MONTE CARLO Rafael Nadal made a predictably successful return to his beloved clay on Wednesday, the Spanish third seed starting his quest for a ninth straight Monte Carlo Masters title with a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Marinko Matosevic.Nadal was totally in his comfort zone on another sunny, warm day on ...

WASHINGTON - Pakistan's outgoing government was unwilling to address the economic problems that continue to constrain the country's economic growth, a top US intelligence official told a Congressional panel on Thursday."Economically, trouble looms," James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, ...

The swashbuckling, somewhat maverick General Musharraf still has that swagger about him even as he goes about facing the Supreme Court for treason charges. On Monday he seemed far from afraid at the prospect of appearing in a court; during a press conference, the same day, he stated it loud and ...

LAKKI MARWAT – Saifullah brothers have intensified election campaign to strengthen their position and give a tough time to their rivals affiliated with JUI-F on one National Assembly and three provincial assembly seats of the district.PML (likeminded) Chief Salim Saifullah Khan is in the run ...

SIMON A LEVINNo challenge facing humanity is broader in scope and importance than achieving a sustainable future. Every dimension of our lives is affected, and every discipline and sector of society must be involved in meeting the challenge. Yet we consistently place less importance on distant ...

Pakistan's former captain Mohammad Yousuf is in trouble as he is being investigated by the Bangladesh intelligence agencies for allegedly submitting a fake clearance letter to play in the Dhaka league.The Bangladesh Cricket Board has handed over the matter to the intelligence agencies after ...

The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise of two terrorists.Zuhair Qasis was the head of the Popular Resistance Committee. He was killed ...

ISLAMABAD - Relations between Pakistan’s powerful army and the country’s elected civilian politicians deteriorated sharply on Wednesday after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani sacked the de facto deputy defence minister, reported CBS News.The removal of retired Lt-General Naeem Khalid ...

FIAMBALA  - Qatar's defending champion Nasser al-Attiyah suffered another disastrous drive on Thursday's fifth stage of the Dakar Rally, losing more than 20 minutes after his Hummer overheated.Poland's Krzysztof Holowczyc, in a Mini, won the stage between Chilecito and Fiambala ahead of ...

Eleven weeks after the annihilation of an entire company of the Central Reserve Police Force in a Maoist ambush in April 2010 near the village of Tarmetla the largest single loss India has ever suffered in a counter-insurgency campaign Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had fighting words for the ...

KARACHI - The governments decision to postpone elections on two AJK Assembly seats in Karachi has set into motion a process of political alignments, a development nobody was expecting so soon. The Pakistan Peoples Party, it appears, has learnt no lessons from the past mistakes. Everybody knows ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara is in hot water after his highly acclaimed lecture at Lord's, where he criticised what he alleged was a corrupt and politicised cricket administration at home. Sangakkara received a standing ovation after his outspoken remarks but they ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - As many as one-third of Dutch farmers consider themselves to be in financial trouble, and a similar percentage feel abandoned by society, according to a new study by farm organizations and a public television show. A quarter of farmers consider themselves working poor, and 32 ...

KARACHI Startling revelations have come to light about how the Pakistan Badminton Federation allegedly sent teams abroad without proper NOCs and how people allegedly paid money to get UK visas posing as officials of the national team. These allegations, one of which said that a person ...

HAMBURG (Germany) (AFP) SV Hamburgs Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero is facing club sanctions after launching a bottle at the head of an angry supporter following a scoreless draw with Hanover on Sunday. According to television pictures Guerrero who recently returned from a seven-month injury ...

LAHORE - A committee of experts is meeting this week to ascertain the fate of a senior Boeing 777 captain who pointed out a potential safety hazard that his co-pilot undertook a flight making his duty time 17 hours long. This exercise is not only a violation of international norms but also of PIAs ...

PETE Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentzs marriage isnt on the rocks, despite recent claims to the contrary. It had been reported that the couple was on the verge of a split as Ashlee struggles to balance her career with motherhood. Ashlee is a loving mother, but she is overwhelmed, a source told Us ...

LAHORE - The knitwear industry is in dire trouble as the number of knitwear exporting units has declined from 1183 in 2005 to 840 in 2009 and the closed units include some of the most efficient high tech larger factories in this sector. This was revealed in the presentation on the state of ...

LAHORE - NWFP's Junaid Khan has pushed Punjab in deep trouble on day three of the RBS Pentangular Cup match here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday. Taking six wickets, Junaid reduced Punjab to 134 in its second innings to keep his team in hunt for the win on the final day. Resuming its innings ...

LAHORE - NWFP bowlers Nauman Habib and Shakeel-ur-Rehman rattled Punjab batting on the opening day of the fifth round match of the RBS Pentangular Cup here at the Gadaffi Stadium on Tuesday. These two pacers along with Junaid Khan, Younis Khan and Aslam Qureshi reduced Punjab to 238 for eight ...

Pakistani troops are fighting a mountain battle that their generals claim will break the back of the Taliban insurgency within a matter of months.  Pakistani forces have killed up to 1,000 Islamist militants in an offensive for control over the northwestern region of Bajaur. For the past six ...

NEW YORK - Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born American Ambassador to the United Nations, is in deep trouble over his "unauthorized contacts" with Asif Ali Zardari, Co-Chairman Pakistan People's Party and a candidate for the post of president of Pakistan, a major US paper reported Tuesday. In a ...

International Space Station astronauts are eagerly awaiting the arrival of shuttle Discovery - it is bringing a new pump to mend their broken toilet. The station's urine collection unit, as opposed to its solid waste unit, has been malfunctioning for several days. Nasa said it thought a ...

MANCHESTER (AFP) - Monty Panesar returned his best figures in Test cricket here Sunday but England were still left needing to rewrite the record books at Old Trafford to beat New Zealand. At stumps, on the third day of the second Test, England were 76 for one in their second innings, needing a ...