NEW YORK  - The Australian film “The Rocket” picked up two top honours at the Tribeca Film Awards, winning best narrative feature and best actor for the performance of a non-professional child actor. The film, set in Laos and shot in its native language, was directed by Australian ...

  WASHINGTON BBC A new rocket has launched from theUSeastern seaboard to prove its readiness to help service the International Space Station (ISS). The 40m-tall Antares vehicle lifted clear of the Wallops Flight Facility inVirginiaat 1700 local time (2100 GMT). The apparently flawless ...

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN  - A man was killed and three others wounded when a rocket struck an election rally of an independent candidate in NA-41, South Waziristan on Friday. Reportedly four rockets were fired from the nearby Wacha Khwara Mountains, one of which landed in the area where the rally was ...

KALAT - Unknown men fired rocket on a building housing the office of Election Commission Kalat here on Sunday.Police sources said that unidentified armed men fired rocket from an unknown destination that landed and exploded near the office premises of district Election Commission."Apparently, the ...

QUETTA – Former Balochistan minister and PML-Q leader, Mir Abdul Qadoos Bezinjo, escaped a rocket attack in Awaran district Thursday.Bezinjo was on his way home when armed men fired four rockets from nearby mountains, targeting his convoy. However, Bezinjo and his companions remained unhurt ...

At least seven people‚ including 2 policemen‚ were killed in a rocket attack on Sheikh Muhammadi Grid Station in Badabe‚ Peshawar early Tuesday morning.According to police‚ militants fired 7 rockets on the grid station. 2 people died on the spot‚ while bodies of 5 ...

KABUL - Rockets struck near Kabul’s presidential palace and international airport Tuesday on the 11th anniversary of the Taliban withdrawal from the Afghan capital, killing one and wounding three, police said.The Taliban, ousted by US-led forces following the 9/11 attacks on the United ...

KOUROU, French Guiana - A lightweight rocket aimed at securing Europe a stake in the market to launch small satellites lifted off from Kourou space base on its maiden flight on Monday. Vega, whose development has cost more than a billion dollars, raced into the sky from the launch site in French ...

A mouse that died after it was taped to a firework rocket during Dutch New Year festivities has gone on show in a museum.The rodent, named Astromuis by the Dutch media, has been stuffed and mounted in a "triumphant position" surrounded by firework rockets in Friesland's Natuurmuseum. Astromuis was ...

CONAKRY (AFP) - Guineas newly installed president survived a rocket attack on his residence that left one dead Tuesday and led to the arrest of the coup-prone countrys former army chief. A group of rogue soldiers opened fire on Alpha Condes residence overnight, sparking a two-hour gun battle that ...

There are fears there will soon be a second world missile crisis after it was reported that Iran, who are fierce enemies of Israel, are due to build a mid-range rocket base in Venezuela. According to German paper Die Welt Iran have bought launch pads on the Paraguana Peninsula, and the Middle East ...

China is considering launching rockets from a new site for the next phase of the country's lunar exploration programme because of transportation problems, the programme's top scientist has said. China had launched its second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre ...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is working on a three-stage rocket to carry a satellite 1,000 kilometres (more than 600 miles) into space, Fars news agency reported on Thursday. "The country's scientists are working on a three-stage rocket that will take us to 1,000 kilometres," ...

HANGU - At least four policemen were injured and their van damaged partially when a rocket went off accidentally here on Saturday. According to details, escorted by the personnel of Elite Police Force, a convoy of private oil exploration company 'MoL was on its way to Kotkai area in Hangu district. ...

QUETTA A driver of a truck carrying coal to Punjab was killed and two others sustained severe injuries in a rocket attack in District Loralai here on Sunday. According to police, unidentified miscreants fired a rocket targeting a truck carrying coal to Punjab in Laki area of tehsil Mekthar some ...

NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky. The space agency said it launched the Black Brant XII on Saturday evening to gather data on the highest clouds in the Earths ...

A rocket has been landed in Peshawar flying club, however, no causality was reported. Sources said a rocket fired from unknown location has been landed in Peshawar flying club, adjacent to Peshawar Airport. No damage was reported in the incident. Security put on high alert in the city after rocket ...

North Korea launched a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, drawing swift international condemnation and triggering an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. U.S. President Barack Obama said North Korea, which tested a nuclear device in 2006, had violated U.N. resolutions and increased ...

North Korea has begun fuelling a long-range rocket and could launch it by the weekend, CNN said, with the United States and others promising punishment for a move they say violates U.N. resolutions. North Korea has said it plans to send a satellite into orbit from April 4-8 but the United States, ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea appears to have begun assembling a rocket, which it claims will launch a satellite, a report said Friday, despite US and South Korean warnings to halt what they see as a planned missile test. "It appears that (the North) has begun assembling the rocket on the ground," ...

KOUROU (French Guiana) (AFP) - An Ariane rocket placed two Eutelsat Communications satellites, Hot Bird 9 and W2M, into orbit after blasting off Saturday from Kourou space centre in French Guiana, Arianespace announced. The launch of the rocket, the sixth Ariane this year, took place at 2235 GMT ...

Unknown assailants fired rocket at Peshawar airport, causing, however, no loss to life, sources said. The unknown assailants fired rocket towards the airport which exploded loudly after landing near the runway, but no casualties were reported.  

LONDON (AFP) - European stocks mostly fell on Friday as oil prices shot to record levels, but losses were less than falls on other global markets hit by soaring crude costs and a weak US economy. Concerns are growing among investors that rising energy costs will fuel inflation and lead to higher ...

Two rockets were fired in the city; however, no loss of life was reported in the incident. According to SSP Peshawar Muhammad Imtiaz Shah, first rocket landed in the lawn of an intelligence official's house located on the Mall road in Cant area. The other rocket landed in the house of a WAPDA ...

Unknown miscreants fired a rocket at a police station in Zapda area in Swabi.  According to sources, miscreants fired a rocket at Zapda police station that slightly damaged the wall of a police station but no causality was reported in the incident.  The 11,000 KV power line has been ...