HOLLYWOOD: Iron Man 3 has grossed over $1 billion. The Marvel Studios sequel has become the 16th film in history to pass the milestone, reports ComicBook.com. As of Friday, the film had earned $311,404,000 in the US and $698,900,000 globally for a grand total of $1,010,304,000. Four of the 16 films ...

Lahore - Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani Saturday met with incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif here at their Model Town residence.General Kayani, who arrived in his private car without a formal protocol, spent about three hours with Sharif brothers and had ...

SIALKOTThe unexpected results of the May 11 general elections have put a question mark on the political future of Sialkot’s political big guns including PPP’s Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, PTI’s Chaudhry Ameer Hussain, Muhammad Ajmal Cheema and Muhammad Akmal Cheema.They all were ...

NEW YORK ): The US dollar rose for a third straight session against the yen on Monday and looked set to make another run at the 100 yen level after last week’s surprisingly strong U.S. jobs data rekindled optimism about the U.S. economy. The euro slipped against the dollar after data ...

lahore - Market rallied 300 points ahead of general elections to close above 19,200 points mark for the first time ever. Also, multi-year low CPI and huge foreign inflow due to buying by Unilever Pakistan investors also had a positive impact on the sentiment. FFC, MCB, Lucky and PPL remained in ...

PARIS : Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to mark Socialist President Francois Hollande’s first year in office by accusing him of turning his back on the left. On the eve of the anniversary of his May 6 win last year over right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy, the ...

TOKYO: Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Sunday ledJapan’s first state-backed ceremony to mark the return of its sovereignty in 1952 following its defeat in World War II. The move may be regarded warily by neighbouringChinaandSouth Koreawhich are suspicious of signs of rising nationalism ...

LAHORE  - The Punjab University Main Library will celebrate World Book Day today (Monday) and various activities have been scheduled. In a press statement issued on Sunday, Chief Librarian Chaudhry Hanif said at the Main Library “Preservation and Conservation Section” and ...

lahore - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has announced that cumulative global sales of its hybrid vehicles topped the 5 million unit mark as of March 31, 2013, reaching 5.125 million units.Positioning response to environmental issues as a management priority and based on its belief that ...

RAMALLAH - Some 3,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails on Wednesday refused breakfast as part of a one-day hunger strike to mark Prisoners’ Day, an Israeli prison official said.Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the ...

New York (GN)Mark Zuckerberg has appeared in an advert for the new Facebook Home app. The ad shows a Facebook engineer distracted by a screaming goat and a friend playing squash as he plays with the new Android-only app during Zuckerberg’s ‘Launch Day’ speech. “Guys, this is ...

ISLAMABAD  – Shifa International Hospital on Sunday organized a hiking trip on Trail 3 to mark the World Health Day, highlighting this years theme `High Blood Pressure.’ Many doctors, citizens and their families participated enthusiastically in this activity to promote healthy ...

ISLAMABAD-American lobbyist Mark Siegel has said that he is ready to record his statement in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on January 5 as a prosecution witness in Benazir Bhutto assassination case, TheNation learnt.An officer of FIA's Counter Terrorism Wing (CTW) said Wednesday that Siegel ...

RAWALPINDI – An anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued a notice to an American journalist, Mark Segal, directing him to appear before it as a prosecution witness against former president and retired general Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. Along with Segal, former ...

PESHAWAR - The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Standing Committee on ‘Banking and FDIs’ has proposed lowering markup rates on export refinancing and suggested that commercial banks should extend soft-loans to war-affected business community for economic development and ...

LAHORE - Farooq Iftikhar Saturday was elected LCCI new president, Irfan Iqbal Sheikh senior vice president while Mian Abuzar Shad as vice president.  According to LCCI election schedule, September 22 was last date for filing of nominations for LCCI office-bearers for year 2012-13 and no other ...

 Federal Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira on Monday said that the PPP government always implemented judicial orders and his party would also carry out the directives of Supreme Court even if they were against it. Talking to media on the premises of the Supreme Court, Qamar Zaman ...

SILVERSTONE - Mark Webber claimed the ninth win of his career on Sunday when he swept to a dramatic and perfectly-judged victory in an incident-filled British Grand Prix. In a race run in welcome, if rare, dry conditions, the 35-year-old Australian steered his Red Bull through 52 laps of complex ...

ACTOR Mark Wahlberg munched on 10 meals a day in a bid to bulk up for his new movie Pain And Gain. The star, who plays bodybuilder Daniel Lugo in the upcoming film, followed a 24-hour plan and even woke up at various times throughout the night to get his latest food fix and drink his ...

ACTOR Mark Wahlberg is returning to school later this month to study for his high school diploma.The Fighter star quit his studies at the age of 13 and, after a stint behind bars for assault, he became a model and pop star before making it in Hollywood.Last year, the Massachusetts-born Wahlberg ...

MARK Ruffalo has signed a six-movie Hulk contract.The Avengers actor is now tied in to appear in five further Marvel Studios films.Ruffalo revealed the news during an interview with Collider, opening up about how impressed he was when he first received the Avengers script and how it grew even ...

STOCKHOLM - Russia's Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva set a new indoor pole vault world record on Thursday with a clearance of 5.01m. The 29-year-old had held the previous best of five metres set in Donetsk in February 2009. Isinbayeva, who also holds the outdoor world record of 5.06m set in ...

LAHORE  - The Bank of Khyber (BoK) assets reached Rs.68 billion as of 31st December 2011. This was stated by Bilal Mustafa, Managing Director BoK, while inaugurating BoK Annual Manager’s Conference-2012.The Annual Manager’s conference 2012 was held to review the operational ...

BENGHAZI, Libya - Libyans celebrated on Friday the first anniversary of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi with fireworks and slogans, even as their new leader vowed to prevent further instability.Thousands gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square in Benghazi, the city which first rose against ...

CAIRO  - Student activists held strikes in Egypt on Saturday to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an increasingly unpopular and defiant military in charge.The call for strikes in universities and work places comes after a series of protests pressuring the military to ...

WASHINGTON - Facebook’s chief operating officer made more than $30.5 million last year, more than 20 times what founder Mark Zuckerberg earned as the CEO of the social networking giant, company IPO filings Wednesday showed.The filings with the Security and Exchange Commission give ...

TUNIS - Tunisians Saturday marked the first anniversary of the revolution that started the "Arab Spring" with celebrations that were true to the spirit of the revolt: raucous, unscripted, and driven by the energy of ordinary people. Thousands of people flooded into Bourguiba Avenue in the center of ...

TUNIS - Thousands of Tunisians Saturday turned out in central Tunis to demand jobs and dignity as the north African country marked a year to the day since its despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile.“Work, freedom and dignity”, “Work is a right”, and “We will ...

ISLAMABAD - The escape of former Indus Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah to a foreign country despite his name was put on the Exit Control List (ECL) has raised questions on the significance of ECL that is managed and updated by the Interior Ministry and the performance of FIA’s ...

LAHORE – A colorful reception at Expo Center greeted Moin Khan, a young motorcyclist and student of San Francisco University, who traveled from the United States to Lahore, covering a distance of over 20,000 miles in six months.The courageous young man was welcomed by Chief Minister Shahbaz ...