The powerful exiled leader of Pakistan's MQM party, Altaf Hussain, was arrested in London yesterday on suspicion of moneylaundering as thousands of people in his home city of Karachi staged a sit-in calling for his release. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...

The powerful exiled leader of Pakistan's MQM party, Altaf Hussain, was arrested in London yesterday on suspicion of moneylaundering as thousands of people in his home city of Karachi staged a sit-in calling for his release. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...

It took British authorities years to nab Altaf Hussain, the infamous Pakistani cult/party leader. Bringing him to justice may take longer. The arrest in London today on charges of money laundering of one of Pakistan's most notorious politicians, Altaf Hussain, ...

Beirut: Syrians head to the polls on Tuesday in a presidential election that virtually assures victory for incumbent Bashar Al Assad. While Syrian rebels and Western powers decry the vote as a sham, Syria's government has called it a “genuine opportunity” for ...

CAIRO — Egypt's President-elect Abdel Fattah al Sisi yesterday urged his countrymen to work to restore stability and achieve “freedom” and “social justice”, in a speech after he was declared winner of last week's election. Sisi's appeal mirrored the slogan of ...

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, like previous rulers of Egypt, is a former high-ranking military officer legitimised by vote. However authoritarian his image is, it reassures many Egyptians, who have had three years of staggering instability. Sissi, however, took vows ...

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government has announced half-day holiday in government offices tomorrow in the honour of Union Minister Gopinath Munde who passed away in a road accident in Delhi today. All government offices and PSUs will be closed for half ...

Three days after President Barack Obama announced that prisoner Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would be coming home after five years in captivity, early euphoria over the soldier's liberation has given way to confusion and questions over the circumstances of ...

Three days after President Barack Obama announced that prisoner Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would be coming home after five years in captivity, early euphoria over the soldier's liberation has given way to confusion and questions over the circumstances of ...

OK, so ladies night out just got a little more interesting. Mr. Hunky McHunk, Brad Pitt, aka Angelina Jolie's baby daddy, has decided he is now a. Loading… Post to Facebook. Would you drink Brad Pitt wine? OK, so ladies night out just got a little more ...

Artist's concept of Kepler-56b getting torn apart by its host star. David A. Aguilar (CfA). Share this article. Facebook; Twitter; Linkedin; Google +; More. There's bad news for two planets in the Kepler-56 system as they will be swallowed whole by the host star in ...

Just as it seemed that a solution to the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia was near, Ukraine has returned to its old price demands and the European Union has set to sabotaging Russia's South Stream pipeline to Europe, darkening the prospects of a ...

Cairo: Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was Tuesday officially announced as the new president of the country by the presidential election commission. Al-Sisi achieved a landslide victory over leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy in the three-day ...

Apple wowed a lot of people with previews of its new version of OS X, called Yosemite, which looks beautiful. Equally impressive was the the performance of Craig Federighi, the Senior Vice President who delivered most of yesterday's WWDC keynote.

BERLIN (AP) A German politician hoping for help from Angela Merkel during a television quiz show was left disappointed when the chancellor failed to take his call. Conservative lawmaker Wolfgang Bosbach used his phone-a-friend lifeline to ring his party's ...

Damascus, June 3 (IANS) Syria kicked off its presidential election Tuesday, with voters casting their ballots for the country's three presidential candidates. The three candidates are incumbent President Bashar al-Assad, former minister Hassan al-Nouri and ...

Damascus, June 3 (IANS) Syria kicked off its presidential election Tuesday, with voters casting their ballots for the country's three presidential candidates. The three candidates are incumbent President Bashar al-Assad, former minister Hassan al-Nouri and ...

Mobile photo social network Instagram has launched 10 new editing tools today for iOS and Android. Some of the new tools include adjustment features like contrast, shadows, warmth, highlights, vignette, sharpen, filter strength, brightness, saturation, and ...

Election day in Syria. Amateur video, which can not be independently verified by Reuters, shows war raging in the country as voters are expected to hand Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an overwhelming victory. The 48-year-old President along with his ...

Maria Sharapova was one game from defeat before she seized the match from Garbine Muguruza. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. PARIS -- Four thoughts from the first set of quarterfinals at the 2014 French Open: • Early last week -- with her nemesis, Serena ...