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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (Photo: AFP)

Nawaz Sharif fields wife in Waterloo'

Kulsoom Nawaz is however, not expected to replace Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the PM who was elected this month after...

12 Aug 2017 6:46 AM IST

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique expressed grief on the childs death

12-year-old boy crushed to death by Nawaz Sharif's homecoming'...

Sharif's convoy left from Jelhlum to Lahore where the incident took place at Lala Musa, some 225-km from Lahore.

11 Aug 2017 8:26 PM IST

There was no immediate information on what had caused the collision. (Photo: Twitter)

Trains collide in Egyptian city of Alexandria; 31 killed, 109 injured

The head of the ambulance services Dr Abu Homs said he fears the death toll and the number of injured could rise...

11 Aug 2017 8:13 PM IST

Chinese Navy submarine (Photo: AFP)

Chinese Navy eyes Indian Ocean as part of PLA's plan to extend

People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) officials say the Indian Ocean is a common place for the international community.

11 Aug 2017 7:19 PM IST

Depiction of eggs

17 nations get tainted eggs, products in growing scandal in EU

EU trade and agriculture spokesman Daniel Rosario said Friday that farms have also been blocked in France and Germany.

11 Aug 2017 6:50 PM IST

This combination of photos show North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) on April 15, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea and US President Donald Trump in Washington on April 29. (Photo: AP)

Donald Trump says military option with North Korea 'locked and loaded'

Pyongyang said it was readying plans to launch missiles towards the Pacific territory of Guam..

11 Aug 2017 6:32 PM IST

China claims most of the resource-rich South China Sea through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. (Photo: Representational Image)

China's land reclamation continues in disputed South China sea: Think...

China's own reclamation work did not end in mid-2015 with the completion of its artificial islands in the Spratlys.

11 Aug 2017 6:31 PM IST

EAM Sushma Swaraj meets with FM of Bhutan Damcho Dorji on sidelines of BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers meet (Photo: MEA India Twitter)

Sushma Swaraj meets Bhutanese foreign minister amid Sikkim standoff

The meeting comes in the backdrop of the current standoff in Doklam a tri-junction between India, China and Bhutan.

11 Aug 2017 5:24 PM IST

Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela. (Photo: AP)

Here is my hand: Venezuelan leader expresses wish to meet US Prez...

The Trump administration has called Maduro a 'dictator' and issued sanctions against him and other former and current...

11 Aug 2017 5:00 PM IST

Krishnamoorthy received multiple emails regarding the investment banks potential involvement in the transaction, which also summarized the mechanics of the deal. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Indian-origin executive pleads guilty to insider trading in US

Avaneesh Krishnamoorthy pleaded guilty to criminal information charging him with engaging in the insider trading scheme.

11 Aug 2017 4:01 PM IST

While no signs of glaucoma were present at the time of birth, the infant developed swelling, pain, and tearing in the right eye. (Photo: Pixabay)

2 girls arrested after Snapchat video shows them putting 8-month-old...

Essex District Attorney spokesman Steve O'Connell said the girls were arraigned in Essex Juvenile Court in Salem.

11 Aug 2017 2:56 PM IST

An electoral counting officer, center, counts votes while others hold the piles of ballots counted for each candidate, at a polling station in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

Kenya waits to hear final results of already disputed vote

The National Super Alliance (NASA) opposition coalition on Thursday demanded that its candidate Raila Odinga be declared...

11 Aug 2017 2:34 PM IST