Pakistan on Monday beat England by 71 runs in the third and final Test being played here, and achieved a three nil series whitwash.

Chasing a victory target of 323, England scored 252 in their...

At least 13 people have been killed and 40 are believed missing after an earthquake struck the moutain village of Planas in the Philippines on Monday.

The 6.8-magnitude quake buried as many as 30...

Pakistan has failed to announce a new date for its judicial commission to visit India to record statements of key officials linked to the investigation of the Mumbai terror attacks.

The team was...

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has asked opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar to apologise for his statements on the army.

Malik said that if the people of the country start criticising the...

Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo moto notice of the target killing of Balochistan lawmaker Bakhtiar Domki's wife and daughter.

Chaudhry has reportedly...

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the issue of the NATO attack was also referred to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNC), which comprised of chosen...

Pakistan has lost over 8,500 billion rupees in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance during the last four years of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's tenure, Transparency International Pakistan...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. is easing one of its many sanctions against Myanmar as a reward for political reforms after five decades of direct military...

Recent reforms in Myanmar have already had a positive impact, the United Nations expert on the human rights situation in the country said today, but warned that serious challenges remain and must be...

Band members of Burma's all-girl band Me N Ma Girls. (Photo: myspace.com/me-n-ma-girls) Me N Ma Girls is an all-girl group from Myanmar (Burma). The girls conjure up images of the Spice Girls...

England skipper Andrew Strauss had no complaints with his side's 3-0 series defeat to Pakistan.The final Test finished in Dubai on Monday, with England bowled out for 252 in pursuit of 324 to...

The epicentre was located five kilometres northwest of Tayasan town in Negros Oriental province. A strong earthquake has jolted central Philippine islands, killing at least 43 people and triggering...

Pakistan's spinners "outclassed" England's batsmen for a thoroughly deserved 3-0 Test series whitewash in their Middle East 'home from home'. Captain Misbah-ul-Haq...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines on Monday morning, killing at least 13 people and leaving dozens trapped under houses and buildings. Governor Roel Demago said that as many as 30...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan must stem risks to a "highly vulnerable" economy that include inflation projected at 12 percent, a widening budget deficit and declining currency reserves,...

Release Date: February 1, 2012 BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An active and forceful grass roots movement committed to expanding democratic freedom for women is essential to curbing the dramatic and widespread...

Pakistan Nine women and two children were killed and dozens of others were trapped under rubble when a factory collapsed in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said.The three-storey...

Source: Reuters A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck the central Philippine island of Negros, triggering landslides that toppled houses and killing at least 12 people, including two children,...

MANILA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Negros on Monday, triggering landslides that toppled houses and killing at least 12 people, including two...

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A three-story factory collapsed Monday in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least three people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said....

Myanmar should take action to ensure its political reforms aren't overshadowed by outstanding concerns there, a U.N. envoy said. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the U.N. special envoy on the human rights...

Abu Dhabi: A Pakistani gang has been arrested by Pakistani authorities for forging UAE visas, reported Oloom Al Dar on Abu Dhabi TV. The gang made hundreds of thousands of dirhams in profit by...

Nov. 12, 2004: Indonesian men hold on to the rooftop and outside of a train bound for Banten province. Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of...

Commuters ride on the roof of a Jakarta state rail train at Cawang train station on Jan. 27, 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta is plagued by transport problems due to the lack of alternative public...

Commuters ride on the roof of a Jakarta state rail train at Cawang train station on Jan. 27, 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta is plagued by transport problems due to the lack of alternative public...

All Things Digital's Kara Swisher points out in an article on Monday. The definitive agreement centers around selling Sunnyvale-based Yahoo's (NASDAQ:YHOO) 33 percent stake in China's...

Thai police busted a grisly exotic wildlife slaughterhouse in Bangkok when officers caught four men in the act of chopping up a tiger in a residential home, officials said Monday. Elephant, zebra,...

Pakistan have wrapped up a 3-0 series rout of England with a 71-run win in the third Test in Dubai on Monday.Set a tough 324 to win, England resumed day four at 36-0 as they attempted to salvage some...

Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides. At least 13 people...

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The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) in Sri Lanka are holding a public meeting in Colombo on February 13 to defend the party and its members in...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers in the central Philippines are using picks and shovels to try to dig out dozens of people trapped under homes collapsed by a 6.9-magnitude quake that also...

In this Jan. 31 photo, musician Dave Grohl poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. The 43-year-old Foo Fighters frontman's band had a top-selling tour, sold more than 663,000 copies of their album...

HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam has arrested nine men said to be members of a 'politically reactionary' organisation that was aiming to overthrow the country's communist government, state media...

100 families living in the Udduppidi refugee camp, 52 in that of Sinnaweli. For a year the government considers these people "resettled" and does not send more flour, rice, lentils, coconut...

A 6.8 quake strikes in Negros Oriental province at a depth of 20 kilometres. A local tsunami warning is issued with the possibility of one-metre waves. Villages are isolated and houses are buried by...

Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has arrived in Qatar for planned talks on a possible peace deal to end the 10-year war in Afghanistan. Qatar's state news agency QNA said Gilani...

Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors in the debris of a building that collapsed in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. A three-story factory illegally set up in a residential area of an...

Jakarta, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Authorities in the eastern province of Papua Indonesia will force men to have a circumcision to stop the spread of AIDS in the region, official sources reported on...

Bank of Thailand official expressed concerns over possible spillovers from the Greek debt crisis, as capital outflows are anticipated if the country could not refinance a huge amount of debt. Money...

Four Thais open their campaigns at the US$220,000 PTT Pattaya Open today, with the clash between veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn and Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan the pick of the bunch. The...

The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) has reported that only 789 schools, out of the 24,098 entitled for the "One Tablet PC Per Child" project, had fibre optic lines to connect...

Chief royal adviser General Prem Tinsulanonda is living testimony for an old saying: Silence speaks louder than words. Since the eruption of political turbulence in 2005, supporters of former prime...

The Yingluck Shinawatra government is not fully in charge of Thailand as the Army has a "veto" power over some key issues - including who will be the Army Chief or what is to be done with...