NEW YORK A leading American newspaper on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to invite PML-N President and Prime Minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif to Washington for an "early visit" in a bid to repair the "badly damaged" US-Pakistan relations."Nawaz Sharif faces staggering challenges," The New ...

NEW YORK:New Yorkpolice said Friday that they have found a fragment of one of two airplanes that slammed into theWorldTradeCenteronSeptember 11, 2001. The huge chunk of aircraft was found wedged between two office buildings in lowerManhattan. Police said the plane fragment appeared to be "part of a ...

London:-  Malala Yousafzai, who emerged as a global icon for female rights after being shot at by Taliban for advocating girls’ education, will give her first public speech in New York on her 16th birthday on July 12, a day that would now be marked as ‘Malala Day’. UN Special ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - The New York Police Department already has the long arm of the law. Now it gets X-ray eyes. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says officers are in the advanced stages of testing a futuristic new weapon in their war against gun-toting residents: a device that can detect the presence of ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York's governor has declared a health emergency over a flu epidemic that has hit more than 19,000 people, and in an exceptional measure cleared pharmacists to immunize infants and children. To try to curb the spread of the potentially lethal virus, Andrew Cuomo said it was ...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrived in New York Sunday afternoon for a brief visit during which she will preside over a ministerial-level debate in the Security Council on comprehensive approach to counter-terrorism on January 15. Proposed by Pakistan, which hold the rotational ...

POLICE in New York say the city has enjoyed a day entirely free of violent crime for the first time in living memory. The city police department’s chief spokesman said Monday was the most bloodshed-free 24-hour period in recent history. Not a single murder, shooting, stabbing or other ...

NEW YORK  - A Bosnian-born US citizen was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for his role in planning a suicide bomb attack on New York City subways in 2009 at the behest of senior al-Qaeda operatives.Adis Medunjanin, 28, was convicted in May by a federal jury in Brooklyn on nine counts ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Nearly all New York schools were set to reopen Monday in another sign of things getting back to normal in the wake of superstorm Sandy, but authorities faced a new challenge posed by frigid weather.Tens of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by the storm had ...

NEW YORK - With weather getting colder, tens of thousands of New Yorkers need housing after damage from Superstorm Sandy, officials said on Sunday, as a senior Pakistan diplomat in New York visited the affected Pakistani-Americans to inquire about their welfare and coordinate relief work.Pakistan's ...

NEW YORK  - The lights finally came back on in Manhattan Saturday, but a severe shortage of gasoline continued to hamper efforts to get the New York area back on its feet after Hurricane Sandy.Power was restored to nearly all of Manhattan after flooding plunged the lower half of New ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTNEW YORK - The US’ East Coast on Wednesday began to see signs of a resumption of daily routines under clear blue skies that replaced three days of darkness, as officials and residents set about restoring power, restarting mass transit system and rebuilding from the ruin ...

NEW YORK - Many artists claim to put their blood, sweat and tears into their work, but Vincent Castiglia means it: he paints with his own blood.The New York painter has a new exhibit, “Resurrection,” in Manhattan’s Soho neighbourhood that opened on Thursday and is due to run ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York’s mayor says the city will wheel out the world’s biggest Ferris wheel in 2015, overtaking the current record holder in Singapore and leaving the London Eye in the dust. The 625 foot (190 metre) high wheel is planned for the Big Apple’s least developed ...

LONDON  - The price of New York oil sank on Wednesday to the lowest point in almost two months, pressured by eurozone debt crisis fears centred on Spain, and ahead of the latest US crude inventories report.The market was also hit after a US Federal Reserve official questioned the ability of ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York fashion week hit the road Tuesday with colorful travel-themed looks from Tory Burch and J.Crew for the free-spirited woman on a quest for adventure.California sister act Rodarte meanwhile sent out an army of medieval cyber punks in corseted silhouettes, while Marc Jacobs ...

NEW YORK - New York’s Police Commissioner has apologised for appearing in a documentary movie and an anti-Islam propaganda film ‘The Third Jihad’ that was shown to almost 1,500 police officers.‘I offer my apologies to members of the Muslim community, in particular, who would ...

ANKARA - Turkish prosecutors have charged Britain's Duchess of York for secretly filming a documentary critical of conditions in Turkish orphanages, the Turkish media reported Thursday.The Anatolia news agency said the duchess, better known in Britain as Sarah Ferguson or simply as Fergie, is ...

NEW YORK - Hundreds of flag-waving and slogan-shouting Pakistanis, assembled in New York Friday, night heard cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan promising to make Pakistan an Islamic welfare state if his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, came to power in the next elections. “I pledge ...

NEW YORK - New York’s mayor expressed outrage Monday after a mosque was hit by a firebomb in an arson spree that police said they were investigating as a hate crime.The Imam Al-Khoei Foundation building in the borough of Queens suffered damage to the front door from a Molotov cocktail thrown ...

NEW YORK - More than a dozen imams and Islamic civic leaders skipped New York City's annual interfaith breakfast Friday in protest against the police department's surveillance campaigns in Muslim communities. They declined their invitations to the annual meeting in a letter to New York City Mayor ...

KARACHI - Fahad & Company today announced the availability of YORK residential and light commercial air conditioners through their extensive dealer network at a glittering function that was attended by the business elite, dealer principals, associates, and representatives from the government, says ...

THE Oscar-nominated British film and television actress Susannah York has died at the age of 72. According to the Daily Mail, the They Shoot Horses, Dont They? star was diagnosed with advanced bone marrow cancer, passing away from the disease on Friday. York was best known for her role as Alice in ...

LONDON (AFP) - Crude oil futures extended recent gains on Tuesday, with New York prices striking fresh two-year peaks, as the International Energy Agency forecast steady demand growth up to 2035. New Yorks main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, reached 87.63 dollars a barrel ...

LAHORE Model Town Football Club (MTFC)s President Mian Rizwan Ali has announced strong 18-player squad which will take part in the Fair Play Flood Relief Fund Football Tournament. The 16-team soccer fiesta is in full at Model Town Football Academy (MTFA) Ground. Syed Qasim Raza, a qualified ...

LONDON (Reuters) The News of the World newspaper said on Sunday it had caught the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson in a sting, filming her allegedly offering to sell access to her former husband and trade envoy Prince Andrew. According to the footage on the tabloids website published on Sunday, ...

NEW YORK - US Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano on Sunday said that the authorities had yet to determine who put an explosive-laden car in the square of New Yorks Times on Saturday night. Were taking it very seriously, Napolitano told NBCs Meet the Press. Its too early to tell who was ...

NEW YORK (AFP) Meb Keflezighi became the first US man in more than two decades to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, while Derartu Tulu ended Paula Radcliffes two-year grip on the womens title. Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist, earned his first major marathon with a time of 2hr ...

NEW YORK - An exhibition of eminent Pakistani metal sculptor Amin Gulgees works in copper opened at the Pakistan Consulate General in New York on Friday, the countrys Independence Day, in the presence of a large number of art lovers. There were several artistically carved works that spoke of ...

JENNIFER Aniston could be moving to the Big Apple. The actress was spotted looking at luxury apartments in New York last week. Jennifer, 40, is currently dating musician John Mayer, 31. Her new movie Marley & Me is out now. - NOW