PARIS - Police on Thursday detained a Franco-Lebanese businessman who is being probed in a high-profile political financing scandal over suspicions he was trying to flee France, a source close to the case said. Ziad Takieddine, who is banned from leaving France as investigations into the so-called ...

Mr Rehman Malik says he has documented proof of the Sharif brothers’ corruption. Would he kindly inform us why he has waited until now to ‘expose’ the corruption of the Sharif brothers? As interior minister of the country, he should have known that by not revealing this ...

KABUL In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist - a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.Halima, aged between 18 and 20 and a mother of two children, was killed for bringing ...

MADRID - Barcelona's Argentinian three-time Ballon D'Or winner Lionel Messi has agreed to renew his contract at the Spanish giants until June 2018, the club said Tuesday. Barcelona said in a statement it had reached an agreement with Messi, 25, whose current contract expires in 2016, and he would ...

Federal Law Minister Maula Bux Chandio Monday said the issuance of contempt notice from Supreme Court (SC) to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, is not an ordinary thing.Talking to media here in Islamabad, he said Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will hold consultations over the notice ...

Benito Mussolini had an affair with Italy's last queen, a secret letter written by his son has revealed. The fascist dictator was married to his wife Rachele for 30 years and had five children with her, but he also had a string of lovers with women attracted by his power. News that he had an affair ...

Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that reason for not finding out Osamas whereabouts is ISIs incompetency. He was talking to the BBC in a current affairs programme. Musharraf said that Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had not been complicit, but incapable of finding out Bin Ladens ...

A House of Commons committee has said it will probe a security breach involving disgraced ex-foreign minister Maxime Bernier and his former girlfriend twice linked romantically to criminal bikers. Opposition MPs on the public safety committee teamed up against the Conservative minority to push ...