Mexican soldiers on Thursday seized more than 15 tons of methamphetamines and other substances used to manufacture illegal drugs from a farm in western Mexico, officials said.The confiscated drugs represent the biggest seizure in the country's more than five-year war against drug cartels, according…

Fishermen killed and transported an 11-meter long whale shark, weighing in at 22 tons, to the Karachi Fish Harbour from the open seas. Although they paid Rs50,000 alone to lift and transport the carcass of this endangered sea mammal, they were only able to sell…

The death toll from the devastating earthquake in the New Zealand city of Christchurch last February has been raised to 185, the coroner's office said Thursday.The coroner initially found 181 people were killed as a direct result of the 6.3-magnitude quake, but more deaths…

Solar radiation from a massive sun storm - the largest in nearly a decade - collided with the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays.US carrier Delta Air Lines said it had adjusted…

Seven persons including a woman and a child were killed in Namak Mandi area of Peshawar when the roof of a house collapsed on Wednesday, Geo News reported.According to sources, a gas cylinder exploded in the house that caused the roof collapse and killed.…

Attacks in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Friday killed 185 people, including more than two dozen policemen, police said on Monday, adding that hundreds of bombs have been found."The statistics available to the police indicate that 29 policemen, three SSS (intelligence) officers, two…

Cuba remains the sole Latin American nation which "represses virtually all forms of political dissent," Human Rights Watch said in a report Sunday, while citing concerns over developments in Venezuela and Mexico."Cubans who criticize the government are subject to criminal charges," the watchdog group…

The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.A separate report from the US…

A senior Chinese propaganda official has said real-name registration for the nation's hugely popular microblogs will be expanded, as authorities tighten their grip on the web amid fear of unrest.Beijing, Shanghai and the southern province of Guangdong have recently ordered new users of weibos…

In what could simply be described as an enormous loss for Pakistan, Arfa Karim, the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Saturday night, lost the battle of life after remaining admitted here at Combined Military Hospital for 26 days, Geo News reported.Arfa Karim was…