istanbul - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering ways to help small businesses in emerging Europe, including through direct lending, as the region suffers lacklustre growth, its president said on Saturday.The European Central Bank and the International Monetary ...

Pakistan said on Thursday that it considers India's on-going efforts to build ballistic missile system as a destabilizing development.Responding to a question at the weekly news briefing here‚ Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said Pakistan has constantly drawn attention of the ...

DURBAN : Albie Morkel has become the second South African player in the past one week to consider his international career over. In his column for the Times of India, Morkel admitted he does not see the IPL as an opportunity to stake a claim for a national recall. "By all counts I won't play for ...

Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI considered the US its "worst enemy" and Islamabad's cooperation with Washington was just a sham to extract billions of dollars in aid, said the doctor who was jailed for helping the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Shakil ...

ISLAMABAD - Maqbool Malik - The main opposition party PML-N has taken President Asif Ali Zardari’s verbal assault against its top leadership as a result of frustration over PML-N’s growing popularity in Sindh.  Well-placed party sources told TheNation on Friday that President ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) World swimmings governing body FINA said Monday it will consider staging diving competitions in the evening and outdoors after positive feedback at the inaugural Youth Olympics. The womens 10m platform final on Sunday in Singapore was the first time a FINA-sanctioned diving ...

GENEVA (Reuters/AFP) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders should launch investigations of alleged war crimes in Gaza to help rebuild trust and support peace, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday. At the opening of a UN Human Rights Council meeting on the issue, Navi Pillay said ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's embattled prime minister indicated Saturday that he may resign in the wake of fierce anti-government protests earlier this week that left two people dead and hundreds injured. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, who has held the job for little more than three weeks, said ...

PAKISTAN plans to sell valuable energy assets, beginning with a major gas field, as it tries to reap billions of dollars from deals with investors in industries like banking and farming. Shoppers at a government-controlled store in Islamabad last week. Subsidies have helped create a budget ...