INDIANAPOLIS - Britain's Katherine Legge and Pippa Mann and Brazilian Ana Beatriz joined the Indianapolis 500 starting grid on Sunday to match a race record four women starters in this year's field.The trio joined Swiss racer Simona de Silvestro, who qualified Saturday, to match the mark from 2010 ...

WASHINGTON - One ticket-holder won a record Powerball lottery jackpot of more than $590 million, organizers said Sunday, ending a days-long American quest for a life-changing payout.The winning numbers - 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and a Powerball of 11 - were drawn just before 11:00 pm eastern time (0300 ...

KATHMANDU - BBC - British mountaineer Kenton Cool has reached the summit of Everest for a record-breaking eleventh time. Everest is the second of three summits he is attempting to reach in one continuous climb over the course of 10 days. If successful Mr Cool, who lives in Gloucestershire, will ...

NEW YORK -  US stocks closed out another week of new record highs Friday as investors focused on the positive side of mixed economic news and corporate earnings.Retail sales barely budged higher in April and jobless claims rose, but permits to build housing soared and consumer inflation ...

GENEVA - Prestigious jeweller Harry Winston, which was acquired earlier this year by Swatch Group, bought a new colourless, flawless 101.73-carat diamond for a record $26.7 million at an auction in Geneva, auction house Christie’s said.Christie’s representative Raul Kadakia told ...

IRVING- Keegan Bradley fired 10 birdies and an eagle in a course-record 60 Thursday to seize a three-shot lead after the first round of the US PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson Championship. Bradley’s sizzling 10-under par came despite two bogeys on the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, where he ...

islamabad - The provincial governments have recorded budget surplus of Rs 142.288 billion during the first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal year 2012-13 that was only Rs 4.830 billion in the corresponding period of the previous financial year. According to official figures of the ...

GENEVA: A pair of pearl earrings belonging to actress Gina Lollobrigida sold for an auction record of $2.39 million at Sotheby's Geneva Tuesday as the veteran Italian star auctioned off some dazzling jewellery.The lot, the highlight of the auction, went under the hammer for more than twice the ...

WASHINGTON : The beleagueredUSgovernment claims it was only trying to protect American lives when it took the drastic step of seizing journalists’ phone records in a probe of what it calls a major security breach. President Barack Obama’s administration, embattled on several fronts, now ...

PARIS - Olympic 110m hurdles champion Aries Merritt said in an interview published on Monday that he believes his world record at the distance could soon be lowered. “I think that the world record will come down below 12.8secs. Soon,” he was quoted as saying in French sports newspaper ...

  HONITON TG   Gymnast Ashley Wallis, 14, has broken the Guinness world record for completing the most forward rolls in one minute. TheDevonschoolboy completed 75 rolls in one minute at his gym club in Honiton. Video footage of his attempt shows Ashley Wallis rolling around in circles in ...

SHANGHAI : China’s yuan had its best day of the year on Wednesday after trade data showed export growth beating expectations, highlighting the possibility that firms are manipulating trade invoices in order to skirt China’s capital controls and bet on yuan appreciation. China’s ...

LONDON - The Bank of England on Thursday voted to keep its main lending rate at its record-low level of 0.50 percent, deciding against mirroring a number of central banks who have cut borrowing costs in the past week. The BoE also opted against pumping out more new stimulus cash to boost economic ...

NEW YORK - (AFP)An Impressionist oil painting depicting a chef in his white uniform fetched a tasty $18 million, the most ever paid at auction for a work by the artist Chaim Soutine.Soutine’s “Le Petit Patissier” (The Little Pastry Chef), was the highlight of the Christie’s ...

DHAKA :-Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves rose for a fifth straight month in April to a record high of $14.83b, the central bank said on Sunday.Strong remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, rising exports and slower imports helped build the reserves, a senior central bank ...

KATHMANDU: An 82-year-old Nepalese man who holds the world record for being the oldest person to summit Mount Everest will defend his title against a familiar octogenarian competitor, organisers said Thursday. Min Bahadur Sherchan’s record for scaling the world’s highest peak at 76 is ...

SYDNEY -AFP - A Sydney harbour-front mansion has sold to a Chinese-born businessman for $53 million dollars (US$54.3 million), setting a new property record for the city, reports said Thursday.The eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom house “Altona” in prestigious Point Piper had been on the ...

GENEVA - AFP - The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN weather agency said Thursday.In a report on the situation in 2012, the World ...

LONDON: Emeli Sande has made chart history by breaking a record held by The Beatles for almost 50 years. The Heaven hitmaker’s first album Our Version Of Events has spent more time in the top 10 than any other debut record after notching up 63 consecutive weeks in the Official Album Chart. ...

  BARCELONA     Rafael Nadal extended his record number of Barcelona titles to eight as he brushed off a slow start to beat Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday. Last weekend's Monte Carlo runner-up regained his accustomed position on an ATP winner's podium with his ...

LAHORE - In a survey conducted by the AliAilaan, a campaign to ensure top priority attention for education in ongoing election campaigns, 60 percent of respondents stated they intended to vote, promising thus to lead to the highest voter turnout in the country’s history. Contrary to ...

PARIS  - The number of unemployed jobseekers in France surged by 36,900 in March to hit 3.224 million, beating a record set in 1997, the labour ministry said on Thursday.The previous unemployment record in France, the eurozone's second-largest economy, was in January 1997 when there were ...

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 ...

TOKYO - Japan scrambled fighter jets in response to Chinese aircraft a record number of times in the year to March 2013, mostly after the nationalisation of disputed islands, the government said Wednesday.Jets were sent airborne 306 times over the 12 months, double the previous year and more than ...

LAHORE Batswoman Nida Dar created new women cricket record at domestic level when she scored a double century as ZTBL crushed Faisalabad by 312 runs in the 8th National Women's One-day Cricket Tournament here at the Bagh-e-Jinnah Ground on Tuesday. Exhibiting the prowess, Nida blasted as many ...

KARACHI : All Sindh Sarafa Association recorded a Rs 3000 drop in gold prices per tola on Monday, bringing the price of gold to Rs 53,500 per tola. This is the biggest ever fall in gold prices to be recorded in one day. The price of gold in the international markets is also facing a two year low, ...

KATHMANDU - A Nepalese presenter has set the world record for the longest television talk show by staying on air for 62 hours and 12 minutes, organisers said Sunday.Rabi Lamichhane, a 36-year-old based in the US, returned to Kathmandu to stage the “Lord Buddha Was Born in Nepal” ...

In order to discover the truth pertaining to the case of CNG licences, the Supreme Court has rightly ordered the FIA to seize all documentary record of OGRA. These are apparently harsh measures but they have been taken only after the reluctance of the authorities concerned to cooperate ...

RAWALPINDI - An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday recorded the statements of four more prosecution witnesses in connection with Mumbai attack case.ATC No 1 Special Judge Ch Habib-ur-Rehman, while assuming the hearing of Mumbai attack case, penned in the statements of four prosecution ...

RAWALPINDI - An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday recorded the statements of four more prosecution witnesses in connection with Mumbai attack case.ATC No 1 Special Judge Ch Habib-ur-Rehman, while assuming the hearing of Mumbai attack case, penned in the statements of four prosecution ...