BIRMINGHAM - Frank Lampard scored twice to become Chelsea's outright record goalscorer as Rafael Benitez's team fought back to beat Aston Villa 2-1 on Saturday and effectively ensure Champions League football next season. A hugely entertaining and eventful contest at Villa Park saw Paul Lambert's ...

BIRMINGHAM - Christian Benteke scored a second-half hat-trick as Aston Villa thrashed Sunderland 6-1 on Monday to give themselves real hope of avoiding relegation from the English Premier League. Victory saw Villa pull five points clear of the drop zone with three games left to play.FA Cup ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - There are severe differences and infighting among the candidates of two major political parties - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) over the award of party tickets in some constituencies of district. Although the ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - There are severe differences and infighting among the candidates of two major political parties - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) over the award of party tickets in some constituencies of district. Although the ...

JAIPUR  - Indian security forces claimed on Monday they had found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera sparking alarm near the country’s highly militarised border with Pakistan. The carcass was discovered near the ancient fort city of Jaisalmer in the far west of the desert state of ...

RAWALINDI - Police on Friday hardly managed to open the blocked Benazir Bhutto Road (BBH) for traffic by dispersing the agitating students and family members, demanding arrest of two assailants by placing the dead body of the student on the road who was shot dead at Rahmanabad on Thursday ...

ISLAMABAD – The mistreatment of the female students taking graduation examination, especially those who wear full-face veils, has sparked unrest among them, as they were forced to remove the veils by the examination supervisory staff and the Punjab University inspectors for an identity ...

 ROME  - Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday set the tone for his election campaign saying nobody should care about bond spreads and accusing Prime Minister Mario Monti of being "German-centric", prompting dismay and warnings against populism from Berlin."Who cares about the spread?" the ...

At least five persons were injured and two vehicles set ablaze in violence that erupted in Orangi Town after killing of a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activist.According to details, unknown armed men gunned a PPP activist identified as Salam Behari after which violence gripped the Orangi ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Transport owners and drivers strongly condemned the 650 percent increase in fines for violating a traffic regulation by the Punjab government. The owners and drivers of rickshaws, cars and other public transports and their unions termed the increase cruel and unjustified. The ...

LONDON - A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry.With the prospect of future conflicts between armies controlling weapons ...

A CHILDREN’S story by James Joyce has been published for the first time by a small press in Dublin.However the Zurich James Joyce Foundation has called its publication an “outrage”, saying it had not granted permission for the book’s release.The Cats of Copenhagen was ...

INDIA has condemned a comment by US comedian Jay Leno on the Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar.A Leno skit showed the temple as the summer home of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Romney has faced taxation questions over his huge wealth and many Sikhs are angry the temple has ...

Halle Berry has sparked rumours she’s set to make Olivier Martinez her third husband after she was spotted sporting an emerald ring on her wedding finger. The Oscar winner has been dating the French hunk after meeting him on the set of her upcoming film Dark Tide last year, and now the pair ...

QUETTA - A strike was observed in Harnai Friday to protest against the killing of three drivers and an official in the district. The strike call was given by PkMAP, which was supported by other parties, including ANP and JUI. Kidnappers killed three drivers in Harnai while armed men shot dead ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Pororo, South Koreas friendly blue cartoon penguin beloved by children worldwide, has become the subject of a paternity suit in the land of his birth. Ocon Animation Studio said Wednesday it has brought a case in a local court against its partner Iconix Entertainment, accusing Iconix ...

MADRID (AFP) - Lionel Messi grabbed a hat-trick as Barcelona responded emphatically to questions over their motivation by demolishing Osasuna 8-0 in a staggering display of attacking football at Camp Nou on Saturday. Messi scored his first goal after just five minutes as the Spanish and European ...

QUETTA - On the call of Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), local doctors observed strike in all the government hospitals in provincial capital on Wednesday to protest against the brutal murder of one of their colleagues. Kidnappers abducted Dr Mumtaz Haider Naqvi from Sabzaal Road on March 28 and ...

A PET tortoise started a fire in a New York apartment after crawling out of its tank and knocking over a heat lamp. Giovani, a six-year-old African tortoise was unharmed, but one firefighter and three police officers suffered smoke inhalation during the fire in Brooklyn. The reptile tipped over his ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Thousands of Bangladeshis protested on Saturday against the removal of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the top post at Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded. Protesters, mostly Grameen Bank borrowers, held hands to form human chains, carried placards and banners demanding ...

TORONTO (AFP) Colorados Macoumba Kandji fired a shot that produced an over-time own goal in the 107th minute and gave the Rapids a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas in Sundays Major League Soccer Cup final. The Senegalese forward eluded a defender near the backline to the left of Dallas goalkeeper Kevin ...

In early November, thousands of Haitians rallied for President Jean-Bertrand Aristides return and presidential hopeful Jean-Henry Ceant in the November 28 elections, one rigged by banning 14 political parties, including Fanmi Lavalas, by far the most popular. Ceant founded Aimer Haiti (Love ...

CUTTACK (India) (AFP) Ravindra Jadeja led a disciplined spin attack with a career-best 4-32 as India dismissed Sri Lanka for 239 after a blazing start in the third one-day international here on Monday. Sri Lanka were strongly placed at 165-1 in the 23rd over after electing to bat in the day-night ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indias plan to carve a new state out of southern Andhra Pradesh on Friday sparked statehood demands in other parts of Asias third largest economy in a new challenge to the Congress party-led government. The government said on Thursday that it would push for the formation of a ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - A row broke out between Israel and the European Union Tuesday over a draft EU proposal that east Jerusalem should become the capital of a future Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace deal. At the heart of the diplomatic spat is a suggestion by the Swedish EU president ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkeys President Abdullah Gul accused the European Union on Friday of interfering after the bloc asked Ankara to reconsider a decision to invite indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir to an Islamic summit. The exchange underscores the risk for EU candidate Turkey that ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Around 20 Muslim protesters hurled abuse at far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders as he arrived for a meeting in parliament on Friday, forcing him to take refuge in a nearby building. Wilders, who faces prosecution in his homeland for anti-Islam remarks, came to London after winning ...

AFTER a string of disastrous relationship with famous actors, it looks like Sienna Miller may have changed her type of man. The actress, 27, set tongues wagging when she left a charity karaoke party with Irish comedian Patrick Kielty, 38. The unlikely couple were spotted leaving the Cafe de Paris ...

AMRITSAR (AFP/Reuters) - Two protesters were killed in India on Monday as mobs went on the rampage after a guru was shot dead in fighting between rival Sikh communities in Austria, police said. The two men were killed in separate incidents when police opened fire to disperse angry crowds who ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Much better-than-expected US industrial orders data boosted markets Wednesday, offering another ray of hope that the stricken US economy could finally be steadying after months of turmoil. Orders for durable goods in February jumped 3.4 percent, marking the first gain in six ...