NEW YORK(Reuters) - Seven banks that helped MF Global Holdings Ltd sell bonds were sued by pension funds who said the bonds' offering prospectuses concealed problems that led to the futures brokerage's collapse. The lawsuit was filed Friday afternoon in Manhattan federal court against units of Bank ...

Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD - The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC), that met on Friday with Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, in chair, approved seven projects worth Rs 86.3 billion. The projects that were brought under discussion on ...

At least seven people were injured and 100 sacrificial goats killed when a truck turned turtle here in Rahimyar Khan on early Thursday morning. According to police, cattle traders were transporting sacrificial goats from Sindh to Gujranwala when the truck turned turtle after driver fell asleep near ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Typhoon Nesat crossed the Philippines main island late on Tuesday, leaving behind at least seven dead after it lashed crop-growing provinces and brought the capital to a near standstill as it flooded roads and villages and cut power supplies. Among the dead following the typhoon ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The number of causalities caused by dengue is going up by the day, despite all measures being taken by the Punjab government. The deadly sting claimed seven more lives in the City on Tuesday. The tally climbs to 43. According to confirmed reports the new surge in the ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has to collect Rs 136 billion in seven days period in order to reach the revised annual tax collection target of Rs 1,588 billion set for the outgoing financial year 2010-2011, it has been learnt. Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has collected Rs 1,452 ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday apprised the Upper House of Parliament about foreign visits undertaken by the persons holding the portfolio of the Federal Information Minister since 2008. Replying to a question during the question-hour, she said in 2008, ...

At least seven people were killed and more than 30 people were injured in two blasts at Sakhi Sarwar shrine near D.G. Khan on Sunday. Two blasts occurred near the main gate of Shrine. Rescue teams have rushed towards the shrine. The injured and dead bodies were being shifted to nearby hospitals.

KARACHI - A special banking court on Friday acquitted eight suspects involved in a money laundering case after the prosecution failed to prove them guilty. Judge Mir Muhammad Sheikh exonerated four suspects of Khanani & Kalia Group and four bank officers as no evidence was found against them in ...

A disturbing new evidence of the barbarity of Libyan despot Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime in East Libya has emerged. Seven prisoners were rescued by the opposition movement after they were found buried alive. As per details, Libyan revolutionaries in Benghazi said the group was found entombed in ...

Australia continued their winning streak at the World Cup as their pace battery demolished New Zealand to register a comprehensive seven-wicket victory at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on Friday. Left-arm seamer Mitchell Johsnon was the pick of the Aussie bowler with four ...

Karachi- Seven people including an ex-activist of MQM were killed in the different incidents of violence here on Saturday. According to details, a former activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was gunned down in Medina Colony within the limits of New Karachi Industrial Area Police Station. ...

LAHORE - Pakistan cricket Tuesday plunged into new crisis as bookie Mazhar Majeed claimed that four more players were involved in fixing international matches besides the suspended trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. Mazhar Majeed, the UK based bookie who was at the centre of ...

PATNA (AFP) - Five children and two adults were killed in India on Sunday when a bomb planted by Maoist rebels exploded in the eastern state of Bihar as polling booths closed after local elections, police said. The left-wing guerrillas planted the bomb in a cooking gas cylinder in Aurangabad ...

International agency Oxfam Thursday called on rich countries and institutions, meeting for the third time in as many months to discuss flood-ravaged Pakistan, to end the talking and start giving the substantial funds needed to help save lives and start to rebuild the country. Pakistan will host the ...

Seven members of a family, including two minors, were killed when gunmen attacked their vehicle in the northwestern Colombia, authorities said. The assailants struck Wednesday afternoon in the province of Antioquia, firing on a group of 17 people returning from a funeral, a government official said ...

Jayant Patel, an Indian origin doctor held guilty of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm on patients at an Australian hospital, was Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison. The sentence was read out in Brisbane Supreme Court. "In view of the verdicts of the jury, there is no denying ...

KARACHI - As many as seven people including a child sustained bullets injuries in a shootout between groups of drug-peddlers here in Muhabbat Nagar, Landhi in the remit of Sharafi Goth Police on Friday. According to the police officials, the incident occurred when two groups of drug-peddlers namely ...

A train was hit and derailed by a landslide in northern Italy Monday, leaving seven people dead and about 20 injured, rescue officials and news reports said.The accident happened near the city of Merano, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of Venice. Sky Italia said there were seven dead. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite facing different internal and external challenges, textiles export had showed slight growth of 2. 27 percent in the first seven months (July-January) of current financial year against the same period of the last year, Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) reported on ...

One member of the Pakistani cricket team that toured New Zealand and Australia was particularly disruptive and outright ill-behaved, Mohammad Yousuf, the interim captain for the two series, revealed yesterday in a TV interview. But it wasnt just this mysterious player who copped some serious flak ...

Seven people were killed and another 12 were injured on Saturday when a train travelling from Iran's second city of Mashhad in the northeast to Tehran derailed, an official told state-run television. "A train travelling from Mashhad to Tehran was derailed, resulting in the deaths of seven people ...

Eight members of a family, seven of them women, were killed in a land dispute in Layyah on Tuesday. DIG DG Khan Mobarak Ali Athar said there was a dispute over 15 acres piece of land between a man named Shah Ali and his brother. On Tuesday morning, two nephews of Ali Shah reached at the fields and ...

SEOUL (AFP) - South Koreas economy grew at its fastest pace for more than seven years in the third quarter, official figures showed Monday, as Asias economies lead the world out of its slump. Gross domestic product rose 2.9 percent quarter-on-quarter in July-September and 0.6 percent compared with ...

Dozens of new cases of dengue fever have been reported in various parts of Haripur as seven persons have died of the outbreak in the region. According to reports during last week seven patients of dengue fever have been died in Khanpur, Pind Gujran, Khoi Nara, Raniwah and other areas of Haripur, ...

RAWALPINDI - Chairman of Chief Minister Punjab Task Force for Price Control (CMPTFPC) SA Hameed along with District Coordination Officer (DCO) Imdadullah Bosal on Friday visited various Ramazan bazaars in the city and annulled the registration of seven stall-holders over selling low quality ...

At least seven people have been killed and more than 270 injured in a train accident in the West African nation of Cameroon, state radio has reported. The train derailed just outside the capital Yaounde. Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon's communications minister, said the death toll could change as ...

Seven people were killed on Monday in an accident that halted production at Russia's largest hydro-electric power station, officials said. Water flooded a hall at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station in the Siberian region of Khakassia, emergency ministry spokeswoman Irina Butenko told ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters/AFP) - Masked gunmen killed seven Pakistani preachers at a mosque in Somalias Puntland region on Wednesday, residents and local officials said. Puntland is a base for pirates targeting the Gulf of Aden, but has been more peaceful than the rest of the failed Horn of Africa state, ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Cahudhry has constituted seven benches of the Supreme Court including a fourteen-member larger bench in the next week starting from July 27 (Monday) for the hearing of hundreds of cases at Islamabad. According to the cause list issued by the ...