Five people were injured in firing in different parts of the city. KARACHI: At least nine people were killed and five were injured in different incidents of firing and violence in the city, whereas police managed to arrest one target killer. Unknown assailaints killed Jaman Shah and his wife in Khokarapar No 4  after forcibly entering their residence. In Orangi Town No 12, Syed Jamal Faisal, a Sindh High Co ...

A Bahraini protester flashes "V" sign for victory in front of riot police during an anti-government demonstration in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama on June 8, 2012. Bahraini protesters have condemned the Al Khalifa regime for imposing a ban on opposition rallies, blocking the streets in the villages of Dair and Sitra using burning tires. Since the early hours of Saturday, protesters have started f ...

Shetty, 36, who together with Kundra owns a stake in the Indian Premier League cricket team Rajasthan Royals, gave birth to a baby boy on Monday, May 21. An image of Shilpa Shetty holding a new-born baby has created a buzz online, causing much speculation. The image was seemingly that of the Bollywood actress and her son Viaan but the actress denied it. The baby in the picture is Shilpa Shetty's niece. The ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Friday “directed a petitioner to send a notice to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh” who is also the Chancellor of the Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, in relation to an incident in which “a class V student of the University’s Patha Bhavan was forced to drink her urine by the hostel warden as a punishment for bedwetting”, a report ...

Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley says the Wikileaks website on July 5 announced a two-month summer offensive against the Baath party government of President Assad. As the NATO alliance inches closer to a military attack on Syria, a new front in the destabilization of the Damascus government has been opened by the intelligence agencies of the Western powers. The vehicle chosen by the CIA and its allies for this n ...

A file photo shows Japanese super tanker M Star near the Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates. Japan is going to load its first domestically-guaranteed shipment of Iranian crude oil after the US-engineered European Union (EU) oil embargo against Tehran went into effect. JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. and Idemitsu Kosan Co. will load about 1.7 million barrels of Iranian crude oil on the very large tan ...

Smartphone A specially designed smartphone for the blind and partially sighted has been launched in the United Kingdom. The device, called Georgie, has a voice-assisted touch screen and offers a variety of apps to help complete tasks such as catching a bus, reading printed text and pinpointing location. The handset is powered by an Android operating system and uses existing Samsung handsets such as the Sams ...

Policemen stand guard in front of the Islamabad High Court building. ISLAMABAD, July 13: Legal proceedings in the Islamabad High Court on alleged corruption in the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and illegal allotment of land took a new turn on Friday when the presiding judge, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, was informed that a reference had been filed against him with the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). ...

Kareena Kapoor would be portraying an intense role after a long time. The actor will be seen playing Heroine in Madhur Bhandarkar's next. Here's a look. Bollywood actors don’t have to try too hard to attract attention. But for Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘heroine’ Kareena Kapoor, the situation got a little out of control recently when she was shooting for her upcoming biggie in the suburbs. A few days ago, Bebo was ...

Demonstrators gather in Qatif following the arrest of Shia cleric and goverment critic Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on July 8, 2012. Saudi security forces have killed a young protester during an anti-regime demonstration in the city of Awamiyah in the kingdom's Eastern Province. Abdallah Ja’far al-Ojami, 18, was shot dead by security forces near a police station on Friday as the protesters were demanding the immedia ...