New York, July 17 (DPA) The sale of its controlling stake in a brokerage helped Citigroup Friday to surprise analysts and announce $4.3 billion of net income in the second quarter...More

Barbados, July 17 (IANS) The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has come down hard on rebel players by suspending their retainership contracts and asked them to reply within ten day...More

Islamabad, July 17 (Xinhua) At least five people were killed and several others injured Friday in a US drone attack in northwest Pakistan, TV reports said. ...More

Madrid, July 17 (DPA) Barcelona and Inter Milan are close to a deal to swap Samuel Eto'o for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, according to Spanish news reports Friday. ...More

Washington, July 17 (IANS) US police have concluded that the death of Rajeev Motwani, India-born Stanford professor and the mentor and adviser of founders of top internet firms li...More

Washington, July 17 (IANS) The US is installing radiation detectors at Pakistani ports to check proliferation of nuclear material and weapons of mass destruction to and from the c...More

Kathmandu, July 17 (IANS) As Nepal's new communist government Friday began the process of releasing nearly 3,000 'child soldiers' who had been illegally inducted by the Maoist gu...More

Tehran, July 17 (DPA) Iranian police several times used teargas against thousands of supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi during the Friday prayers ceremony in cen...More

Manchester, July 17 (IANS) India's Prakash Amritraj has crashed out of the 30,000-euro Aegon Pro-series Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) Challenger, losing 4-6, 3-6 to Aus...More

Karachi, July 17 (IANS) Former Pakistan opener Aamer Sohail, a director in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), is planning to quit over differences with chairman Ijaz Butt on the im...More

Jakarta, July 17 (DPA) Two powerful explosions ripped through the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels Friday morning in the Indonesian capital, killing at least nine people and in...More

Kathmandu, July 17 (IANS) Nepal's oldest green resort, founded in the early 1960s by a legendary British tourism entrepreneur who also gave this country its famous elephant polo t...More

London, July 17 (IANS) The new Harry Potter film that opened in cinemas across the world this week has set new US and British records for the first day's takings, its distributors...More

Tehran, July 17 (DPA) Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani called Friday for an 'open debate' on the recent controversial election which saw President Mahmoud Ahmadin...More

Islamabad, July 17 (IANS) Pakistan has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records by planting 541,176 saplings in one day to break the Indian record of 447,874 trees set on Jun...More