Linda Heard The 19-year-old alleged Boston bomber, currently in hospital, unable to speak due to a bullet that penetrated his throat, is an enigma. The US authorities appear certain that he dropped his rucksack containing an explosive pressure cooker designed to kill and injure marathon runners and ...

BEIJING/LONDON : Health officials raised further questions on Friday about the source of a new strain of bird flu infecting humans in China after data indicated that more than half of patients had had no contact with poultry.The H7N9 virus has been found in 87 people, mostly in eastern China, and ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US medical specialists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have figured out how owls can almost fully rotate their heads - by as much as 270 degrees in either direction.The birds do so while hunting without damaging the delicate blood vessels in their necks and heads, and ...

HAFIZABAD - The disappearance mystery of a local businessman Naveed Anwar, a resident of Mohallah Qadirabad who went missing three days ago, was resolved following the recovery of his mutilated dead body from the roof of a cellphone shop near Alim Chowk in Gujranwala on Thursday.  The motive ...

KARACHI – Wapda, which emerged as the new powerhouse of sports in Pakistan replacing Pakistan Army at the 32nd National Games that concluded at Lahore on Friday, had their celebration dampened when they were not handed the coveted Quaide Azam Trophy given to the best team of the Games as the ...

COLOMBO  - Modern bats and the crash-bang format of 20-over cricket may suggest otherwise but Ajantha Mendis and fellow practitioners of unorthodox spin bowling have proved they are not in the World Twenty20 just to play cannon-fodder.Field restrictions and the batsman's freedom stemming from ...

LAHORE – Mystery remains unsolved over the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Awami Muslim League (AML) electoral alliance. Some TV channels on Wednesday reported that an electoral alliance had been reached between the PTI and AML during a meeting between Imran Khan and Sheikh Rasheed ...

LONDON - Confusion still surrounded the identity of the person who will light the Olympic flame at the London 2012 opening ceremony, with a senior official appearing to contradict himself Saturday over whether anyone had yet been chosen for the role.Reports have suggested there has been a row ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite quick fixes by Prime Minister Gilani and the Cabinet Secretary through amendment in the Staff Car Rules, 1980, mystery continues shrouding the exact number of bulletproof cars on the pool of Cabinet Division, sources said on Monday.According to the sources, the number of ...

A German town has been left bewildered by an anonymous philanthropist who leaves envelopes stuffed with thousands of euros. So far the mystery benefactor has given away the equivalent of £158,000 in a series of donations in the Lower Saxony town of Braunschweig. The cash has been left in ...

LONDON - British intelligence was unable to find any trace of Charlie Chaplin’s birth when it investigated allegations that he had communist sympathies, newly released files showed on Friday.The mystery of the film star’s birth emerged when US authorities asked MI5, Britain’s ...

MULTAN - Punjab Inspector General of Police Javed Iqbal has formed a high-level investigative team to locate and recover the kidnapped foreigners, sources disclosed. The team is led by SSP Operations Azhar Akram while other members include SPs - Karamat Ullah Malik, Liaqat Cheema, Asif Shahzad and ...

Two more victims of alleged reaction of cardiac medicines died on Sunday, bringing the overall death toll to 28 over the last three days.The deceased included Muhammad Hussain and Pir Ahmed who were under treatment in Mayo Hospital.According to details, more than 100 critical patients were being ...

SARGODHA – The murder mystery of a minor student has been solved with the arrest of killer. As per details, Muhammad Waqas, a student of class 8, went to a local Madrassa for study on January 17, 2012 but did not return. The father started search for his son with the help of neighbours and ...

Does Saeed Ajmal have the weapon branded the teesra or is it a mind game that earned him the reward of seven wickets on Tuesday?This was the debate in the Dubai International Cricket Stadium for the second day in succession on Wednesday after England's batsmen fell one after the other to Ajmal on a ...

LONDON - The mystery cricketer described by a judge as the "alleged corrupter" in the latest spot-fixing scandal to tarnish the game may be Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria, a media report said on Sunday.Essex player Mervyn Westfield pleaded guilty last week at the Old Bailey to accepting 6,000 ...

DUBAI - Pakistani allrounder Mohammad Hafeez raised the excitement over off-spinner Saeed Ajmal's mystery delivery he wants to unveil against England in the first Test starting on Tuesday, saying it is "unique."Ajmal, who took the most Test wickets in 2011 with 50, declared last month he will ...

DUBAI  - England's batting coach Graham Gooch played down the hype over Pakistani spinner Saeed Ajmal's mysetry delivery he wants to unveil in the three-Test series, saying it will be a good challenge."He (Ajmal) is the top wicket-taker of 2011 in Test cricket, so it's going to be a good ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - As many as one and half months have passed, but the Sialkot police still remain unable to prove the allegation of forced rape of a female client by a local lawyer at his chamber in District Courts. Talking to the newsmen at his office here Monday, SP (Investigation) ...

A businessman who gave a bunch of flowers to a woman he bumped into on a London street is desperately trying to track her down. Restaurant manager Thomas Blythe is determined to find the woman he knows only as Cathy or Kathy, reports the Daily Telegraph. His blog documenting the fleeting encounter ...

LAHORE - Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will announce his future strategy at a rally in Ghotki today along Imran Khan. Predicting that he will join Imrans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, political pundits have described him as a potential game changer and his capture makes him the ...

A MUMMIFIED elongated skull found in Peru could finally prove the existence of aliens. The strangely shaped head - almost as big as its 50cm (20in) body - has baffled anthropologists. It was one of two sets of remains found in the city of Andahuaylillas in the southern province of Quispicanchi. The ...

MISRATA (AFP) - Muammar Gaddafi was dragged wounded, bloody but alive from his vehicle, only to be announced dead by his captors, shrouding his death in mystery and casting a disturbing pall on Friday over their victory. South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday said slain Libyan strongman ...

The issue of Sindh Governors resignation has become a mystery as spokesman for the President House has denied receiving it, a private TV channel reported on Friday. On the other hand, Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro has refused to receive the resignations of MQM provincial ministers, saying ...

According to media reports, Osama bin Laden made his last video appearance in November 2004, in the city of Jalabad in eastern Afghanistan. Three days ago, news of his killing by American forces shook the world. Where at one hand the American side claims he was killed during firefight, on the other ...

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD While the Punjab government is demanding the US Consulate in Lahore surrender the driver and the car involved in the Raymond Davis-related hit-and-run incident that killed Ibadur Rehman, federal officials offer contradictory stands about the identity and whereabouts of the driver. ...

IN a possible breakthrough which may pave the way for a cure for somnambulism, scientists claim to have identified the 'genetic code which makes some people sleepwalk. An international team has claimed that sufferers share a faulty chromosome which is responsible for their behaviour while asleep; ...

ISLAMABAD - Even though the formation of PML-N has jolted the political arena of AJK and political pundits anticipate overwhelming public support for PML-N, the mystery still shrouds the prolonged delay in the partys creation in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The formal launch of the PML-N AJK chapter ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military has so far been unable to explain an apparent missile contrail off the coast of California and is still trying to determine its cause, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. KCBS television caught the long exhaust plume on camera as it arced into the evening sky west ...

On 26th October 2010, fifty cartons comprising unknown goods were sent to Islamabad addressed to Military Secretary to the President, Presidents Secretariat, Aiwan-I-Sadr, Islamabad, on the 08:05 p.m. PIA Flight PK-712 New York to Lahore. The pictures, sent by sources, show the packages labelling ...