HARARE: Zimbabwe took a firm grip on the first Test against Bangladesh at Harare Sports Club - despite slipping to 27 for four in their second innings on a wicket-filled third day on Friday. Thirteen wickets tumbled in the first two sessions of Frida...
LOS ANGELES: Every dog has its day, and for Afghan pooch Aiden, today is for dancing lessons while cats Lucky and Missy are legally guaranteed their nightly shrimp dinners according to their owner's last testament. These are just a few of the "Spoile...
BAHAWALPUR: At least seven people were killed and 35 injured when a speeding bus rammed into tree near Chak 7 BC on Hasilpur Road here Friday evening. According to Rescue 1122 and Police sources, a speeding bus, on its way to Bahawalnagar, lost contr...
ISLAMABAD: Implementation on the orders of reshuffling of Station House Officers (SHOs) in a total of 16 police stations in Islamabad on Thursday has been stopped for the time being, a police spokesman said. Police spokesman provided the complete det...
LAHORE: Inspector General of Police Punjab Aftab Sultan on Thursday transferred and posted six officers. According to a notification, Waheed-ur-Rehman Khattak, AddI SP Security Sadar Rawalpindi has been transferred and posted as AddI SP Sadar Divisio...
MOSCOW: A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that should pave the way for manned flights to Mars. Live footage on the Roscosmos space ag...
LAHORE: A plane, with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader, Mian Nawaz Shairf on board, made an emergency landing here in Lahore due to a cracked windshield, media reported. Reportedly the plane, en route from Quetta to Hasilpur, was flying at...
WASHINGTON: Using a potent NASA space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life might exist, astronomers said Thursday they have found the most Earth-like candidates yet. Two of the five planets orbiting a sun-like star called Kepl...
LOS ANGELESL Rush fans can relax. The band is now officially in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Canadian rockers were welcomed into the musical fraternity at Thursday's 28th annual induction ceremony by the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Taylor Haw...
WEST, Texas: Rescue workers searched rubble early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and leveled...
TOKYO: A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Friday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake hit at 0305 GMT near the Russian-administered Kuril island chain, 1,490 kilometres (926 miles) north of Toky...
TOKYO: The world's oldest person turned 116 on Friday as local health chiefs in Japan launch a study to find out why he and many of those around him have lived so long. Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, was expected to celebrate his astonishing ...
MILAN: Mattia Destro scored twice in a 3-2 win against Inter Milan as Roma booked an Italian Cup final date with bitter rivals Lazio on Wednesday with a 5-3 aggregate success. Destro had scored Roma's second goal in a 2-1 first leg win at the Olympic...
LONDON: Chelsea moved third in the Premier League as John Terry scored twice following a David Luiz thunderbolt in their 3-0 win against west London rivals Fulham at Craven Cottage on Wednesday. Brazil star Luiz lashed home from 35 yards in the 30th ...
BERLIN: VfB Stuttgart will face favourites Bayern Munich in June's German Cup final after they beat Freiburg 2-1 at home in their semi-final on Wednesday. The victory had a double bonus for Stuttgart as they are now guaranteed a Europa League place n...
LAHORE: Pakistan's cricket chief said Thursday he had offered to host qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup despite a four-year suspension of international cricket in the country over security fears. Pakistan has not staged any top-level cricket since mi...
HARARE: Captain Brendan Taylor marked Zimbabwe's Independence Day with a record-breaking score, but Bangladesh's bold reply with the bat allowed them to end day two of the first Test with the initiative. Taylor's 171 formed the backbone in a Zimbabwe...
KARACHI: Three new cases of dengue fever were reported in Karachi on Wednesday, said Dr. Aamir Shakil Mullick, Coordinator, Dengue Surveillance Cell, Sindh. With the addition of these new cases the number of people registered to be dengue fever posit...
NEW DELHI: Delhi Daredevils will face Chennai Super Kings in the 24th Twenty20 match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here today. Sri Lanka’s former captain Mahela Jayawardene is leading Delhi Daredevils while India’s captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni i...
KARACHI: WAPDA (Water and Power Development Authority beat National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) by 119 runs in the second semi-final of president cricket cup on Thursday and qualified for event’s final, where it will meet Misbah’s Sui Northern Gas Private...
Afghans Say New Bodies Have Been Found Near a Former U.S. Base
Kabul, Afghanistan: Soon after family members found what they believe ...
US: Taliban Inflicting Heavy Losses on Afghan Troops
BRUSSELS: The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Joseph Dunford, ...
Growing Up An Afghan Warlord's Son
Renee Montagne recently returned from a reporting trip to Afghanistan....
Afghan interpreters' UK resettlement package 'completely inadequate'
Package announced by defense secretary Philip Hammond attacked for exp...
US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
