WASHINGTON (WO): More than 78,000 people have applied for the chance to leave Earth forever and live on Mars for a reality TV project. The Mars One project aims to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet by 2023 and televise every aspect of the decade-long mission. Successful candidates must ...

MOSCOW: Thousands of protestors on Monday filled a square in centralMoscowto denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin one year into his new Kremlin term, as the opposition seeks to recover the momentum of their challenge to his rule. Organisers said tens of thousands attended the rally, which ...

madrid - Workers hit by lower living standards and record high unemployment staged May Day protests across Europe on Wednesday, hoping to persuade euro zone governments of the case for easing austerity measures and boosting growth.Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid, snaking up the Gran Via ...

ISLAMABAD - The first Islamabad Literature Festival proved a huge success with big names of the literary intelligentsia and packed sessions, as thousands of people of all ages and from all walks of life thronged the festival.The festival, organised by Oxford University Press, opened Tuesday and ...

Lahore - A total of 2,367 and 5,758 candidates for 148 National Assembly seats of Punjab and 297 Punjab Assembly general seats respectively will contest in general polls to be held on May 11th.According to Punjab Election Commission statistics issued here on Sunday, total 3,569 were validly ...

YA'AN, China More than 150 people were killed and 5,700 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China on Saturday, destroying thousands of homes and triggering landslides.The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau just after ...

SANAA  - Saudi Arabia has begun deporting thousands of Yemeni labourers following new regulations requiring foreigners to work only for their sponsors, a Yemeni official said on Monday, a move that could "significantly damage" the poor country's economy. Some two million of Yemen's 25 million ...

TUNIS - Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets of the capital Tunis on Saturday to call for an end to an Islamist government they blame for the assassination of a leading secular politician 40 days earlier.It was the biggest demonstration since Chokri Belaid was gunned down outside his house on ...

KHYBER AGENCY - The disease of Leishmania has turned into epidemic in Landi Kotal and all its adjacent areas as thousands of local tribesmen including a huge portion of children have got infected of the virus, local complaint.The more affected areas are Torkham, Gagra, Mulagori, Ash khel and Wali ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) - Thousands of Kurds gathered Thursday in Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir for the funeral of three female Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris last week. The growing crowd of participants, including women adorned in white scarves, a symbol of peace, marched ...

Tens of thousands of Pakistani protesters demanding sweeping reforms poured into Islamabad late Monday, led by a cleric accused of trying to sow political chaos ahead of elections.Tahirul Qadri, a Pakistani-Canadian who returned to his homeland last month after years in Toronto, accuses the ...

RAWALPINDI - Despite security threats, tens of thousands of Tehrik Minhaj-ul-Quran (TMQ) activists would march on Benazir Bhutto Road (BBR) tomorrow (Monday) to join the main procession at Faizabad that will come from Lahore via Islamabad Expressway.Besides people belonging to various walks of ...

KHYBER AGENCY – Hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals were restricted on the Pak-Afghan Torkham border for having no valid travel documents and were not permitted to enter Pakistan on Wednesday.Sharing the details with this scribe, Wing Coimmander Col. Mushtaq said that the deployed ...

KUALA LUMPUR - Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Malaysia forced almost 14,000 people to flee their homes and seek shelter at relief centres, the official Bernama news agency said Wednesday. Heavy rain coinciding with high tide flooded hundreds of homes in three northeastern states - ...

NABLUS  - Thousands of Palestinians attended a rare Hamas rally in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, celebrating the group's "victory" over Israel in Gaza.The rally is the first time that the West Bank's ruling Palestinian Authority (PA) - which is dominated by the Fatah ...

KARACHI – A large number of workers of Jamat-e-Islami Sindh on Friday took out a protest rally against brutal bombardment on innocent people of Palestine.Addressing the rally took out at Baitul Mukarram Mosque, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, vice president of Jamat-e-Islami Sindh Asadullah Bhutto said that ...

NOORPUR THAL - Thousands of farmers from villages of Rangpur, Wadhalanwal, Rahdari, Chan, Adhikot, Ghanghan, Warhi Charag Khel, Warhi Panah Kheil, Mehmood Shaheed, Jaur Kalan and Chah Jabhananwala took out a protest rally, demanding a remedy for water-logging in their farmlands due to CJ ...

LAHORE - Thousands of people will take part in the Raiwind congregation on Sunday today.More than 500,000 people, including large groups from southern Punjab, KPK, Sindh and Balochistan participated in the gathering while thousands of people are coming to say the prayers. The majority of the ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - A snowstorm left tens of thousands more people without power in the New York region Thursday, slowing efforts to overcome the devastation caused by last week’s superstorm Sandy.The Department of Energy said 42,633 homes and businesses were without electricity as a result of ...

LISBON - Thousands of protesters in Portugal and Spain marched Saturday in fresh protests against the austerity measures their governments have imposed to tackle their debt crisis.Portuguese demonstrators staged marches that took on a festive air in the capital Lisbon and a number of other ...

MADRID- Thousands joined a protest march in the Spanish capital Sunday against the conservative govt’s austerity policies amid growing uncertainty over whether the country will need a financial bailout.“No more unemployment, no more cuts.... They will ruin the country, we must stop ...

KARACHI - Thousands of people on Sunday took part in 'Namoos-e-Mustafa' march taken out to protest against a US-made blasphemous film on the call of the Jamat-e-Islami. Various segments of society marched from Mazar-e-Quaid to Tibet Centre to protest against the sacrilegious film. People ...

KARACHI - On the call of Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, thousands of people took out a peaceful rally against the anti-Islam film here on Saturday.  According to details, people from different religious parties, including Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST), ...

GUWAHATI  - Thousands of people have fled their homes in India’s northeastern Assam state after fighting between indigenous tribes and Muslim settlers killed at least 19 people, wounded many more, and left villages in flames, police said on Monday.Police were forced to fire warning shots ...

PESHAWAR - Thousands of tribesmen will fully attend JI-sponsored sit-in and the long march on July 16 and 17 respectively against resumption of Nato supplies and the US drone attacks on tribal areas.Speaking at a news conference at Press Club here on Tuesday, JI Fata Ameer Haroon-ur-Rasheed said ...

KARACHI - Thousands of Karachiites on Friday took out a protest rally against the reopening of Nato supply lines from Pakistan and termed that restoration of Nato supply line is a license to kill Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan.The protest rally against the restoration of Nato Supply from ...

SANTIAGO (AFP) - About 2,000 birds were found dead on beaches in central Chile, a natural history museum director said Friday, accusing fishermen of snagging them in their nets and letting them drown.“It’s a horrible scene. They are spread across some six kilometers (four miles) of ...

KARACHI -  Hundreds of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) activists on Friday staged demonstration outside the press club to condemn a US$10 million bounty on JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and JuD central leader Hafiz Abdul Rehman Maki.Hundreds of activists of JuD were assembled outside the press club in ...

LAHORE – The fate of nearly 40 katchi abadies in the provincial capital hangs in the balance as the matter of awarding ownership to their dwellers has yet to be settled between the federal and provincial governments, sources informed The NationInsiders in the provincial government revealed ...

SAINT PETERSBURG - Tens of thousands of Vladimir Putin's supporters backed his bid for the presidency in rallies across Russia on Saturday, trying to outdo mass nationwide protests staged by his opponents.At least 50,000 people attended rallies in European Russia, Siberia and the Far East ...