OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Imran Khan included former caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mian Afzal Hayat and ex- Punjab Minister Hussain Jehanian Gardezi on Wednesday in his party and told the media that all 1,000 candidates the party planned to put up in the next elections would not be new faces. ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwaits Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Wednesday swore in the new cabinet with only minor changes to the govt that resigned in November over allegations of corruption. Sheikh Sabah urged Kuwaiti voters to abandon factional, sectarian and tribal allegiances while choosing ...

TUNIS (AFP) - Tunisia on Tuesday swore in veteran opposition rights activist Moncef Marzouki as its first elected president. The French trained doctor, who was forced into exile for a decade by Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, had tears in his eyes when he solemnly promised to be the president of all ...

HOBART (AFP) - Seamer Doug Bracewell bowled New Zealand to a sensational seven-run victory over Australia in the second Test in Hobart on Monday for the Kiwis' first win in Australia for 26 years. The Black Caps captured eight wickets for 74 runs for a dramatic victory midway through the fourth day ...

LAHORE - People from different walks of life in general and motorists in particular in the provincial metropolis are these days being motivated to use fuel saving and environment-friendly equipment in their vehicles for more power and mileage. This small equipment, called Panther, is being ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the United States and Iraq are embarking on a new phase in their ties as Washington keeps its promise to pull all of its troops out of the country. Biden, President Barack Obama's point man on Iraq, was speaking a day after arriving on a ...

LONDON (Agencies) - The proliferation of Twenty20 cricket has "allowed some really bad people back into the game", according to Lord Condon, who set up the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit. The former Metropolitan Police commissioner, who led the ICC unit from 2000, also ...

LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said that Pakistan wanted a negotiated settlement of issues with India in line with its policy of maintaining friendly ties with neighbouring countries. Once peace is established in the region, South Asia will be able to get rid of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran rock band Black Sabbath hs announced they are reuniting in their original four man line-up for their first new album in 33 years and a 2012 world tour. Singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward told a news conference ...

Diplomatic versions of the three-cushion shot in billiards are perilous, but lets suppose you could accomplish the following: Lift the stature of Egypts fragile transitional government, support Israels desire for Arab recognition, reanimate the Palestinian peace process and deal a blow to Iran. Its ...

LONDON - The maiden flight of a revolutionary US-made drone aircraft that can stay in the air for up to four days at 65,000 feet, prying at terror safe havens in countries like Pakistan, is just days away. The 'Phantom Eye', made by Boeing's secretive Phantom Works division, is a high-altitude long ...

LAHORE - The victory of PPP-backed Karachi based, Yasin Azad has set the trend of oncoming elections of the Bar at various level in the country. Not that but the victory has given a serious blow the Professional Group which has been a staunch supporter of the present judiciary and vocal against the ...

In Condoleezza Rices soon-to-be-released book 'No Higher Honor, the former national security advisor and secretary of state defends her role in protecting the United States from terror and reveals details of dramatic clashes between key figures in former President George W Bushs administration, ...

BULAWAYO (AFP) - Malcolm Waller hit a single off the fifth ball of the last over to take Zimbabwe to a dramatic one-wicket win in the third and final one-day international against New Zealand at Queens Sports Club on Tuesday. Waller finished on 99 not out off 74 balls as Zimbabwe chased down a New ...

At 16ft, Big Bertha couldn't help but make a big entrance as she arrived at London Zoo. The giant Burmese Python was taken into her new home for the first time by a team of five zookeepers. The snake - which weighs approximately 80 kilograms - had been held in the veterinary hospital where she was ...

LONDON (AFP) - Booksellers in Britain were expecting to sell thousands of copies of Japanese author Haruki Murakamis latest novel on Tuesday after some stores held special midnight openings. Hardback versions of the book, 1Q84, went on sale across Britain and it was in second place in the hardback ...

VIENNA (AFP) - Hitler was no mountaineer, but the Nazis were well aware of the propaganda value of the sport, as a new book published in the Nazi dictators native Austria on Monday shows. Berg Heil Alpenverein und Bergsteigen 1919-1945 (Hail the Mountain The Alpine Club and Mountaineering ...

SIRTE (AFP) - Fighters of Libya's new regime launched a fresh assault on the desert oasis of Bani Walid on Sunday as fighting died down in the city of Sirte, the other main holdout of Moamer Gaddafi diehards. "We have resumed combat operations and we have advanced from the northern front as well as ...

BUCHAREST (AFP) - A festival honouring the New Wave of Romanian filmmakers opens Friday in Bucharest with a focus on their 10-year presence at Cannes. The festivals second edition will highlight the stars of this generation such as Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristian Nemescu, ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Pakistan cricket team interim manager Col (retd) Naushad Ali said that appointment of Zaka Ashraf as new PCB chairman would not affect board as many presidents came and went but system remained the same. Talking to media here on Wednesday at Gaddafi Stadium, the interim ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Education Foundation has opened the doors of quality education to the poor children who cannot afford schooling due to lack of resources. This model of public private partnership is being extended to seven other districts so that more deserving students could enjoy this ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The United Nations in Vienna raised Wednesday the flag of Libyas National Transitional Council, a month after the international community formally recognised the countrys new leaders, the UN announced. The new green, black and red flag was raised among the colours of the other 192 UN ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A posthumous Michael Jackson album entitled Immortal is to be released in November featuring newly discovered outtakes and redesigned versions of some of his biggest hits, Epic Records said on Monday. The album, released in conjunction with Jacksons official estate, will ...

A REVOLUTIONARY new form of surgery that allows brain tumours to be removed without making a single incision is set to transform the field of medicine. Traditionally, such operations involved surgeons opening the skull and delving downwards. Alternatively, parts of the brain were reached via large ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Desmond Tutu is now seen as South Africa's moral compass, but in the 1980s he was reviled by the whites' government and criticised within the liberation movement, a new biography said Sunday. Excerpts from "Tutu: The Authorised Portrait" published in The Sunday Independent ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Tiger Woods has hired Joe LaCava to replace long-time Kiwi caddie Steve Williams whom he had a falling out with earlier this year. Woods took two months to find a replacement after splitting with former bagman and best man at his wedding Williams in July. LaCava worked 20 years ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - To legions of teenage girls and fans of the Twilight films, Taylor Lautner will always be known as Jacob Black, the werewolf who competes with a vampire for the love of a young woman. But on Friday, the boyishly handsome actor with the six-pack strong abdomen hopes to ...

NEW YORK (APP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday officially launched a Global Counterterrorism Forum designed to enhance international counterterrorism cooperation to fight terrorism, an initiative Pakistan welcomed. In a speech, Clinton said as successful as military ...

Scientists in Norway say they have conclusive genetic evidence that sparrows recently evolved a third species. The Italian sparrow, they argue, is a cross between the ubiquitous house sparrow and the Spanish sparrow. Whether it is a distinct species has been the subject of a long scientific debate. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The LPG marketing companies and distributors while terming the government decision of imposing petroleum levy on locally produced liquefied gas as unjustified have hinted to challenge the LPG Policy 2011 in the courts. LPG Association of Pakistan and All Pakistan LPG ...