LAHORE - Three people were killed in road mishaps in different parts of the provincial capital, police sources said on Wednesday.A cyclist was crushed to death by a rashly-driven van on Shalimar Link Road. The deceased, identified as Pervaiz, said to be a security guard, was on his way home on the ...

ANKARA : A Turkish F-16 fighter jet crashed in south-eastern Turkey on Monday near the Syrian border, and its pilot is believed to have safely ejected, an army statement said."Radio communication was cut around 2:15 pm (1115 GMT) with the F-16 fighter plane on mission in the Amanos mountains," ...

MOSCOW : A Russian helicopter carrying nine people, including senior rescue service officials, has crashed in the Irkutsk region of southern Siberia, an official said Monday. "Now rescuers have arrived at the scene and are disembarking beside the wreckage of the helicopter," the region's deputy ...

A mother-of-three was killed in a road accident n the Race Course police area on Saturday. The deceased, identified as Sumera Bibi, was standing at a bus stop when a recklessly-driven car ran over her, wounding seriously. The injured Kabirwala resident was rushed to hospital where doctors pronounce ...

BISHKEK : A military plane crashed shortly after taking off from aUnited Statesairbase inKyrgyzstanon Friday, officials said, though there were no immediate reports of any injuries. “According to my information, the plane broke up into three pieces. Information on the dead or wounded is being ...

KABUL : A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time. The plane came down inside the airfield boundaries and rescue crews rushed to the scene, ...

seoul:- AFP A US military helicopter taking part in a joint South Korea-US drill crashed Tuesday near the North Korean border with 21 personnel on board. There were no fatalities. A statement put out by the US Forces in Korea said the CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter had “executed a hard ...

Ten people were killed Wednesday when a rescue helicopter ferrying wounded people from a vehicle accident to hospital hit power lines and crashed to the ground in northeastern Iran, media reported.Those who died included four members of the helicopter crew, five people who had been wounded in the ...

A DRIVER smashed up his £85,000 Ferrari after swerving to avoid a hedgehog.Businessman Joerg Daecher, 53, had been travelling home from work when he saw the creature. But rather than hit the animal, he swerved his Ferrari Testarossa and crashed into a barrier.  Joerg told cops the car ...

INDIAN WELLS  –French Open champion Li Na, playing in her first event since pulling out of the Paris Indoor Open, exited the WTA Indian Wells event Wednesday, losing to 6-4, 6-2 to Angelique Kerber.China's Li, the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam title, suffered her first loss to ...

LAHORE - A teenage trainee pilot and his female instructor were found dead, shortly after a two-seater airplane on a training flight crashed in the porch of a house, situated in the Model Town area on Thursday afternoon, police and rescue workers said.The aircraft, Cessna 152, which belonged to the ...

KABUL (AFP) - Three people died when a civilian helicopter contracted to NATO forces crashed in flames in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province on Monday, officials said.The aircraft had “gone down due to mechanical problems,” said Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial ...

A paraglider had to be rescued this morning after crashing during take-off and becoming stuck in a tree. The man had been freed from the branches uninjured by the time firefighters arrived at the scene in a row of trees at Frocester Hill, near Stroud in Gloucestershire. A Gloucestershire Fire and ...

A US truck driver who won a Lamborghini supercar in a competition crashed it just six hours later. David Dopp, 34, from Santaquin, near Salt Lake City, Utah, now plans to sell the £190,000 Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster.“Yeah, I got it on Saturday and I wrecked it on Saturday,” ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - An Iranian warplane crashed on Saturday in the northwestern city of Tabriz without causing casualties, as the Islamic republic conducts military manoeuvres in the area, media reports said. "An Iranian warplane crashed this morning in Tabriz," Press TV reported. "The pilot managed to ...

DAEGU (AFP) - Yelena Isinbayeva pushed her gamesmanship one step too far on Tuesday and crashed out of the world womens pole vault, a competition won by Brazils Fabiana Murer. Murer, who was fifth at the Berlin worlds in 2009, managed a best of 4.85m, with Germanys Martina Strutz taking silver ...

Since Batmans new flying vehicle was spotted being brought to Pittsburgh last week, The Dark Knight Rises has filmed a lot of scenes featuring the new Batmobile. In new pictures taken from the recent shooting, the vehicle is seen crashing on street while being used in a chase scene. The vehicle ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - The Karachi stock market suffered heavy losses on Friday as foreign investors offloaded their holdings amid a global sell-off, while local investors remained cautious, dealers said. The Karachi Stock Exchanges benchmark 100-share index closed 3.98 per cent or 471.07 points lower ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21 'Bison' fighter aircraft crashed in Anupnagar district in Madhya Pradesh in India on Friday. The crash occurred at around 11.20 am at Anup Nagar, 150 km from Gwalior, an IAF spokesperson quoted as saying by private news channel. "The pilot, ...

A pilotless plane of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Sargodha on Tuesday, a private TV channel reported. The plane was on regular rehearsal and test flights when it fell and crashed due to technical reasons. Security men reached the site and started collecting the pieces of the crashed jet.

PARIS (AFP) Defending champion Roger Federer showed no mercy to Stanislas Wawrinka on Sunday, handing his Olympic gold medal-winning teammate a French Open hiding as Andy Murray made an angry Roland Garros exit. World number one Federer beat close friend Wawrinka 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 and nows faces ...

SHEFFIELD (England) (AFP) Australian Neil Robertson fired in a break of 107 to wrap up a 13-5 win over six-times former champion Steve Davis on Wednesday to reach the world championship semi-finals. Robertson, who had led 12-4 overnight, was briefly delayed after Davis took the opening frame of ...

MELBOURNE (AFP) Kim Clijsters was left reeling from a humiliating Australian Open exit Friday, but fellow Belgian Justine Henin and defending champion Rafael Nadal kept their Grand Slam dreams alive. A hapless Clijsters was hopelessly out of touch as she was thrashed 6-0, 6-1 in just 52 minutes by ...

KARACHI - Pakistan's campaign in rich SangSom six-red Grand Prix snooker ended with the defeat of Muhammad Sajjad in Bangkok at the hands of defending champion Rickey Walden of England by six frames to three on Friday in the knockout second stage of the championship which has attracted a number ...

MIAMI (AFP) - Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka clinched the first major title of her career on Saturday by beating top seed and world number one Serena Williams 6-3, 6-1 in the Miami WTA hardcourt final. Williams, bidding to claim a record sixth title and third in a row, was badly affected ...

FOR couples about to be married here, the global economic crisis has forced the big fat Indian wedding onto a crash diet. Gone are the so-called helicopter grooms of last year's wedding season " the most opulent on record " where in a still-booming economy some husbands-to-be abandoned the ...

KHARAN (PPI) - A US drone crashed in the mountains near Kharan on Sunday. According to details, an unmanned US spy plane crashed in the mountains of Kharan and Washuk near Shamsi airport. The airport is about 120km southwest of Kharan, which is being used by the American forces. The drone ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - World No. 1 Rafael Nadal wasted no time booking his place in the third round, steamrolling Ryler DeHeart while women's top seed Ana Ivanovic became the biggest casualty of the US Open. French qualifier Julie Coin scored one of the most shocking upsets in Grand Slam history ...

SAIPAN  - A US Air Force B-52 bomber has crashed off the coast of Guam in the central Pacific and there was no immediate word on the fate of the six crew members, navy officials said. A brief statement from the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam said the B-52H Stratofortress crashed at ...

LAHORE - Two hundred people have been killed and 84 planes including 19 civil and 65 military crashed since 1912 due to bird-hit incidents across the world, said Chief Operating Officer CAA Allama Iqbal International Airport, Zakawat-ul-Hassan here on Tuesday. He was addressing the participants ...