LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spokesman has been detained on suspicion of committing perjury after he denied any knowledge of phone hacking by News of the World reporters in a court case in 2010. Scotland's Crown Office said on Wednesday that Andy Coulson had been held by police officers investigating allegations of perjury following his appearance before the High Court in Gla ...

MOSCOW: Russia criticized Western nations on Wednesday for expelling Syrian envoys, calling the move "counterproductive," and warned them not to seek new UN Security Council action for the time being on the crisis in the Middle Eastern state. With global anger rising over a massacre Western nations blame on the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russia also signaled that it would block any effort ...

Najaf Ali Staff Reporter KARACHI: Judiciary and lawyers boycotts of distract, section and High courts in all over the Sindh against the attempt of murder on civil Judicial Magistrate. According to the detail all the courts of Sindh has silence here on Wednesday morning, en route to the City Court at Gulberg Block 17, Senior Judicial Magistrate& Civil Judge Syed Zaheer Ahmad Naqvi was severely injured wh ...

Will challenge the ruling in the higher courts, says Ahmadi spokesperson. LAHORE: Two years after the tragic attack on worshippers at Darul Zikr, an additional session judge ruled that the Ahmadi community will have to to demolish the minaret and dome of the worship place. Advocate Badar Alam last month moved an application against members of the Ahmadi community in the Misri Shah police station under secti ...

The station has five units, each with a capacity of 50 megawatts. The $860m Bujagali hydropower station has injected more electricity onto the national grid, eliminating day-time load-shedding. Industrial players said a third unit is being tested and connected into the grid for consumption ahead of its complete launch in July. The station has five units, each with a capacity of 50 megawatts. “We don’t expec ...

A new report says the Qatari intelligence chief was held by security forces at the Cairo Airport while carrying bags of cash a few days before the first round of Egypt’s presidential election. The incident occurred on Saturday night when the Qatari ambassador to Cairo, who had appeared at the airport to receive a guest, attempted to get large baggage passed through without allowing inspection on it, citing ...

Rock of Ages is finally here! The star-studded film, inspired from the musical, will see no less than Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta Jones, Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand play the key roles. Here's a look. ...

This product image provided by Google shows the newly released Chromebook laptop computer from Samsung. The Tuesday, May 29, 2012 release of the next-generation Chromebooks will give Google and Samsung another opportunity to persuade consumers and businesses to buy an unconventional computer instead of machines running on familiar software by industry pioneers Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. SAN FRANCISCO: S ...

Uganda Parliament building Casting of ballots for Uganda’s representatives to the regional Parliament has ended and counting of ballots is underway. The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga is presiding over the counting as a clerk reads out the names for tallying. Earlier, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament Nathan Nandala Mafabi exerted his authority and suspended UPC and DP from all Parliament opposit ...

Ahmed Heikal, Chairman and Founder of Citadel Capital Scaling up regional infrastructure projects will facilitate intra- and inter-regional trade, create integrated energy markets through regional power pools, support water resources management, and spur economic growth, says private equity leader A growing emphasis on opening infrastructure investment to the private sector will both catalyse African econom ...