Apr
26

mominabad_blastAt least six people, including a child, were killed and around 20 others were wounded in a militants’ attack on a secular political party in Karachi.

The Pakistani Taliban militants targeted a corner meeting of Awami National Party (ANP) near Mominabad Police Station in Karachi’s SITE area. The meeting was being attended Continue Reading…

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Apr
23

katherine-russell-wife-of-tamerlanA few years ago, in a photo essay for Slate.com, boxer-turned-Boston-Marathon-Bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev said: “I don’t have a single American friend. I don’t understand them.” But Tsarnaev, 26, who died Friday in a police shoot-out during a botched getaway, fell in love with and married one: Katherine Russell, a 24-year-old Rhode Island native and the mother Continue Reading…

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Apr
22

WestfieldMervyn Westfield has attacked English cricket for failing to protect him after the ECB won its legal battle to force him to testify at Danish Kaneria’s appeal hearing against a life ban for corruption.

Westfield, in a statement made through his legal team as Kaneria’s appeal began Continue Reading…

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Apr
22

n-korea-moves-two-more-missile-launchersNorth Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said Sunday. Expectations had been high that Pyongyang would carry out a test to coincide Continue Reading…

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Apr
22

govt-refuses-to-try-musharraf-for-treasonCaretaker government on Monday refused to put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, telling the The move will give at least temporary breathing room to Musharraf, who is already under house arrest in connection with one of three other cases dating back Continue Reading…

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Apr
22

MarsCloseUpA few months before he died, Carl Sagan recorded a message of hope to would-be Mars explorers, telling them: “Whatever the reason you’re on Mars is, I’m glad you’re there. And I wish I was with you.”

On Monday, 17 years after the pioneering astronomer set out his hopeful vision Continue Reading…

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