DUBLIN (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday visited the scene of a massacre by British forces during Ireland's independence struggle on the second day of her groundbreaking state visit to the republic. The British monarch heard of the tragic events in the two countries' shared history and the ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The UN atomic watchdog carried out an agreed inspection of a Syrian plant on Friday as part of a long-stalled probe into suspected covert nuclear activity. The inspection is being conducted as planned, an official of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said, ...

China is considering launching rockets from a new site for the next phase of the country's lunar exploration programme because of transportation problems, the programme's top scientist has said. China had launched its second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre ...

Experts working at the site of a Cuban plane crash have recovered flight recorders and nine bodies of crash victims, a Cuban newspaper reported. The plane carrying 61 passengers, including 28 foreigners and seven crew members, crashed Thursday night in Cuba's central Santi Spiritus province. The ...

LAHORE - The ground-breaking of WAPDA offices and colonies to be constructed near Diamer-Basha Dam is expected the next month. The Federal government has already released an initial sum of Rs 700 million to WAPDA for acquisition of land for the construction of the project in Gilgit-Baltistan. ...

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority reclaimed possession of a public utility site in Liberty Market, Gulberg, which has been illegally used for the benefit of only a limited number of people. A parking plaza has been constructed illegally on this four-kanal piece of land in this prime ...

KARACHI - In pursuance to the orders issued by the Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Choudhry, Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) Limited has initiated measures for immediate installation of the effluent treatment plants on behalf of the stakeholders within the ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) - The 31st death anniversary of Pakistans first elected Prime Minister and founder Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was observed here at Jinnah Park (old Central Jail). People from all walks of life including PPP leaders, workers and members of parliament ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc acquired online photo-editing site Picnik, as the Web search leader continues with a deal binge includes three acquisitions in about three weeks. Google did not disclose the financial terms of the deal for Picnik, a 5-year-old Seattle-based start-up which said ...

ISLAMABAD PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday directed the Railway authorities to install manned safety gate within 48 hours at Mian Channu railway crossing where innocent people lost lives two days ago. He further directed the Ministry of Railways to submit a report within 10 days about all ...

KARACHI (APP) - Industry will not operate to its capacity and exports and revenue targets of the country will not be achieved unless the Govt ensures un-interrupted supply of gas, electricity and water at low rates to the industry and reduce mark-up to single digit upto Dec 2009 as promised ...

Britain, France and the United States set the stage for a dramatic confrontation with Iran when they revealed the existence of a secret nuclear site inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom as evidence of Tehrans efforts to deceive the international community. The coup de thtre came at the ...

LAHORE - One of the ignored historical monuments in the City, the tomb of Bhuddu situated on opposite side of the University of Engineering and Technology, was an ample proof of the least interest on the part of authorities concerned in preserving the monuments. The distressed look of limping ...

KARACHI - Sindh Industries and Commerce Minister Rauf Siddiqui on Monday reviewed outstanding dues to the tenants of SITE and directed the officials to make sincere efforts for the recovery heavy outstanding dues that amounting to Rs1.2 billion (Rs1200 million). Chairing a meeting, he vehemently ...

In the second mishap in as many days, six persons were today injured when cranes carrying out debris clearance operation at the site of the metro accident collapsed. The incident comes a day after six persons were killed when an under-construction bridge of the Delhi Metro gave way at South Delhi's ...

Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has issued orders to Rescue-1122 for expediting the rescue and relief activities following the deadly blast here on Wednesday. He also directed the law enforcing authorities to take stringent measures towards making impregnable security arrangements across ...

FROMELLES, France (AFP) - Forensic experts gathered Monday in a muddy field in northern France ahead of a solemn operation to exhume hundreds of fallen Australian and British soldiers from a World War I mass grave. On Tuesday, the team will start recovering the bodies of up to 400 servicemen from a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday made a poignant pilgrimage to "hallowed" Ford's Theatre where his political hero, president Abraham Lincoln was cut down by an assassin's bullet. Obama's historical status as America's first black president is forming a circle-closing undertone ...

KARACHI - Acting Chairman of SITE Association of Industry Naseem Anwar has greatly appreciated the services of CDGK, the Rangers and police for making excellent security and cleanliness arrangements in the city during the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. In a communiquT to all above departments he has ...

NEW DELHI (APP)- Pakistani goods meant for display at India International Trade Fair finally reached the site on the second day of opening of the fair after remaining stuck at Delhi Dry Port due to lack of clearance by Indian authorities. Talking to APP here on Saturday, Sheikh Farooq Ahmed, ...

A new online collection of millions of historic Jewish records is helping families trace their personal history. The documents on Ancestry.com include Schindler's List - the names of almost 2,000 Jews working for a German who employed them to save them. Their story was told in the Oscar-winning ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel will install two massive radar antennae near the Dimona nuclear plant to bolster its defence measures against Iran, the Maariv newspaper reported on Friday. The 400 metre-high antennae will be erected in the Negev desert near a top-secret military site where Israel is ...

DICE-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it. "It must be ice," said Phoenix Principal Investigator ...

Silhouetted against the night sky the shell of the burnt-out excavator continued to belch out flames and acrid black smoke over the site where around 100 people lost there lives in an explosion. While adjacent districts of Lagos' northern suburbs were alive with frenetic music, candle-lit night ...