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A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades. Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez says the dead include 48 adults and one child. At least 550 people were injured, and emergency workers were slowly extracting dozens of people who were ...

The judicial commission, probing the memogate scandal, recorded statement of Mansoor Ijaz, the man at the center of the controversy, on Wednesday. The statement was  recorded via video link from London by the commission headed by Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Esa. Mansoor Ijaz reached the Pakistan London High Commission while the judicial commission was communicating Ijaz ...

Pakistan Muslim League (Like Minded) leader Saleem Saifullah Khan on Wednesday said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has made no progress in uniting Muslim League factions so far and if decision was not taken by the former prime minister in this regard soon, other options like PPP, PML-Q and PTI were opened for Like-Minded. Talking to media in Lahore, Khan said that his group had been conducting ...

LONDON: Pakistan will give its full support to any clear effort by the Afghan government to achieve a political settlement with the Taliban but does not want to lead a peace process that would impose a solution, its foreign minister said on Wednesday. Hina Rabbani Khar said Afghans were tired of attempts by other countries [...]

Former captain Imran Khan has said that he wants to see Mohammad Amir back in the national team after he serves his ban for spot-fixing. He was recently released from a juvenile detention centre, but still has most of his five-year ban from cricket to serve. Amir was last year jailed along with Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif after taking part in spot-fixing during Pakistan’s tour of England ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday stressed that the next budget should focus on protec

KARACHI: Female members of the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously decided to pass the Domestic Violence Against Women and Children Bill 2012 in its next session scheduled for March. The legislators, in a consultative meeting organized by the Sindh Directorate of Women Development and Legislative Watch Group of Aurat Foundation, extensively discussed different clauses of [...]

RIYADH: Saudi’s King Abdullah told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that dialogue on Syria was “futile”, the official SPA news agency reported on Wednesday. Russia should have “coordinated with the Arabs… before using the veto” to block a resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council, King Abdullah was quoted as saying. “But now, dialogue about [...]

A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires's busy Once station, injuring at least 340 morning commuters, Argentina's transport secretary said. "There are people still trapped, people alive, and there may have been fatalities," Juan Pablo Schiavi told reporters at the station. It was not known if there were dead people in the wreckage. The commuter train came in too fast and ...

LAHORE: Amir Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Syed Munawar Hassan on Wednesday said Pakistan was being weakened under a planned

LONDON: Mansoor Ijaz, the protagonist of Memo scandal, Wednesday recorded his statement via video link from London

MANAMA: Sunni Muslims warned the Bahraini government at a rally against entering a dialogue with Shia-led opposition parties, as pressure mounts for the Sunni-led Gulf Arab state to end unrest now entering its second year. The tourism and banking hub, dominated by the Sunni Al Khalifa family, has been in turmoil since a protest movement [...]

Two political leaders from a communist party in India’s eastern state of West Bengal were killed Wednesday, allegedly by activists from the ruling party, a news report said. The politicians, who belonged to the state’s opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), were beaten and stabbed by a crowd in the Burdwan district, area police chief SH Mirza told the IANS news agency. ...

KARACHI: Pakistani stocks ended higher on Wednesday, led by a rally in banking shares, as investor sentiment rose on hopes of strong corporate results. The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share  index rose 0.47 per cent, or 59.22 points, to 12,603.67 points. Turnover fell to 194.11 million shares, from a 22-month high made the previous [...]

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday put conditions for participating in an All Parties Conference (APC) to discuss the crisis in Balochistan. In a statement PML-N said its President Nawaz Sharif had associated his participation in the APC with the arrest of Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killer’s and the recovery of missing persons. The PML-N [...]

PARIS: Chelsea’s Champions League hopes are in the balance following a 3-1 loss to Napoli in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Tuesday, after Real Madrid were pegged back by a 93rd-minute equaliser at CSKA Moscow. Chelsea took the lead through Juan Mata at Napoli’s Stadio San Paolo but a brace from the [...]

DAMASCUS: Two Western journalists were among more than a dozen people killed Wednesday as Syrian forces pounded the rebel city of Homs, activists said, while calls mounted for a truce to allow in humanitarian aid. The latest barrage came a day after security forces killed at least 68 people across Syria, adding to an overall [...]

KARACHI: Coalition partners in Sindh have an agreement for the distribution of 12 Senate seats in the province, so

LONDON: Andre Villas-Boas’s gamble in leaving Frank Lampard, fit-again Ashley Cole and even the out-of-form Fernando Torres on the bench backfired spectacularly when Chelsea lost 3-1 at Napoli on Tuesday, increasing speculation over the coach’s future. Chelsea’s defeat in the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16 tie in Naples leaves them on [...]

MADRID: Madrid’s Prado museum has put a contemporary copy of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” on display just weeks after rocking the art world with revelations about its provenance. The Prado presented the completed restoration of a work on Tuesday that it has concluded was a replica painted by one of Leonardo’s apprentices alongside the [...]