PARIS: An Al-Qaeda bomb intercepted in Britain last week part way between Yemen and the United States was disarmed just 17 minutes before it was programmed to detonate, French officials said Thursday.... (more...)

WASHINGTON: Stressing that recent violence against people in the Indian occupied Kashmir has threatened South Asian peace prospects, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday asked US President,... (more...)

LAHORE: A US based Company Frontier Agricultural Solutions and Training (pvt) Limited (FAST)  will invest in livestock and agriculture sectors in Punjab. Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) will... (more...)

NEW YORK: An American immigration lawyer has urged the Obama administration to grant temporary protected status to Pakistani nationals now in the United States “as a humanitarian gesture”,... (more...)

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama convened his Afghan war cabinet on Monday as new reports cast doubt on the US strategy to convince President Hamid Karzai to purge his government of corruption. Obama... (more...)

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million dollars (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents. ... (more...)

LONDON:Rolls-Royce said Friday it was working closely with Boeing to rush through delivery of engines to the US aerospace giant which has been forced to announce a further delay to its Dreamliner jet programme. ... (more...)

ISLAMABAD: The United States has so far provided 150 million dollars support for immediate relief efforts in Pakistan, through the Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority, United Nation’s... (more...)

TAIPEI: A leading Taiwan flat-screen maker said Sunday its three top executives had been barred from leaving the United States for their alleged role in a price-fixing case.  AU Optronics vice-chairman... (more...)

SARAJEVO: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has announced she is to star in a romantic film to be shot in the Balkans, as she made a surprise visit to Sarajevo. “Upon leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina on... (more...)