BEIJING: China has allowed blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng to leave a hospital in Beijing for the United States, a U.S.-based Christian advocacy group said on Saturday. Chen Guangcheng…
NEW DELHI: Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach was due to appear in a New Delhi courtroom on Saturday on accusations he molested a woman and beat up her fiance, his lawyer…
ROME: A bomb went off in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi on Saturday, killing one student and injuring six as they were going into…
Washington: The summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations opened on Friday in Maryland, US. The two-day summit groups together leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,…
DAMASCUS: A car bomb exploded in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, causing an unknown number of casualties, according to state television. “A car bomb has…
SARGODHA: Unknown men tortured schoolteacher Nafees Khan’s lawyer, Shahid Nazir Khan and broke his arm, Geo News reported Saturday. According to sources, Shahid Khan was on his way to…
CAPE CANAVERAL: California-based company SpaceX was poised to launch its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station Saturday in what may be a historic mission for private spaceflight. The…
LUCKNOW: Some 16 people died when a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims exploded in a ball of fire after colliding head-on with a truck in northern India, officials said on Saturday.…
LAND’S END: Sailor Ben Ainslie was the first torchbearer as the Olympic flame began its 70-day journey around Britain and Ireland on Saturday ahead of the 2012 London Games. …
NEW YORK: People with multiple sclerosis have long said that smoking marijuana helps ease their painful muscle cramping. And a new clinical trial suggests they are not just blowing smoke.…
WASHINGTON: People suffering from HIV/AIDS are at much higher risk than the general population of sudden cardiac death, researchers in California have found. In a paper published Monday in…
LONDON: Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting millions of lives at greater risk and threatening eradication efforts, health experts said on Tuesday. While…
Chen on way to airport, bound for U.S.
BEIJING: China has allowed blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng to leave a hospital in Beijing for the United States, a U.S.-based Christian advocacy group said on Saturday. …
Pomersbach to appear in Indian court
NEW DELHI: Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach was due to appear in a New Delhi courtroom on Saturday on accusations he molested a woman and beat up her fiance,…
Teacher Nafees Khan’s lawyer tortured
SARGODHA: Unknown men tortured schoolteacher Nafees Khan’s lawyer, Shahid Nazir Khan and broke his arm,…
Cough, cold, flu drugs go thrice as high
ISLAMABAD: An acute shortage of essential medicines across the country has developed into a national…
Pakistan to test-fire new missile ‘Nasr’
KARACHI: Pakistan will test fire new ballistic missile ‘Nasr’ by the end of this month,…
Twelve killed, 4 bodies found in Karachi
KARACHI: At least 12 persons were killed and four other dead bodies found from different…
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