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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves the premises of the JIT with son Hussain Nawaz in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Nawaz Sharif says he will return to Pakistan soon

Sharif also expressed confidence that his party, the PML-N was way ahead in all opinion polls ahead of general elections...

7 July 2018 2:44 PM IST

Maryam Nawaz Sharif. (Photo: AFP)

Real decision will be made on Pak election day: Maryam Nawaz after...

Maryam, considered heir apparent of Nawaz Sharif, received 7-year sentence with fine of USD 2.6 million.

7 July 2018 12:42 PM IST

Sanjay Naker, a 28-year-old married man from north London, was found guilty of all charges but the jury cleared him of the charge of assault by penetration at the end of the trial on Thursday. (Photo: @metpoliceuk/Twitter)

Indian-origin financier jailed for raping 18-yr-old in London

The 28-year-old was found guilty of carrying the woman over his shoulder and raping her multiple times in an alleyway.

7 July 2018 9:55 AM IST

The players remain trapped despite being reached this week by cave-diving rescuers, who released footage of them looking emaciated but calm, some wearing football shirts. (Photo: AP)

FIFA president invites Thai boys stuck in cave to World Cup final

Their harrowing ordeal coincides with World Cup in Russia, it has not escaped attention of players who sent their wishes...

6 July 2018 6:48 PM IST

Fifty-two cars were torched overnight in Nantes, including the mayors personal vehicle, and eight buildings were damaged by fire or vandalism. (Photo: @AFP/Twitter)

Dozens of cars, buildings torched as riots enter third night in France

Riots emerged in western France over fatal police shooting of young man, latest flare-up of tension between police,...

6 July 2018 1:59 PM IST

Novichok is a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. (Photo: AFP)

British police probes new Novichok nerve agent poisoning

A couple was taken ill close to Salisbury, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were...

5 July 2018 5:25 PM IST

Police in Wiltshire, where ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in March, took the rare step of declaring a major incident after a man and a woman were found unconscious on Saturday in Amesbury. (Photo: AP)

2 found in critical condition near Russian spy poisoning site in UK

The pair, both in their 40s, were initially believed to have taken heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of...

4 July 2018 6:13 PM IST

A high-octane trade dispute between the worlds two largest economies - China and the US - will harm global trade this year as it would give rise to protectionism, an EIU report says.

China presses EU for anti-US alliance on trade, faces resistance

Brussels shares Washington's concern about China's closed markets, Beijing's manipulation of trade to dominate global...

4 July 2018 12:30 PM IST

It is the second time Faid has pulled off a spectacular jailbreak -- in 2013, he blasted his way out of a prison in northern France using dynamite. (Photo: @hallygan/Twitter)

French convict pulls off spectacular jailbreak via helicopter

The escape came after appeals court sentenced him to 25 yrs for masterminding May 2010 botched armed robbery which...

1 July 2018 7:33 PM IST

Through this work, around 1,800 students from deprived communities of south Delhi are set to receive high-quality primary school education and be supported to improve their learning levels. (Photo: @leah_chowdhry/Twitter)

Indian-origin woman to swim across English Channel to raise funds

Entrepreneur Leah Chowdhry will set off from Dover on 35 km swim to Calais in France to raise funds to combat child...

1 July 2018 1:53 PM IST

In all, out of the 140 works that make up the collection, 82 were fake. (Photo: AFP | Representational)

French museum discovers half of its collection fake

Eric Forcada, the art historian who uncovered the counterfeits, said that he had seen straight away that most of the...

30 April 2018 10:56 AM IST

In Barcelona, thousands packed into the central square banging pots and pans and jangling their keys in the air. (Photo: AP)

Protests in Spain as 5 men cleared of teenager's gangrape

In Madrid, men and women packed central streets chanting 'Shame! Shame!' and 'No' means 'No'.

27 April 2018 2:58 PM IST