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Peace will come if settlements stop says AbbasPeace will come if settlements stop says Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met in a meeting promoted by...


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Police in Mexico looking for kidnapped migrantsPolice in Mexico looking for kidnapped migrants
Mexican authorities are searching for migrants they believe have been kidnapped in north...
Michael Douglas’s wife angered by slow cancer diagnosisMichael Douglas’s wife angered by slow cancer diagnosis
Catherine Zeta-Jones has been angered by a medical diagnosis of her husband, Michael Douglas, in which he was told he has stage four cancer of the...
Controversial euthanasia method used on whaleControversial euthanasia method used on whale
Authorities in Western Australia have used a large amount of explosives to blow up a live...
Islamists released form Libyan prisonIslamists released form Libyan prison
Libya has allowed 37 Islamists, including a former driver of Osama bin Laden and members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, to leave a prison in which they had been held since...
Hurricane watch over North CarolinaHurricane watch over North Carolina
An evacuation has started in the US as residents of eastern beaches wait for Hurricane...
Man survives New York apartment dropMan survives New York apartment drop
A New York man has survived after plunging from the rooftop of a 40 storey...
America wants blacklisted terrorist America wants blacklisted terrorist
The United States has charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, with the US government still offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about...
Lahore witness to five terror attacks in 2010
Lahore, the capital of Punjab province in central Pakistan, once known for its exquisite gardens and seats of knowledge, has witnessed five terror attacks this year, which left more than 230 people...
Chinese culture minister visits Taiwan
China's culture minister arrived in Taiwan Thursday for a week-long visit, signalling further warming in the island's relations with its bitter...
New book to lift the lid on Carla's love life
A controversial new book due this month is set to lift the lid on French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's 'secret life and...
Pitt, Fox top sex fantasy list
Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Megan Fox have topped a list of stars who people would allow their partners to sleep...
India, South Africa look to expand trade and investment
India and South Africa are trying to strengthen trade links, constituting sector-specific task forces to jointly explore business opportunities and putting on the fast track mutually beneficial trade...
Pakistani trio dropped from ODI squad, get legal help
Pakistan Thursday dropped the tainted trio of cricketers for the remainder of the England tour but decided to extend them all legal help, insisting that they are innocent till proven...
Men urinate on 75-year-old woman in Britain
Two men urinated on a 75-year-old woman in Britain when she objected to their behaviour, which included relieving themselves in the stairwell and having sex in the public area of her apartment, a media report said...
Bellucci to team up with DeNiro
Hollywood actress Monica Bellucci will team up with Robert DeNiro for 'Manual of Love...
Portman's lesbian scene shocks Venice film fest
Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman shocked the 67th Venice International Film Festival (Sept 1-11) attendees with a steamy lesbian scene with Mila Kunis in 'Black Swan' that opened the...
Indian student visas fall by half in Australia
The number of Indians granted student visas in Australia during the last financial year has fallen to 29,721, less than half of the number in...
Indian women lose to Australia in hockey World Cup
India went down 3-6 to Australia in their second match of the women's hockey WOrld...
Indian cos. biggest gainers among Asia's 200 best 'under a billion'
With 39 Indian companies making it to the Forbes 'Asia's Best Under a Billion' list, up from only 20 last year, India was the biggest gainer as the region grew at 'blistering rates' after the global economic...
US hostage taker said he was strapped with bombs
An armed man who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters and was killed by police after a tense four-hour standoff told a TV channel that he had bombs strapped on 'ready to go...
Cheryl Cole to release tell-all book
Singer Cheryl Cole is all set to release a book where she will reveal details about the recent developments in her personal life that made...
Australian academic asked foreign students for sex: Probe
A former university tutor in Perth pressured a Chinese girl student and three other foreigners for sex in exchange of higher marks, Australia's corruption watchdog has...
Lahore streets deserted a day after serial blasts
A day after three back-to-back suicide blasts killed at least 35 Shias and wounded over 200, the streets of this otherwise vibrant cultural capital of Pakistan wore a deserted look Thursday as residents mourned for the victims of the horrific...
Apple set to launch smaller, lighter iPod Nano
Apple is set to launch a new touchscreen iPod Nano which is almost half the size of its existing version and also 42 percent...
Pakistan to defend tainted trio in court of law
Pakistan declared Thursday that it will defend its tainted trio of cricketers in the court of law, insisting that they are innocent till proven...
UN fears Pakistan's flood victims moving toward Iran
The United Nations expressed fears Thursday that flood-affected people in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan could move toward Iran, sparking illegal cross-border...
US says Pak Taliban part of 'most dangerous terrorist threat' to it, war on terror
The Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has been identified as part of the 'most dangerous terrorist threat' to the United States and its war on...
'Keep India out of Turkmenistan gas project'
Pakistan must not let 'sworn enemy' India join the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan gas pipeline project to prevent it benefiting and acquiring more means to 'oppress the Kashmiri people as well as plot against Pakistan', an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said...
Tall slender glasses help people drink in moderation
Can tall slender glasses help people drink in...
US Open: Bhupathi-Mirnyi advance, Bopanna-Yan bow out
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus advanced to the men's doubles second round at the US Open tennis...
Ancient humans held mass banquets to foster brotherhood
Humans were into organising mass banquets to promote fellow feelings some 12,000 years...
Man survives extraction of iron rod in Dubai
An Indian man in Dubai survived a massive surgery to remove a two-metre-long iron rod that penetrated him in an accident, daily newspaper Emirates Today reported...
Eight killed in NATO air attack in Afghanistan
Eight campaigners were killed and a candidate for parliamentary elections was injured in a NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan Thursday, a provincial official...
Toddler becomes youngest to get artificial lung
A two-year-old boy has made medical history by becoming the world's youngest person to receive an artificial...
New tech improves voice clarity on mobile phones
A technology that improves voice clarity on mobile phones by filtering out unwanted sounds is on...
Australia include teenage fast bowler for India tour
Teenage rookie fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been included in the 15-man squad Cricket Australia (CA) announced Thursday for the two-Test series in...
Five of same family die in Lahore blasts
A couple and their two minor children and nephew were among the dead in Wednesday's suicide blasts in Pakistan's Lahore...
Nepal posse seizes gold smuggled from India
Nepal's security forces have seized gold worth over NRS 10 million that was being smuggled by road from India and arrested two men, an official said...
Pakistan drop tainted trio from England tour
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Thursday ruled out the tainted trio of captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer for the rest of England tour with team manager Yawar Saeed declaring that reinforcements will be called next...
China's new computer does 1,000 trillion jobs per second
China has installed the country's first domestically-made supercomputer capable of doing 1,000 trillion operations per...
Fish oil could save 10,000 heart patients every year
Fish oil capsules could save lives of 10,000 heart patients every year, finds a recent...
Lahore blasts: Strategy in Data Darbar bombing was similar
Investigators in Pakistan were Thursday examining the similarities between the powerful triple blasts targeting a Shia procession near Karbala Gamay Shah here a day earlier and the July 1 bombing of the famous Sufi shrine Data Darbar just a few metres...
China to vaccinate 100 mn kids against measles
Over 100 million children, including those of foreigners living in China, will be vaccinated in the country's largest ever measles immunisation campaign, the ministry of health has...
India partners Nepal to spread Krishna's voice
The Bhagvad Gita - containing Lord Krishna's teachings and regarded as the essence of the Hindu religion and philosophy - is one of the most influential books in the world, but not much is known about its sequel, the...
Mum's cuddle eases baby's pain from jabs
Mums giving newborn babies a cuddle seems to ease their pain from jabs, finds a recent...
Toll in Lahore bombings rises to 38
The toll from three suicide bombings in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore rose to 38 Thursday as more victims died in hospital from their wounds, rescue workers...
Canadian woman judge in inter-racial porn scandal
In a shocking sex scandal that has hit the Canadian judiciary, a black man is suing a white lawyer for harassing him to have sex with the lawyer's wife who herself is now a senior...
Ashton Kutcher hits back at cheating reports
Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher rubbished reports that he is cheating on his wife Demi...
Zeta-Jones finds it hard to see husband battling cancer
Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta-Jones admits watching her husband Michael Douglas battle throat cancer is the hardest...