LONDON - New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori could return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury. Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of ...

NEW YORK  - A rush-hour collision between two commuter trains in a suburb north of New York City Friday injured 60 passengers, five of them seriously.A spokesman for the Metro North commuter train line said the incident involved a train headed into the city and one traveling in the opposite ...

LONDON - BBC - Singer George Michael has been airlifted to hospital with a head injury following a crash on the M1.The former Wham! star, 49, remains in hospital after the crash at junction 6A, near St Albans, Hertfordshire. A spokesman for Michael confirmed he had been involved in an accident on ...

HONG KONG : Over 60 people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong’s light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.Groups of passengers sat dazed on the pavement near where the train derailed, some bleeding and being treated by ...

At least twelve persons were killed and dozens other injured when two blasts hit two mosques in Malakand before the Friday prayers.According to Levies sources, twin blasts hit mosques in Bazdara Bala area of Malakand Agency where 12 persons were killed and 25 others wounded.The bodies and injured ...

CORDENONS - Spanish rider Angel Vicioso, injured in a fall on the ninth stage of the Tour of Italy, will take no further part in the race, his team, Katusha, announced on Monday. The 36-year-old former Giro stage winner suffered three broken ribs, a wrist fracture, a damaged left shoulder and ...

MINCHINABAD Six supporters of the PML-N including a woman sustained critical injuries in a clash between the workers of two political parties. The incident happened at Mungopura and Hasal Sarho polling stations in PP-277and NA-188 constituency of Tehsil Minchinabad. The polling process was ...

HAFIZABAD/ RAJANPUR/MANDI BAHAUDDINTwo persons including a woman were killed and 25 others injured separate mishaps occurred in different parts here on Saturday.According to detail, a woman was killed while three others including two minor children were seriously injured when the roof of their ...

rawalpindi - Four political workers sustained severe injuries during firing and stone pelting between two political groups - PML-N and PTI - in election related violence at Benazir Bhutto Road (BBR) here on Saturday.The injured were immediately shifted to Holy Family Hospital (HFH) by Rescue 1122 ...

rawalpindiAs many as 3 people were injured when clashes broke out between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers outside a polling station in Dhoke Mangtal here on Saturday.Some eyewitnesses told The Nation that the enraged political workers also resorted ...

A Taliban bomb attack targeting an election candidate killed at least 11 people and wounded 36 others in Karachi as polls got under way Saturday, a doctor said.The bomb targeted a candidate seeking election to the Sindh provincial assembly for the Awami National Party (ANP), the main secular party ...

A bomb attack targeting female voters in Peshawar wounded eight people as historic elections got underway, according to police."The bomb was planted on a motorcycle. Several people including police have been injured. The motorcycle was parked outside a women's polling station," Shafiullah Khan, a ...

CAPE TOWN - South African Test captain Graeme Smith will miss the ICC Champions Trophy in England in June because of an ankle injury, Cricket South Africa announced Thursday. A replacement has yet to be named. Smith will return to South Africa after scans in London Wednesday revealed a stress ...

LAHORE -Pakistan Tehrik Insaf Chairman Imran Khan will not be able to vote in landmark elections on Saturday as his doctors insist he needs to stay in hospital.Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital CEO Dr Faisal Sultan said on Thursday that Imran Khan was shifted to the ward and his health was ...

A motorbike bomb close to party political offices killed four people and wounded 15 in a town in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest Friday, on the eve of the country's general election.The bomb went off in the main bazaar of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan district, a security ...

QUETTA/SWAVI - The residence of PML-N candidate and former federal minister Zubida Jalal was attacked with hand grenade in Kech district on Tuesday while two power pylons were exploded near Sibi and a school was exploded in Kohlu.Unidentified armed men hurled a hand grenade at the house of PML-N ...

QUETTA - BARI BALOCH - At least ten people were wounded when militants hurled hand-grenades at the PML-N and National Party offices in Kharan and Machh areas Sunday.According to police, unidentified people hurled a hand-grenade at the election office of Lt-General (retired) Abdul Qadir Baloch, a ...

A bomb tore through a political rally Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 56 in one of the deadliest attacks on the campaign for Pakistan's historic elections on Saturday.The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying its target had been a lawmaker elected as an independent but allied to ...

orakzai agency - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) candidate from NA-39, Orakzai Agency, survived an attack when a roadside bomb on Saturday exploded near his vehicle in Hangu district.JI candidate Raj Muhammad, who is trying his luck from NA-39, was on his way to Ferozekhel area of Orakzai Agency from Hangu ...

MADRID - Barcelona were able to welcome back Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets to training on Saturday morning after they missed the 3-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in midweek, but Victor Valdes has been ruled out of Sunday's match with Real Betis due to plantar fasciitis in his left foot. "Leo Messi ...

KARACHI/QUETTA - A blast near an election office of Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Karachi left at least eight people wounded on Thursday evening. Many workers and supporters of MQM were present at the election office at the time of the blast. DIG (South) Ameer Shaikh said an explosive device was ...

KINGSTON- Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has been ruled out of Saturday's Jamaica International meeting because of a slight hamstring strain, his agent said Tuesday. The 100 and 200 metres world record holder felt tightness in training and in consultation with Coach Glen Mills decided ...

GABORONE,Botswana: Botswana's President Ian Khama has received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, a government spokesman said Monday. The incident occurred at a Botswana Defence Force barracks last week, spokesman Jeff Ramsay told AFP. "He was scratched by a cheetah last ...

Two bomb attacks Sunday targeting the offices of election candidates in northwest Pakistan killed at least eight people, officials said, the latest bloodshed ahead of polls next month.Violence has marred the campaign for the landmark May 11 general election, with more than 50 people dead in blasts ...

WASHINGTON - Hackers spooked markets Tuesday after breaking into the Associated Press’s Twitter account and falsely reporting President Barack Obama had been injured after two blasts at the White House.A brief alert on the news agency’s @AP account read: “Breaking: Two explosions ...

A car bomb blasted the embassy of France in Tripoli early Tuesday, injuring two French guards and causing serious damage to the building, embassy and Libyan sources said.An AFP correspondent at the site said the wall surrounding the property was destroyed and the embassy building extensively ...

A convoy of security forces was ambushed with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Miraali area of North Waziristan Sunday, killing four security personnel and injuring four others.Military officials said the roadside bomb exploded on Bannu-Miranshah road in North Waziristan tribal agency, ...

A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 71 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.The earthquake occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) ...

At least five people were killed and several others injured in a suicide blast outside District Headquarters Hospital in Bajaur Agency on Saturday.Assistant Political Agent of the area confirmed that it was a suicide attack."The suicide attacker was a woman who detonated the bomb outside the main ...

At least 33 people died and 10 others were injured early Sunday after a bus plunged 200 meters (650 feet) down a ravine in northern Peru, police said.The bus with the Horna company veered off a mountain road near the town of Otuzco some 570 kilometers (350 miles) north of Lima. Authorities blamed ...