TOKYO : Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal. “We don’t know if the file (of 22 million user IDs) was leaked or not, but we can’t deny the ...

BAHAWALNAGARChishtian Police arrested a health official and recovered 6,000 stolen syringes and 500 cannulas from his possession here the other day.On a tip-off, police installed a picket and intercepted a car, carrying registration No MNW/9940, and recovered 15 boxes that contained 6,000 official ...

  ZEDELGEM SN People in a quiet Belgian town who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds after a robbery went wrong are being threatened with jail if they do not return the money. The drama started two weeks ago when burglars broke into a home and made off with a safe containing about one ...

ATLANTA: A delivery man whose car was stolen continued travelling on foot to fulfill a pizza order before going to the police. The Papa John’s driver had his car - a black 2003 Cadillac CTS - taken from him by two men while working his shift in Atlanta on April 9. According to The AP, the ...

DUBLIN AFPMasked men stole eight rhino horns from the National Museum of Ireland with a street value of about 500,000 euros ($650,000), officials said Thursday.The gang of three broke into the museum archives building in Dublin late on Wednesday, tied up a security guard and loaded four rhino heads ...

KARACHI - The office of Chief Election Commissioner Fakhurddin G Ebrahim’s son was attacked and ransacked by unknown persons at Clifton in the city on Sunday. According to the police, the attackers ransacked the office of the CEC’s son, vandalising and breaking the doors and windows, ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police on Saturday claimed to arrest 19 accused from various areas of the city and recovered 3.735 kilograms heroin, stolen car and wine bottles from them, a police spokesman said.According to a press note issued from office of SSP Islamabad police on Saturday, a team of ...

Tunis - Tunisia received $28.8m in the first such retrieval of what it calls looted assets held abroad by ousted President Ben Ali and his family. The state news agency TAP said a cheque in that amount had been handed to President Moncef Marzouki by Ali bin Fetais al-Marri, appointed by the UN to ...

A NEW York man says strangers from Las Vegas returned a wrist watch that was stolen from him decades ago.Ed Grigor’s received his wrist watch, which he calls The Time Traveler, as a high school graduation gift from his aunt in 1958, the Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., reported.The ...

RAWALPINDI - Police claimed to have recovered two stolen cars, besides arresting a vehicle lifter, on Sunday.According to police spokesman, Police Station Moragh officials held a member of auto-theft gang and seized a stolen corolla car from his possession while PS Rawat also rounded up a carjacker ...

A great gift of the Almighty to humanity is that we, humankind, can learn a great deal and infer a lot of great lessons from small life experiences. There is an intrinsic and formidable link between ourselves and in the way we wish to experience our existence in the lifespan of our consciousness. ...

The three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned the hearing of Asghar Khan petition till  Wednesday.The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing the case.During Monday’s hearing, the ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) US police have recovered five stolen guitars belonging to Tom Petty and Heartbreakers, they said Tuesday, earning thanks from the US rock veteran on the eve of his latest tour. Petty had offered a $7,500 reward for information about the guitars, including one of Petty’s ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Highways Patrol claimed to have recovered stolen cattle worth over Rs 380,000 and 240kg unhygienic beef on Thursday.PHP Post Bandial, district Khushab, learnt that some unidentified accused had just loaded some cattle of his relative on a van and fled towards the main ...

ISLAMABAD – Islamabad Police have arrested six outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered a stolen car, three pistols and ornaments from their possession, a police spokesman said.According to details, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Shakeel Ahmed from Anti-Car Lifting Cell recovered a car ...

BOGOTA - An etching by renowned Spanish painter Pablo Picasso has been recovered after being stolen from a museum in southwestern Colombia, the local prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday.The etching, valued at $65,000, was stolen from the Casa Museo Negret and MIAMP museum in Popayan last ...

LAHORE – Copper wire worth about Rs3 million has been stolen from 14 dysfunctional locomotives parked at the Loco Shed here. It should be noted here that each engine contains six copper leads and the weight of each lead is 10 kilograms.An official of the Railways police told this scriber on ...

LAHORE - Just days after accepting the marriage proposal of Pakistani-American Naveed Shahzad, filmactor Meera was robbed of a wrist-watch, worth Rs2 million, which she had purchased for her fiancé as a gift on their engagement.A duty officer at DHA’s B-Section Police Station said on ...

I read news that a precious diamond necklace was stolen from an Indian jewellery stall during an India Show in Lahore. Later the Punjab Police and Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA) recovered the necklace from a professional pickpocket. According to police the suspect was caught from the information ...

A tortoise worth £1,000 is one of many possessions to have been stolen during a recent burglary in Whitchurch. Sheila Hatton left her residence unoccupied for just 30 minutes and discovered upon returning that her 9-year-old pet Jessy, as well as a £10,000 BMW and a Blackberry, were ...

SANTIAGO - Police on Monday were investigating a criminal gang that allegedly stole blocks of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier in southern Chile.Agents with Chile’s National Forest Service (CONAF) filed a legal complaint claiming that ice was being stolen from the glacier, located in the ...

LOS ANGELES - California police have arrested two men suspected of stealing a vintage Mercedes belonging to US actor John Travolta and recovered the car — but it was in pieces, a spokesman said Wednesday. The 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280SL was stolen last September after the “Grease” ...

ATHENS  - A Pablo Picasso painting gifted to Greece by the Spanish-born master was stolen from Athens’ National Gallery early Monday with two other important artworks, prompting scorn from the Greek police minister. “Woman’s Head”, a 1939 oil on canvas, had been given ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - Capitalising on power cuts, unidentified thieves took away an electricity transformer from Bakhshi Park on Saturday night. Area people are without electricity. Till the filing of this report, power supply could not be restored.

A stolen car landed on the roof of an apartment building in California after the driver hit a rock and a tree stump. The thief, who fled the scene in his boxer shorts, is said to have lost control at speed in foggy conditions.No one was injured in the incident in Fresno, California despite two ...

OKARA - The Assistant Commissioner and Drug Inspector recovered a huge quantity of medicines, stolen from DHQ South City, during a raid at the house a Dispenser who is also working as storekeeper at the hospital here the other day.According to sources, acting on a tip-off, Assistant Commissioner ...

ROME  - A bag of presents stolen from a Father Christmas in Rome has been returned with an apologetic note from the thieves after the victim made an impassioned appeal, Il Messaggero daily reported on Thursday. “We’re sorry. We made a mistake. Merry Christmas and a Happy New ...

KOT ADDU - At a time when the country is faced with severe power shortfall and energy crisis, incidents of stealing of transformers and power cables have risen alarmingly. A similar theft took place near Pathan Chowk in Kot Addu, where unidentified thieves on Tuesday stole a power transformer ...

Police in Pennsylvania have arrested two men for stealing a meatball sandwich from a 13-year-old boy at gunpoint. The duo threatened the teenager with a gun and told him to empty his pockets, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. One of the robbers, a 21-year-old, pointed his gun at the boy and said: ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany will face up to a bloody chapter of its colonial past Friday when it hands back 20 skulls spirited away after what many historians call the first genocide of the 20th century. A delegation of 55 Namibians is in Berlin to attend the solemn ceremony to receive the remains ...