Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, a young woman here ended her life by taking a lethal injection after a quarrel with her brother...
Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, a young woman here ended her life by taking a lethal injection after a quarrel with her brother...
Hyderabad: Unseasonal rains accompanied by strong gales yesterday continued to lash Andhra Pradesh, killing as many as 15 people and damaging crops over...
A police officer hits a supporter of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, during Musharraf’s hearing at an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, yesterday. RAWALPINDI:...
PULI ALAM: Afghan village elders negotiated with the Taliban yesterday to try to win the release of a group of foreign hostages, officials...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police yesterday said they had defused a car bomb near the house of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Islamabad police chief...
QUETTA: A suicide bomber blew up his car at a check point near a Shia-dominated area in southwest Pakistan late yesterday, killing six...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai left yesterday for talks in Brussels with top US and Pakistani officials aimed at reviving faltering efforts to...
KARACHI: Two people were killed and 15 wounded when a bomb exploded near a local party office in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi...
Local residents having a meal outside damaged homes after the earthquake in Yaan, in southwest China's Sichuan province. Tens of thousands of homeless...
TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister vowed yesterday to “expel by force” any Chinese landing on islands at the centre of a territorial row, after...
SEOUL/GENEVA: North Korea insisted yesterday that it be recognised as a nuclear weapons state, a demand the United States promptly dismissed as “neither...
YANGON: Myanmar yesterday pardoned dozens of political prisoners, activists said, a day after the European Union agreed to end almost all sanctions against...
VIENNA: Radioactive gases that could have come from North Korea’s nuclear test in February have unexpectedly been detected, a global monitoring body said...
SHANGHAI: China yesterday said the H7N9 bird flu had spread to a new area as it confirmed the first case in the eastern...
TOLITOLI: Five Indonesian teenage girls have been accused of blasphemy and may face jail after making a video in which they mixed Islamic...
TAIPEI: Taiwan announced yesterday it has signed a crime-fighting pact with the Philippines following a spate of Internet scams that ruffled ties between...
SEOUL: South Korea’s defence minister yesterday received a package containing a threatening letter and some suspicious powder which was later found to be...
Romanians wait for free books offered by a publishing house and displayed on the pavement on The World Book Day in Bucharest, yesterday.
