WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives approved late Tuesday a USD 50.5 billion emergency relief aid for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. The...
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives approved late Tuesday a USD 50.5 billion emergency relief aid for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. The...
Supporters of cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri protest in Islamabad, yesterday. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister yesterday in...
LAHORE: Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan called yesterday on President Asif Ali Zardari to resign to make way for free and fair elections....
QUETTA: Sacked Chief Minister of Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province, Aslam Raisani, has said that his government was ambushed through a conspiracy because...
A view of homes damaged by flood waters during Hurricane Sandy in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, yesterday. The...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will today unveil comprehensive plans to thwart America’s scourge of gun violence, surrounded by children who wrote to...
NEW YORK: New York State lawmakers yesterday began final debate on one of the toughest gun control bills in the United States and...
STRASBOURG, France: A British Airways employee suffered discrimination at work over the wearing of a cross, the European Court of Human Rights ruled...
HAVANA: A new cholera outbreak — Cuba’s second in four months after a 130-year stretch without the disease — has sickened 51 people...
CHICAGO: Officials scrambled yesterday to get 18 human heads off to their final destination, a crematorium, after they were seized by US customs...
SYDNEY: An Australian scientist said Wednesday he had discovered how to turn the HIV virus against itself to stop it progressing to AIDS,...
GAZA: Israeli authorities on Wednesday opened the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, which is located south east of the Gaza Strip, for the entry...
MUMBAI: An anti-harassment police squad launched in a district near Mumbai is targeting single women and young couples out on the streets after...
JERUSALEM: Israel on Wednesday issued tenders for 198 new settlement homes in the southern West Bank, an Israeli NGO said. Settlement watchdog Terrestrial...
DOHA: Libya's Interim Prime Minister Ali Zidan Mohammed left Doha on Wednesday morning, wrapping up a two-day visit to the country. The Libyan...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks lost 2.56 percent Wednesday as the yen rebounded, while Boeing Dreamliner suppliers tumbled after two Japanese airlines grounded their fleets...
Iraqi civil defence personnel inspect a damaged building after a suicide bomb blast attack in Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad. Reuters KIRKUK,...
MANILA: The Philippines' largest gold miner will pay a record fine of 1.034 billion pesos ($25.2 million) for a waste spill after the...
