Rome, Sep 17 (DPA) Athletics legend Carl Lewis, Indonesian popstar Anggun, the Dominican Republic's first-lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez, French fashion designer Pierre Cardin...More

Faisalabad (Pakistan), Sep 17 (IANS) The Pakistani authorities have filed two separate cases against Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and chi...More

London, Sep 17 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will deliver a lecture on the challenges facing Pakistan at the International Institute for Strategic Studies here Frida...More

Beijing, Sep 17 (Xinhua) China has selected 30 men and 15 women candidates in the second round of its space-training programme, officials said Thursday. ...More

Kabul, Sep 17 (DPA) A suicide attack against an Italian military convoy shook the Afghan capital Thursday, leaving 10 Afghan civilians and six Italian soldiers dead, officials sai...More

Johannesburg, Sep 17 (IANS) Rohan Bopanna will be the man under pressure when India take on South Africa in the Davis Cup World Group play-off tennis tie, from Sep 18-20, at the E...More

Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said terrorists who have been sentenced to death will not be pardoned even if capital punishment is abolished...More

Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) The United States sold arms worth $4.5 billion to Pakistan between 2005 and 2008, says a Congressional report even as Washington has expressed concern ab...More

Urumqi (China), Sep 17 (Xinhua) A court in China Thursday ordered four people to serve in prison ranging from eight to 15 years for stabbing a pedestrian with a syringe in the nor...More

Vienna, Sep 17 (IANS) The death of an Indian asylum seeker who was on hunger strike has led to growing human rights concerns here over the plight of illegal immigrants who have be...More

London, Sep 17 (IANS) Some Indian families living in a housing estate in Portadown, a town in Britain's Northern Ireland province, have said they want to leave the area after raci...More

Geneva, Sep 17 (DPA) Sri Lanka's probes into a video clip showing one of its soldiers executing an incapacitated man do not meet the criteria of 'impartial', a UN expert said Thur...More

Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided $150 million loan to Pakistan to carry out developmental works in the country's Punjab province, the Online ...More

London, Sep 17 (IANS) In what was described as a global first, American pharmaceutical giant Merck and Britain's largest charity, Wellcome Trust Thursday announced the formation o...More

Prague, Sep 17 (DPA) Expectations that the US is to scrap a planned missile defence system in eastern Europe grew Thursday, with the Czech prime minister saying that US President ...More