PARIS - A bare-chested protestor who jumped on to court with a red flare and the dogged resistance of fellow Spaniard David Ferrer could not stop an irrepressible Rafa Nadal from storming to a record eighth French Open title with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 win on Sunday. The claycourt king was left startled ...

KABUL -Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms.Smoke rose from the site of at least one suicide car blast that started the coordinated ...

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted several parts of Punjab, Kashmir and Khyber Pakhutnkhwa on Wednesday.The epicenter of the quake was centered in Eastern Kashmir.According to reports, quake tremors were felt in Islamabad, Lahore, Peashawar, Rawalpindi, Jehlum, Murree, ...

An aftershock of magnitude six on Richter scale jolted parts of Balochistan again on Wednesday morning creating fright and panic among the people.According to details, an earthquake hit the Mashkel Tehsil of Washuk district of Balochistan located on the Pak-Iran borde. The tremor centered in ...

WASHINGTON  - The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan is stepping down, an official said Tuesday, in yet another shake-up of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, herself set to leave office early next year, had pulled envoy Marc ...

An earthquake has been felt strongly in the capital of Mexico and as far as the southernmost border. Buildings swayed for several seconds in Mexico City and the temblor was felt strongly in Chiapas, a state bordering Guatemala. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

A major 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Japan Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake was felt from central to northern Japan, including Tokyo, at 19:56 (1656 PST), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake rocked buildings in the Japanese capital, but no damage was ...

The US Geological Survey says a strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake has rattled Chile's coast near the city of Valparaiso. Carmen Fernandez of Chile's Emergency Bureau says there are no immediate reports of major damage or injuries. The USGS is reporting that the quake struck at 21:19 GMT Thursday, ...

A strong earthquake shook central Indonesia on Tuesday, causing tall buildings in the capital to sway and briefly prompting a tsunami alert, authorities and witnesses said. The Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysics Agency issued a tsunami alert, but there were no immediate signs of large waves ...

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit a northwestern Iranian province on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of any casualties, Iranian news agencies said. "A relatively strong earthquake shook a large part of Zanjan province on Tuesday morning," the official news agency said, adding ...