ISLAMABAD - It's no secret that smoking increases the risk of heart disease, but now a new study suggests that puffing on cigarettes also raises the risk of sudden cardiac death in people who already have heart disease. But for people who are able to kick the habit, the increased risk of sudden ...

ROME : An Italian 28-year-old man beat his mother to death in the bathroom of their house on Saturday during a furious row sparked by her refusal to fetch him a glass of water, Italian media reported. Ciro Ciccarelli, who has struggled for years with a drug habit and had a tempestuous relationship ...

SHEIKHUPURAA newborn baby and an 11-year-old boy died in DHQ Hospital due to the alleged negligence of doctors on duty here the other day.According to details, a woman namely Sumaira Bibi was admitted to DHQ Hospital Gynaecology Ward with labour pain where she gave birth to a child. The child, ...

RAJANPUR The Jamaat-i-Islami observed the death anniversary of former MNA Dr Nazir Ahmed here the other day. On the occasion, former local JI Ameer Hakeem Allah Yar Rehmani, Dr Hafeez Ahmadani, journalist Abdul Ghafoor Qureshi, former city nazim KR Kamal Akhtar and Maulana Ghulam Qasim paid great ...

Texas: A man is dead and a woman is facing murder charges for a bizarre stabbing incident in Texas - the suspected murder weapon is a stiletto shoe.Police in Houston say the suspect, 44-year-old Ana Lilia Trujillo, used one of the pointy-heeled shoes to stab the 59-year-old victim in a high-rise ...

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the death of seven Georgia soldiers in Thursday's suicide attack that rocked the troubled Helmand province 555 km south of Afghan capital Kabul, bringing the alliance fatalities to 81 so far this year, 13 of them in June."Seven ...

An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Friday awarded death sentence to Shahrukh Jatoi, the central accused in Shahzeb murder case, and his accomplice Siraj Talpur.Lawyer and family members of Shahrukh Jatoi have decided to challenge the decision in High Court.Shahzeb, the only son of DSP Orangzeb, ...

Farid Khan Orakzai’s victory as a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa MPA on May 11 was both incredible and shortlived. His win as an independent in the election had started with his filing his nomination papers with only Rs 100 in his pocket, and like other independents, he had joined the leading party, in ...

The heart rending news of the death of 16 school children in an inferno, the picture of the shouts and pain of the children keeps reverberating in my mind. How does a nation let something like this go on without taking any notice of it? There is no hue and cry, is it because they were children from ...

Given the expectations of negotiations, the drone attack that killed Waliur Rehman, may have nipped the idea in the bud. The second-in-command to the TTP top leader Hakimullah Mehsud, died in North Waziristan on Wednesday. Reports put Wali in a different category from the other Pakistani Taliban; ...

FAISALABADAn exporters association has strongly criticised the four-day a week gas suspension for the industries in Punjab province and said the gas suspension will toll the death-knell for the export industry.PTEA Chairman Mr Asghar Ali said that the Association had already urged the government to ...

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) confirmed to media on Thursday that the deputy leader of the militant organisation, Waliur Rehman, was killed in a US-led drone strike on Wednesday and further announced that the talks with the government stood suspended.TTP also announced that the killing would ...

SHEIKHUPURATwo minor girls died in THQ Hospital Muridke due to measles here on Sunday. According to details, two minor girls - four-year-old Maria Nawaz and five-year-old Mehwish died of measles in Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Muridke where they were admitted few days ago. The bereaved parents ...

SHEIKHUPURA - Two minor girls died in THQ Hospital Muridke due to measles here on Sunday. According to details, two minor girls - four-year-old Maria Nawaz and five-year-old Mehwish died of measles in Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Muridke where they were admitted few days ago. The bereaved parents ...

A teenage boy was crushed to death by a rashly driven car when he was crossing the main boulevard Gulberg, police said on Thursday. The 16-year-old boy, unidentified so far, sustained serious injuries after a recklessly-driven vehicle ran over him near Hafeez Center on the main boulevard. The teen ...

LAHORE - A teenage boy stabbed his mother to death at their rented house in the Gulshan-e-Ravi police limits on Wednesday. The killer had escaped when the police reached the spot. The body was removed to the morgue for autopsy. Police said 16-year-old Hashim Ali repeatedly stabbed his mother ...

KARACHI - Five people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence here on Wednesday.A dismembered body of an MQM activist was found from a house in Chisti Nagar, Orangi Town in the remits of Iqbal Market police station. The body was found after people reported police about stink emitting ...

WASHINGTON: A US appeals court ruled Tuesday that the federal government is not required to release photos that were taken of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden after he was killed by special forces.The Al-Qaeda leader was slain at his Pakistani compound in May 2011 by US Navy SEAL commandos, who took ...

SHEIKHUPURAA dacoity accused was allegedly tortured to death by the CIA Ferozewala Police here the other day. According to reports, CIA Police Sub-Inspector Talat Mehmood along with six subordinates picked up Waris from his house on suspicion of a dacoity some days back. Reportedly during ...

LOS ANGELES (ES): - Chris Brown has received death threats. The R&B singer's lawyer Mark Geragos has asked the Los Angeles Police Department to investigate several anonymous calls made to his office, which he believes could pose a serious danger to the singer's safety. TMZ claims Mark ...

LAHORE  - Sunstroke can cause instant death during the scorching summers if preventive measures are not adopted. Principal Khawaja Safdar Medical College Prof Dr.Zafar Ali Chaudhary told APP here on Sunday that sun stroke occurs due to failure of body's heat regulating mechanism and men ...

JAKARTA  - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East ...

lahore -  The Punjab government on Friday formed a one-man inquiry tribunal to ascertain the facts linked with the death of Indian terrorist, Sarabjit Singh. Lahore High Court Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi is the head of the tribunal which will commence its proceedings at the LHC principal ...

KUALA LUMPUR  - A court on Thursday sentenced a Malaysian couple to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian maid to death, one of many such abuse cases straining ties between the country and its neighbours.Hardware store owners Soh Chew Tong, 44, and his wife Chin Chui Ling, 42, were ...

          QUETTA Death toll in Sunday's deadly suicide attack near residence of Balochistan Police chief in Quetta has reached eight as one of the 97 wounded succumbed to his injuries at a military hospital here on Monday. Seven people were killed and 97 wounded late Sunday ...

LOS ANGELES: Miley Cyrus has urged her fans not to send death threats to other female pop stars after she revealed she is regularly bombarded with hateful messages. The 20-year-old singer took to her Twitter page last night to let off some steam, adding that she is friends with Selena Gomez and ...

I did not know that there was no difference between a spy and a terrorist, but the recent reports in media, on Sarabjeet Singh’s death, revealed that a spy could be called a terrorist and a terrorist could be called a spy. According to my knowledge, a spy is a person who secretly collects and ...

DHAKA - The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose to 1,125 on Sunday after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck. Senior government official Zillur Chowdhury told AFP that the death toll in one of the world's ...

FORT HOOD,Texas: A military judge on Thursday again denied a request from accusedFortHoodgunman Army Major Nidal Hasan to remove the death penalty as a punishment option in his forthcoming court-martial on charges of killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage. At a pre-trial hearing, judge ...

    MARJORIE COHN More than 100 of the 166 detainees atGuantanamoare starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around the waist,” Fayiz Al-Kandari told his ...