NEW YORK - AFP -A massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship has landed on New York’s Times Square.Well, not quite. It’s actually a replica of one flown in the famed movie franchise and represents the largest model ever made by Danish toy company Lego.Unveiled Thursday, the spectacular ...

KARACHI (PR): Nokia has unveiled the latest device in its Asha family, designed to offer consumers more social experiences at an affordable price. The Nokia Asha 210, available in Single- or Easy Swap Dual-SIM variants, features a distinctly Nokia design and smart imaging that sets it apart from ...

SYDNEY:-Sachin Tendulkar has made an unscheduled appearance at the Sydney Cricket Ground as a life-sized wax figure of the Indian batsman was unveiled in front of a throng of cricket fans. Local Indian fans, known as the Swami Army, cheered and sang Indian chants as the "Little Master" was unveiled ...

Samsung unveiled the biggest smartphone to date - the Galaxy Mega, which features a 6.3in (16cm) screen, the BBC reported. The firm suggested its size made it ideal for watching videos or running two apps alongside each other. Samsung helped popularise the so-called "phablet" category, in which ...

The government on Monday announced Petroleum Exploration and Production Policy 2012, which the Petroleum Advisor said, would help achieve maximum self-sufficiency in energy and promote exploration and production activities by providing competitive incentives to the investors.Advisor to the Prime ...

Swiss firm Hublot has unveiled a new diamond watch - worth a staggering $5m (£3m). The white gold watch is encrusted with 1,282 diamonds, and was made by 17 people. It reportedly took 14 months to be made, according to The AFP.It will be shown to a select group of people at a corporate event ...

A Justin Bieber waxwork has been unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s Hollywood location.The statue of the ‘Never Say Never’ hitmaker was produced as the wax museum’s version of a birthday present to the pop icon.Massive Justin fan Alisha Purdom, 14, won a Facebook competition run ...

The makers of Titanic 3D have announced that they are re-releasing the film’s original soundtrack. The anniversary collection and special collector’s edition will be put out on March 26 to coincide with the film’s release on April 6 and the Titanic setting sail on April 10 in ...

LAHORE - The commemorative postage stamp, issued for Arfa Karim Randhawa, Wednesday received a very warm response from the students of Govt College University Lahore, who came at a special ticket-stall set up Ravians Seniors Club in the university to pay homage to the world’s youngest ...

NEW YORK  - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York unveiled new galleries Thursday dedicated to the history of American painting, sculpture and design, some of which museum officials said displayed the country's "crown jewels." The new galleries are part of a $100 million renovation of the ...

THE multi-touch technology that Apple pioneered with its iPhone is now everywhere in the modern world - but Microsoft is about to pump up the technology to a new level. The next generation of its 'Surface table is a 40-inch touchscreen that can feel 50 'touches at once - and can also 'feel pens, ...

A 19-fingered robot which can play piano faster than any human has been unveiled. Teotronico is said to be the only robot in the world capable of simultaneously singing and playing the piano while judging if an audience is impressed. Created in Italy for a cost of 3,000, the robot is said to have ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Mian Manzoor Wattoo presented the AJ&K Councils Budget estimates of Rs 8352.234m for the year 2011-12 and revised estimates of Rs 8632.065m for the year 2010-11. Receipt target of Rs 6192m was proposed for third budget of ...

oUR sTAFF rEPORTER MIRPUR (AJK) - Azad Jammu Kashmir Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Mirpur here Tuesday unveiled the names of top 20 position-holding students, appearing in the annual intermediate part-II examination - 2011, held under the auspices of the board. The results of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Martin Luther King Jr stood 30 feet (9 meters) tall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Monday, the first on the National Mall in the nations capital not dedicated to a war, president or white man. Fifteen years after a Congressional Joint Resolution in 1996 to establish a ...

SCIENTISTS have uncovered the secret behind the extraordinary jumping ability of the white-handed gibbon, capable in the wild of leaping across more than 10 metres in gaps in the forest canopy. Using high-speed cameras and laser measurement, researchers recorded two captive gibbons - one an adult ...

The daughter of the first man in space came to Britain to unveil a statue in his honour and revealed how Britons astonished him during a visit 50 years ago. Elena Gagarina was joined by Prince Michael of Kent as she inaugurated the statue of pioneering Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin outside the ...

QUETTA - The PPP-led coalition government in Balochistan presented a tax-free budget to the tune of Rs 164 billion including the development outlay of Rs 31.2 billion and Rs 2.2 billion of foreign aid with Rs 6.7 billion deficit for the fiscal year of 2011-12 in Provincial Assembly session here on ...

MUZAFFARABAD - The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government Monday announced Rs44.549b revenue-oriented budget of the state for next fiscal year (2011-12), with revenue expenditures around 37.548b and a deficit of Rs 5.06 billion. The budget was announced by AJK Finance Minister Abdul Rasheed Abbasi in ...

PESHAWAR The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government presented Rs 249.151 billion budget on Saturday for the year 2011-2012 and allocated Rs 18.81 billion for law and order while Rs 13.12 billion were earmarked for health and education sectors collectively. Amid tight security arrangements in and around ...

A NEW 'superbus capable of speeds of up to 155mph has been created by Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels. The eco-friendly electric vehicle can carry 23 passengers and cost 13million to develop. The bus futuristic look includes wing-opening doors and is streamlined to help achieve maximum speeds. A ...

ISLAMABAD - Azad Jammu and Kashmir Councils Budget 2010-11 was presented by Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo here on Monday. President of AJK, Raja Zulqurain Haider, chaired the session attended by Prime Minister AJK, Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan, ...

KARACHI Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Friday presented Rs422 billion Sindh budget for 2010-11, showing a deficit of Rs25 billion. The budget shows total revenue of Rs397 billion, with a deficit of Rs25 billion, which is six per cent of the total budget. The provinces Annual ...

KARACHI (PR) - Socio-economically emerging markets for mobile devices from South Asia and Middle East Africa represent both the vast growth potential in many of the rural, unconnected areas and the more developed urban cities in many of these countries. According to a research, each day 1.8 ...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the deepest image yet of the Universe in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are likely the oldest galaxies ever identified, having formed between only 600-900 million years after the Big Bang. In 2004, Hubble created the ...

IT may look a little precarious and uncomfortable to ride, but Honda believe their new 'personal mobility device could one day be zipping up and down our streets. The vehicle looks like a very modern unicycle and to ride it you simply lean your weight in the direction you want to go, whether thats ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co took the wraps off its much-awaited electric car on Sunday, naming the hatchback Leaf and taking a step towards its goal of leading the industry in the zero-emissions field. Japans No.3 automaker and its French partner, Renault SA, have been the most ...

KARACHI - City Nazim Mustafa Kamal on Friday presented the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) budget for the year 2009-10 in City Council session with an outlay of Rs52,531.25 million against the estimated expenditure of Rs52,360.89 million and showing a surplus of Rs170.36 million. A sum of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova presented a prototype dress to reporters that is designed to light up when the wearer's mobile telephone rings. British fashion student Georgie Davis dreamed up the knee-length sleeveless white dress as part of a school project with ...

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's LG Electronics Monday unveiled what it described as the world's first watch-shaped mobile video phone. The "3G watch phone" model has a touch-screen dialling system with a camera and a speaker built in to enable users to make video calls over a high speed internet ...