Lahore, Apr 16: Pakistan and India should take a lesson from the recent avalanche that buried 138 people in the Siachen sector and review troop deployments on the Himalayan glacier, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar
Johannesburg, Apr 15: South African President Jacob Zuma will marry his fourth wife next weekend, his spokesman confirmed on Sunday.Mr. Zuma will tie the knot at his family homestead in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province, said
Beirut, Apr 15: Syrian troops shelled residential neighbourhoods dominated by rebels in the central city of Homs on Sunday, activists said, hours before the first batch of United Nations observers were to arrive in Damascus
Oklahoma City, Apr 15: Tornadoes erupting across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma and damaged houses, a hospital, a jail, a U.S. Air Force base and
Kabul, Apr 15: The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on at least seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting the NATO headquarters, the Parliament and diplomatic residences. Militants also launched near-simultaneous
Jakarta, Apr 15: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island today but there were no reports of damage, the geophysics agency said.“The epicentre is in the sea and there is no
Cairo, Apr 15: Egypt's election commission On Saturday disqualified 10 presidential hopefuls, including Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief and fundamentalist Islamists, from contesting in a surprise decision that left a field of moderates in the
Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), Apr 15: Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday after it was attacked by Taliban militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior
New York, Apr 15: India has taken up with the US the issue of Shahrukh Khan's detention at a New York airport, conveying its "deep concern" over the incident that "need not have happened"."We have
Cartagena (Colombia), Apr 15: Eleven Secret Service agents who guard US President Barack Obama were recalled to Washington last week after nearly all of them allegedly brought sex workers to their rooms for a wild
Banda Aceh (Indonesia), Apr 13: Five people died and at least seven were injured as massive earthquakes struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said today.Officials said they believed at least two people died of heart
Islamabad, Apr 13: Pakistani troops are set to dig a 130-foot tunnel in their search for 138 people buried in an avalanche in the Siachen sector, close to Indian borders, as the rescue operation entered
Islamabad, Apr 13: Pakistan's parliament yesterday unanimously approved a resolution for resetting the country's troubled relations with the US, calling for an “immediate cessation” of American drone strikes and an apology for the killing of
Washington, Apr 13: The US has accused North Korea of “violating” international law by its “provocative” act to launch a long-range rocket - even though it was a failed attempt—hours after the top eight powerful
Rome, April 13: Europe's highest active volcano, Italy's Mount Etna, erupted again on Thursday.The eruption - which spewed blood-red molten lava and grey and white ash into the air - is the 24th in a
Washington, Apr 13: At a critical time in international diplomacy, the world's leading industrialized democracies on Thursday demanded that Syria comply with all portions of a U.N.-backed plan to end more than a year of
Pyongyang, Apr 13: North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in failure on Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff.North Korea acknowledged in an announcement broadcast on state TV that a
Washington/Mexico City, April 12: A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon on Wednesday and was followed a minute later by a smaller quake off the coast of central California, the U.S. Geological
Banda Aceh (Indonesia), Apr 12: Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday, sending panicked residents fleeing to higher ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles.The first earthquake hit the
Lahore, Apr 6: The Defa-e-Pakistan Council, a conglomerate of hardline groups, yesterday asked President Asif Ali Zardari to cancel his trip to India to protest the USD 10 million bounty offered by the US for
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