Uber loss tops $1 bn as it seeks to diversify

AFP | Ride-share company Uber on Wednesday said that its net loss topped a billion dollars in the recently ended quarter as it pumped money...

‘Sultan of Coins’: Iran executes gold market launderer and accomplice

AFP | Iran executed a trader dubbed the "Sultan of Coins" and his accomplice on Wednesday for exploiting a surge in gold demand from savers...

British PM using Brexit for political survival

AFP | Lurching from crisis to crisis and fending off coup plots while navigating Britain's most important peacetime negotiations, Theresa May has defied the odds...

Fact-check: Did Aasia Bibi meet the Pope?

AFP | A photo that claims to show Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was acquitted of blasphemy, kissing Pope Francis is circulating on...

Are Nawaz Sharif & Khaqan Abbasi traitors?

News Desk | A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has adjourned the hearing of a petition seeking start of treason proceedings against...

Indian court to review women entering flashpoint temple

AFP | India's top court Tuesday agreed to hear challenges to its decision to overturn a ban on women of menstruating age from entering a...

Baluchistan: The target of fifth generation warfare

Abdul Rasool Syed | Baluchistan, the El-dorado of Pakistan and a province of highly geo-strategic, geo-economic and geo-political importance seems to be witnessing fifth generation warfare....

Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur cherishes dual role after record feat

AFP | Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim said he enjoyed his dual role in the team as wicketkeeper and batsman after scoring a record double hundred against...

Facebook shuts more accounts aimed at political meddling

AFP | Facebook on Tuesday said it shut down more accounts aimed at influencing the US midterm election and that it is exploring a possible...

Deadly Smog: ‘lungs’ turn sickly brown in days

AFP | A pair of artificial lungs put up in New Delhi to demonstrate the lethal effects of smog have turned a sickly dark brown...

As US retreats, China touts its trade deal wares to Asia

AFP | China is touting itself as the new defender of global commerce as it works with Asia-Pacific leaders to hammer out the world's largest...

Thousands of Afghans flee fighting in Hazara districts

AFP | Thousands of Afghans have fled to Ghazni city to escape fighting in two Hazara-dominated districts, with some describing the violence Tuesday as the...