CHARLESTON, S Carolina: ‘American Idol’ winner Candice Glover, whose powerful voice clinched the title of the popular TV singing show, comes from a sea island culture made up of descendants of West African slaves. “I speak another language,” she said during the Fox TV show. ...

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 ...

LAHORE - The City received rain on Tuesday with experts predicting mainly hot and dry weather and dust raising winds during the next 24 hours. Strong winds started blowing in the wee hours that followed by showers, making weather pleasant in the morning by causing considerable decrease in the ...

LONDON: A life-size statue of Amy Winehouse will be erected outside a North London music venue near her former home.Proposals for the bronze tribute to the late singer have been given the green light by Town Hall planners to enable it to be put up on a first floor balcony outside the Roundhouse in ...

LAHORE - Prolonged power cuts continue disrupting life. People have been crying for power while authorities have been dragging feet over the matter. Punjab is the worst hit province where urban areas have been facing up to 14-hour loadshedding while rural areas have been experiencing up to 16-hour ...

This is the first government in the history of Pakistan that has completed its five year term and now the caretaker government is ruling. Often times we have seen the same corrupt people returning to the local government as well as federal. Many parties are giving tickets to candidates they know ...

LAHORE - Already suspicious of Lesco’s mischief, I just took two toasts Thursday morning and set my fingers at the keyboard with my standby tea cup on the table. I had just started browsing the Internet to help assemble bits for an idea I was working on to improve these new LIFE pages when an ...

With the increasing population, democracy is getting difficult to manage even in advanced countries. Hundred percent transparency and fairness during elections is not practically achievable especially in developing countries like Pakistan, but we, as a nation, should expect May 2013 election to be ...

PESHAWAR  - The Meteorological Office here Sunday forecast light rain with snowfall over the hills of Malkand division, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during next 24 hours.According to met office, the light rain was expected on mountains of Malam Jabba, Kalam and Madyan areas of Swat Valley also ...

KARACHI  - The Met Office has forecast partly cloudy/cloudy weather with chances of light rain in Karachi on Friday with maximum temperature ranging between 31-33 degrees centigrade.   Rain/thunderstorm at isolated places has been forecast for Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, and dry weather for ...

LAHORE – The City remained in the grip of muggy weather on Wednesday with experts predicting dust thunderstorm / light rain during the next 24 hours. Though the mercury dropped slightly due to cloudiness, high humidity made the weather sultry, causing the Lahorites to sweat profusely. On ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that spreading the light of education is the only way to resolve the challenges facing the country. He said the present government took solid and practical measures for generalising of education at all levels along with ...

The City received light drizzle on Monday with experts predicting cloudy weather and more rains during the next 24 hours.  Patches of clouds, light rain and winds enhanced chill in the weather during the day and at the night time.  According to the experts, a westerly wave is moving ...

LAHORE – Punjab Text Book Board Chairman Izhar Ahmed Sheikh has said that we can make an ideal society by following the teachings of the Holy Prophet (SAWW) as His every act is a beacon of light for us. He was addressing a Mehfil-e-Milad held by PTB Milad Committee on Wednesday. The chairman ...

Light painter David Gilliver has created his own psychedelic version of the Olympic rings. He spent £10,000 and 250 nights over the last three years creating incredible images at night on the island of Guernsey. Light painting is a technique which involves taking photographs with a camera ...

Action against spurious drug producers started in the light of UK laboratory report: ShahbazPunjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said action against fake drug producers had been kicked off in the light of a British laboratory report received by the government.“The laboratory has ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new experiment appears to provide further evidence that Einstein may have been wrong when he laid down that nothing could go faster than the speed of light, a theory that underpins modern thinking on how the universe works. The new evidence, challenging a dogma of science that ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain will press on with plans to expand its network of nuclear power stations, a minister said Tuesday, after a report on the Fukushima disaster found no grounds to restrict the use of reactors here. A final report on the lessons that Britains nuclear industry could learn from the ...

LAHORE: On behalf of leading hair and skin care brand Garnier, acclaimed television personality and actress Juggun Kazim invited the media to an exclusive press meet in celebration of the launch of the Garnier Light SPF 15 Cream on Friday at Pace Shopping Mall, Link Road. Garnier spokesperson ...

While the average hardware store light bulb lasts only 1,000 hours, this bright bulb has lasted 110 years... proving once again that they 'dont make them like they used to. On June 18, the worlds oldest-known working light bulb reaches another milestone, and will begin its 110th year of operation. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The City received light rain on Friday afternoon, providing some respite to the Lahorites from the heat wave persisting for the last 2-3 days. Light rain, overcast conditions and strong winds caused considerable decrease in the mercury level, bringing pleasant change in ...

LAHORE- Sayings and teachings of saint Hazrat Data Gunj Buksh are a message of light and peace for the human beings as suffering humanity is getting a gift of love and religious passion from the teachings of Hazrat Ali Hajveri (RA). Staff Reporter

KAVEH L AFRASIABI The two-day marathon talks between Iran and the Iran Six nations in Istanbul has been wrongly misinterpreted by Western media as a total failure, following the premature expressions of disappointment by the European Unions foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton. For sure, the ...

LAHORE After giving rainfall in the coastal areas of Balochistan, the westerly wave is likely to cause light rain in parts of the province including the City on Wednesday night, the meteorological experts say. The prevailing rain giving system is likely to affect parts of the country during the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Faiz Ahmed Faiz has brought revolutionary changes to the way poetry was written, combining socio-political messages and revolutionary ideas with the sweetness of Urdu language. His poetry was like a beacon of light for the oppressed segments of the society and the voice of the poor ...

SCHWERIN (Germany) (AFP) Germanys Juergen Braehmer just retained his WBO light heavyweight crown overnight Saturday in scoring a points victory over Russian Dmitry Sukhotsky. Braehmer, making his first defence, had to go to the wire in the eastern city of Schwerin to see off Sukhotsky. The ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an accused top Al-Qaeda operative and self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, claimed to have lied under torture by the CIA, according to government transcripts released Monday. "I just make up stories," he said in broken English, telling a ...

KARACHI - Federal Science and Technology Minister Azam Khan Sawati on Thursday said that solar energy is to bring in revolution in the country and the industries and chambers of commerce are customers of his ministry. He was addressing a gathering at Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industries on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Nomad Art Gallery here Tuesday opened an exhibition of collagraphs, paper works, and light boxes by Ilona Yusuf. The artist has displayed 20 works in a variety of art pieces based on innovative mediums as a way of expression. Collagraph is a method of printing whereby one ...

THE phenomenon of light emission by living organisms, bioluminescence, is quite common, especially in marine species. It is known that light is generated by chemical reactions in which oxygen molecules play an important part. In the animal world, these chemical reactions take place in special ...