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 »
Microsoft Corp said it will increase its cloud storage offering for business users by 40-fold as the world’s largest software company makes a case for businesses buying an all-in-one product from itself... Read more »
Aussie taxpayers’ $800 hit: four years of sharing the pain to reduce the huge Budget deficit Tony Abbott promised a government of no new taxes and no surprises. But his government’s first... Read more »
S Korea says military is “fully prepared” after Pyongyang notified it of second live-fire exercise in four weeks. North Korea has begun a live-fire drill near its maritime border with South Korea,... Read more »
At least 10 people have been killed when twin bombings struck a town northeast of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, a day before the country’s parliamentary elections. Security and medical officials said... Read more »
BOSTON: Saudi Arabia is studying ways to regulate locally-produced YouTube content, including the possibility of requiring government-issued licenses for some users, said an official on Sunday. Riyadh Najm, the president of The... Read more »
Director Bilal Lashari’s action/thriller Waar took home 13 awards at the ARY Film Awards 2014 held in Karachi on a balmy Sunday night. Celebrities, fans and film crews sweated it out at... Read more »
Ryan Giggs saw his first match as interim Manchester United manager end in a 4-0 thrashing of Premier League strugglers Norwich City at Old Trafford on Saturday. Wayne Rooney and substitute Juan... Read more »
DHAKA: A severe storm has killed 16 people and destroyed 1,000 homes in northern Bangladesh, police and government officials said Monday. The storm tore through scores of villages overnight on Sunday, uprooting... Read more »