John Swinton, the doyen of the New York press corps, upon his retirement, made the following speech: There is no such thing, at this stage of the worlds history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you ...

Former Indian Telecom Minister Sukhram was today kicked and slapped by a man inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a corruption case dating back to 1996. The assailant, identified as Harvinder Singh, was ...

One person was killed while other was injured over a land dispute in the Tonsa area here in DG Khan on early Thursday morning. According to police, the dispute was an old one between two groups who attacked each other last night. One man succumbed to injuries while other was taken to a hospital for ...

Police have charged a 21-year-old man with robbing an injured Malaysian student whose videotaped attack during the London riots drew outrage in Britain. About 20 teens and preteens surrounded Mohammed Asyraf Haziq Rossli during the unrest that swept the capital last week, grabbing his bike and cell ...

A 26-year-old man who was shot in a car in Croydon, south of London, during disturbances this week has died, becoming the first fatality of riots sweeping Britain, police said on Tuesday. No further details of the death were immediately available. Hundreds of protesters and police have been ...

A poverty struck man gunned down his mentally retarded sister here in Lahore on Wednesday as he could not longer afford her medical treatment and fled the scene. According to police the incident took place at Mall Road, Lahore behind a well known business centre in dilapidated residential quarter ...

Terming Salman Taseer a non-religious man, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said that he was killed due to his conflict with the religio-political parties, report said on Friday. Talking to media outside the Punjab Assembly, the minister said that Taseer sought Aasia Bibis pardon as a political ...

A man tortured to death his wife and then committed suicide due to poverty here in Fazal Pura, Muridkay on the other day. As per details, Ghulam Abbas resident of Fazal Pura an area of Muridkay got married eight years back but has no children. He was tailor and was depressed because load shedding ...

The Rajasthan police has named a senior functionary of Hindu militant group, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as one of the key conspirators in the 2007 terror attack on the Ajmer dargah that killed three people. Indresh Kumar, who is based in Varanasi, was named in the chargesheet filed by ...

Qari Hussain, most wanted man associated with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has been killed by a US drone strike in North Waziristan, intelligence sources confirmed on Friday.

The open man hole on Murree road near Mareer chowk is causing inconvenience for people of the area and had caused several incidents. According to details, there is a big man hole without covering on Murree road near Mareer chowk, Rawalpindi that have become cause of many road accidents but ...

A man clubbed his sister in law to death owing to domestic dispute and the people by arresting the culprit handed over to the police. According to details a man Muhammad Nawaz, of 11-L village clubbed the wife of his younger brother (Khizar Hayat) to death owing to some domestic issues between the ...

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)Boeing 777 with about 250 passengers flying from Canada to Pakistan was evacuated after being diverted to Sweden on Saturday due to a bomb threat, and police detained one man. A woman called Canadian police after the plane had taken off from Canada, saying a ...

A man who tried to commit self-immolation in front of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani's residence here on Sunday passed away on Monday after struggling between life and death for 18 hours. According to media reports Mohammad Akram resident of Jampur District Rojhan tried to commit ...

A man survived a suicide attempt after a 39-storey fall from an apartment block and landing on a parked car in New York's Manhattan, U.S. media reported. Thomas Magill, a 22-year-old student, crashed through the roof a Dodge Charger and landed in the backseat of the car. The speed of his falling at ...

Pakistan's honorary consul general in Boston says a Pakistani man detained in Maine during an investigation into the attempted bombing of New York's Times Square doesn't know the two men who were arrested in the Boston area. Barry Hoffman, the consul general, met Friday afternoon with Mohammad ...

The 30-year-old civil engineer Faiz Mohammad who was arrested at Karachi airport with batteries and electrical circuits in his shoes was likely wearing "therapy shoes" and his detention could be a false alarm, officials said on Monday. The man, identified as Faiz Mohammad, 30, was about to board a ...

A 23-year-old Indian man was on Sunday charged over the death of a three-year old Indian toddler, whose body was found three days ago in a Melbourne suburb. Dhillon Gursewak has been charged with manslaughter due to criminal negligence and is appearing in an out-of-sessions hearing at St Kilda Road ...

A man killed 3 women and 2 year old infant before committing suicide due to refusal by parents of a girl he wanted to marry here in Samanabad. Irfan, a resident of Zafar Colony wanted to marry a girl named Zeenat but her parents were against the marriage. On Thursday, Irfan wore a burqa and entered ...

On the directives of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the Islamabad administration has ordered to freeze 2,460 kanals of Sangjani land, sold by a person named Nasir Khan and restore it at pre-Oct 5, 2007 position, a private TV reported. Nasir Khan is allegedly a front man of President Asif ...

Chief Justice (CJ) said that no matter what the government does I would perform my duty as a judge. Speaking to the Karachi Bar Association delegation he said to promote justice is the project of the government. He urged the judges to deliver justice on the door steps of the common man and create ...

The eighth man killed in a suicide bomb attack on a secret CIA base in Afghanistan last week was a captain in the Jordanian spy service known as the General Intelligence Department (GID). The official Jordanian news agency Petra identified the man as Ali bin Zeid, saying that he was killed "on ...

NEW YORK - A Nigerian man claiming ties to al-Qaeda allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on a Northwest flight in what the White House called attempted terrorism. The 23-year-old man, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, was taken into custody and has told investigators he was linked to al-Qaeda ...

Renowned religious scholar and Chairman Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Mufti Muneebur Rehman said Pakistan needs solidarity at this critical juncture. Talking to a private TV channel, he said the martyred Dr Naeemi was a man of courage and took out rallies and held public gatherings for the defence of ...

Police arrested a man for throwing hot coffee on American Consul General Kevin Maher in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture. According to police, Maher had gone to a coffee shop near the American Consulate, when a 43-year-old man who had just purchased hot coffee suddenly threw the beverage at him, ...

A security personnel died and three were injured in bomb blast at Adampur area here. Police sources said that the security personnel posted at Uchh Gas Field were on way to Sohbatpur in their vehicle, when a remote control bomb exploded at Adampur ripping apart their vehicle, which left one dead ...

German police say a man appears to have used an ax and knife to kill his wife and two children on Saturday night. Police in the city of Saarlouis near the French-German border say they arrived at the home to find the 47-year-old man heavily intoxicated and sitting next to the body of his murdered ...

A session of the Iraqi Parliament erupted in an uproar on Wednesday as lawmakers clashed over how to respond to the continuing detention of an Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad news conference earlier this week, people attending the parliamentary ...

India's Border Security Force (BSF) has got into a legal tangle as a Bangladeshi man has filed a case against the paramilitary force for allegedly killing his brother. The incident took place earlier this month near Tentulia in northern Bangladesh's Panchagarh district, but the BSF had regretted ...

A prison inmate who threatened to kill President George W. Bush in letters written while he was being held in solitary confinement was sentenced to 30 months' in federal prison. "I just want to say I'm sorry for what I did,'' Gordon L. Chadwick, 27, said during his sentencing on Wednesday. ...