Lahore - Three more measles patients died at a Lahore hospital on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 59 in the provincial capital. So far 85 children have died of measles in the province. Muhammad Haris, 2, a resident of Chungi Amar Sadhu, Zoya, 2, of Ferozepur Road, and Muhammad Babar, 1, of ...

KATHMANDU - A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world’s highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday. “Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday,” an official with ...

WASHINGTON/MOOREA huge tornado cut a devastating path in suburban Oklahoma City Monday, slamming schools, a hospital, businesses and homes, and killing at least 24 people.The Oklahoma chief medical examiner's office previously said there were at least 51 confirmed deaths, according to television ...

ISTANBUL : Two Brazilian tourists died Monday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials said.The accident occurred over Cappadocia's sculpted rock formations when one balloon collided with the basket of another balloon above and ...

Three more children died of measles on Monday, bringing overall death toll from the outbreak in Punjab to 90.The deceased children who passed away were under treatment in Children Hospital Lahore.Some 9,000 children are affected by measles in Punjab, forcing the provincial health authorities to ...

LAHORE  - Two more measles patient died at a Lahore hospital on Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the provincial capital City to 50. So far 75 children have died of measles in the province. On May 9, authorities claimed to have achieved the target fixed for nine-day anti-measles campaign ...

Our very own Lahore Development Authority that is responsible for taking care of the standard of buildings had one of the deadliest fires erupting. On May 11, this building saw another fire, this time twenty five people lost their lives. Who can we blame? This authority has to keep a check on other ...

NORTH WAZIRISTAN :- At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast which ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. Nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately. However, reports said the explosion took place near a passenger coach ...

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s make-up artist warned in the 1990s that the star could die due to his drug addiction, she testified Friday, adding that people were initially lying after his 2009 death. Karen Faye, who worked for the self-styled King of Pop for 27 years, said she voiced concern ...

At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast which ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.Nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately.However, reports said the explosion took place near a passenger coach in Miranshah town, ...

BAMAKO: Suicide bombers targeted troops in two towns in war-torn northernMalion Friday, leaving five of the attackers dead and two Malian soldiers wounded, military sources said. The first attack was against soldiers from neighbouringNigerstationed in Menaka, a Saharan desert commune 300 kilometres ...

ISLAMABAD - Cervical cancer kills an estimated 7,311 women in Pakistan annually.More women die of cervical cancer in India than anywhere in the world. India along with China, Brazil, Bangladesh and Nigeria represent over 50 per cent of the global burden of cervical cancer deaths. However, African ...

Lahore - Seven people were killed and 26 others suffered burns when a fire broke out at the 7th floor of the 13-storey LDA Plaza on Edgerton Road due to short-circuit on Thursday.Three men were suffocated to death and four others battered to death – three of them jumped out of the burning ...

LAHORE - The Punjab and Sindh lawmen in a joint operation killed three gangsters during an encounter, which also left two policemen dead in the Kahna area on Wednesday night. A police constable was admitted to a hospital with multiple bullet injuries, where his condition was reported to be ...

NEW DELHI More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis.India accounts for 29 percent of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the ...

The spell of violence and firing incidents continued overnight in the metropolis, as at least three more people were gunned down.According to details, some unidentified miscreants resorted to indiscriminate firing in Jumma Goth’s Bengali Para in the remit of Bin Qasim Police Station, where ...

DHAKAHundreds of thousands of Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving four people dead in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Sunday, police said.Chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!") and "One point, One demand: Atheists must ...

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 ...

The Taliban-linked militancy and violent incidents claimed the lives of nine soldiers from the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a single day on Saturday, turning the day into the bloodiest one since January this year for the alliance stationed in the conflict-ridden ...

KHARTOUM More than 60 people were killed when a desert gold mine collapsed in an area of Sudan’s Darfur where hundreds died in fighting over the precious commodity in January-February, the district chief said Thursday.It was not known how many people may still be missing after Monday’s ...

HOLLYWOOD: The latest installment of action movie, Die Hard 6 will be called Die Hardest, it has been revealed, as film bosses have hired a screenwriter to work on the treatment. The action superstar, Bruce Willis, recently confirmed on The One Show that there would be a new installment after the ...

Despite Rangers and police operation in Karachi, violence continued in the metropolis, claiming three lives on Wednesday.Police said a tortured body was found from Gulshan-e-Sikandar in Kemari Town and another from Phool Chowk in Kharadar area. The deceased were not identified. Rescue sources said ...

KARACHI - Six more people, including a policeman, were gunned down in various violent incidents here on Saturday.A policeman was shot dead in the remits of Iqbal Market police station.Police said that Sub-Inspector Sohrab Ali Abro left home to drop his eight-year-old daughter Asfa to School when ...

CHARSADDA/NOWSHERA/KARAK/MARDAN - Militants continued targeting election offices and campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday and killed at least two people and wounded over a dozen in attacks in different parts of the province.One person was killed and 12 wounded in an explosion outside the ...

KARACHI - At least three people lost their lives in various rain-hit incidents in the metropolis Monday.A man namely Danish lost his life as the wall of his house caved in due to heavy rain in Nazimabad area. Similarly, a woman identified Najma Zahid died of electrocution. In another incident, a ...

LAHORE - Two more patients lost their lives at a local hospital on Tuesday, taking the death toll in Lahore to 23. So far 45 children have died because of measles in Punjab. Jannat, 2, a resident of Mufti Road Islampura and Abdullah, 6 months, of Ghaziabad breathed their last at Children’s ...

Peshawar/Quetta - Terrorists attacked election campaign of two major political parties – PML-N and ANP – on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people. In the first strike during the day, four people, including the son, brother and nephew of PML-N Balochistan President Nawab Sanaullah Zehri ...

RAWALPINDI - A couple died and legs of a little child fractured while two other young boys got injured in separate traffic incidents, police informed.In the first incident that took place near Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Sunday late night, a man namely Amjad Mughal along with his wife Kiran ...

SIALKOT - Three minor children, two daughters and a son of a labourer, were killed while the fourth one sustained serious injuries when roof the house, they had gone to attend a wedding, was collapsed here in suburban Khokhar-Kingra village here on Sunday.Reportedly, the family of labourer Muhammad ...

SIALKOT - Three minor children, two daughters and a son of a labourer, were killed while the fourth one sustained serious injuries when roof the house, they had gone to attend a wedding, was collapsed here in suburban Khokhar-Kingra village here on Sunday.Reportedly, the family of labourer Muhammad ...