Thai police investigating CCTV showing second suspicious bag drop
BANGKOK: Thai police on Saturday said they were investigating new security camera footage showing a man dropping a package into a canal as the hunt for those behind Monday’s deadly Bangkok bomb blast...
View ArticlePublic plazas in New York’s Times Square bring business, chaos
NEW YORK: New York City’s Times Square is notorious for its fast talkers, street walkers and con-men mingling among artists scrounging tips from tourists who gawk at themselves on jumbo video screens...
View ArticleReady to visit New Delhi without any preconditions: Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s senior aide Sartaj Aziz has dismissed India’s claim that Pakistan was trying to ‘distort’ the agenda agreed upon for the national security adviser-level talks as “nothing...
View ArticleAussie ‘Invincible’ Morris dies at 93
SYDNEY: Former Australian opener Arthur Morris, a member of Don Bradman’s 1948 ‘Invincibles’ team, has died aged 93, Cricket Australia said Saturday. The death of Morris, who had been the country’s...
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‘He is being paid’: Humayun dismisses Hamza’s claim of not taking money for JPNA
KARACHI: Hamza Ali Abbasi is making ‘headlines’ again, and no one is surprised. A few months ago, he posted a status on Facebook dissing the “emerging trend of revealing item numbers”. The statement...
View ArticleIndian police arrest Hurriyat leader Shabbir Shah in New Delhi
NEW DELHI: Indian police arrested on Saturday senior Hurriyat leader and chairman of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Democratic Freedom Party Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Radio Pakistan reported. According to...
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Art exhibit: ‘Ecce Homo – Chapter 1′– Pushing the norm
Surprise and delight were two reactions I had when I visited Amra Khan’s recent solo show at Sanat Gallery in Karachi. This was due to the large scale and detail of the works, as well as the boldness,...
View ArticleFour al Qaeda suspects killed by ‘US drone’ in Yemen: official
ADEN: Four suspected al Qaeda militants were killed overnight in an apparent US drone strike in Mukalla, the southern Yemeni city that the extremist group overran in April, a local official said...
View ArticleUS expresses disappointment over cancellation of Pakistan, India peace talks
The United States said on Sunday it was ‘disappointed’ over the cancellation of scheduled talks between the national security advisers (NSAs) of Pakistan and India. “We are disappointed the talks will...
View ArticleIndia uncertain on fate of planned high-level Pakistan meets
NEW DELHI: Indian officials said on Sunday that two planned meetings with Pakistani counterparts are now uncertain after talks between their national security advisers were cancelled amid a row over...
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Pen pals for 52 years meet for first time, recognise each other instantly
Two pen friends who wrote each other for five decades have finally met and both recognised each other instantly, despite never having exchanged photographs. According to Mail Online, Linda Bennett, 63,...
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There are no boundaries in music and Indian media has proven it: Asrar Shah
Syed Asrar Shah of Coke Studio 7 fame is already making waves across the border as the singer made his debut with an item number Afghan Jalebi in the upcoming Bollywood film Phantom. In a recent...
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Britain’s Farah oozes six appeal in Beijing
BEIJING: Britain’s Mo Farah continued his astonishing streak in major championships by retaining his 10,000 metres world title in Beijing. It was a sixth successive victory in the 5,000 or 10,000m at a...
View ArticleWant to send your name to Mars? Look no further
Who would have thought that your name could travel without you, well now it can and that too to the Red Planet, also known as Mars. NASA is asking the public to submit their names to the agency’s...
View ArticleTribal leader, PPP tehsil president killed in Bajaur blast
SHABQADAR: At least two people, including a tehsil president of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), were killed and three security officials were injured on Sunday in two separate acts of terror in Zari...
View ArticlePakistani student wins second prize at NASA contest
A Pakistani boy secured second prize at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Space Settlement Design Contest 2015. Shah Mir Aizaz, a student of O’ Levels, participated in the...
View ArticleChina fears, global growth doubts grip markets
Markets are watching for China’s next move as signs of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy stack up, raising expectations it will act to stoke growth. A looming snap election in Greece and...
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Bollywood composers dedicate song to Peshawar victims
December 2014 Peshawar massacre that claimed the lives of 151 people, including 141 children, left a horrifying mark across the globe. Such was the impact of the incident on Bollywood composers Salim...
View ArticlePistorius killed our daughter deliberately – Steenkamps
JOHANNESBURG: Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp deliberately, her parents said, ahead of an appeal hearing in which prosecutors are seeking to overturn a South African court...
View ArticlePM Nawaz chairs federal cabinet meeting
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called a meeting of the federal cabinet at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad on Monday. During the meeting chaired by the premier, issues pertaining to the overall...
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