Karachi: Saleh Mohammad on Friday became the first Afghan to win the amateur Asian snooker title, expressing hope that his victory would lift the game in the war-ravaged country. The 40-year-old, who also represented Pakistan at a regional and worl...
MEXICO CITY: A gas tanker exploded in a Mexico City suburb on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, wounding 36 others and damaging several homes and cars, an official said. The blast rocked a neighborhood of Ecatepec, north of the Mexican capital, in...
PARIS: French actor Alain Delon will be honoured at the Cannes film festival later this month with a screening of "Plein Soleil", Rene Clement's 1960 adaptation of "The Talented Mr Ripley", in which he starred. The tribute will be paid to the 77-year...
MADRID: Britain's Laura Robson and Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro conjured up big first-round upset victories at the Madrid Open when they surprised fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and ninth-seeded Australian Samantha Stosur on Monday.Robson,...
JAIPUR: Delhi Daredevils lost ninth match in 12 as they were beaten by nine wickets against Rajasthan Royals who maintained their unbeaten home record to reach second place on the table here on Tuesday.Royals' seventh straight victory in Jaipur was f...
DUBAI: Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has been fined 75 percent of his match fee for showing dissent during the second one-day international against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on Sunday. The International Cricket Council says in a statement that Sha...
JOHANNESBURG: The International Cricket Council announced former India international Laxman Sivaramakrishnan as a new player representative on Monday, sweeping aside concerns over its voting process and underlining India's powerful influence over the...
MANILA: Five people are feared dead after one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud on Tuesday, with foreign tourists on its slopes during the eruption, authorities said. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Co...
DHAKA: The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh neared 700 on Tuesday after dozens more bodies were found in the rubble, nearly a fortnight after the disaster. Army spokesman Shahid Ahsan Bhuiyan told AFP that the t...
LOS ANGELES: Disney is not giving up on "Star Wars" video games after all. A month after shutting down game production at Lucasfilm subsidiary LucasArts, The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that it had entered multi-year deal with Electronic Arts Inc. to...
WASHINGTON: A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the United States in pieces and auctioned for more than $1 million was returned on Monday by the U.S. government to Mongolia. The huge Tyrannosaurus bataar'...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian geologists on Monday announced the discovery, 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) from Rio, of what could be part of the continent submerged when the Atlantic Ocean was formed as Africa and South America drifted apart 100 million y...
LONDON: Actress Helen Mirren has delivered another show-stopping performance as Britain's Queen Elizabeth after storming out of a London theatre dressed as the monarch to deliver an expletive-riddled tirade at a group of drummers ruining the play. In...
WELLINGTON: A New Zealand man has pleaded guilty to assaulting cricketer Jesse Ryder during an altercation outside a bar in the South Island city of Christchurch last month, reports said Tuesday. The 20-year-old, whose name was suppressed, was convic...
ABBOTTABAD: Wily Pakistan off spinner Saeed Ajmal vowed Monday to target West Indian swashbuckler Chris Gayle when the two sides meet in the Champions Trophy next month. Pakistan is currently featuring in a tune-up camp in Abbottabad, where US forces...
MADRID: Maria Sharapova survived a sticky start to move into the second round of the WTA Madrid Open on Monday with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania.The Russian, who won the French Open on clay last year, brought a 16-match winning s...
MOHALI: David Miller blasted one of the greatest Twenty20 innings ever seen with his sensational unbeaten century scripting an unbelievable six-wicket victory for Kings XI Punjab over Royal Challengers Bangalore in an Indian Premier League clash on M...
ROME: Three people were killed and six injured late Sunday when a balcony collapsed onto a religious procession in the town of Portici near Naples in southern Italy, officials said. Some 25,000 people were packed into the town's narrow streets for th...
DALLAS: The FBI has arrested a famous Pakistani heart specialist Dr. Tariq Mahmood MD for false and fraudulent claims of more then Million of dollars submitted to US Health department. The accused has been indicted and may face seven counts of crime ...
MADRID: Australia's Samantha Stosur crashed out of the WTA Madrid Open in the first round on Monday, losing 7-6 (9/7), 6-2 to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.Seeded ninth, the 2011 US Open champion held her own in the first setagainst a player who lost ...
World’s largest wave power scheme given go-ahead
THE Scottish Government today gave the green light for the world’s la...
Afghan peace lost in transition worries
KABUL : Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Talib...
Afghan archaeology site faces rocky future
Ancient ruins of Mes Aynak threatened by planned Chinese mining projec...
Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
Kabul, Afghanistan: As a young Army Green Beret major in December 2001...
A cooler century? Wait and see
New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more s...
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Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden
"Raw Story" - MIT Professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al...
