Pak PM likes Musharrafs support for democracy
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani today said what he likes most in President Pervez Musharraf is his support for democracy and his straight-forwardness. ANI
Zardari, Nawaz agree on transfer of Presidents powers to PM
Pakistan Peoples Party co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif in their meeting on Tuesday agreed on transferring the President Pervez Musharrafs powers to the Prime Minister. ANI
McDonalds to go green with eco-friendly coffee
Its burgers might be considered junk food, but McDonalds latest initiative to buy coffee beans grown in environmentally-friendly conditions, might prove to be the fast food giants first step towards going green. ANI
Japanese plan to brew space beer
Astronauts can raise their beer mugs in a toast once they successfully make it to space, thanks to a Japanese brewery that is planning to produce the worlds first space beer using barley once stored at the International Space Station. ANI
Heres how you can stay slim forever
Followed every diet in the book, but love handles still giving you nightmares? Well, celeb dietician Anita Bean has come to your rescue with her new no-nonsense strategies for a proper diet that can help shun fat forever. ANI
Porn on mobile phones sparks school purge
Cellphones of students of a South African school were seized, after two girls were caught using theirs to watch pornography. ANI
Pak needs 159 years, India 50 years to catch up with industrialised world: WB Report
A World Bank body has said that Pakistan need 159 years to catch up with the industrialised nations of the world, and that the country could reach this milestone by 2050 if it maintained an annual growth rate of 8.3 per cent, and in 2100 if it maintained a growth rate of 4.9 per cent. ANI
Coca-Cola not to phase out controversial additive Down Under
Coca-Cola Australia has ruled out its plans to remove the controversial additive found in Diet Coke in the country, which has been linked to DNA damage and hyperactivity in children. ANI
Mixing deck of worlds first DJ goes under the hammer
A home-made mixing deck, created by the worlds first disc jockey is set to go under the hammer in Boston. ANI
Im a fair match for F1 ace Lewis Hamilton: P Diddy
He might consider Lewis Hamilton a true hero, but P Diddy believes that he is totally a fair competitor for the F1 ace. ANI
Drink to get drunk culture on the rise Down Under
Australia is seeing a sharp rise in what one may call a drink to get drunk culture among the youth, which in turn is costing the nation a hell lot of money to keep alcohol-related crime as well as other related problems in control, says a top police official. ANI
18-ft long Titanic replica to cost 1.3 million pounds
Almost a century after the Titanic surrendered itself to the Atlantic waters, the first model of the doomed ship has been erected on the lines of the original plans, with a price tag reading 1.3 million pounds. ANI
Urge to conquer hooks men to Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360
Men are more addicted to playing games like the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 than their female counterparts, because of the vital urge to conquer, says a new study. ANI
Cat lands top job at Japanese train station!
When rail users arrive at Kishi station in western Japan theyre welcomed by a tortoiseshell cat named Tama. Dont mistake the nine-year-old for a ticket collectors pet, for the moggy is addressed by her official title of stationmaster. ANI
Cellar mums daughter miraculously wakes from coma
After fighting for her life for weeks, cellar kid Kerstin has miraculously woken from her coma. ANI
Now, a new line in home security - Titan, the £65k guard dog!
They might look like a cuddly family pet - but the highly-trained guard dogs that double as pets are being hailed as of frontline home security. ANI
PPPs package just to divert peoples attention from judges issue
The PML-N has said that the PPPs proposed constitutional package was meant to simply divert the peoples attention from the judges restoration issue, as it was amply clear that the package couldnt be passed in either of the two Houses of parliament (because the government lacked the required numbers to get it through). ANI
Brit drinkers down 3000-extra calories a week from booze!
They may not realize it while boozing, but an average British drinker downs a belly-busting 3,000 extra calories every week just from his or her favourite tipple. ANI
Oz mum, daughter conquer Mount Everest
Two women from Sydney have reached the top of Mount Everest, creating history as the first mother-daughter team to climb the worlds highest summit. ANI
Hindus ask Beliefnet to stop promoting Hollywood movie The Love Guru
Hindus have asked Beliefnet, the largest spiritual website, to stop promoting the upcoming Hollywood movie The Love Guru, which they say hurts the Hindu and spiritual community. ANI
Chasing cheese can land you in the hospital!
Chasing cheese might sound as soft as a piece of cake, but it left nineteen people nursing cuts and bruises after they took part in an annual Cheese Rolling tournament in Gloucestershire on Monday. ANI
Pak lawyers to observe Negropontes visit as a black day
Ahead of US Deputy Secretary of State John Negropontes visit to Pakistan, bodies representing lawyers have appealed to the countrymen to boycott the visit as it was an intervention into Pakistans internal affairs. ANI
UK says Pak, Afghan should jointly tackle terror
UK Defence Secretary Des Browne has reportedly said that Pakistan and Afghanistan should unite to tackle extremism because the menace was posing a serious threat to global security. ANI
Nawaz alleges Musharraf conspiring to keep him out of NA
Based on a recorded telephonic conversation purportedly involving senior PML-N leader and former Punjab CM Pervez Elahi, former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has alleged that taking the help of the judges he appointed through the Nov 3 PCO (provincial constitutional order), President Pervez Musharraf was conspiring to make sure that his (Nawazs) nomination papers for the June 18 by-elections were rejected. ANI
US urges Pak to strike back to counter terror
A senior US security officer has said that Pakistan should strike back at terrorism, else it would continue to see more attacks like the one that killed ex-premier Benazir Bhutto in December last year. ANI
Malaysian state to foot education bill of kids of 16 ISA detainees
The government in the Malaysian state of Selangor has announced plans to provide scholarships to the children of the16 people from the state who have been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA). ANI
Hillary Clinton lists six reasons for continuing to run for U.S.President
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has listed at least six reasons for her decision not to pull out of the Democratic Partys presidential nomination race. ANI
Swedish woman loves sex with her husband - the Berlin Wall!
The fall of the Berlin Wall might be a reason to celebrate for many, but for Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, the collapse of the wall has left her a widow, as she claims that she has been married to the giant concrete structure for 29 years. ANI
Pak-Taliban deal must be enforced, says new NATO commander in Afghanistan
Newly appointed chief of NATOs command in Afghanistan and Maj Gen in US Army, Jeffrey J Schloesser has said that Pakistan was a sovereign country and it was in NATOs interest that peace agreements between the Pakistani government and militants were enforced. ANI
Woman returns to life after being brain dead for 17 hours
A 59-year-old American woman has stunned doctors and her family by apparently coming back from the dead. ANI
Immigrants struggling to speak English will lose benefits under Tory plans
Immigrant workers and foreign-born citizens who struggle to speak English will be denied benefits unless they accept language lessons, under plans unveiled by the Conservatives.The Telegraph quoted Chris Grayling, the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, as saying that the employment rate for some ethnic minority groups is below the national average, saying that serious steps need to be taken to address the problem. ANI
Maoists and NC, UML meet ends inconclusively
The meeting of the Nepali Congress (NC), the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) and the Maoists has ended inconclusively, as leaders have differed over ways to resolve the deadlock in Nepal. ANI
NHRC barred from Nepals Shaktikhor Cantonment
Maoists prevented the Nepal Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from entering Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan in the course of investigating the mysterious murder of Ram Hari Shrestha who was killed by the Maoist Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) in captivity. ANI
Prachanda meets US Deputy Assistant Secretary
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda met visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Dr. Evan A. Feigenbaum. ANI
Smart casual rings death knell for formal business suits in UK
The number of UK employers wanting their staff to be dress in formal attire on a daily basis has significantly decreased in the last four years, according to a survey. ANI
Malaysia sets up foundation to look into welfare of Tamil schools
The Malaysian Government has decided to set up a Tamil Schools Foundation (TSF) to look into the welfare and maintenance of the 523 Tamil schools in the country. ANI
Talibans latest battleground may soon be YouTube
In its latest bid to go info-tech-savvy, the Taliban are learnt to be preparing for a media war to counter the Pakistan Armys offensives aimed at them, by putting videos on live websites such as YouTube. ANI
Stonehenge builders had geometry skills equivalent to Pythagoras
A new study has revealed that the builders of the Stonehenge had a sophisticated knowledge of geometry to rival that of even Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician. ANI
Now, a Brit dungeon dad who raped his daughter 800 times surfaces
A British woman has revealed that she was raped 800 times and made pregnant by her evil father - a case which is chillingly similar to Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl. ANI
Cellar family considering moving to Britain
The family of Austrian incest beast Josef Fritzl is considering moving to Britain in the hope of being able to live a normal, peaceful life. ANI
Pak Muslim woman accused of imprisoning her daughter-in-law in UK for 13 years
A Muslim woman has been charged with imprisoning her two daughters-in-law in her house. Naseebah Bibi (62) has been accused of falsely imprisoning Nagina Akhtar - who came to the UK after an arranged marriage in Pakistan - between January 1993 and 2006. ANI
Osama may be hiding in K2 mountain range in north Pak
Fresh reports by an Arabic TV network have indicated that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding somewhere in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range of mountains, along the Pak-Afghan border which connects Afghanistan to the West, and that the US was planning a manhunt operation to capture him. ANI
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