ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: A huge anti-drone rally led by former cricketer Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was on Sunday barred from entering South Waziristan, where it was to culminate in a large public meeting.

They were stopped at Manzai, close to the tribal area by the local administration, as their cars did not have proper documents required to enter the region, Geo TV report...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Thirty-two Americans, most of them women, have joined a massive anti-drone rally in Pakistan led by former cricketer Imran Khan.

The campaigners of the US anti-war group Code Pink are here to draw attention of the American public to the impact of the US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

The group, which describes itself as a women-initiated grassr...

LONDON, Oct 7: Superfoods may have been the mainstay of the health industry for a long time, but now researchers are questioning their much touted health promoting properties.

Foods such as broccoli, blueberries and whole grains do contain polyphenols, compounds that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, but their health-giving properties seldom make it past the gut, conten...

NEW YORK, Oct 7: Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been presented before a federal judge here following his extradition from Britain to face terror charges.

Abu Hamza faces 11 terror charges and is one of the five men who left England on Friday, hours after the London High Court ruled they could be extradited “immediately”, the CNN reported.

Two planes carr...

MOGADISHU, Oct 7: Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud on Saturday named Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid, as the country’s new Prime Minister, nearly a month after the President was elected. At a joint news conference here, the Somali President made the announcement of Saaid’s nomination. Saaid, a businessman by profession, is a newcomer to Somalia politics. He is expected to form the cabi...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7: The US Secret Service, responsible for protecting the President and other leaders, has issued new policies regarding alcohol and social media use. The new policies have come up five months after over a dozen agents were accused of getting drunk and partying with prostitutes in Colombia. According to the new policy, agents can’t consume alcoholic beverages ten hours before ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7: Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a two-point lead over President Barack Obama nationally after the first of three Presidential debates held in Denver, according to a new poll. According to Rasmussen’s daily Presidential tracking poll, nearly 49 per cent Americans supported Romney as compared to 47 per cent who supported Obama. The poll found that about two...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that things had became unbearable for him to continue living at the presidency after his son was “held” at the gate. Gilani was reportedly living in a presidential suite of four bedrooms on the sixth floor of the Aiwan-e-Sadr since his ouster in July. Gilani said there was no political prisoner during his rul...

CARACAS (VENEZUELA), Oct 7: Under a joint programme promoted by Cuba and Venezuela, more than 1.5 million people from Latin American countries have had free eye surgery since 2004, the Prensa Latina news agency reported. A total of 15,96,388 eye surgeries have been performed under the “Mission Miracle” programme. The figure includes more than 33,000 people from Ecuador, El Salvador, Ni...

SEOUL, Oct 7: South Korea will build ballistic missiles to better respond to “perceived threats” from North Korea, the presidential office here said on Sunday. The missiles will have a range of up to 800 km, more than double the current limit, and capable of reaching targets anywhere in North Korea, Xinhua reported. North Korea’s ballistic missiles have a range of 3,000 km and ca...

DUBAI, Oct 7: A woman in the UAE, who found her husband had a sexually transmitted disease and refused to have sex with him, sought divorce when she caught the man watching pornographic movies on his computer. The woman, a doctor by profession, opened the laptop computer and browsed through it, before she realised several movies and pictures of a sexual nature were saved in different folders, the ...

LONDON, Oct 7: A man jilted by his ex-wife first kidnapped and then strangled her. He then took her body on a trip across Europe by road and finally dumped it in a shallow grave, a court here has heard. Lithuanian-born Rimas Venclovas, 47, was outraged to find his ex-wife Vitalija Baliutaviciene, 29, had a new lover in Britain, Daily Mail reported. Baliutaviciene’s body was found by a mushro...

MEXICO CITY, Oct 7: Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the largest number of skulls ever found in one offering at the most sacred temples of the Aztec empire, dating back to more than 500 years. The 50 skulls were found at one sacrificial stone. Five were buried under the stone with each having holes on both sides, indicating they were hung on a skull rack, Daily Mail reported on Saturday. A...

LONDON, Oct 7: Pigs are being given toys to play with in their pens - because happier pigs make tastier pork, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday. On farms across Britain, the animals are being treated to an array of playthings to bite into - including ropes, rubber boots, and even rubber hoses hanging down from ceiling. One big hit with the pigs has been a plastic gadget known as a Porcichew, which...

TRIPOLI, Oct 7: Seven Iranian aid workers, who were abducted by unidentified people and detained for over two months in Libya, have been set free, Iran’s Ambassador to Libya Hussein Akbari said. The Iranians, who were freed on Saturday, are from the Red Crescent Society of Iran, Xinhua reported. They had been taken from their vehicle by unidentified kidnappers in Libya’s eastern city o...