafiz Muhammad ...

LIKE humans, chimpanzees have too the ability to understand the minds of others, as they know what tools others may need to get the work done, scientists have found. Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan found that apes are quite apt in considering the common goals and sharing the perspective of ...