Global business leaders suspend ties with Saudi Arabia
LONDON: Global business leaders are reassessing their ties with Saudi Arabia, stoking pressure on the Gulf kingdom to explain what happened to a dissident writer who disappeared after visiting its consulate in…
Cyprus president urges global migration strategy
UNITED NATIONS: The leader of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is criticizing short-term moves to lock up migrants and is urging world leaders to work together on a global migration strategy instead.…
Pakistan stands 94th in global quality education list
The Spectator Index, a watchdog which focuses on politics, economics, history, military affairs, sports, science and technology, has tweeted a list of 137 countries where quality education prevails. Starting with Switzerland on…
Pak prodigy wins gold medal for global mathematics competition
KARACHI: Syed Jafar Raza, a mathematical whiz from Pakistan, won laurels at the seventh International Math Challenge held in Thailand, and scored himself a coveted gold medal. The international competition held at the Pan Asia International School, Bangkok entailed a…
New global pandemics feared after 100 years ‘Spanish flu’
BRUSSELS: A century after the “Spanish flu” killed 50 million people, humanity now risks a new wave of deadly diseases, and in today’s globalised world another such pandemic may be unavoidable, experts warned…
Indian-origin IS member designated global terrorist by US
Washington: The US on Wednesday designated Indian-origin Islamic State militant from Britain Siddhartha Dhar along with a Belgian-Moroccan citizen as global terrorists and imposed sanctions on them, the State Department said. Dhar, a…
US quits talks on global migration pact in UN citing ‘sovereignty clash’
UNITED NATIONS: The United States has quit negotiations on a voluntary pact to deal with migration because the global approach to the issue was “simply not compatible with US sovereignty,” said US Ambassador…
Global growth will be disappointing in 2016: IMF chief
Global economic growth will be “disappointing” next year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a guest article for German newspaper Handelsblatt published on Wednesday. “In many countries the…
Global crude oil price plunges to four-year low below $80
Brent crude oil fell to a four-year low below $80 a barrel on Thursday after Chinese data showed a slowdown in activity last month in the world’s top energy consumer and Saudi…
Global imbalances remain threat to stability: IMF
Debts owed by borrowers to surplus countries have kept growing in the wake of 2008-09 crisis and still threaten the global economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. Even though total…
JS Global continues to lead in Pakistan’s Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange market
JS Global Capital Ltd (JS Global) continued its impressive showing in Pakistan’s Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange (FX) market in the 2013 Financial Market Association of Pakistan (FMA) survey. The FMA survey…
Global women leaders to address seminar in Lahore
New World Concepts is pleased to announce the International Women Leadership Seminar, being held on Wednesday, 30th April 2014 at Pearl Continental Hotel Lahore. “After an overwhelming response to the International Women…
Poll reveals global opposition to US drone strikes
The US drone strikes are widely unpopular in nations across the world, a survey said on Thursday amid criticism from countries including Pakistan over the unmanned aerial attacks that Washington regularly launches…
Global warming making earth ‘greener’
THE planet is getting lusher, and we are responsible. Carbon dioxide generated by human activity is stimulating photosynthesis and causing a beneficial greening of the Earth’s surface. For the first time, researchers…
Global warming ‘reversible’, say scientists
Hi-tech new bio-energy plants could “reverse” global warming by pumping carbon dioxide into old gas wells – lowering temperatures by 0.6°C per century, according to a new study. There are already 16…
The end is near!
All animals and plants will vanish from the Earth within the next billion years, a new study suggests. Ironically Armageddon is going to arrive as a result of too little, rather than…