Berlin - German industrial output saw a surprisingly robust rise in March driven by a sharp increase in the energy sector, official data showed Wednesday.Industrial production in Europe’s largest economy rose by 1.2 percent in March compared with the previous month, according to provisional ...

          CAPE TOWN   All-rounder Jacques Kallis was a surprise omission whenSouth Africa's 15-man squad for the ICC Champions Trophy inEnglandin June was announced inCape TownThursday. Batsman JP Duminy returned to the squad after recovering from an Achilles tendon ...

LOS ANGELES: The Rolling Stones played a surprise show late Saturday at a small club in Los Angeles, days before their north America tour kicks off here next week.The legendary British rock band announced the gig, at the 650-capacity Echoplex in LA's trendy Echo Park neighborhood, via Twitter only ...

NEW YOK: Chris Brown is planning to surprise Rihanna while she is away on her 'Diamonds' world tour. The singer - who reunited with the popstar last year despite still being on probation for violently beating her in 2009 - really misses his on/off girlfriend and can't wait to spend more quality ...

PRAGUE (AFP) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan at the weekend, meeting President Hamid Karzai and Czech military forces, his office said Sunday. The 500 Czech troops in Afghanistan under a NATO-led mission are due home by the end of next year but according ...

PRAGUE - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan at the weekend, meeting President Hamid Karzai and Czech military forces, his office said Sunday. The 500 Czech troops in Afghanistan under a NATO-led mission are due home by the end of next year but according to the ...

ISLAMABAD - Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim on Friday apparently to discuss security arrangements ahead of the general elections.The meeting was held somewhere outside the Election Commission of Pakistan, the sources said.The ...

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, in the wee hours of Monday, paid surprise visit to New Sindh Secretariat and Sindh Secretariat Tughlaq House and found a majority number of secretaries and other officers absent.The CM Sindh, who was accompanied by Political Coordinator Siddique Abu ...

Lady Gaga has been surprised with some homemade cookies spreading a message of ‘’acceptance’’. The ‘Marry The Night’ singer was excited to receive the sweet treat, which included glittery biscuits and love-heart baked goods and also came with a poem.She wrote on ...

FAISALABAD - Punjab Additional Prosecutor General Mazhar Sher Awan visited Faisalabad and met with the District & Sessions Judge. They exchanged views to enhance performance of prosecutors in the district. Later, he paid a surprise visit to various courts along with AD&SJ Tariq Mahmood ...

Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise doping test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was at the center of jokes made by a French TV program about his country's alleged ties to doping. Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: "8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a ...

A rare lizard survived a 3,000-mile flight in a suitcase only to be put through the wash by an unsuspecting holidaymaker.Sue Banwell-Moore found the brown 6in Chioninia lizard among her washing after returning from a trip to the Cape Verde islands, off Western Africa.The company director, who lives ...

SAN DIEGO - Brandt Snedeker parred the second playoff hole for an improbable victory in the US PGA Tour's Farmer's Insurance Open after Kyle Stanley surrendered a three-shot lead on the 72nd hole.Stanley, who led by as many as seven shots, arrived at the last hole of regulation with a three-shot ...

LAHORE - Pakistan off spinner Saeed Ajmal says he's working on a secret delivery to surprise English batsmen in this month's Test series against England in United Arab Emirates (UAE). Ajmal, who was the most successful bowler in 2011with 50 wickets in eight Tests and grabbed top spot at ICC ODI ...

KARACHI - Pakistan should avoid falling into the trap of overconfidence when they meet China in four international hockey test series starting at Hockey Club of Pakistan on December 21. Other tests of the series would be played on December 22 at the Hockey Club of Pakistan, December 24 Faisalabad ...

LAHORE - Shahbaz Sharif, during his surprise visit to Lahore General Hospital Lahore on Thursday, inspected various wards and inquired from the people about the treatment facilities. He also went to the counter established for dengue virus patients and expressed his indignation over inadequate ...

KARACHI Cambridge School surprised Nasra Public School by 36 runs in the HBL-KCCA Inter-school Cricket here the other day at Pak Star ground. Batting first, Cambridge School mustered 110 runs in their innings. M Ali scored 41 runs with the help of four boundaries. Jauhar Saeed grabbed four ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices fell Wednesday, giving up early gains as traders reacted to an unexpected increase in crude reserves that suggested weaker demand in key energy consumer the United States. New Yorks main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, sank 49 cents to 77.09 dollars ...

KARACHI Faizan Khan of Sindh sprang the biggest surprise on the second day of the ASB Tughral Shah Memorial National Junior Squash he ousted third seed M Zain Ramzan of Punjab in straight games to enter the last four of the event here Tuesday at Pakistan Navy Roshan khan Jahangir Khan Complex. The ...

DESPITE what many nutritionists have preached for years, low-calorie diets can be healthy if you do them right, and can work wonders on pounds and inches in just a few weeks. Clinical experience shows that somebody with a serious commitment to weight loss can lose up to 20 pounds - and two to ...

KARACHI - Royal Bank of Scotland registered rare win in Ramazan cricket when they defeated Advance Telecom by 40 runs in AKU T20 Ramzan cricket here the other day. The winners  put up a good total of 180 for six and bowled the opponents out for 140. Summarised scores. NIB beat Saudi ...

NEW YORK - Senator Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night just hours after delegates named him the party's presidential nominee, the first African-American to get that honour. Obama appeared on stage at the end of vice presidential nominee ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices dived on Wednesday after official data revealed an unexpected rise for crude stockpiles in the United States, the world's biggest energy consumer, traders said. The market was meanwhile awaiting the US Federal Reserve's latest decision on US interest rates due later ...

BAMIYAN (AFP) - US First Lady Laura Bush kicked off a visit to Afghanistan aimed at showing support for the war-ravaged nation with a trip on Sunday to the home of giant Buddhas blown up by the Taliban. Bush, making her third surprise visit to Afghanistan, flew to the central town of Bamiyan ...