LAHORE: Former captain and fast bowler Waqar Younis has been named as the new head coach by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the board announced on Tuesday. The appointment of Younis, who... Read more »
In first trip since attending independence celebrations in 2011, UN chief to urge both sides to end five-month conflict. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in South Sudan to demand an... Read more »
Case against Yingluck Shinawatra relates to her replacement of country’s security chief with a relative in 2011. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has arrived at Thailand’s Constitutional Court to face charges of abuse of... Read more »
A Bahraini police post in a small Shiite village near the capital was attacked by assailants throwing Molotov cocktails overnight, an interior ministry official said Tuesday. State security forces “repulsed the terrorist attack... Read more »
HONG KONG: Twelve crew members from a Chinese cargo ship are missing after it collided with a container vessel and sank just outside Hong Kong waters on Monday, authorities said. “There are... Read more »
NEW DELHI: Once again Kashmir students came under attack by Hindu extremists at an educational institution in India. Three Kashmiri students were beaten up at a private university in the city of... Read more »
Tokyo – Asian shares were supported on Tuesday after Wall Street stocks extended gains into a fifth day, though investors continued to see tensions in Ukraine as a threat to risk appetite.... Read more »
LONDON: Former British number one Elena Baltacha has died of liver cancer at the age of 30, it was announced on Sunday. Born in Ukraine and brought up in Scotland, Baltacha revealed... Read more »
VOTERS have news for Tony Abbott: they’re against some of the tough measures flagged for his government’s first budget. But eight days out from the budget the prime minister believes “in the... Read more »
MOSCOW: Tatyana Samoilova, the Soviet-era movie star best known for her roles in “The Cranes are Flying” and “Anna Karenina”, died on Monday aged 80. Samoilova died early Monday in a Moscow... Read more »
A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is in Tehran to discuss with Iranian officials a safeguards approach for the country’s Arak heavy water plant in line with an agreement reached between... Read more »
با قلم ریحان شکیل سنا ہے جنگل کا بھی کوئی قانون کوئی دستور ہوتا ہے مگر شہرے کراچی میں تو معلوم ہوتا ہے کے گویا کسی ہٹلر یا فرعون کی حکومت ہے.... Read more »
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has postponed a trip to Indonesia next week, and concerns about an asylum seeker operation under way north of Australia is believed to be behind the decision. Arrangements... Read more »
Qatar Airways will double the number of weekly flights to Gassim from four to eight from May 15, while Madinah flights were recently increased from five to seven per week.The airline has also... Read more »
Comey compares Syrian war to Afghan conflict of 1980s and 1990s, with foreign fighters posing threat to home country. The flow of foreign fighters into Syria has grown in the last few... Read more »
Iran’s Committee on Internet Crimes says the Facebook co- founder Mark Zuckerberg is a Zionist and banned his recently acquired messaging system WhatsApp. Iran’s criminalization of WhatsApp on Friday. According to the... Read more »
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 »