KARACHI; Thousands of mourners visited the shrine of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto Wednesday as the country marked 10 years since her assassination, with her killers yet to face justice, reports AFP. An estimated 20,000 people gathered at the shrine in Garhi Khuda Baksh in the Bhutto…

WASHINGTON: The United States sanctioned two North Korean officials on Tuesday over the development of ballistic missiles, as Russia and America's top diplomats held talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, reports AFP. Tensions have escalated after the isolated but nuclear-armed regime staged…

MANILA: The death toll from a fire that ravaged a shopping mall in the southern Philippines has risen to 38 after the body of a mall safety officer was discovered, the city mayor said Wednesday, reports AFP. The officer died trying to rescue those trapped in the blaze at the four-storey NCCC mall in…

London: An electricity bill for more than $284bn (£212bn) left a woman in the US state of Pennsylvania stunned... until she found out the amount was wrong, reports BBC. Mary Horomanski from Erie said the latest bill showed that she had to pay the entire amount by November 2018. "My eyes just…

Google paid tribute to legendary poet Mirza Ghalib on Wednesday with a doodle on the occasion of his 220th birth anniversary. Mirza Asadullah Baig, who…

ADEN: Saudi-led air strikes killed 14 civilians in a village market near Yemen's battleground third city Taez as a nearly three-year bombing campaign intensified, an official and medics said on Wednesday, reports AFP. The Tuesday strikes also killed 11 rebel fighters and wounded 16 civilians, a…

The United Nations' budget is set to shrink by over $285 million next year - a 5 percent cut that the US government says it negotiated, reports AP. The UN General Assembly voted Sunday to approve the nearly $5.4 billion regular operating budget for 2018-2019. The Secretary-General's office says…

LIMA: Peru's ailing former leader Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for forgiveness, two days after receiving a presidential pardon that…