LOS ANGELES : A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday and dishonorably discharged. Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

    LAHORE  A newly-married man ended his life after having an altercation with his wife over some domestic issue in the Nawan Kot area, police said Friday. Muhammad Afzal, said to be a factory worker, committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling fan at his house. The family ...

LAHORE - A 30-year-old mum ended her life after a clash with her husband over a domestic dispute, police said on Wednesday. Shabana Bibi consumed poisonous pills and was rushed to hospital where she died.The family told the police that Shabana exchanged harsh words with her husband, Khalil, at ...

LAHORE - Two men ended their lives in different parts of the City, police said on Monday. A 50-year-old man committed suicide by throwing himself under a train in the Mughalpura area. Police sources said the man, yet to be identified, threw himself under a train near Karachi railway crossing in the ...

WAH CANTT/ TAXILA -  OUR STAFF REPORTER - A number of open manholes and uncovered drains exit in Taxila, which are posing serious threat to the lives of its residents due to indifference of TMA authorities.During a few months, several persons, especially children sustained serious injuries ...

ZURICH : Swiss Life and Valiant are discussing a distribution partnership, which may include the insurer taking a stake in the bank. The tie-up would be a return to the banc assurance model once pursued by rivals such as Zurich Insurance and Winterthur, in which an insurer sells its products to a ...

LONDON  - The number of Britons who believe Queen Elizabeth II should hand over to Prince Charles before her death has increased, although a majority still think she should reign for life, an opinion poll found on Sunday.Some 53 per cent of voters said the 87-year-old monarch should resist any ...

    MARJORIE COHN More than 100 of the 166 detainees atGuantanamoare starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around the waist,” Fayiz Al-Kandari told his ...

QUETTA - A shutter-down and wheel-jam strike called by the Baloch National Front against the general elections, paralysed life here and other towns of the province Thursday.The BNF - an alliance of different Baloch hardliner parties and organisations - had given the strike call from May 9 to 11 ...

KARACHI (PR): Adamjee Life debt and equity fund performance during April saw a positive trend; per unit NAVs (as of Apr 30th, 2013) are as follows:Investment Secure Fund           Bid 120.4978;    Offer 126.8398Investment Multiplier ...

MUMBAI - West Indies bating great, Sir Viv Richards had once feared that Test cricket will die down a slow death due to low turnout of fans but the advent of Twenty20 format has instilled a fresh lease of life into the game."At one point, I felt that Test cricket was dying a death all around the ...

LAHORE - Dacoits shot dead a father of four children on offering resistance during a road robbery in the Sundar area, police sources claimed on Wednesday. A bakery worker, identified as Abdul Karim, was on his way home after closing the shop late Tuesday night when two motorcyclists stopped him ...

WALES,UK: A lamb's unusual markings saved his life - because his half-black face helped a Welsh farmer spot him in his snow-covered fields. The four-week-oldTexelcross ram has been named Battenberg by the farmer's young sons, who say his stripey face reminds them of the cake. His front right leg ...

MEXICO CITY (Metro): Many of us would love to travel for free on the underground. It seems it is possible, but there’s a slight catch - we would have to be born at a station. At least that’s the case for one baby who was delivered at a station in Mexico City and has now been given the ...

LAHORE (PR): EFU Life has been conferred the Consumers Choice Award 2012 in the category of “Best Life Insurance Company of Pakistan” for the 5th consecutive year. These awards are presented every year to companies that offer products in the best interest of consumers and deliver on ...

LAHORE One more measles patient lost his life at a local hospital on Thursday, taking death toll in the City to 41. Daniyal, a resident of Shadbagh, breathed his last at Mayo Hospital. course College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) on Thursday initiated a 10 day special course ...

After the sad demise of Shahzeb Khan, we see another similar tragedy in Karachi. Hamza Ahmed, a 17 years old student was shot dead by the guard of another student of his age. This incident represents the mindset of people like Sharukh Jatoi, who can break the law whenever they want and get away ...

TUNIS -  Tunisia's ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Tuesday was handed a third life sentence since he fled to Saudi Arabia in January 2011 during a mass uprising against his rule.The military court in Sfax, southeast Tunisia, convicted Ben Ali over the violent repression of protests ...

Peshawar - The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday barred former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for lifetime from contesting a National Assembly, provincial assembly and Senate election.A four-member larger bench, headed by PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and comprising Justice Malik Manzoor, ...

LAHORE - One more measles patient died on Monday, taking the death toll to 38 in Lahore. Faiqa, 2, a resident of Kot Abdul Malik, breathed her last at the Lahore Children’s Hospital.About 110 patients are under treatment in the Lahore hospitals. Sixty-seven children have so far died of ...

LOS ANGELES: Almost four years after his shocking death, the bizarre life and sorry demise of Michael Jackson will play out again in a $40 billion (25.83 billion pounds) civil trial that pits the singer's family against the organisers of a musical comeback that never happened.Opening statements are ...

ISLAMABAD - A woman, who left blind after acid attack, has reportedly committed suicide in G/10-4.G/10-4 resident Shakeela Rafiq was left blind after her neigbour Muhammad Ali threw acid on her two years ago.According to reports, she was in dire distress and ended here life the other day. Police ...

    LONDON   ControversialPakistanleg-spinner Danish Kaneria failed in his appeal to overturn his lifetime ban from cricket on Friday. Kaneria was banned last year for his role in a spot-fixing plot, but denied all involvement and immediately indicated his intention to contest the ...

LONDON Pakistan's Danish Kaneria will try to resume his cricket career when he challenges a life ban for spot-fixing in London on Monday. But, heading into the start of the appeal hearing, doubt remained over whether Mervyn Westfield would give evidence against his former Essex ...

LAHORE - Stressing joint efforts to overcome energy crisis, Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said the problem made the life of common people miserable.During a meeting with a delegation of industrialists led by Gohar Ijaz, former chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) at ...

LAHORE Two teen friends were killed while another wounded critically when a truck bumped into their motorcycle in the Manawan area, police said on Saturday. Three friends, identified as Sajid, Ghulam Hussain, and Naveed, were on way on a bike when a truck smashed into their motorcycle, wounding ...

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 ...

LAHOREA father-of-seven ended his life by setting himself on fire in the Defense-A police limits on Friday. His family told the police that Koray villager Ramazan had been facing financial constraints for the last several months. Police investigators said clashes between the deceased and his wife ...

LAHORE -  The battle against measles has intensified as one more patient lost his life at a local hospital on Friday. Muhammad Umar, 2, breathed his last at Paeds Ward of Mayo Hospital. More patients continued to approach public sector hospitals of Lahore for treatment. On Friday, 132 new ...

LAHORE - Already suspicious of Lesco’s mischief, I just took two toasts Thursday morning and set my fingers at the keyboard with my standby tea cup on the table. I had just started browsing the Internet to help assemble bits for an idea I was working on to improve these new LIFE pages when an ...