PESHAWAR: The appointment of Shaukatullah Khan as Governor of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has triggered a controversy because he is not...
PESHAWAR: The appointment of Shaukatullah Khan as Governor of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has triggered a controversy because he is not...
ISLAMABAD: The National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 2011 has reported that 29.7 percent of children in Pakistan are underweight, with some difference between those...
People take part in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for most number of people simultaneously hula-hooping, at Thammasat University stadium...
BISHKEK: A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced fugitive former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to 24 years in prison for abuse of office, and handed...
DHAKA: Much of Bangladesh fell silent for three minutes yesterday as part of a growing mass public campaign to demand the execution of...
BANGKOK: Thailand said yesterday that it had tightened security around the US consulate in the northern city of Chiang Mai in response to...
MANILA: Hundreds of Filipinos converged on the Philippine capital’s main bay front yesterday for a “sunset watch” protest aimed at stopping what they...
JAKARTA: Twenty-three Indonesian youths plan to sue Australia for illegal detention after being jailed in adult prisons for people-smuggling when they were minors,...
Members of a popular legislative initiative protest in support of victims of evictions, as lawmakers considered legislation to save ruined homeowners from being...
LONDON: British police searching for the source of horsemeat in kebabs and burgers yesterday raided two meat plants in the first such operation...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s civilian and military leaders warned in dire terms yesterday that $46bn in budget cuts due to go into effect in...
VATICAN CITY: Cardinals around the world began informal contacts to discuss who should next lead the Church through a period of major crisis...
FORT MEADE, Maryland: The United States was capable of eavesdropping on what were thought to be private conversations in court between the suspected...
ROME: A court in Milan yesterday sentenced a former Italian military intelligence chief to 10 years in jail for the 2003 kidnap of...
BOGOTA: Colombia’s FARC rebels killed a policeman and a child with a grenade in what the defence minister called a “demented, diabolical” attack...
HAVANA: More than a week after former leader Fidel Castro was quoted in Cuban media as saying Venezuela’s cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez was...
CAIRO: Egyptian protesters took to the street again yesterday to demand an end to sexual violence, as campaigns against the repeated attacks in...
DAMASCUS: Rebels yesterday overran a military air base, a watchdog said, a day after seizing control of Syria’s largest dam as they pushed...
