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PML N Senator and senior leader Pervez Rasheed has rejected reports that party chief Nawaz Sharif was trying to rake in disgruntled PML-Q...

The Karmapa Lama, one of Tibet’s top Buddhist monks and widely seen as a potential spiritual successor to the Dalai Lama, spoke out Monday...

Lawyers for the studio behind 'Two and a Half Men' are rejecting Charlie Sheen's claim that he's in talks to return to the hit CBS sitcom. A letter Thursday from attorneys for Warner Bros. Television to Sheen's lawyer dismisses as "false" Sheen's comments that discussions are underway to reinstate him. Details of the letter were confirmed by a person close to the situation who requested anonymity because they lacked authority to speak publicly.
Sheen told a Boston radio station

SANAA - Protesters kept up the heat on President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday as deaths mounted in the flashpoint city of Taez, even as a dissident general denied aiming to replace the Yemeni leader.
On the regional scene, Yemen recalled its ambassador to Qatar, state news agency Saba announced, after a call from the Gulf state for Saleh to step down stirred anger in Sanaa. And the army shelled a suspected Al-Qaeda refuge in southern Yemen, after the United States expressed

Mumbai - Brushing aside rumours of selling her IPL cricket team Kings XI Punjab, Bollywood actress Preity Zinta said she will never go out of it completely. "We were going to do a stake offload, a bit of it. But there was this random rumour (of selling it). I don't think I will ever go out of it completely because to me its my baby. I have worked very hard for it. I have given my life to it. I can't just wash my hands off it. But I think now it is settled and is in its own zone,"

ROME - NATO on Thursday denied bombing Libya's biggest oil field after accusations from Moamer Kadhafi's regime, saying fires at the Al-Sarir field were more likely to be linked to skirmishes in the region.
"The accusation by Colonel Kadhafi that NATO was responsible for fires in the Sarir Oil Fields is false," NATO said in a statement from its base in Naples which is overseeing military operations in Libya.
"Attacks last week by pro-Kadhafi forces have resulted in a number

NEW DELHI - Australian spin legend Shane Warne on Wednesday denied media reports that he was interested in coaching World Cup champions India.
"Just got told on bus - apparently I put my hand up to coach India. Wow - first I have heard of it - Sorry to disappoint but never said that!!!" Warne tweeted.
Leg-spinner Warne, 41, is in the country to take part in the Indian Premier League where he leads the Rajasthan Royals franchise in the lucrative Twenty20 competition, starting

BEIRUT - Lebanon's Hezbollah on Thursday vehemently rejected accusations that it was involved in training members of the Shiite opposition engaged in anti-regime protests in Bahrain.
"We cannot remain silent as concerns accusations about training (regime opponents)," the Shiite militant group said in a statement. "The accusations are aimed at undermining the peaceful demonstrations of the oppressed people." The statement was in reaction to charges by Bahrain's foreign minister

LAHORE - Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has rejected reservations by some groups of doctors about the approval of the summary of promotion/regularisation of 1800 senior doctors having postgraduate qualification of FCPS, MRCP, and FRCS as assistant professors, senior registrars and district specialists by the Punjab chief minister.
PMA officials said that the summary's approval and implementation will ensure that 1800 senior doctors awaiting regularisation for last 13 years

MANAMA - Bahrain's foreign minister said on Monday it was "completely untrue" that Kuwait would mediate to resolve the country's political crisis, a reaction leading opposition group Wefaq said augured badly for any resolution. Shi'ite muslim Wefaq said on Sunday it accepted an offer by Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah to mediate between Bahrain's Sunni al-Khalifa ruling family and opposition groups. Earlier this month, Bahrain's rulers imposed martial law in the Gulf Arab

LOS ANGELES - Ten years after helping launch 'American Idol' into a national pastime, Simon Cowell is again playing the role of underdog. He's back auditioning talent for a largely unknown singing competition - although this time, when 'The X Factor' premieres on Fox this fall, it will come with immense hype and expectations. Cowell, 51, speaks about his upcoming reality show and his experience as a judge on the 'American Idol'. Q. Tell us what you learned from launching 'Idol' that

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim denied on Monday that he was the man filmed having sex with an unidentified woman, describing the allegation as a "malicious slander" designed to discredit him politically.
The charges could tarnish the reputation of the former deputy premier, who is already involved in a protracted legal battle involving allegations that he had sex with a former male aide, and undermine the opposition's efforts to stem a recent slide in

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday denied bail to Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Moonis Elahi in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) Scam case, following which Elahi turned himself in to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
Talking to reporters outside the FIA's Lahore office, Elahi denied the corruption charges against him and said he would be "honourably acquitted by the grace of God". Elahi said he trusted the

RAWALPINDI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested former Religious Affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi for his alleged involvement in the Hajj corruption scam after a central court cancelled his bail plea.
Kazmi was sacked by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for his alleged involvement in the scam of billions of rupees. After his sacking, a civil court issued his arrest warrant but he sought an interim bail. However, Special Central Judge Sohail Nasir on

QUETTA - Secretary General of Balochistan National Party-Awami and Provincial Agriculture Minister Mir Asadullah Baloch has denied that approval was sought from provincial coalition cabinet for deployment of Frontier Corps in different troubled areas of the province.
He said that FC should be sent back to barracks and the expenditure on it should be utilised for providing the clean drinking water and education facilities to the local people. Briefing reporters on the decisions

LAHORE - Former state minister Habib Ullah Warraich has contradicted a news item published in Pakistan Today regarding the court's proceedings in National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam where he has been accused of committing corruption of billions rupees by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
A written clarification by his counsel Malik Noor Muhammad Awan stated that Habib Ullah Warraich had never purchased any government land and also never sold any property to the

CAIRO - Egypt insisted Thursday it had not denied two warships belonging to Iran passage through the Suez Canal, but canal and shipping officials privately admitted they were blocked. Iran's official press had reported earlier this month that two warships, part of a flotilla, would pass through the canal, prompting Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to brand the move a provocation.
The ships were due to pass the canal on Thursday, Lieberman claimed on Wednesday, but a