Lebanese security forces arrested Islamist preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed on Sunday, three days after a court sentenced him and 21 other people to life in prison for carrying out "terrorist acts". A police statement said Bakri tried to flee when they came t

Lebanese security forces arrested Islamist preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed on Sunday, three days after a court sentenced him and 21 other people to life in prison for carrying out "terrorist acts". A police statement said Bakri tried to flee when they came t

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed trusted ally Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday ahead of a ministerial reshuffle aimed at shoring up his position 18 months before a presidential election.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed trusted ally Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday ahead of a ministerial reshuffle aimed at shoring up his position 18 months before a presidential election.

Textile processing and printing mills, sizing units and foundries will remain closed for two days on Monday and Tuesday due to gas shedding, while 380 CNG stations of Faisalabad region were remained closed their Business owing to gas shedding, here on Sun

Textile processing and printing mills, sizing units and foundries will remain closed for two days on Monday and Tuesday due to gas shedding, while 380 CNG stations of Faisalabad region were remained closed their Business owing to gas shedding, here on Sun

Textile processing and printing mills, sizing units and foundries will remain closed for two days on Monday and Tuesday due to gas shedding, while 380 CNG stations of Faisalabad region were remained closed their Business owing to gas shedding, here on Sun

India''s telecommunications minister resigned on Sunday over corruption allegations stemming from a federal probe into the sale of bandwith for cellphone services to mobile operators.

India's telecommunications minister resigned on Sunday over corruption allegations stemming from a federal probe into the sale of bandwith for cellphone services to mobile operators.

India's telecommunications minister resigned on Sunday over corruption allegations stemming from a federal probe into the sale of bandwith for cellphone services to mobile operators.

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has empowered all officials of Inland Revenue, authorised by the concerned commissioner, to direct taxpayers for submitting tax records/documents to conduct sales tax audit under section 25 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990.

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has empowered all officials of Inland Revenue, authorised by the concerned commissioner, to direct taxpayers for submitting tax records/documents to conduct sales tax audit under section 25 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990.

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has empowered all officials of Inland Revenue, authorised by the concerned commissioner, to direct taxpayers for submitting tax records/documents to conduct sales tax audit under section 25 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990.

Germany repitched its appeal for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council Sunday, following Washington's backing of Asian heavyweights India and Japan for such posts. "Germany is also ready to take on more responsibility," German Foreign Mi

Germany repitched its appeal for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council Sunday, following Washington's backing of Asian heavyweights India and Japan for such posts. "Germany is also ready to take on more responsibility," German Foreign Mi

Five soldiers serving with the Nato-led force in Afghanistan were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with insurgents in the east, the coalition said, one of the worst daily tolls in a month. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) gav

Five soldiers serving with the Nato-led force in Afghanistan were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with insurgents in the east, the coalition said, one of the worst daily tolls in a month. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) gav

Malik Saeed a contractor to provide transport to Pakistani pilgrims during Hajj was arrested in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Aaj News reported. According to the channel, the Saudi authorities arrested Malik Saeed after complaints lodged by the Pakistani pilgri

Malik Saeed a contractor to provide transport to Pakistani pilgrims during Hajj was arrested in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Aaj News reported. According to the channel, the Saudi authorities arrested Malik Saeed after complaints lodged by the Pakistani pilgri

According to newspapers, sugar mill owners in Punjab have earned 2.72 billion rupees in last two weeks by increasing the prices of sugar. I wonder what the government is doing for reducing the prices (except the blame-game).

Dabeer Hashmi, in his letter, 'Electricity crisis' in Business Recorder of November 13, while lamenting about loadshedding, has said, "Almighty Allah has given us each and everything of our need. He keeps on bestowing upon us and we keep on wasting

Eastern Europe can finally boast its first ultra-modern, multi-million dollar science museum in the Polish capital Warsaw, a city already drawing tens of thousands to Europe's biggest annual outdoor science fair.

Why is it that every time there is a need for reform, especially the ones that are likely to be unpopular, the government insists that it is being forced down our throat by the international financial institutions (IFIs) - the IMF, World Bank and Asian De

In what he would probably term a scathing attack on donors for their failure to support Pakistan's 20 million flood victims, Federal Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh stated that "there are some countries that do not want to bail out Pakistan and...are us

Quite expectedly, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has failed to successfully persuade Nawaz Sharif to come to the fold of Muttahida Muslim League - at least of now.

Although, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines words 'banana republic' as "a poor country with a weak government, that depends on foreign money" what essentially distinguishes a functional democracy from a banana republic is the inviolability of i

Tokyo and Seoul on Sunday signed an agreement for the return of more than 1,200 volumes of Korean historical texts that were taken during its war-time colonisation by Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak met an

Indian authorities investigating a former state chief minister accused of corruption are likely to seize property from him worth millions of dollars, a report said Sunday. Madhu Koda is in prison facing charges of accepting hundreds of millions of dollars

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has vowed not to give in to "threats" in a television interview, after his Hezbollah rivals ramped up rhetoric against a UN-backed probe into his father's murder.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a recent visit, said on Sunday he was "stunned" at Karzai's comments to a Washington newspaper, which appeared at odds with US military strategy.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the US military to scale back the visibility and intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end night raids that he said incited people to join the Taliban insurgency, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic has reached more than 900 and the disease is present in six of the 10 provinces of the earthquake-battered Caribbean country, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.

A giant white truffle was sold off on Sunday to a Hong Kong buyer for 105,000 euros (144,000 dollars) at a lavish auction near the town of Alba in northern Italy, organisers said. The truffle weighed 900 grammes and the auction was held at the medieval Ca

The Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace laureates ended a Hiroshima meeting Sunday by calling for a nuclear-free world but made no statement on this year's winner, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Violence in central and northern Iraq killed eight people, four of them troops, on Sunday, security officials said. In the deadliest attack, a roadside bomb killed three soldiers in a town south of the ethnically mixed northern oil hub of Kirkuk, police C

Police fired tear gas in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday as political violence that broke out on Saturday continued during a day-long general strike, officers and witnesses said. Thousands of protesters marched on the streets of Dhaka and other cities

Greek Prime Minister Georges Papandreou said he did not rule out asking for more time to pay back the 110 billion euro loan granted Greece in May by the EU and IMF in an interview published Sunday. "The question has already been put on the table," he told

Around 200 people protested in the centre of Moscow on Sunday to demand a halt to attacks on Russian journalists and activists after a string of assaults on reporters, an AFP correspondent said.

Palestinians said that Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank burned about 200 of their olive trees on Sunday and also torched surrounding grazing land. The alleged attackers were seen heading in the direction of the nearby Elon Moreh settlement after

Among the top 10 countries in the world with people suffering from diabetes, Pakistan ranks seventh, and by year 2030, it will rank fourth unless action is taken to implement effective public health programmes, said experts on the occasion of World Diabet

Provincial Minister for Finance and Planning & Development, Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that political parties should forget their petty differences and work together to solve the problems of the people especially in controlling price-hike. He said that

The commodities whole markets took the normal trading only after Iqbal Day holiday, showing pace with fluctuation both ways. The transportation problem due to non-availability of trucks led to modest sales during the week ended on November 13, 2010. The m

Cotton crop arrivals appear attaining peak level in this month. A sharp drop of Rs 3,000 a maund of 37.324 Kg ex-gin last week would force the seed-cotton suppliers / growers to accelerate the pace of deliveries in fear of further drop in cotton prices.

Cotton crop arrivals appear attaining peak level in this month. A sharp drop of Rs 3,000 a maund of 37.324 Kg ex-gin last week would force the seed-cotton suppliers / growers to accelerate the pace of deliveries in fear of further drop in cotton prices.

Price trend and panic buying both were at top during the week when spot rate reached all time high at Rs10500 while phutti rates touched the selling marked during the cotton season around April/May. The cotton dipped taking cue from world trend in the clo

Price trend and panic buying both were at top during the week when spot rate reached all time high at Rs10500 while phutti rates touched the selling marked during the cotton season around April/May. The cotton dipped taking cue from world trend in the clo

The Chinese exercise regimen Tai Chi helps reduce fatigue and arthritis pain, a new study has found. "Our study shows that there are significant benefits of the Tai Chi course for individuals with all types of arthritis, including fibromyalgia, rheumatoid

The United States government issued guidelines on November 10 to help industries comply with greenhouse gas emission cuts beginning next year, as the nation takes steps to stem global warming.

It's no great medical breakthrough, just a simple colour-coded box packed with HIV drugs and pictures, but its backers UNICEF hope it may help finally end transmission of the often deadly virus to babies.

China has said it aims to cut the intensity of dioxin emissions in key industries by 10 percent by 2015, as part of efforts by the world's top polluter to tackle ever-worsening air quality. The Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a statement that

Stem cell researchers have found a way to turn a person's skin into blood, a process that could be used to treat cancer and other ailments, according to a Canadian study published on November 07. The method uses cells from a patch of a person's skin and t

The World Health Organisation said on November 11 that the number of cases of tuberculosis world-wide had levelled off last year, with lifesaving inroads against the disease especially in China and India.

Researchers said on Wednesday they found some evidence that keeping babies off cow's milk may help prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in children with an inherited risk of the disease. The children will have to be followed for years to be sure, bu

Using mobile-phone text messages to remind HIV patients to take their dose of life-saving medications can give a major boost to drug adherence, according to an innovative trial in Kenya unveiled on November 9. In the "WelTel Kenya1" study, three clinics r

Mobile technology can help improve global health with cheap diagnostic tools, patient reminders and making immunisation programmes more efficient, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said on November 9. "The mobile phone is pretty interesting for lots of things,

Google's Android mobile operating system surged past Apple's iPhone and Canada's Blackberry in the third quarter to become the second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia's Symbian, research firm Gartner said on Nevember 10.

YouTube said on November 11 that 35 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 24 hours per minute in March. Hunter Walk, director of product management at Google-owned YouTube, said the number of uploads to YouTube

Mobile phone subscriptions have more than quarupled in North Korea in 12 months, the operator said on November 9, as a growing number of youths in the reclusive communist state clamour for wireless telecom. Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding said in its

US software firm Microsoft's online services arm said November 11 that it has inked an agreement to tie up with leading Chinese portal Sina in its latest move to expand in the world's largest web market.

Facebook, rumoured for some time to be planning its own email service, may finally be on the verge of doing so in a move that would send a shot across the bow of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft.

RockMelt, a new Web browser that highlights social networking, launched on November 8 with backing from the co-founder of browsing pioneer Netscape. RockMelt, which launched in beta, or test, version is vying to make a mark in a crowded Web browser arena

Bangladesh on November 11 launched rural information service centres to connect villages to the Internet to give ordinary people the benefits of information technology.

Apple and Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Inc are teaming up to bring the California-based company's iAd advertising network for portable devices to Japan early next year, the companies said on November 10. Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency, will sell a

Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have designed a system to prevent drivers from nodding off at the wheel, developer Frank Klefenz told German Press Agency dpa on Tuesday. The technology, which tracks eyelid and pupil movements, is to be instal

Search giant Google rolled out an instant preview feature of search results on November 9 as it attempts to preserve its online lead from the joint challenge of Microsoft and Yahoo.

A Web security company is offering a free tool designed to prevent users of social networks from posting embarrassing drunken messages online. On the premise that "Nothing good happens after 1:00 am," the tool from Colorado-based Webroot promises to "put

British bank Barclays said on November 09 that underlying profits slumped 76 percent in the third quarter, hit by its poorly-performing investment unit and despite a sharp drop in bad debts. Pre-tax earnings collapsed to 327 million pounds (379 million eu

US conglomerate General Electric said on November 09 that it plans to invest more than two billion dollars over two years to improve research and development in China and to fund new joint ventures. GE Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said during

Standard and Poor's plans to help launch the Gulf Arab region's second exchange-traded fund (ETF) this or next year in collaboration with several local providers, the ratings agency said on November 08.

Standard and Poor's plans to help launch the Gulf Arab region's second exchange-traded fund (ETF) this or next year in collaboration with several local providers, the ratings agency said on November 08.

US clothing retailer Gap Inc opened its first store in mainland China on November 11, the first of its four planned stores in the country, as it banks on rising Chinese incomes to prop up soft demand back home.

UAE telecoms group Etisalat, which is eyeing a stake in Kuwait's Zain, said on November 11 it will create an $8 billion bond programme in the coming few days. Etisalat will establish a $7 billion global medium-term note (GMTN) programme and a $1 billion s

UAE telecoms group Etisalat, which is eyeing a stake in Kuwait's Zain, said on November 11 it will create an $8 billion bond programme in the coming few days. Etisalat will establish a $7 billion global medium-term note (GMTN) programme and a $1 billion s

French bank Societe Generale is interested in acquisition opportunities in Egypt but will keep its growth strategy organic in other areas where it is already present, said its international retail head.

From Australia to South Africa, governments are scrambling to change the law to accommodate the $1 trillion Islamic finance industry, whose avoidance of toxic debt has looked increasingly attractive since the global crisis. But in the Gulf Arab region, bi

Miners will drill under central Sydney hoping to strike what is believed to be a vast natural gas reserve the government Sunday said could reduce the Australian city's carbon footprint.

The OECD has supported Australia's controversial proposed mining tax by saying it is fair and efficient and recommended it be imposed on all miners. In an upbeat survey of Australia's economic future, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develop

Bangladesh and Turkey agreed on Sunday to boost bilateral trade to $3 billion a year by 2015, from $600 million at present, a Bangladesh official said. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, who is on a two-day

The United States must move to rein in its massive budget deficits or it faces the risk of a bond market crisis, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday. "We've got to resolve this issue," Greenspan said of the ballooning US debt lev

The United States must move to rein in its massive budget deficits or it faces the risk of a bond market crisis, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday. "We've got to resolve this issue," Greenspan said of the ballooning US debt lev

President Barack Obama will not go along with a permanent extension of tax cuts for the wealthiest, presidential adviser David Axelrod said on Sunday, without closing the door to a temporary continuation. "There's no bend on the permanent extension of tax

Tearing down the trade barriers surrounding its faltering economy will mean "pain and suffering" for Japan, Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned Sunday as he concluded a Pacific Rim summit.

Iran's OPEC governor said oil prices of $70-$90 per barrel would not hurt the global economy and that up to $100 might not create problems, the oil ministry's official website SHANA reported on Sunday.

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called for "profound reform" of the world economy in the wake of last week's G20 summit in Seoul, calling for a revival of agriculture to ensure sustainable development.

Saudi industrial conglomerate Bin Laden Group has won two contracts worth 27 billion riyal ($7.2 billion) to revamp King Abdulaziz International Airport in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, the state news agency reported. The contracts were for the first p

UAE banks have been told to take provisions for bad loans on a quarterly basis, in long-awaited guidelines from the central bank aimed at bringing the banking system in line with international standards. Banks in the United Arab Emirates have suffered fro

India is eyeing double-digit growth as it pulls out of the worst global financial slump in decades, its finance minister said Sunday, but needs greater foreign investment to speed growth. Pranab Mukherjee's upbeat forecast to the India World Economic Foru

Iraq's oil ministry signed deals with foreign companies on Sunday to develop its Mansuriyah and Siba natural gas fields, as it tries to boost its energy production and break into global gas markets.

The agency responsible for printing the currency of South Africa and other southern African countries has suspended an official for possible technical flaws in producing notes under his watch, it said on Sunday.

Manny Pacquiao cemented his place in the pantheon of boxing greats by recording an unanimous points victory over Antonio Margarito on Saturday to claim the vacant WBC super welterweight title. The 31-year-old southpaw dominated all 12 rounds against his b

Robin Soderling signalled his intentions for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals when he claimed his maiden Masters title with a clinical 6-1 7-6 defeat of local favourite Gael Monfils in Paris on Sunday. Fourth seed Soderling, twice a French Open run

Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh frustrated New Zealand with the bat once again, smashing 85 runs off 82 balls on the third day of the second Test on Sunday. The feisty tailender hammered five sixes and seven fours to add 69 runs for the unfinished last

Prodigiously talented, Umer Akmal is proving to be the prodigal son of Pakistan cricket. His sublime skills have never been in doubt, but question marks over his temperament keep piling, at a higher rate than his recent run- scoring.

South Africa held the upper hand in the first Test against Pakistan after paceman Morne Morkel grabbed five wickets and off-spinner Johan Botha took three on the third day at the Dubai Stadium on Sunday. South Africa reached 139-2 at stumps to increase th

Chelsea suffered a shock defeat and their first home loss in the Premier League this season when Sunderland beat them 3-0 thanks to goals from Nedum Onuoha, Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck on Sunday.

UEFA president Michel Platini has warned that players who get involved in match-fixing are putting their careers on the line. "I always tell the players to be very careful," Platini told a news conference on Sunday. "They should know they'll never play fo

Muhammad Amir, the Pakistan fast bowler provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for his alleged involvement in the spot-fixing controversy, has said he is "desperate" to return to the national team.

German Sebastian Vettel was crowned as the youngest drivers champion in Formula One history on Sunday when he outstripped all his rivals and won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for the outstanding Red Bull team.

South Korean swimming superstar Park Tae-Hwan powered back to his best at the Asian Games on Sunday, but China dominated once again with another 18 gold medals. The Games saw their first world records with Chinese weightlifter Li Ping setting new marks in

Confusion over governments' intentions, and poor communications between officials and markets, are causing eurozone bond investors to assume the worst as weak countries grapple with their debts. The bond yields of Ireland, Portugal and Greece have soared