Some 58 Afghan refugees are still missing after the boat taking them to Australia sank in Indonesian waters, while 14 have been rescued by local fishermen, a rescue official said Saturday.The boat, which was believed to carry 72 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, sank in waters off Indonesia's Sunda ...

BIRMINGHAM - Carlos Tevez kept Manchester City's slim hopes of retaining the Premier League title alive as he earned Manchester City a 1-0 victory which left Aston Villa still rooted in the relegation zone on Monday.Tevez punished Ciaran Clark's calamitous mistake in first-half added time at Villa ...

A boat packed with refugees bound for Saudi Arabia sunk off the Sudanese coast, killing 197 people, Sudanese media linked to the government said on Tuesday. Only three people were rescued, the state-linked news agency Sudanese Media Center said, quoting officials in Port Sudan. A fire broke out ...

Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said. Search operations were called off after nightfall for the unknown number of passengers still missing. A second ferry was ...

An overloaded sightseeing boat carrying dozens of Bulgarian tourists sank Saturday in a lake on Macedonia's western border, and 15 people drowned, officials said. The vessel, called the Ilinden, sank rapidly in just six meters (20 feet) of water in Lake Ohrid, police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said. ...

At least 10 people died when a boat carrying mostly Bulgarian tourists sank on Lake Ohrid in southwest Macedonia on Saturday, the government said. The Iliden, was carrying at least 50 passengers when it sank at around 11 am (1500 PST), said a police source who declined to be named. No reason was ...

A Ukrainian ship sank early Saturday off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast in bad weather, and all the crew members were still missing, the Bulgarian transport ministry said. Only an empty lifeboat had been found at the scene off Cape Emine where the 5,000-tonne Tolstoy went down, the ministry said. The ...

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), like other segments of the society, also seems severely rocked by the break up of the ruling political alliance, as the KSE-100 index down by 384 points and pegged at 9431. The market today opened in an extremely pensive environment, as the KSE like others in the ...

Rupee value Monday dropped by 60/ 80 paisa in the inter-bank market. Money market dealers said that  the inter-bank market had closed at Rs69 for 1 dollar, while this increasing trend in the value of dollar spurred by importers buying dollars persisted even today, which during the trading was ...