DUBAI Reuters Iran test-fired a new land-to-sea ballistic missile in the Gulf, a senior official said on Tuesday, days before an annual ceremony meant to showcase its military muscle at a time of rising tension with the West over its nuclear activity. Israel has publicly warned of possible air ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia  - A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air - which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes -- missed the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landed in the sea but everybody on board survived.The Boeing jet carrying more than 100 passengers missed the ...

CARACAS (AFP) - A huge line of Venezuelans filed past the remains of late President Hugo Chavez on Thursday, crying, making the sign of the cross and giving military salutes as an era ended and uncertain elections loomed in the oil-rich nation.Chavez lay in state in a half-open casket in the ...

SYDNEY’s iconic Bondi Beach resembled a scene from a horror movie after algae turned the sea blood red.Patches of the red algae, a natural phenomenon that can be exacerbated by certain weather conditions, were sighted between Bondi Beach and Maroubra Beach. Both Bondi Beach and Clovelly Beach ...

KARACHI  - The sea pollution was continuously increasing with the passage of time.This was stated by former Director General of the National Institute of Oceanography, Dr Shaukat Hayat.He was delivering a lecture on global warming and impact of sea level rise here on Friday at the Federal Urdu ...

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan has vowed to throw the PML-N’s politics of ‘hypocrisy’ and PPP’s corruption in the sea during the next elections, saying both the parties have made the people fool and plundered national wealth.He was talking to a delegation of PTI ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish kite surfer Jan Lisewski fought off repeated shark attacks, overcame thirst and exhaustion in a two-day battle of survival on the Red Sea, Polish media reported on Tuesday.The 42-year-old Lisewski had completed two thirds of a 200 km (124 miles) attempt to cross the Red ...

KARACHI - In this modern age of technology, there are places where the basic necessity of potable water is not available and Sindh coastal villages are one of them. Residents of a remote village Ali Muhammad Jat, located 22km away from coastal town Gharo, Thatta district now feel themselves the ...

The Caspian Sea is an inland body of water bordered by Russia, Iran, and three former republics of the USSR: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. In the immediate area as well are the former Soviet lands of Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.  All of these old SSRs are, to one ...

PARIS - The ocean’s deepest volcanic vents, kilometres below the surface, are teeming with life forms never before seen that thrive near super-hot underwater geysers, according to a new study.Eyeless shrimps and white-tentacled anemones were photographed bunched around cracks in the ocean ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Improved fishing nets have saved tens of thousands of endangered sea turtles in recent years, but 4,600 are still dying annually, mainly in Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawls, said a US study on Wednesday. Turtle-excluder devices (TEDs), or large holes that allow the creatures to ...

THE fishermen thought they were in the middle of the classic horror movie The Fog when they saw this amazing cloud form on the horizon. They had been fishing in the English Channel when a huge cigar-shaped cloud suddenly appeared miles in front of them. The mile-long bank of cloud rolled silently ...

ISLAMABAD - As the deadline for devolution of the last batch of ministries to the provinces is approaching the government was in a fix what to do with the brigade of ministers and how to appease the ever-demanding coalition partners. The legal and constitutional experts in Pakistan Peoples Party ...

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama insists that US forces buried Osama bin Ladens remains at sea with more care than thousands those desecrated by the Al-Qaeda leader. We took more care on this than, obviously, bin Laden took when he killed 3,000 people. He didnt have much regard for how they were ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Islam is opposed to burials at sea, a spokesman for Al-Azhar, the top Sunni Muslim authority, said on Monday after US officials said Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been given a watery grave. If it is true that the body was thrown into the sea, then Islam is totally against that, ...

HANOI (AFP) - Southeast Asian leaders called Friday for vital road, sea and air links to be built more quickly to speed economic recovery and boost the regions competitiveness. In a statement at the close of a two-day summit, they also pledged greater efforts in the development of information and ...

MUMBAI There has been speculation about Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram and actress Sushmita Sen ever since they hosted a reality show together on television around two years ago. At that time Akrams marriage to Huma was going strong. But after her untimely demise in October last year, the ...

KARACHI - Federal Minister Ports and Shipping Babar Khan Ghouri has said the S3 project is to be started on fast track basis besides some other major initiatives to curb sea pollution. He said this while giving a briefing to the media after the 2nd meeting of Marine Pollution Control Board (MPCB), ...

OCEANOGRAPHERS using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. Jason, designed and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the National Deep Submergence ...

THE fossilised skull of a colossal sea monster has been unearthed along the UKs Jurassic Coast. The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull is 2.4m long, and experts say it could belong to one of the largest pliosaurs ever found: ...

KARACHI - Meteorological Department on Wednesday advised fishermen not to enter the deep-sea water during next 24 to 48 hours as sea flood has entered various localities of fishermen. The localities included Ketti Bandar of Thatta, Kharo chaan, Kalka Channi, and other Goths of district Thatt, the ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - More than 100,000 protesters rallied in Bangkok Wednesday in their biggest bid yet to topple Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva, deepening Thailands political crisis days before it hosts a key Asian summit. Demonstrators wearing signature red shirts massed outside the house of a top royal ...

SCIENTISTS have found proof in Bermuda that the planet's sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now. Storrs Olson, research zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and geologist Paul Hearty of the Bald Head Island ...

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Romania and Ukraine hailed a ruling by the UN's highest court Tuesday defining their border on the Black Sea, ending a decades-old spat over a maritime area said to contain oil and gas. In a unanimous verdict, the International Court of Justice in The Hague marked a border more or ...

PARIS (AFP) - Scientists unveiled Sunday the first direct evidence that massive floods deep below Antarctica's ice cover are accelerating the flow of glaciers into the sea. How quickly these huge bodies of ice slide off the Antarctic and Greenland land masses into the ocean help determine the ...

DHAKA (Agencies) - A three-day technical-level meeting between Bangladesh and India over delimitation of their maritime boundary centring the Bay of Bengal ended here Wednesday without reaching any disagreement as both sides were rigid on their stance on disputed issues, but they described the ...

PARIS  - Researchers say they have figured out why sea turtles that normally feed and breed in shallow water or on land will, very rarely, go deep sea diving: the reptiles are on reconnaissance. Scientists have long puzzled over why leatherbacks are built to plumb the icy depths. Imagine ...