ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has suffered at least USD 107 billion losses due to terrorism plaguing the country for well over a decade, according to official data. The data was part of the annual national Economic Survey issued by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday. During the last 14 years, the di

A BBC journalist is facing disciplinary action for killing off the Queen on Twitter after apparently mistaking a rehearsal of the announcement of her death for the real thing. The Corporation apologised after Ahmen Khawaja, a broadcast journalist, sent a tweet saying: "'Queen Elizabrth

LONDON: Even though Islam is fast becoming the preferred religion across Europe, vilification of Muslims has been found to be rampant across many of its countries. As many as 61% of Italians have been found to have strong anti-Muslim sentiments, while the number stands at 56% in Poland and 42% in

BEIJING: Seven people were confirmed dead and at least 430 remained missing today, following the capsizing of a cruise ship in Asia's longest river Yangtze in central China as more than 4,000 rescue workers race against time to find survivors amid rough weather conditions. So far 14 people have b

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has urged Myanmar to end discrimination against its ethnic Rohingya minority if it wants to succeed in its democratic transition from decades of junta rule. The plight of the Muslim group, 1.3 million of whom live in western Myanmar but are mostly denied citizen

SAN DIEGO: A 92-year-old US grandmother has become the oldest woman to finish a marathon, when she crossed the finish line of a San Diego 26-miler on Sunday, race organizers said. A smiling Harriette Thompson, aged 92 years and 65 days, was cheered by dozens of onlookers and supporters as she com

London and Ascot racecourse in Berkshire. (TOI file photo) Text resize:AAA LONDON: The income of Queen Elizabeth II is set to be reviewed by Prime Minister David Cameron-led UK government after public funding of the royal household surged to 40 million pounds last year. Talks between Buckin

BAGHDAD: The death toll from car bombs that targeted two prominent hotels in Baghdad a day earlier rose to 15 people, with another 42 wounded, Iraqi officials said Friday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. Two separate car bombs went off late Thursday in the parkin

The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a main opposition leader in Myanmar, to do more to help protect the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority in her country amid a worsening migration crisis. Despite thousands of Rohingya fleeing on harrowing boat journeys to Sout

ATHENS: Iran's foreign minister is holding out hope that a "sustainable, mutually respectful" deal can be struck with world powers in talks over his country's nuclear program before the current deadline of June 30. Mohammad Javad Zarif says an agreement with negotiators from the US, Russia, China

MALAYSIA: Malaysia said on Thursday that it believes 139 people are buried in graves at remote detention camps used by people-smugglers on the Thai border which were discovered on the weekend. "Based on the size of the graves, and after the area was cleared... we have a clearer indication — singl

BEIJING: Amid escalating tensions with the US over disputed South China Sea, China on Tuesday unveiled an assertive military strategy enhancing its naval reach for the first time to "open seas protection" far from its shores, which could pose a challenge to the Indian Navy, especially in the Indian

NEW YORK: A series of anonymous telephone threats against commercial airliners Monday, possibly from the same source, prompted searches of at least two planes at Kennedy Airport and nearly interrupted a third flight from England, authorities said. Authorities said the threats didn’t appear to be cr

TOKYO: A strong quake shook buildings in Tokyo on Monday, setting off alarms and bringing the city's subway system to halt, AFP reporters in the Japanese capital said. There was no risk of a tsunami from the quake, which measured 5.6, according to the Japanese meteorological agency. The epicen

LAHORE: Pakistan's former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said he had spoken to his son Ali Haider for the first time since he was kidnapped by a Taliban group in 2013 and is now being held in Afghanistan. "Today I received a telephone call from an unknown number. It was from my abducted

KARACHI: A 140-foot bullet-proof cross is being erected here in Pakistan's largest and most populous city by a devout Christian who calls it a "symbol of God". Parvez Henry Gill, Christian Pakistani businessman is building the largest cross in Gora Qabristan, one of the oldest Christian cemetery.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Islamic State as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost. “I don’t think we’re losing,” Obama said in an interview with news magazine The Atlantic published Thur

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A mysterious space plane rocketed into orbit Wednesday, carrying no crew but a full load of technology experiments. The Air Force launched its unmanned mini-shuttle late Wednesday morning. An Atlas V rocket lifted it up and out over the Atlantic. This is the fourth fli