Brazil dam disaster: mourning and dead fish along river of mud

AFP | Five days after a dam collapse at a Brazilian mine, residents were mourning Wednesday the nearly 360 people killed and missing -- as...

Pakistan rejects US threat assessment report’s allegations

News Desk | Rejecting the allegations leveled by the US in its threat assessment report, foreign office spokesperson has said that such controversial statements will...

Ice instruments melt musical boundaries in Italian Alps

AFP | When Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have...

Displaced Syrian children sift through trash to buy bread

AFP | Outside a camp for the displaced in northwest Syria, 15-year-old Sabaa al-Jassim hacked away at a mountain of trash hoping to find scraps...

2019: The year of Change?

Farah Adeed | Today is the last day of the first month of 2019. Three powerful persons have made the 2019 quirky and a year of...

Hidden homeless: England´s rural rough sleepers

AFP | In an idyllic stretch of countryside, Benny Clapp has made his home in a tent beside a river near Canterbury in Kent, a...

Grams of gold fuel French Guiana’s ruthless jungle economy

AFP | Honda all-terrain vehicles have replaced mules as the beast of burden of choice, but the wildcat mining camps of French Guiana are governed...

French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says

AFP | France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance...

NBP declares half-yearly profit as NBP Funds inaugurates new Islamic savings centre

News Desk | The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has declared a half-yearly profit for the period July to December 2018, on deposits of Profit/Loss...

CJP Khosa shares his take on Aasiya Bibi’s #10YearChallenge – Maleeha Hashmey

Maleeha Hashmey | Man is the crown of all creations. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals, separated from law and justice...

Sahiwal Tragedy: Should the government form a Judicial Commission?

News Analysis | In a major development, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Tuesday rejected the joint investigation team’s (JIT) report on Sahiwal massacre,...

Trust Trump’s money for Facebook with earnings due

AFP | Winning back trust is seen as the key priority for Facebook as the world's biggest social network readies its update on the final...