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 ...

LONDON - World oil prices slid Wednesday on weak Chinese and US economic data and ahead of the latest weekly snapshot of energy inventories in the United States. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in June fell 80 cents to stand at $101.57 a barrel in London midday deals. New York's main contract, ...

NEW YORK - Gold fell more than 2 percent on Wednesday, the biggest daily drop since its historic decline in mid-April, as investors sold off a range of commodities, and caution prevailed ahead of a policy statement by the Federal Reserve. Silver dropped 4 percent and platinum group metals fell 2 ...

  LONDON   Emmerson Boyce scored a desperate last-minute own goal as Tottenham Hotspur snatched a 2-2 draw at Wigan Athletic on Saturday that prevented the home side from climbing out of the Premier League relegation zone. A stunning goal from Callum McManaman had looked set to ...

LAHORE - Aas many as 102 more patients were brought to different hospitals on Sunday. Out of these new cases, 20 were reported from Children’s Hospital, 15 from Mayo Hospital and 67 from other public sector and private hospitals in the City. So far 32 measles patients have lost their lives at ...

AUGUSTA - Tiger Woods avoided possible disqualification from the Masters on Saturday when he was assessed a two-stroke penalty for taking an improper drop during Friday's second round.The world number one, a hot favorite at Augusta National where he is a four-times champion, earned his reprieve ...

NEW DELHI  - India's selectors on Saturday left out dashing batsman Virender Sehwag from a 30-man preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy in England in June.Seasoned off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and veteran seamer Zaheer Khan were also missing from the list, which has to be shortened to 15 ...

India's selectors on Saturday left out dashing batsman Virender Sehwag from a 30-man preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy in England in June.Seasoned off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and veteran seamer Zaheer Khan were also missing from the list, which has to be shortened to 15 players a month ...

LONDON - A former British defence minister stunned peers on Friday by suggesting that a neutron bomb could be used to create a ‘cordon sanitaire’ in troubled border regions like the one between Afghanistan and Pakistan, reported a private TV channel.During debate in House of Lords on ...

WELLINGTON  - New Zealand on Monday have dropped seamer Tim Southee from the 14-man squad for the second Test against South Africa in Hamilton. Southee, who conceded 140 runs without taking a wicket in the drawn first Test, was replaced by Mark Gillespie, with leg-spinner Tarun Nethula also ...

LAHORE – Jurists in the City have said that decision on the contempt matter against the Prime Minster should not be protracted as the issue is keeping the nation on the edge besides putting a question mark on the office of the PM after his indictment in NRO issue. “Most of the facts ...

NAIROBI Ireland cricket selectors have left wicket-keeper Niall O'Brien out of the side going to Kenya as he was not available for the entire duration of the tour, owing to his commitments in the Bangladesh Premier League.  The Irish squad arrived here Thursday for a four-day Intercontinental ...

WASHINGTON - A leading Muslim advocacy organisation Monday joined a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan ex-servicemen, in asking the US Military Academy at West Point to retract an invitation to a retired American general, who is known for his anti-Islam, to speak to cadets during a national prayer ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gold prices will fall below $1,500 an ounce over the next three months and are unlikely to retest Septembers all-time highs until later 2012 at the earliest, according to a Reuters poll of 20 hedge fund managers, economists and traders. The bleak forecast, coming after gold has ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is expecting that India is likely to drop its strong opposition on Eurperon Unions trade concessions granted for Islamabad during the upcoming trade talks between two countries to be held in last week of ongoing month (September), it has been learnt on ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling on the United Nations to demonstrate its support next week for regional peace talks by removing more than 20 Taliban leaders from its blacklist and creating new distinctions between the isolated Afghan leaders and Qaeda terrorists. With backing from the US ...

The way the West deals with the Libyan President is disgusting. Whilst Western leaders followed one another to insist upon, and emphasise the necessity and importance of President Mubarak stepping down instantly, the same leaders have remained completely silent with regards to Colonel Gaddafi, or ...

DO you want to slip in your favourite outfit but that extra tummy bulge stopping you from doing so? Dont worry because researchers have now come up with a remedy. A diet drug that helps women drop two dress sizes in six months could be available in just three years. The jab has produced ...

BRISBANE (Australia) (AFP) - Australian paceman Mitchell Johnson has lost his confidence and must be dropped for this weeks second Ashes Test in Adelaide, former captain Ian Chappell said on Tuesday. Johnson, 29, went wicketless for 170 runs for the first time in his 39 Tests, made a duck and ...

BOLTON (England) (AFP) Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson was thrilled to record his first back-to-back Premier League victories as Maxi Rodriguezs late strike proved to be the difference at the Reebok Stadium on Sunday. In a generally underwhelming encounter, Rodriguez latched on to a decent pass from ...

ISLAMABAD Supreme Court Friday warned the environmental agencies both federal and Punjab that it would not allow a single drop of sewerage water to flow into Rawal Lake from where water is supplied to the residents of Rawalpindi. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry heading a three-member ...

LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices dipped below 77 dollars on Thursday when trading was dampened by falling stock markets and persistent worries about the global economic outlook, analysts said. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in September sank 86 cents to 76.78 dollars a barrel in early afternoon ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran is to stop all trade and oil exports in dollars and euros in retaliation against Western sanctions over its nuclear programme, a top official was quoted as saying Tuesday. We are going to remove dollar and euro from our foreign currency basket and replace them with (Iranian) ...

KARACHI - In continuation of PN flood relief efforts in Sindh, Pakistan Navy helicopters have dropped 2,500 kilogrammes of relief goods and ration in Kashmore and Ghotki areas. Two PN trucks have also been dispatched to Sukkur which carried additional equipment including 6 Zulu boats, 200 tents, ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinas banking regulator has confirmed it asked banks to conduct stress tests on property sector loans, but said the move did not signal any policy changes, boosting market confidence on Friday. Earlier media reports suggested that regulators had ordered lenders to test the possible ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US home foreclosures have dropped for the first time in four years as the economy recovered from a brutal recession triggered by a mortgage meltdown, a real estate data company said Thursday. Foreclosure filings default notices, auctions and bank repossessions were reported on ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Money sent home by Latin American emigrants fell seven percent in the first quarter, in a slowdown on the freefall seen last year, the head of the Inter-American Development Bank said on Thursday. Remittances received in the region between January and March totaled $13.8b, some ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Global trade last year suffered its biggest collapse since World War II, an unprecedented 12 percent drop according to new figures, with worrying signs suggesting 2010 threatens only mediocre recovery. World trade has also been a casualty of the crisis, contracting in volume by ...

LAHORE The legal fraternity at large has applauded drop scene of the constitutional conflict between the executive and the judiciary over the disputed presidential notifications with timely intervention of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Calm prevailed in all groups of lawyers on hearing the ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Oil prices extended gains from a larger-than-expected drop in US energy stockpiles and an intense cold snap in the United States, the worlds biggest energy consumer. New Yorks main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in February, rose 1.38 dollars to 78.05 ...