LOS ANGELES: After battling grandiose villains and teaming up with other superheroes, it’s back-to-basics for “Iron Man” in the third installment of the multi-million-dollar franchise featuring Robert Downey Jr. “Iron Man 3,” which opens in most of the world this ...

LILLE AFPA late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital, French medical officials said.Christian Nayet, a 60-year-old cancer sufferer from the northern town of Berck-sur-mer, rescued ...

LONDON  - Arsenal staged a magnificent fightback to thrash Tottenham 5-2 in the north London derby on Sunday as Manchester United scrambled a last-gasp 2-1 win over Norwich. Arsenal appeared to be hurtling towards a disastrous home defeat after an early Louis Saha strike and an Emmanuel ...

An 85-year-old woman saved her husband after he was attacked by an agitated moose. Dorothea Taylor came to George Murphy’s rescue by hitting the moose with a shovel.Murphy, 82, is currently recovering in hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, after suffering from gashes to his head and left leg as ...

KUALA LUMPUR  - Malaysian wildlife authorities said Monday they had rescued a pygmy elephant calf on Borneo island and expressed hope a planned sanctuary would provide protection for the endangered animals.The male calf, which is less than a month old, was pulled out of a deep moat surrounding ...

A 26-toed cat is helping an animal rescue centre raise money to relocate to a new building. The orange-and-white tabby, named Daniel, has two extra toes on each paw as a result of a mutation called polydactylism. The Milwaukee Animal Rescue Centre asked for small donations of $26 (17), one dollar ...

A POLISH farmer saved a four-legged duck from the dinner table and welcomed it into his family instead after developing a bond with his quacky new friend. Krzystof Makles initially thought the unusual ugly duckling that was born in his hatchery would die. However, the doting farmer took the ...

KARACHI - DuPont Pakistan Operations (Pvt.) Ltd. under a Community Fund Programme recently upgraded the Capital Development Authority (CDA) FHQs control room in lslamabad. Under this programme, DuPont renovated the CDA fire house and contributed Nomex heat and flame-resistant ...

LAHORE - On the special direction of the Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, the Punjab government has saved Rs 2.80 billion of non-obligatory/non-salary expenditures under the current budget from where the saving could be materialised. A spokesman of provincial Finance Department told ...

COPENHAGEN (AFP) Britain will insist that only the London Olympics really matter, but track cyclings world pacesetters were left trailing for the second day in a row by a rampant Australia Thursday. Australia were shamed into making big changes to the way they run the sport in the wake of their ...

RAWALPINDI - Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) and Allied Hospitals (AHs) Principal Dr Musaddiq Khan has saved his skin in the worst case of Pakistans medical history regarding recruitment of fake doctors in District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital. Sources say bureaucracy in the Health Department at ...

ROME (AFP) - Frenchman David Trezeguet came off the bench to score a late leveller as Juventus narrowly avoided slumping to a first defeat this season in a 2-2 draw at Genoa on Thursday. Hernan Crespo looked to have given Genoa a victory that would have moved them to within a point of the summit, ...

ANNECY (AFP) - Columbia rider Michael Rogers finished well behind the favourites for the Tour de France's 18th stage time trial on Thursday, but said it was all part of the plan. The Australian said he had deliberately held back in order to save some energy for Sunday's final stage into Paris ...

LAHORE (APP) - The proper application of modern combine harvester saves 25 to 30 per cent pre and post harvest crop losses thus improving economic conditions of the farmers. It was observed by Dr. Muhammad Yasin, Director General, (Field), Agriculture Department, Punjab on Monday while witnessing ...

VIENNA (AFP) - Fernando Gonzalez fought off five match points before defeating Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 4-6, 7-6 (13/11), 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Austrian Open on Wednesday. The number two seed from Chile, who the day before had needed 138 minutes to dispose of Simone Bolelli, was ...

THE pet, named Rabbit, alerted Gerry and Michelle Finn to the danger by scratching furiously on their bedroom door. Mr Finn, who had returned home from a night shift half an hour earlier and gone straight to bed, was woken by the sound. When he opened the bedroom door to investigate he ...

PARIS  - Two years after Pluto was struck from the planetary A-list and downgraded to "dwarf-planet" status, the ninth rock from the Sun regained some dignity Thursday by lending its name to a new category of celestial bodies. In a revised taxonomy of the mainly lifeless objects circling ...

Working tirelessly amid the mangled mess of steel and concrete in what was the town of Beichuan, Liu Wenbo has helped save 700 people. But not his wife. Before Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake tore apart this valley town in southwestern China, the 34-year-old was a tea salesman. Starting Tuesday, ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian woman raced into the water and dragged to safety a swimmer who was being attacked by a large shark which had already removed "huge chunks" from his leg, reports said Sunday. Joanne Lucas heard swimmer Jason Cull's cries for help as she arrived at Middleton Beach in ...