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Peace will return to sub-continent only after resolution of Kashmir issue: Raheel Sharif
Pakistan wants peaceful coexistence but Kashmir has to be resolved first, says former army chief at WEF
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Kremlin hits out at Obama, says was always ready for nuclear arms cuts
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says Russian side always favoured a fair process of nuclear disarmament
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NATO sees sharp rise in state-backed cyber attacks: Stoltenberg
NATO chief says most of the attacks were not from private individuals but other state institutions
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OPEC oil output to come down in January: IEA
The IEA says in 2017 we still expect the rate of growth for global demand to fall back to 1.3 mbd
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Pictures of the day: January 19, 2017
We look at 13 pictures from events around the world
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Tempers flare over Australia Day ad featuring hijab-wearing girls
The image of the young girls wearing hijabs was removed from a Melbourne billboard earlier this week
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Three women killed in central India blast
A six-month-old girl was also injured in the blast triggered by improvised explosive device in the restive Chattisgarh
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At least 75 people injured in Tehran building collapse
The Plasco building was the first high-rise and shopping centre in Tehran
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Italy quake: up to 30 feared dead in avalanche-hit hotel
The hotel is located around 90 kilometres from the epicentre of the quakes at Montereale
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Deported Afghan girl says NatGeo picture caused more pain than gain
Sharbat Gula says picture made her 'famous but also led to her imprisonment'
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Muslims should not wear burqa in public: Western Australia PM
Colin Barnett, the Premier of Western Australia, says he 'would encourage people not to wear that type of clothing'
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Barack Obama: 35 intimate moments
Some of the most intimate, candid and comical moments captured during Obama’s presidency
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Agents, parents get in on ‘rent-a-girlfriend’ game
According to a law firm, such contracts are not valid because arrangement may be considered to go against moral law
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Gay prince on front line of India's war against AIDS
Gohil uses his fame and status to educate the gay community about safe sex
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'Matriarch' gorilla at Miami zoo dies at age of nearly 50
Josephine, who was born in the wild in 1967 and arrived in 1983 at Miami's zoo
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India school bus crash kills at least 15 children
It is not yet clear what had caused the vehicles to crash
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Exclusive: Pentagon, Lockheed near deal on $9 billion F-35 contract
Negotiations are poised to bring the price per F-35 below $100 million for the first time
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Mali car bomb kills 50 in fresh blow to peace efforts
France is considering a UN Security Council draft resolution that would set up a sanctions regime for Mali
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Indian government wants Apple, but not all officials are biting
India's IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says we will very much like Apple to come and have a base in India
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Xi calls for world without nuclear weapons
Chinese President Xi says we should reject dominance by just one or several countries
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Obama makes farewell calls to Afghan, Indian leaders
Outgoing US president thanks Modi for his partnership
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Trump to name ex-Georgia Governor Perdue as agriculture secretary
Perdue, a Republican, was elected twice as governor, serving from 2003 to 2011
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Indian surrogate mothers grab last chance to make babies ahead of impending ban
India's surrogacy industry has come under attack by women's rights groups who say fertility clinics are baby factories
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Wife of Florida nightclub gunman pleads not guilty to aiding attack
lman was arrested on Monday in California, where she was living with her mother in the San Francisco area
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South Korea court rejects arrest warrant for Samsung heir
The refusal comes aas a setback to prosecutors probing a corruption scandal engulfing President Park Geun-Hye
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German AfD rightist triggers fury with Holocaust memorial comments
AfD's anti-immigrant rhetoric has won support among Germans worried about the influx of more than a million migrants
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US protest group vows to disrupt Trump inaugural festivities
The US Secret Service and Washington police are expecting some 900,000 people to pack into the area
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US Supreme Court tackles racist trademarks in band case
The US Supreme Court refused to allow a Lebanese wine seller to use 'Khoran' out of respect for Muslims
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Muslim nations to heap pressure on Myanmar over Rohingya
Nearly 70,000 Rohingya have fled the northern part of Rakhine state since October
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Xi calls for world without nuclear weapons
In his disarmament call and plea for equality Xi offered China as a nation "committed to building a world of peace"
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Assange says would go to US only if rights guaranteed: WikiLeaks
Washington has maintained the threat of prosecuting the Wikileaks founder
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Madame Tussaud's unveils UK waxwork of Trump
Security was tight at the unveiling following a protest in Madrid on Tuesday
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China's Alibaba expresses interest in Pakistan's e-commerce sector
PM Nawaz Sharif meets company chief Jack Ma on sidelines of the 47th World Economic Forum's annual meeting
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Pupil shoots, injures classmates in Mexico school
Nothing appeared to indicate that the school shooting was gang-related
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First freight train from China to Britain arrives in London
The consignment would have taken nearly twice as long to reach Britain by sea
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Two Indians dead in family suicide in Macau hotel
The "case has been initially listed as suicide" and it has been learnt that all victims were members of same family
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Suicide blast kills 33 at north Mali military camp
The camp was home to government soldiers and members of various rival armed groups
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Sri Lanka scuttles move to legitimise homosexuality
Country's 1883 penal code, legacy of its British colonial rulers, makes sex between men punishable by 12 years in jail
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Pictures of the day: January 18, 2017
We look at 13 pictures from events around the world
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No one has magic wand to solve Pakistan's problems, says General Raheel
Former army chief says military-to-military relations between Pakistan and US improved significantly during his tenure
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Man loses seven teeth after e-cigarette explodes in his face
Vape shattered into pieces in his mouth, knocking out his teeth and burning his face and neck
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Pakistan did not know about OBL's whereabouts: Munter
Former envoy says OBL killing inside Pakistan further deepened mistrust between Islamabad and Washington
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Cambridge professor urges the British to learn Urdu
Crucial to see integration as a two-way street, academic says
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In pictures: World's first permanent ice hotel
More than 40 architects and designers came together from nine countries around the world to create 20 suites
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Demolitions spark deadly violence in Arab Israeli village
Umm al-Heiran has become symbolic, with residents having waged a years-long legal fight against demolition orders
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Russia says Snowden can stay two more years
Snowden was not on Obama's list of commutations or pardons
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Former US President George HW Bush hospitalised
Bush is expected to go home in a couple of days
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Dr Shakil Afridi will neither be freed nor handed over to US: law minister
Afridi, hailed as a hero by US officials, was arrested after US forces killed bin Laden in May 2011
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Iran 'hostile' to US involvement in Syria talks
The talks come in the wake of President Bashar al-Assad's symbolic victory last month in retaking Aleppo
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Mexico probes drug links to deadly club shooting
Monday's shooting at the Blue Parrot club during the BPM electronic music festival rocked Playa del Carmen

















































