Tag: Hits

6.4-magnitude quake hits Indonesia’s Sumatra: USGS

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, sending terrified residents fleeing from homes and buildings. One man collapsed...

12 killed as van hits roadside tree

In a bid to save a pedestrian life, the driver of a van instead hit the vehicle with a tree on early Tuesday morning....

Julian Assange furious as autobiography hits shelves

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange condemned an unauthorised autobiography as it hit the shelves in Britain on Thursday, after he failed to prevent the publisher...

Djokovic hits 60 mark at injury-plagued US Open

Novak Djokovic racked up his 60th win of the year on Saturday to join former champions Serena Williams and Roger Federer in the US...

Fed could get specific on goals if recession hits

A darkening US economic outlook is forcing Federal Reserve officials to dig ever deeper into an already depleted policy toolkit and consider measures until...

UN vows fight as toll hits 23 in Nigeria

The UN’s deputy chief met Nigeria’s president Sunday after vowing a renewed fight against terrorism in the wake of a suicide bomb attack at...

KESC hits back at KWSB

The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has earmarked its important and critical customers as being ‘strategic’ in nature and out of them of them,...

Water shortage hits Muslim Colony slums

Water shortage has hit the slums of Muslim Colony situated behind the President and PM secretariat due to which the inhabitants are facing problems....

Blast hits Philippine governor’s convoy; one dead

One man was killed and seven people injured in the southern Philippines on Monday when a car bomb exploded next to the convoy of...

Obama’s approval rating hits record low

US President Barack Obama's job approval rating has sunk below 40 percent for the first time, according to a new Gallup daily tracking poll...

Wasim hits back after Mohsin tirade

The war of words between Pakistan’s chief selector Mohsin Khan and former Test captain Wasim Akram continues with the latter insisting that the selection...

New York maid hits Strauss-Kahn with civil lawsuit

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted a housekeeper in a "violent and sadistic attack" in his hotel suite in Manhattan in May, a...

Year of smash hits for Bollywood after a poor 2010

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - which translates as there is only one life to live - set the box office on fire last month,...

Gold hits record as misery mounts over debt

Gold rallied to its ninth record high this year on Tuesday, as growing fears about the spread of the European debt crisis and the...

String of hits brings smile back to Bollywood

Bollywood has had a better start to the second half of 2011 after a tough first six months of empty cinemas and postponed releases...

Rupee hits record low

The Pakistani rupee fell to a record low on Wednesday on strong demand for the dollar for oil import payments, and dealers said they...

Landslide hits S Korea mountain resort, 13 dead

A landslide caused by torrential rain crashed into a South Korean mountain resort east of Seoul on Wednesday, destroying three small hotels and killing...