LONDON - Defending champions Australia will have to put David Warner's bar brawl controversy and questions surrounding their team culture behind them when they take on Sri Lanka in their final league fixture here on Monday to decide the last of the remaining ICC Champions Trophy semifinal places.It ...

BIRMINGHAM - Handed defeats in their respective tournament-openers, Pakistan and South Africa would be fighting to stay alive in the ICC Champions Trophy when they take on each other in their second group B match on Monday.While Pakistan lost their opening match to the West Indies in a low-scoring ...

LOS ANGELES: The sixth “Fast & Furious” action movie raced past comedy sequel “The Hangover Part III” to lead US and Canadian box office charts through Sunday, putting the film on track to claim victory for the US Memorial Day weekend.“Fast & Furious 6,” ...

  NEW DELHI: Social stigma is harming attempts to combat cervical cancer in India where more women die annually of the disease than anywhere else in the world, a new report said Friday. More than a quarter of cervical cancer deaths worldwide occur in India, representing 72,825 a year according ...

WAH CANTT  - A tough electoral battle is in the making between PML-N and PTI candidates in NA-53, Taxila-Wah Cantt, which is presenting a different look this time.  It is a sure-enough battle of nerves in NA-53 having all the ingredients of either shattering the PML-N popularity ...

Lahore - Doctors have advised Imran Khan bed rest, yet the PTI is maintaining an ambitious plan for the party chief’s address to the final rally in Islamabad Thursday (today). It is learnt that Imran himself has an ardent desire to lead the concluding rally ahead of elections. He received ...

KATHMANDU: An 82-year-old Nepalese man who holds the world record for being the oldest person to summit Mount Everest will defend his title against a familiar octogenarian competitor, organisers said Thursday. Min Bahadur Sherchan’s record for scaling the world’s highest peak at 76 is ...

MURREE/ATTOCK - Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has stated that battle is now between what he called 'Noon' (PML-N) and 'Junoon' in the upcoming elections.Addressing a public gathering here on Monday, he said President Asif Ali Zardari has now prepared his son to run the party who does ...

 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) head Imran Khan has predicted a battle between what he described between ‘Noon’ (PML N) and ‘Junoon’ in the upcoming elections on May 11.Addressing a public gathering here in Murree on Monday, he urged the youth to come forward and be ...

LONDON- Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech believes the battle for a place in next season's Champions League will not be resolved until the final day of the season. Cech and hisChelseateam-mates faceSwanseaatStamfordBridgeon Sunday looking to bounce back after dropping two points following Luis Suarez's ...

Islamabad - The powerful old political rivals Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan from PML-N and Ghulam Sarwar Khan from PTI are locked in intense neck and neck electoral battle to clinch NA-53 (Rawalpindi IV) slot where number of registered voters has increased from 291,549 in 2002 to 376,874 in 2013.Ch Nisar ...

LONDON: Jade Goody’s mum has vowed to fight a £1million tax demand which will bankrupt her tragic daughter’s legacy.The Big Brother star left the money for her boys Bobby Jack, now nine, and Freddie, eight, before she died of cancer in 2009 aged 27. But the crippling bill means ...

KLUSHAN: Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers Monday as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwestChinathat has left at least 192 dead. Huge boulders blocked rescue vehicles along roads leading to some of the worst-hit areas, and some areas ...

SIALKOTThe electioneering reached at fever pitch as rival candidates are flexing muscles diligently wooing voters to muster their support across the district. The candidates and their supports are also utilising social media as a tool to disseminate their message. The contesting candidates belong ...

ARIFWALA Political campaigns have been started by the parties' and independent ones as they are holding public gatherings and corner meetings here to woo the voters. In Arifwala tehsil, 29 candidates submitted their nomination papers for National Assembly constituency NA-166, 24 for PP-230 and 29 ...

HARARE Zimbabwe and Bangladesh begin Test cricket's basement battle on Wednesday as the two teams look to measure their personal progress in a two-match series.Although Zimbabwe have never lost a Test on home soil against Bangladesh, and beat them by 130 runs when the two sides last faced off in ...

KARACHI Interesting electoral contests are expected in Khairpur, Tharparkar, Ghotki and Dadu districts as four former Sindh chief ministers Qaim Ali Shah, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Sardar Ali Muhammad Mehar and Liaquat Jatoi have thrown their hats into the provincial ring - eying to regain the chief ...

MULTAN - The PML-N has finally started issuing tickets to its candidates from different constituencies of Multan as the names of final candidates from four out of six national assembly and nine out of 13 provincial assembly constituencies have been announced, The Nation has learnt.Sources disclosed ...

DUBLIN (AFP) - Europe’s biggest countries gained ground Saturday in their bid to recover some of the one trillion euros lost each year to tax fraud and money laundering, despite hold-out Austria railing against government “snooping” into bank accounts.After a first day of talks ...

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N's battle of nerves with religio-political and other factions to strike seat-to-seat adjustment is reaching new highs with each passing day, as the party has still not been able to thrash out an adjustment formula with any big political party across the country.The former ...

PESHAWAR - The battle for key heights in Tirah valley intensified on Monday as Jet fighters and gunship helicopters pounded militant positions.Military sources told a media organization of that they have reports 30 security forces have so far been killed along with 97 militants.Scores of militants ...

Chairman of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Imran Khan has that there would be tough competition in general elections adding that it would be a decisive battle for a new Pakistan.While addressing a special ceremony on Saturday after taking oath from  youngsters of Change Volunteer program  Imran ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek on Sunday briefed President Asif Ali Zardari on legal aspects of the proposed Bahawalpur Janoobi Punjab (BJP) province and the legal vetting of the bill which is likely to be tabled before the National Assembly on Tuesday (tomorrow). Earlier, ...

LAHORE – A war between the old and new faces of PTI has begun over Lahore for intra-party polls, scheduled to be held the next month.It has been learnt that the contestants have been flexing their muscles in the run for Lahore crown, deemed as the political castle. Some old members said on ...

MQM announced a referendum to seek public opinion on Quaid-i-Azam‘s Pakistan and Taliban’s Pakistan. MQM has been an ideological challenger to Taliban’s ideological onslaught for the last few years. Taliban on the other hand have openly challenged the legitimacy of Pakistani ...

No single institution can decide on any national issues all on its own. The COAS has to go along with his team of generals while taking or making a decision as does the Chief Justice of Pakistan who has to consult his team of judges. The Prime Minister has to go along with his cabinet. Instead of ...

WASHINGTON  - Whenever his presidency ends, Barack Obama’s legacy will be historic: posterity will know him as the first black president of a nation scarred at birth by a deep racial fault line.But for Obama partisans, the hope of re-election lies in the idea that only with a full eight ...

A battle for the soul of Pakistan is raging in the country. Arrayed on one side are the forces of obscurantism, backwardness and intolerance, which would like to take Pakistan back to the medieval ages. They are opposed by progressive forces, which favour enlightenment, moderation, tolerance and ...

KARACHI - Declaring the PPP as traitor of Sindh, the nationalist leaders on Monday said that the ruling party showed its real face by adopting the controversial and anti-Sindh Local Government system.This announcement was made by the leaders of Sindh Save Committee comprising of nationalists, ...

At the time when the world economy is passing through the worse stage of its history, tension is raising between two Asian economic giants, China and Japan. Asian stocks fell sharply after the growing tension between China and Japan and added further worries in Europe. Japan has already closed ...