Drone fires six missiles at a house in Datta Khel district. NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A US drone attack has killed at least 17 people in Zoi Narai, Datta Khel tehsil of North Waziristan on Friday. According to initial reports, a remotely piloted drone aircraft fired six  missiles at a house. At least two people were reported to have been injured in the attack. Islamabad has repeatedly denounced drone attacks on its ...

Unknown gunmen have killed at least 18 Shia pilgrims and injured several others in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan Province. Militants have killed a large group of Shia Muslims in different parts of Pakistan over the past three years. Local sources say more than 2,000 Shia Muslims have been killed in the Kurram Agency since 2007. Hundreds of Shia Muslims have also been killed in various parts o ...

  AKRON: Barack Obama played the anti-China card beloved of US presidential candidates, covering his flank against the more direct Beijing bashing of his Republican foe Mitt Romney. Obama announced in Ohio, a swing state and an engine of the American auto industry, that his government had filed a World Trade Organization complaint against tariffs on US$3 billion (S$3.8 billion) of US autos entering Chi ...

MUMBAI: The Dabangg Khan is at it again. Taking a dig at his rival Shah Rukh Khan seems to have become Salman's favourite pastime. (Read: No SRK-Salman encounter at Esha's wedding: Disaster averted?) At the 8th Indo-American Corporate Excellence Awards held in Mumbai recently, the actor cheekily said, "My name is actually Khan and actually I am not a terrorist, I am an actor." This comment from Salman comes ...

MUMBAI: The new song from Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2 shows us for the first time that the Sunny Leone starrer is not just about flesh and titillation The Bhatts have always been very choosy and diligent about the music they get composed for their unusual brand of cinema. One just can’t deny the significant role the popular tunes have played in making the camp’s posterboy Emraan Hashmi the star that he is today. B ...

  BUENOS AIRES: Former Argentine dictatorJorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta's war on leftist dissidents three decades ago. Argentina's last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, also was convicted and got 15 years. Both men already were in prison for other human right ...

LONDON: WikiLeaks said Thursday it was publishing over two million emails from Syrian political figures dating back to 2006 but also covering the period of the crackdown on dissent by Syria's regime. "Just now... WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria files, more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies dating from August 2006 to March 2012," said Sarah Harris ...

Around one million tons of surplus wheat from Passco stocks as well as rice will be exported to Iran in a barter trade arrangement in exchange of urea. ISLAMABAD: Minister for Water and Power Naveed Qamar has asked Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (Passco) to finalise modalities for the export of one million tons of wheat to Iran in the wake of talks held between Pakistani and Iranian ...

An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California. Software giant Apple will be launching a smaller, 7" iPad in time for Christmas, sources have claimed. The new model, which will have a screen that is 7 inches to 8 inches diagonally, less than the current 9.7-inch version, is expected to set up a battle between Apple’s iPad, Amazon''s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7 tablet.   According to The Tel ...

Regulators, it said, had been reluctant to adopt global safety standards that could have helped prevent the disaster. TOKYO: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the huge March 11, 2011, ea ...