ZINTAN,Libya: Saif al-Islam, a son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday in the town ofZintan, where he had been held since his capture by former rebels in November 2011. Saif al-Islam, at the centre of a legal tussle betweenLibyaand the International Criminal ...

      LONDON   Disgraced pace bowler Mervyn Westfield on Monday said that he had been forced to attend the appeal hearing of Pakistani spinner Danish Kaneria or face arrest. The case in London began on Monday and is due to last until Thursday, with Kaneria hoping to overturn a ...

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf appeared before an anti-terrorism court on Saturday after spending the night at police headquarters in Islamabad, officials said.Musharraf was moved into police custody after being arrested on Friday, an unprecedented move against a former army chief of staff ...

RAJANPUR - PML-Q leader Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari, a PML-N candidate from NA-174 who had joined the party after prolonged meeting with top leaders, has appeared to be a defaulter of the Punjab Cooperative Bank, Choti (DG Khan).In election 2008, he made an alliance with Sher Ali Khan Gorchani, ...

RAJANPUR - PML-Q leader Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari, a PML-N candidate from NA-174 who had joined the party after prolonged meeting with top leaders, has appeared to be a defaulter of the Punjab Cooperative Bank, Choti (DG Khan).In election 2008, he made an alliance with Sher Ali Khan Gorchani, ...

PALMA DE MAJORCA, Spain - Spanish King Juan Carlos’s son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin appeared in court Saturday in a corruption case that has caused a rare embarrassment for Spain’s royals. Urdangarin, the Duke of Palma, arrived on foot at the high court on the island of Majorca, ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani appeared in the Supreme Court on Monday to face formal charges over his failure to accept the apex court's orders to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.The Supreme Court has issued repeated orders to the government to write to the Swiss ...

KARACHI - Differences have surfaced between the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pir Pagara-led Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) after the latters ministers were asked to shed their portfolios to be assigned to members of another coalition ally, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) - Wildlife experts said they were astonished Wednesday at the appearance of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand, some 3,000 kilometres (1,900 miles) from his Antarctic home. The penguin, a juvenile male, arrived at a beach on the Kapiti Coast, 40 kilometres north of the capital ...

Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin appeared in court as witness on Thursday for the Pakistani bombing attack that killed 11 French nationals in 2002. The hearing started in the afternoon in the Paris superior court and lasted several hours. It was chaired by Judge Renaud van ...

Twenty-eight year old Pakistani origin Beinazir, studding Support Assistant, appeared in Big Brother house here on Friday. Originally from Pakistan, Beinazirs family were forced to seek asylum in the UK when she was a year old. Her father was a supporter of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, ...

The former US First Lady, Nancy Reagan, says she still sees her husband Ronald, and talks to him. She told Vanity Fair magazine: At night time, if I wake up, I think Ronnie is there, and I start to talk to him... And I see him. Mrs Reagan, 87, also spoke about how much she still missed her husband, ...

Israel's security cabinet is expected to meet Saturday night to declare a cease-fire in Gaza and will keep its forces there in the short term while the next stage of an agreement with Egypt is worked out. "It looks as if all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together," Mark Regev, a spokesman for ...

BAGHDAD8 (AFP) - The Iraqi journalist who became an instant media star for hurling his shoes at US President George W Bush appeared on Wednesday before a judge investigating the incident, his brother said. Muntazer al-Zaidi, 29, a television reporter who relatives and colleagues said acted because ...

LOS ANGELES - US actress Jennifer Aniston, who starred in "Friends" and other comedies, appears naked in a series of photographs that are published on the cover and inside pages of the latest issue of GQ magazine. The 40-year-old Hollywood actress tells the magazine that she feels more comfortable ...

Two mine accidents in different parts of China have killed at least 56 people and left 21 missing, state media said Monday. The official China Daily newspaper said 37 miners were killed in a gas explosion before dawn Sunday at a private mine near Dengfeng city in Henan province in central China. ...

KARACHI - Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Dr Shamshad Akhtar said on Monday that Pakistan was committed to exchange rate stability, however, the central bank was not in businesses of distorting markets by setting one level of exchange rate. She said that the bank's interventions have to be ...