Etisalat, the leading telecommunications operator in the UAE, said it has signed a multi-currency club deal worth 3.15 billion euros ($4.35 billion) with a group of seventeen international, regional and local banks.The move is aimed... Read more »
Amid crackdown on opposition, judge also confirms death sentences for 37 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters. The Egyptian court that previously sentenced 529 Muslim Brotherhood members to death has sentenced an additional 683... Read more »
:سید عتیق الحسن پاکستان میں رونما ہونے والے حالات پر افسوس ہوتا تھا اور رونا بھی آتا تھا مگر اب اسِ قسم کے واقعات اور وارداتیں رونما ہو رہی ہیں کہ ساتھ... Read more »
KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama arrives Saturday in Malaysia hoping to energise aloof ties with a Muslim-majority nation whose government is under the microscope for wide allegations of abuse of power... Read more »
WELLINGTON: A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no immediate tsunami warning or reports of significant damage. The... Read more »
At least four killed and 30 wounded in explosion outside mosque in city of Karachi. A bomb attack in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, has killed at least four people and wounded 30... Read more »
Rafael Nadal’s 41-match winning streak at the Barcelona Open is ended with a loss to countryman Nicolas Almagro. Misfiring Rafa Nadal crashed out of the Barcelona Open at the hands of fellow Spaniard Nicolas... Read more »
US and EU officials agree on new sanctions against Moscow, as Russian military drills continue along Ukrainian border. Source: AFP And Reuters US President Barack Obama and top European leaders are moving... Read more »
US president says the government in Pyongyang would “rather starve its people than feed their hopes and dreams”. North Korea is a weak “pariah state” whose heavily militarised border with the South... Read more »
Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour says Amman backs recent reconciliation deal between the resistance movement of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Ensour also praised Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh for signing the unity... Read more »
Saudi Arabia has commissioned the first phase of the world’s largest desalination project, being built at a cost of SR27 billion ($7.2 billion) in Ras Al Khair, a report said.The plant for production... Read more »
Nokia said it has completed the 5.44 billion-euro ($7.5 billion) sale of its troubled cellphone and services division to Microsoft Corp., ending a chapter in the former world leading cellphone maker’s history that... Read more »
Benfica claimed their 33rd Liga title on Sunday night with a 2-0 win over Olhanense at the Estadio da Luz. Lima scored in the 57th and 60th minutes to secure the capital club’s first... Read more »
Technology giant IBM has signed a contract with IT services firm Polaris Financial Technologies (FT) for using the US-based company’s social software for a superior digital experience, improve workforce productivity and accelerate... Read more »
ANCHORAGE: An Oscar-nominated filmmaker who directed and produced a documentary detailing a 1925 sled dog run in Alaska to deliver life-saving serum has died. Daniel Anker died Monday at age 50. His... Read more »
WASHINGTON: WhatsApp now has 500 million regular, active users around the world, the free mobile messaging service being acquired by Facebook said. That is up from an estimated 450m as of late... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The four cellular service providers bidding on licences for next generation mobile technology emerged the winners of Wednesday’s bidding war, with Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone picking up licences for 3G services... Read more »
LAHORE: Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif narrowly escaped a shoe hurled at him during the inauguration of a three-day South Asia Labour Conference in Lahore. The shoe-hurler turned out to be a... Read more »
Seizure, relating to unpaid compensation for Chinese ships leased in 1936, sparked Japanese formal diplomatic complaint. China has released a Japanese cargo ship after its owners paid $28m to settle a pre-war... Read more »
A police guard opens fire at an international hospital in Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least three Americans. At least three American doctors have been killed by a security guard at an international hospital in... Read more »
At least 21 people were killed in an air strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday. (AFP) “The number of people killed in an air strike this morning against the market... Read more »
TOKYO — President Obama arrived here on Wednesday evening to begin a four-country tour of Asia, after first stopping in Washington State to survey the devastation left there by last month’s deadly... Read more »
Boeing’s total revenues rose 8% to $20.5bn in the first quarter, driven by an increase in commercial aircraft deliveries. The company delivered 161 commercial aeroplanes in the three months to 31 March,... Read more »
5 Sunil Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders) Matches: 2 Wickets: 5 Overs: 8 Runs Conceded: 38 Average: 7.6 Economy Rate: 4.75 Strike Rate: 9.6 Sunil Narine – the mystery spinner – started the IPL 2014 picking up four wickets against the... Read more »