Karachi - A convoy of Chinese engineers narrowly escaped a bomb attack in Karachi Tuesday.  The low-intensity explosion took place near Shireen Jinnah Colony when the convoy was passing through the red-zone. Police said the bomb, carrying 10 kilos of explosive material, was concealed in a ...

KHYBER AGENCY  :  A bid to blow up a state-run primary school was foiled by defusing an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown militants on Sunday here in Shakas area of tehsil Jamrud, sub-division of Khyber Agency. The sources said that on the information of local ...

TRIPOLI - A bomb exploded Saturday in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car, hours after a soldier was wounded in a bombing in Libya's second city Benghazi. A security source said the homemade bomb, locally known as "gelatina", had been placed near ...

BEIJING  - Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday.Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all the threats. The planes were travelling from ...

KANDAHARA bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said.It was the latest violence since the Taliban launched their annual “spring offensive” on April 27, opening a ...

BENGHAZIA powerful car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi, killing and wounding dozens in what officials said was the first such attack on civilians since Moammar Gaddafi’s ouster.Officials gave contradicting death tolls, however, as information trickled in ...

LONDON: Ever-growing waistlines could result in a big increase in the number of people who develop dementia in the future, researchers have warned. Previous studies have shown that being overweight in middle age increases the odds of developing the mental disorder. Data presented at the European ...

WASHINGTON : Federal authorities have charged a Texas man with illegal possession of bomb making materials, but would not say whether the arrest is linked to a probe into last month’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant.The US Justice Department said in a statement that Bryce Ashley Reed, ...

At least 14 people were killed and several others wounded when a blast hit a political rally here on Saturday.The attack took place in Chattar town of Naseerabad. The bomb targeted the supporters of a local election candidate.The dead and the injured are being shifted to hospital.Security forces ...

Five people sustained injuries when a bomb exploded outside an election office of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Quetta on Friday.According to initial reports, the blast occurred near the Western Bypass.Many vehicles were reportedly damaged in the attack.Police and rescue officials reached the ...

JAKARTA: US rock band Aerosmith has cancelled a concert scheduled this week in Jakarta on safety concerns, a concert promoter said Sunday, following threats to bomb the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital."We received the official confirmation yesterday from the Aerosmith management ...

A car bomb has exploded near a government convoy in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least eight people, officials said on Sunday.A police spokesman told local media that a suicide attacker had driven a car laden with explosives at an armoured government vehicle.According to the same ...

moscowKazakhstan said on Thursday it condemned any form of terrorism and was cooperating with the United States after two of its citizens were charged with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing.Students Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19, were charged by US ...

LONDON: A British businessman was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. James McCormick made an estimated £50 million ($76 million, 59 million euros) from ...

PULI ALAM - A Taliban bomb killed eight Afghan police Thursday in Logar province outside the capital Kabul, officials said, four days after the insurgents started their annual ‘spring offensive’.The members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force were on a joint patrol with Nato-led ...

Karachi - Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan called on President Asif Ali Zardari and discussed with him key issues including the arrangements made for free and transparent elections.According to details, during the meeting held at Bilawal House Karachi on Wednesday, important issues relating to ...

RAWALPINDI - Skyrocketing increase in water charges by the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board has sparked resentment among citizens.The board has issued notification with regard to revised water charges. Water bill per month has been increased from Rs160 to Rs200 in respect of 5 marlas houses, from Rs 240 ...

A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 45 others when he rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday, police said.Two staff at the Afghan consulate were among those killed in the attack, which police said targeted a top civil servant who heads the city's ...

MIRANSHAH - A bomb planted by unknown miscreants destroyed an election office of an independent candidate from NA-40, North Waziristan Agency late Friday night.Unknown miscreants dynamited the election office of Aqal Zaman near Miranshah, headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, However, no human ...

LONDON  - Eleven British Muslims were jailed on Friday for planning an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to carry out a string of bombings that they hoped would rival 9/11 and the 2005 London attacks.The conspiracy involved at least six of the plotters travelling to Pakistan for terror training, with the ...

Islamabad - Law enforcement agencies on Tuesday foiled a bid to assassinate former Army Chief Pervez Musharraf and got hold of a suspected vehicle laden with almost 50-kg of highly explosive material, parked outside Musharraf’s farmhouse.“Yes, police have foiled a bid to bomb ...

LONDON: A British millionaire is facing jail after he was convicted on Tuesday of selling fake bomb detectors toIraqand other countries. James McCormick, 56, was found guilty of three counts of fraud atLondon’s Old Bailey court for selling completely ineffective devices based on an American ...

Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Quetta on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections in the nuclear-armed country, police said.The first attack wounded 13 people near a mosque and a private hospital in Quetta, police said.The bicycle bomb exploded in ...

WASHINGTON   Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, a charge that could result in the death penalty, officials said. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction ...

BOSTONWith the hospitalised Boston bombing suspect unable to speak, attention shifted Sunday to his dead brother, who may have been radicalized or even trained in the Caucasus last year.US lawmakers questioned why Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed in a shootout, did not raise more red flags despite ...

Peshawar - A roadside bomb targeting an army convoy killed four soldiers and wounded another four in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.The blast occurred when a vehicle of the military convoy of security personnel rolled over an improvised explosive device near Khawaja Khar checkpost. The convoy ...

April 12, 2013 has been marked as the International Day for Street Children,’I believe it’s time we started making an effort to solving the many problems faced by these children that we have neglected and forgotten about. A large number of them is roaming the streets, collecting ...

NEW YORKThe second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody in Watertown, Massachusetts, Friday night, police said at the end of a day of intense searching that shut down daily life across a large swath of greater Boston.Meanwhile, American Muslims braced for a backlash after ...

SINGAPORE - A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore over an online threat to bomb several locations in the city-state in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, police said Saturday.The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was arrested on Thursday after posting the ...

LOS ANGELES  - A Los Angeles college campus was evacuated on Thursday after the university received a telephoned bomb threat, but no explosives were found during a search of the campus, police said.Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Commander Andrew Smith said the college made the ...