Islamabad: At least 11 factory workers, most of them women, were killed when a three-storeyed building collapsed due to a factory blast in Pakistan’s Lahore city, said rescue teams and health officials. The rescue team’s spokesperson Karamat Ali said most parts of the factory caved in when nearly 60 workers [...]

Mumbai: India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by $673.4 million to $293.93 billion for the week ended Jan 27, Reserve Bank of India data showed. The forex reserves have risen for the second week after six straight weeks of decline. They had increased by $731.8 million for the week ended Jan [...]

Moscow: Russia will build a reliable aerospace defence system to effectively counter NATO missile threats, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Sunday. Rogozin, appointed recently to oversee Russia’s defence industry, tweeted that the global security conference being held in the German city of Munich had failed to come to a [...]

Kabul: At least seven people, including five police officers, were killed and 19 injured Sunday in a car bomb attack on the police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, BBC reported. At least 19 people were wounded in the blast in a car park outside the police building, [...]

Ciudad Juarez (Mexico): Gunmen killed nine people, including five musicians, and wounded 11 at a nightclub in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, authorities said. The incident occurred at around 1 a.m. Saturday when a group of armed men burst into the establishment and opened fire, Chihuahua municipal police said [...]

Dubai: Emirates Airlines has launched its new daily flights to Dallas city in the US, it was announced Friday. Emirates will serve Dallas/Fort Worth daily with a Boeing 777 aircraft. The new service is a monumental development because it opens up a key region of the world for the citizens [...]

Kiev: As many as 43 people have fallen victim to freezing temperatures that hit Ukraine in the last few days, the country’s Emergencies Ministry has stated. According to the ministry, 28 people were found dead in the streets, eight died in hospitals, and seven at home, said an official statement [...]

Moscow: Russia would make another attempt to send a Phobos-Grunt probe to Mars’ satellite in 2018, a leading space expert has said. According to Lev Zeleny, director of the academy’s Institute of Space Research, the probe would be named Phobos-Grunt-2. The plan was initiated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, [...]

Washington: President Barack Obama Wednesday presented a plan to revitalize the US real estate market that would allow millions of homeowners to refinance their mortgages and take advantage of the current historically low interest rates. Due to the precipitous decline in housing prices in recent years, more than 10 million [...]

Quito: Ecuador has signed contracts for $1.7 billion in investment – the biggest to date in the country’s oil sector – to boost output at a pair of mature Amazon fields. Non-Renewable Natural Resources Minister Wilson Pastor, speaking at a signing ceremony at the presidential palace in Quito, described the [...]