NEW ZEALAND  ID - A British man has survived falling from the fifteenth floor of a building in New Zealand, according to local reports.Tom Stilwell had been trying to lower himself from a neighbour’s balcony in Auckland after discovering that he was locked out of his apartment early ...

KARACHI- Timely ringing of the emergency alarm at a bank made robbers go empty handed here on Friday. In Saddar area, some bandits were trying to rob a private bank on Abdullah Haroon Road within the remits of Preedy Police Station. Police said the bandits could not rob cash as the bank’s ...

PARIS - World number one Serena Williams survived a huge scare to reach her first French Open semi-final since 2003 on Tuesday, defeating unseeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.Williams, bidding to win just her second title in Paris, 11 years after her first, looked down and almost out ...

PARIS- Second seed Roger Federer produced a thrilling riposte to Gilles Simon's gallant attempt to knock him out of the French Open, coming from behind to beat the Frenchman 6-1 4-6 2-6 6-2 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.Federer's proud record of consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final ...

HULL - James Willstrop, the only player to have been denied the British Open title by a single point on two separate occasions, kept alive his dream of one day making that last shot with an extraordinary quarter-final escape on Friday night. He was two games and 8-9 down to Cameron Pilley before ...

ROME - Defending champion Rafael Nadal endured a three-set thriller before overcoming big-hitting Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the Rome Masters quarter-finals. Gulbis, ranked 46th, and a winner inRomein 2010 over Roger Federer on his way to the semi-finals, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: A young Brazilian woman was accidentally shot in the mouth with a spear gun, with the projectile punching out the back of her neck but she survived, a doctor said. Elisangela Borborema Rosa’s husband was cleaning the underwater fishing device when it went off. It punctured her ...

  KARACHI - MANSOOR KHAN - Ahle-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat leader Maulana Orangzeb Farooqi survived an attack by some unidentified armed assailants near Korangi seminary on Thursday. However, his four guards sustained severe injuries in the attack.Farooqi was on his way to Korangi to attend his ...

DAMASCUS  - Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid on Monday, surviving a blast against his convoy in Damascus, in the latest attack on top members of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The attack came as Republican lawmakers in the United States stepped up calls for ...

NEW YORK: Tourists taking in the view of the city from atopNew York’sEmpireStateBuildingwere shocked when a man fell from the observation deck, and then landed a floor below. Nathaniel Fimone fell from the observation deck of theManhattanskyscraper. He fell from the 86th floor and landed on a ...

  MUNICH (GN): A two-year-old girl had a miraculous escape when she fell from a fourth floor balcony, bounced off a canvas canopy and landed unhurt on grass. Little Maria Kohler scrambled on to the balcony to watch passing trains, inMunich,Germany, when she slipped and fell. A doctor at the ...

A NEW Jersey man who survived accidentally shooting a 4-inch (10-cm) nail into his heart while trying to clear a jammed nail gun said on Friday he feels like he won the lottery.Dennis Hennis, 52, who was revived from cardiac arrest before being airlifted for surgery to Cooper University Hospital in ...

Four persons including two policemen were killed while 14 others wounded when a suicide bomber targeted SSP Police at Malir Halt area of Karachi on Thursday. Another three policemen were killed by unidentified gunmen in PIB Colony of the city. The banned outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has ...

anisuddin khanKARACHI  - Reigning amateur world champion Hossein Vafaei Ayouri of Iran proved why he holds the world title when he performed an unbelievable act of fortunate great escape at the hands of challenger M Sajjad of Pakistan to reach the final of the Jubilee Insurance seven nation ...

MOSCOW - The leader of the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday during an attack which killed one of his bodyguards. Unidentified attackers targeted Abkhaz leader Alexander Ankvab’s convoy with a roadside bomb as he was travelling ...

A FATHER of two told of his miraculous escape after a 20-tonne rock flattened his car on a mountain road in the French Alps leaving him ‘completely compressed’. Rescuers expected to find the lifeless body of Ludovic Masciave, 36, inside the 4x4, which was so badly damaged that they ...

LAHORE – Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Mashhood Ahmed narrowly survived gun attack when robbers sprayed his vehicle with bullets in Sundar area on Wednesday night, police sources said. Rana Mashhood Ahmed riding on his official vehicle was on his way home when robbers signalled the ...

CONAKRY (AFP) - Guineas newly installed president survived a rocket attack on his residence that left one dead Tuesday and led to the arrest of the coup-prone countrys former army chief. A group of rogue soldiers opened fire on Alpha Condes residence overnight, sparking a two-hour gun battle that ...

A builder, who suffered a fall on a construction site, is lucky to be alive after a steel bar penetrated his jaw and bedded 15 centimetres into his skull. Wu Moude had been working on the construction site, in Quanzhou, southern Chinas Fujian Province, for just two months when the accident ...

The 35-year-old escaped death after a dramatic rescue on the steep grassy coastal cliff at Thornwick Bay, East Yorkshire The womans red Fiat Punto was so badly damaged she had to be cut free but miraculously her injuries are not life threatening. Coastguard and fire rescue crews said the situation ...

LONDON (AFP) - Venus Williams survived a huge scare before advancing to the third round at Wimbledon here Wednesday, downing Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-7 (6/8), 6-3, 8-6 in a marathon three-hour battle. Five-time champion Williams, seeded 23 after a recent return from a lengthy injury ...

KARACHI - Federal Law Minister Babar Awan survived a road accident when his vehicle's tyres burst at main Shahra-e-Faisal on his way to Bilawal House here on Friday. The minister was heading towards Bilawal House after visiting Nine Zero. When his escort vehicle reached main Shahra-e-Faisal two ...

A four-year-old child Sunday became the latest victim of the brutal tendencies prevailing in the society when two of his uncles tried to torch him to death in Khairpur, reported a private TV channel. The barbaric incident took place at Wandha neighbourhood of the town over a minor quarrel among ...

BOURG-LES-VALENCE (France) (AFP) Alberto Contador admitted to experiencing a tense end to the 11th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday as he fought off an attempt to drop him by yellow jersey rival Andy Schleck. Contador started the 184.5km 11th stage from Sisteron with a 41sec deficit on ...

SPA (Belgium) (AFP) Lance Armstrongs white and yellow bike stands out from the rest of the super-slick red and grey Trek machines used by his RadioShack team. But on Monday the seven-time Tour de France champion had trouble finding his bike after being caught up in the numerous, and almost ...

RESEARCHERS from UC Davis and UC Riverside say the 75-foot-wide Palmers oak shrub has lived about 13,000 years despite inhospitable surroundings, regenerating itself with new shoots. Nestled between two boulders on a low rise in the Jurupa Hills of Riverside County, a good 30 miles from its nearest ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Defending champion Jelena Jankovic is into the second round of the WTA Kremlin Cup after a battling three-set defeat of Jaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan here on Tuesday. In the ATP section Wayne Odesnik of the United States battled back from a set down to produce the biggest upset at ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A baby miraculously survived a Baghdad car bombing cradled in his mothers lap as she was burned alive in a blast that claimed the lives of eight people on Tuesday, witnesses said. The baby boys father was also seriously wounded in the attack not far from a shrine in the Kadhimiyah ...

ROTTERDAM (AFP) - Rafael Nadal defeated world number 490 Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the Rotterdam Open quarter-finals, but the Bulgarian teenager demonstrated his exciting potential as a future star. World number one Nadal had plenty of problems with the 17-year-old junior ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Just one sperm whale from a group of almost 50 that beached en masse in Australia's south has survived, and remains sandwiched among the dead, officials said Saturday. The pod of 48 whales became trapped this week on a sandbar 150 metres (500 feet) offshore from Perkins Island on the ...