Islamabad,The toll in Pakistan floods has risen to 257 on Thursday even as troops with helicopters and boats have evacuated 4,000 more people marooned in the raging monsoon floods. On Thursday, the Pakistan military expanded its relief operations in eastern Punjab province where the overflowing Chenab river is causing extensiveRead More

New York, Politicians, dignitaries and victims` relatives were gathering in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Thursday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed in al Qaeda`s attack on the United States 13 years ago on Sept. 11. In what has become an annual ritual, the names of the victimsRead More

Islamabad: Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan today alleged that Minister Nawaz Sharif owned a property in a posh area of London and invested millions of dollars in Europe and demanded an explanation from him. Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), claimed that Sharif had made nearly USD 320 millionRead More

Sydney, A 25-year-old Australian man feared to have contracted Ebola disease has tested negative for the deadly virus. Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said tests taken from the man, who sparked an Ebola scare on the Gold Coast, has returned a negative result, the Brisbane Times reported. “IRead More

London, The eyes of the world are on Scotland`s referendum, pro-independence leader Alex Salmond said Thursday as a top bank warned it would re-register in England if the separatists win. Salmond said the run-up to the September 18 vote was “a process of national empowerment” and promised an independent ScotlandRead More

Washington, House Republican leaders signaled a willingness to accept President Obama’s call for an escalation in the military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, putting them in rare agreement with top Senate Democrats just eight weeks before midterm elections in which a modest shift of votes inRead More

Pretoria, South Africa, The trial in the case of the Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius abruptly adjourned Thursday with one charge of unlawful homicide against him still pending. The judge, Thokozile Matilda Masipa, had earlier cleared Mr. Pistorius of the gravest murder charges against him. Then, after a lunch break, JudgeRead More

New Delhi/London,As British MPs’ plan to hold a debate on the “political and humanitarian situation in Kashmir”, the Indian government has expressed its anger. India has construed the move as an attempt to criticise India’s role in Kashmir, even put a question mark on its sovereignty over the region. Ironically,Read More

New Delhi,The British subsidiary of French train and turbine maker Alstom paid around USD 8.5 million in bribes over a six-year period to win transport contracts in India, Poland and Tunisia, Britain`s leading fraud prosecutor alleged on Tuesday. Alstom Network UK, which was charged with six offences of corruption andRead More

Ottawa, Canada’s multiculturalism minister says he and his wife were victims of a racist remark uttered by a player at a tennis court in Ottawa. Minister of State for Multiculturalism Tim Uppal tweeted about the remark, recounting an incident he says occurred at an unnamed tennis club in the city earlierRead More