ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board is working on a plan to send a `vigilance expert’ with its team to England for The Champions Trophy to help ward off potential match fixers. Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and former captain Salman Butt are serving len...
NEW DELHI: A brilliant 19th over from Amit Mishra that included a hattrick for the leggie finally took the game away from the Pune Warriors, giving the Hyderabad team a victory by 11 runs in a T20 league match in Pune on Wednesday. Earlier, the home ...
WASHINGTON: An electronic fork that vibrates when you eat too fast went on sale Wednesday on Kickstarter, with its French inventors claiming it can help combat obesity and digestive issues. Those who contribute at least $89 on the crowd funding websi...
PARIS: A late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital, French medical officials said. Christian Nayet, a 60-year-old cancer sufferer fr...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's gay community was gearing up Wednesday to celebrate the legalisation of same-sex marriage, which would make the country the first in the Asia-Pacific region to approve the measure. Parliament will vote late Wednesday on a bi...
QUETTA: An aftershock earthquake measuring 6 on Richter scale hit the Mashkel Tehsil of Washuk district of Balochistan located on the Pak-Iran border Wednesday morning, reports reaching here said. Tremors were also felt in Dalbadin, Noshki and Naukan...
LONDON: The coffin of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was on Tuesday taken to the Houses of Parliament, which she dominated for more than a decade, on the eve of her funeral. Dressed with the British flag and a large bouquet of white ...
SYDNEY: A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The shallow quake, at a depth of just seven kilometres (four miles), hit 19 kilometres east of the small...
QUETTA: An aftershock earthquake measuring 6 on Richter scale hit the Mashkel Tehsil of Washuk district of Balochistan located on the Pak-Iran border Wednesday morning, reports reaching here said. Details of fresh material and human loss could not be...
LAGOS: A mine collapse in Ghana's central gold-producing region has killed 16 people who were working in the area illegally and had been told to leave by the operator, police told AFP Tuesday. "They retrieved 16 bodies," area police commander William...
TEHRAN: A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Iran on Tuesday, the country's Seismological Centre reported on its website. The epicentre of the quake, which struck at a depth of 18 kilometers (11 miles), was located about 81 kilometres north of...
LAHORE: All 32 jails across Punjab with total population of 49,792 prisoners have been fumigated against dengue with the cooperation of local health authorities. Inspector General of Prisons Punjab, Mian Farooq Nazeer told APP here Tuesday that Jail ...
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India is reportedly reluctant to play a full series against New Zealand early next year. According to the ICC's Future Tours Program, India are scheduled to play three Tests, five One-day Internationals ...
MONTE CARLO: Eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia suffered another early exit when he was beaten 7-6 6-1 by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the Monte Carlo tennis second round on Tuesday.World number 10 Tipsarevic, who has never made it past the third...
MOHALI: Gautam Gambhir stupendous batting and Sunil Narine's splendid hat-trick went in-vain as Kings XI Punjab made a miraculous comeback to stun defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by four runs in a thrilling Pepsi Indian Premier League encou...
DORTMUND: Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has admitted his club underestimated ticket demands for their Champions League home semi-final against Real Madrid after fights broke out on Tuesday. Dortmund host Real at Signal Iduna Park stadium ...
MOHALI: Two Twenty20 matches will be played today (Tuesday) in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The first match will be played between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium while the ...
LONDON: Star England batsman Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out of next month's home Test series with New Zealand due to a knee injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Tuesday.The 32-year-old had already been ruled out of the final ...
MOSCOW: The 2014 Winter Olympic Games host Russia on Tuesday vowed to step up security in Sochi and other sporting venues following a deadly Boston marathon attack that it described as a "big warning". Security has been of paramount concern for Russi...
HAVANA: Fidel Castro, the retired leader of the Cuban Revolution, met with Argentine football great Diego Maradona on Saturday, the official media said Monday. "The exchange between the two old friends was fruitful," the official Cuban Granma daily r...
World’s largest wave power scheme given go-ahead
THE Scottish Government today gave the green light for the world’s la...
Afghan peace lost in transition worries
KABUL : Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Talib...
Afghan archaeology site faces rocky future
Ancient ruins of Mes Aynak threatened by planned Chinese mining projec...
Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
Kabul, Afghanistan: As a young Army Green Beret major in December 2001...
A cooler century? Wait and see
New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more s...
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Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden
"Raw Story" - MIT Professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al...
