DHAKA: The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster surpassed 650 Monday after dozens of bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a nine-storey building housing garment factories, the army said. Major Manzur Elahi of the army control roo...
LOS ANGELES: All evacuation orders were lifted Sunday in California as firefighters battling a massive wildfire near Los Angeles said they had contained 60 percent of the blaze. The inferno, the biggest in a series of wildfires fueled by tinder-dry b...
MADRID: A historic jet plane crashed into a hangar and exploded in a fireball at an air show southwest of the capital Sunday, severely injuring its pilot who later died in the hospital, officials said. A spokesman for Spain's Defense Ministry said th...
MANCHESTER: Juan Mata's dramatic late goal earned Chelsea an unlikely three points in their quest for Champions League football as they secured a 1-0 victory at Premier League champions Manchester United on Sunday. The Chelsea midfielder struck at th...
ISTANBUL: Galatasaray clinched the Turkish league title on Sunday with two games of the season remaining as they crushed Sivasspor 4-2 in Istanbul. With arch-rivals Fenerbahce beaten 2-0 by another Istanbul side, Buyuksehir Belediyespor, Galatarasary...
MADRID: Lionel Messi came off the bench to move Barcelona within two points of clinching the La Liga title with a 4-2 win over Real Betis at Camp Nou on Sunday. Dorlan Pabon and Ruben Perez had twice given the visitors the lead in the first-half eith...
ISCHIA: Arturo Vidal's 10th league goal of the season was enough to secure a 1-0 win over Palermo and help ten-man Juventus to their 29th Serie A title on Sunday. Juve, however, courted controversy when several players brandished giant shields in the...
LAHORE: Senior journalist, columnist and poet Abbas Athar died of cancer early Monday morning, media reported. Abbas Athar was suffering from cancer for four years and was being treated at CMH Lahore. He will be remembered for his services in journal...
MADRID: World No.1 Serena Williams was given a reasonable test in her first match at the Madrid Masters on Sunday against Kazakh qualifier Yulia Putintseva before the American eventually prevailed 7-6 (7/5), 6-1.Putintseva had come through two rounds...
LAHORE: Over 10,929 cases of measles have been reported in Punjab during the last five months with an addition of 141 new cases during the last 24 hours. According to health department officials, at least 64 deaths have been reported so far while mos...
LAS VEGAS: World Boxing Council champion Floyd Mayweather extended his perfect record to 44 victories Saturday, beating Robert Guerrero by unanimous decision in their welterweight title fight. Mayweather, who was defending his title for the first tim...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: Phil Mickelson and Nick Watney each stumbled with the lead on Saturday, leaving the US duo tied atop the leaderboard after three rounds at the US PGA Wells Fargo Championship.Mickelson took a double bogey at the par-5 15th ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ended its 14 year long hiatus having ruled the roost in the game of Squash with players like Jehnagir Khan and Jansher Khan who brought home titles and made the nation proud. On Sunday, Amir Atlas defeated Muhammed Abdullah of Kuw...
MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians routed Chennai Super Kings by 60 runs after bowling them out for a mere 79 in the Indian Premier League here at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Chennai’s defeat, after being bundled out for the lowest total in this IPL, ended t...
MUNICH, Germany: Evergreen German Tommy Haas beat defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets on Sunday to win the Munich claycourt title for the first time at the 10th attempt, 13 years afterhis first appearance in the final.Haas neede...
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: Sean Williams hit a career-best 78 not out as Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh by six wickets in the second one-day international here on Sunday to set up a series decider.Playing in only his second one-day match since the 2011 World Cup,...
Don Castner was already in danger of arousing the suspicions of the fashion police. But the 39-year-old Floridian got a taste of delicious irony when he was arrested Wednesday by the actual police while wearing a T-shirt that read, "jail sucks!" The ...
LONDON: Ravi Bopara's England exile came to an end Friday when the Essex all-rounder was named in the hosts' squad for next month's ICC Champions Trophy and the preceding one-day series with New Zealand.Bopara has not played a 50-overs-a-side interna...
NEW DELHI: All-rounder Yuvraj Singh and opener Gautam Gambhir were excluded on Saturday from India's 15-man squad for the Champions Trophy in England next month. Yuvraj, who had made a dramatic return to international cricket last year after his canc...
OEIRAS, Portugal: Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5, 6-2 on Saturday to win the Portugal Open and claim her first trophy on clay.The third-seeded champion, coached by former Swiss great Martina Hingis, earned the...
Why Afghanistan is nervous about the US troop withdrawal
By December 2014 the Afghan National Security Forces that have been b...
Lion of Kabul recruited for 'clean and green' campaign
Kabul: Once known as a city of gardens and abundant fruits, Kabul is ...
Fearing Afghanistan instability, Russia mulls border troops
KABUL: Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw f...
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights
The Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women has been in effect si...
Flying with the Afghan Air Force
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Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
President Barack Obama trimmed his funding request for the war in Afg...
Dr. Cornel West Calls President Obama a War Criminal
Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American' The American academic and f...
Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
“The true face of our enemy has now been revealed,” says one commander...
