FLORIDA SN - A Burmese python measuring nearly 19ft has been captured in South Florida. About 3ft of the 18ft 8in (569cm) snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside brush on May 11 by Jason Leon and some friends, as they drove late at night through a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade ...

CANNESA blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Monday, with critics savaging a “risible” parade of cliches.Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike unveiled “Shield of Straw” (Wara No Tate) ...

BEIJING : China has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest market for personal computers, according to a market data report.  Research by the consultants IHS said PC shipments to the country rose to 69 million units in 2012. The US was the largest market up until 2011. Last year, it had ...

LOS ANGELES: Iron Man 3 has stormed to the top of theUSbox office, scoring the second biggest opening weekend of all time. The third instalment of the Marvel superhero franchise took $175.3m in ticket sales. It failed to beat the $207.4m record set by The Avengers last year but the impressive ...

NEW YORK - Gold fell more than 2 percent on Wednesday, the biggest daily drop since its historic decline in mid-April, as investors sold off a range of commodities, and caution prevailed ahead of a policy statement by the Federal Reserve. Silver dropped 4 percent and platinum group metals fell 2 ...

LONDON DM - It is possibly the most well-known colour code of them all - pink for a girl, blue for a boy. So when the Duchess of Cambridge revealed she had bought a pram in light blue, Royal watchers wondered excitedly if she had dropped the biggest clue yet to the sex of her unborn child.Kate - ...

Linda Heard The 19-year-old alleged Boston bomber, currently in hospital, unable to speak due to a bullet that penetrated his throat, is an enigma. The US authorities appear certain that he dropped his rucksack containing an explosive pressure cooker designed to kill and injure marathon runners and ...

LAHORE - German Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Cyrill Jean Nunn Pakistan has said that Germany is the biggest supporter of GSP Plus status to Pakistan and hopefully Pakistan would get the status once the legal formalities are complete.  The Ambassador was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce ...

LAHORE – Any action against former president Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 is beyond the mandate of the caretaker government, and the Election Commission of Pakistan is in a better position to deal with the matter, the caretaker minister for law said on Saturday.In an interview to ...

Samsung unveiled the biggest smartphone to date - the Galaxy Mega, which features a 6.3in (16cm) screen, the BBC reported. The firm suggested its size made it ideal for watching videos or running two apps alongside each other. Samsung helped popularise the so-called "phablet" category, in which ...

LONDON - The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history, reported BBC on Wednesday.A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks flooding core infrastructure. It is having an ...

PARIS - The world's biggest food company, Swiss-based Nestle, and the world's top beef producer, JBS of Brazil, were Tuesday the latest in a long list of firms to be caught up in Europe's spiralling horsemeat scandal.Their involvement in the fast-moving drama marked another milestone in a scandal ...

NEW YORK  - The first flurries fell Friday over New England in what was forecasted to be an intense snow storm with white-out conditions, fierce winds and significant travel snarl-ups over the next 24 hours. The National Weather Service predicted "a major winter storm with blizzard conditions" ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has said corruption is the biggest problem of Pakistan, as it is rampant everywhere and every level eating away the foundations of the country.Addressing a public meeting at the ground of high school in Khipro, district Sanghar, PTI chief said he has ...

HELLO Kitty has millions of fans around the world, but none are more in love with Sanrio’s iconic character than Asako Kanda.The 39-year-old receptionist from Japan has amassed a fantastic collection of over 4,500 Hello Kitty items.Like many other girls of her generation, Asako’s ...

NAWABSHAH  – The biggest house robbery in the history of Nawabshah, the hometown of President Asif Ali Zardari, took place the other day, as a gang of five armed bandits decamped with gold ornaments, cash, mobile phones and other valuables worth Rs.15 million from the bungalow of Hindu ...

AN Indian school with 45,000 pupils, 2,500 teachers and 1,000 classrooms has been named the world’s biggest by Guinness World Records.The City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow had 39,437 pupils registered in the 2010-2011 academic year, but bosses say enrolment numbers have already risen ...

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh’s anti-corruption agency on Thursday filed charges against 27 top bankers and business leaders in the country’s biggest-ever banking scandal, officials said. The embezzlement of 16 billion taka ($192 million) is alleged to have taken place through Sonali Bank, ...

MILAN - A shopping centre near Milan is claiming an unusual record - the biggest vertical garden in the world, covering a surface of 1,263 square metres (13,600 square feet) with a total of 44,000 plants. The huge garden, which was inaugurated in 2010 but was only certified as a record this week, ...

The 16-foot (4.9-meter) replica of an egyptian king is the biggest lego structure ever created, with 200,000 individual pieces and a weight of more than one ton.–DA

JAKARTA  - Indonesian authorities have made their biggest ecstasy bust in 10 years, seizing more than one million pills with a street value estimated at $45 million, officials and reports said Tuesday. The drugs were found in a shipping container from China, a spokesman for the National ...

ROME (Reuters) - Shoppers can buy a half-tonne box of pasta from Thursday at supermarkets in Turkey, but not in the world’s spaghetti capital of Italy.Too heavy and too big for the shopping trolley, delivery is included in the price.Italy’s Barilla, the world’s biggest pasta ...

THE biggest pink diamond ever sold is set to be auctioned next month - and is expected to fetch over $8 million (£4.9 million). According to auction house Christie’s, the Martian Pink, a 12.04-carat pink diamond, is the largest ever to hit the auction market. The gem is staggeringly ...

Meet the world’s biggest Easter bunny, Darius the enormous Continental Giant, who weighs a whopping three-and-a-half stone and is 4ft 4in. Darius, aged three, munches through an incredible 12 carrots a day to keep up his strength and fuel his amazing growth spurt.He already held the title of ...

LAHORE - A giant group of 1300 students will attempt to paint world’s largest canvas here on March 23 at National Hockey Stadium to mark the Pakistan Day celebrations in a unique way. Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Mashood Ahmad said this while addressing a news conference here on ...

LAHORE - In a startling survey of 100 fastest growing entrepreneurial, non-listed Pakistani companies, 82 percent of these private companies plan to start other businesses and will set up 140 new companies in next two years. With an accumulative $1.42 billion sales revenue in 2010 and an average ...

LAHORE – Newly-appointed Chief of the Punjab Police, Haji Habib-ur-Rehman has revealed that abductions of high-profile personalities and business tycoons by militants for huge ransoms have emerged as the biggest challenge for the department in the recent years. “After terrorism, ...

The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, a 27-pounder (12.25 kg) nicknamed “Rocky” with claws tough enough to snap a man’s arm, was released back into the ocean on Thursday after being trapped in a shrimp net last week, marine officials said. The 40-inch (one-meter) male ...

LONDON (Reuters) Gold prices were on course for their biggest monthly rise since August on Tuesday, supported by a weaker dollar and raising the possibility of a climb toward last year's record high of just over $1,900 per ounce. Sentiment for gold at the end of January compares starkly with late ...

If global politics had an annual awards show, the segment devoted to eulogising those statesmen we lost in 2011 would be long and impressive. From deposed international despots to sexually reckless US politicians who were forced to leave the political sphere, it was a bad year to get caught on the ...