Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday 102 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to 10 years in prison, and two others to seven years, on charges of murder and rioting. The defendants were arrested... Read more »
His appointment at Bayern Munich was regarded as a something of coup, but less than a year after his arrival in Bavaria the first cracks have appeared in the relationship between Pep... Read more »
Uighur sources say more than 100 held over stabbing spree and blast in Xinjiang which President Xi just visited. Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered a crackdown after a stabbing spree and... Read more »
Bollywood star-actor Hrithik Roshan and his wife Sussane officially filed for divorce today after announcing their split in December 2013. Both were present at the Bandra-family court in Mumbai and the divorce was... Read more »
PAUL Ramsay, founder of the global Ramsay Health Care empire and one of the nation’s richest men, has left the bulk of his estate to charity. Mr Ramsay, 78, died in Bowral... Read more »
BOSTON: Microsoft is helping the estimated hundreds of millions of customers still running Windows XP, which it stopped supporting earlier this month, by providing an emergency update to fix a critical bug... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has appointed Pakistani actress Veena Malik Goodwill Ambassador. Veena Malik was appointed during a ceremony held here on Friday and joins he husband who was... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a $12 billion loan for cash-strapped Pakistan to be given out in a period of five years, the country’s finance ministry said on Friday. The finance... Read more »
KARACHI: The country’s financial capital was shut down due to a call for observing a ‘day of mourning’ by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) against extrajudicial killings of its party members. The... Read more »
A suicide attack in Panjshir province has killed at least 11 people, including six police officers, officials say. A suicide car bomb has killed at least 11 people, including six policemen, in... Read more »
Activists attempt to stop Russian tanker carrying first oil produced by new Arctic platform from mooring in Rotterdam. (AP) Dutch police have detained 31 Greenpeace activists who attempted to prevent a Russian... Read more »
With no end in sight for Syria’s war, a new camp was set up to accommodate the increasing numbers of Syrian refugees. Azraq refugee camp, Jordan – A group of Syrian children flock... Read more »
Official figures show more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and nearly 1,400 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq last month. According to the latest figures released by the Iraqi... Read more »
Europe’s top court has rejected the UK’s challenge to the introduction of an EU financial transactions tax (FTT), which ministers have said will damage British firms. The European Court of Justice (ECJ)... Read more »
Desmond Tutu ‘glad’ Nelson Mandela isn’t alive to witness state of South Africa.NOBEL peace laureate Desmond Tutu says he is glad Nelson Mandela is not alive to witness the current state of... Read more »
LABOR veteran John Faulkner will quit politics, announcing today that he will not recontest the next election. The former Defence Minister announced his intention not to renominate for the Senate, claiming to... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Famous actor Veena Malik returned to Pakistan for the first time after her marriage, complete with conservative garb and claims of having “matured” Upon her arrival at the Benazir Bhutto International... Read more »
Amnesty International urges Islamabad to investigate military and spy agency for violating human rights of journalists. Pakistani authorities should investigate the country’s powerful military and intelligence agency for human rights abuses against... Read more »
Sultan launches new penal code that will eventually include stoning, amputation and flogging as punishments. The sultan of Brunei has announced a controversial new penal code based on Islamic criminal punishments criticised... Read more »
The elite, new, all-touch Porsche Design P’9982 Smartphone from BlackBerry is uniquely designed and expertly crafted. The P’9982 is exquisitely fashioned from high-quality materials and features a customized version of the BlackBerry 10.2... Read more »
Activists on the ground say that a government airstrike has hit a school in Aleppo. The strike killed at least nine people, including three children, (AP). The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says there was... Read more »
RIYADH: Pakistans’ Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has witnessed Saudi military’s war exercise “Shamsheer of Abdullah”. The military experts and chiefs of army staff of Gulf States were also... Read more »
DAMASCUS: A car bomb went off in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, killing 36 people just hours after a mortar attack on the capital, Damascus, killed 14, government officials... Read more »
SAO PAULO: Brazil’s adoration of Ayrton Senna transcends sports. It’s something only someone like Pele can relate to in the country of football. When hundreds of thousands of people lined up for... Read more »