Israel and Iran showering each other with missiles

News Analysis | Iran used a multiple-barrel vehicle mounted single rocket launcher to target the Israeli defense positions in the occupied Golan Heights region two...

Mob Justice: Woman lynched in Tamil Nadu

News Analysis | A 65-year-old woman was lynched by a mob in southern India who believed that she was a child trafficker, police said on...

Russian Facebook ‘ads’ show strong effort to divide US society

AFP | Thousands of Facebook and Instagram advertisements taken out by a Russian internet group were released Thursday in a database that illustrates how a...

Female ban during Nigerian festival causes uproar

AFP | An order from a Nigerian traditional ruler forbidding women from being in public during a festival this week has sparked a lively debate...

Crimes on women: Third girl burned and raped in India

News Analysis | A teenage girl has been raped and burned alive in India, in the third such attack in a week in the country....

Australian Scientist commits assisted suicide in Switzerland

AFP | A 104-year-old Australian scientist on Thursday committed assisted suicide in Switzerland where he went to die after his home country denied him the...

PM Abbasi-the owner of Airblue-summoned by SC in pilots’ fake degrees case

News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has summoned heads of all Pakistani airlines as well as Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi--the head of Airblue-...

“Big Three” fighting back: Auto Sales pick up to dismay of CAMBT campaign

News Analysis | In a statistical blow to the ‘Campaign Against the Monopoly of Big Three’ (CAMBT), the sales of locally assembled cars and LCVs...

Iraq holds first nationwide election since IS defeat

AFP | Iraq began voting Saturday in its first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State group, with the country hoping to shore...

Israel-Iran flare-up raises spectre of major confrontation

AFP | Deadly strikes by Israel against alleged Iranian sites in Syria have raised fears of a dramatic escalation in the regional conflict, but the...

The challenge of space gardening: One giant ‘leaf’ for mankind

AFP | It's not easy having a green thumb in space. Without gravity, seeds can float away. Water doesn't pour, but globs up and may...

Strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks Afghanistan

AFP | A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, creating tremors felt as far away as Pakistan's capital...