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An avalanche of mud smashed into an orphanage in Malaysia killing at least five children, police said, after heavy monsoon rains lashed the capital...

NATO said on Friday its warplanes hit eight vessels of Moamer Gaddafi’s navy, after US President Barack Obama predicted the veteran Libyan strongman would...

Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on Thursday said that no one could stop the US from conducting drone attacks in the province if...

YouTube on Thursday began publishing a chart that tracks top music videos at the popular Google-owned website. A YouTube 100 chart online at youtube.com/music...

The balloting for the plots of Lahore Development Authority (LDA)’s employees, which has been hanging in the balance for the last 16 months, has...

LAHORE - Isolated rain was witnessed in various areas of Lahore including Badami Bagh, Shahdara, Karim Park and others on Monday. Scattered rain and thunderstorm hit Upper Punjab, including Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK.
The Met Office informed that dry weather is expected in most parts of the country but isolated rain and thunderstorm is expected in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Hazara divisions, Gilgit-Baltistan and

TOKYO - A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck off northeast Japan early on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The undersea quake struck at 5:57 local time at a depth of just 11.2 kilometres, 190 kilometres east of Morioka on Honshu island, it said.On March 11, a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated northeast region of the country, leaving more than 13,000 people dead and over 15,000 missing.

ASADABAD - A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials said.
The bomber struck in Kunar, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces and an insurgent stronghold on the border with Pakistan. "A suicide attacker targeted a gathering of tribal elders in the Asmar district of Kunar today," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
"Ten people have been martyred and

ASADABAD - A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials said.
The bomber struck in Kunar, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces and an insurgent stronghold on the border with Pakistan, where Taliban-led militants fighting the Afghan government and US-led troops have rear bases.
"A suicide attacker targeted a gathering of tribal elders in the Asmar district of Kunar

TOKYO - A second major aftershock measuring 6.3 rocked northeast Japan on Tuesday, swaying buildings in central Tokyo, shortly after the government upgraded its nuclear crisis to that on par with Chernobyl in 1986.
The latest aftershock struck the area of Fukushima, near the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant, said the Japan Meteorological Agency. A 6.3 aftershock hit Chiba prefecture, neighbouring Tokyo, earlier on Tuesday.

DHAKA - Shane Watson smashed a record 15 sixes in a career-best 185 not out as Australia clinched a three-match series against Bangladesh with a nine-wicket win in the second one-dayer on Monday. The explosive opener gave a superb display of power-hitting as he also cracked 15 fours in his 96-ball knock to help Australia achieve a 230-run target with 24 overs to spare for an unbeatable 2-0 lead. West Indies' Xavier Marshall was the previous record-holder with 12 sixes against Canada

TOKYO - Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. A magnitude 6.6 tremor shook buildings in Tokyo and a wide swathe of eastern Japan on Monday evening, killing one man, knocking out power to 220,000 households and causing a brief halt to water pumping to cool 3 damaged nuclear

TOKYO - A powerful 6.6-magnitude aftershock hit northeastern Japan on Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert and forcing the evacuation of workers battling to avert a crisis at a stricken nuclear plant.
The tremor hit exactly one month after a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan and knocked out cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, triggering the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
"The company ordered workers to withdraw and stay in a

KARACHI - The price of gold has surged to a record high of Rs 46,350 per tola (11.665 grams) due to a price hike in the international market. As the trend in gold prices was sustained in both local and international markets, gold traded at the record high of Rs 46,350 per tola in Pakistan.
According to sources the bullion rates have climbed to the highest level, surpassing the previous record of Rs 46,000 a tola, while the international spot gold rates rose to $1,444 an ounce

COTABATO - Hundreds of residents fled a remote Philippine village after 11 men including relatives of a powerful politician died in a clash with Muslim rebels, officials said Monday.
A 500-strong armoured army unit deployed in the deserted village of Tenok on Monday, a day after the clash, to keep about 150 gun-wielding clan members and 130 guerrillas apart, said local military spokesman Colonel Prudencio Asto.
"They would not want to engage our people, who are fully

EAST OF BREGA - The US military is poised to withdraw its combat jets and Tomahawk missiles from the air campaign against Libya's regime as NATO allies take the lead in bombing Moamer Gaddafi's forces.
A NATO-led airstrike killed 13 Libyan rebels in a "regrettable incident", a rebel spokesman said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega. Meanwhile, US officials on Friday confirmed that American fighters,

TOKYO - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Thursday in an area of northeastern Japan jolted by a massive quake and tsunami disaster earlier this month, the US Geological Survey said.
The quake struck at 4:15 pm (0715 GMT) about 417 kilometres (259 miles) northeast of Tokyo, at a depth of 39.6 kilometers (24.6 miles), the USGS said.
The epicentre was off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, where a huge tsunami swept away houses and thousands of people on March 11.
No tsunami