The United States has ruled out an India-type civil nuclear deal for Pakistan, at least for now.“We are focused on Pakistan’s energy needs. But as we said last week, right now, that does not include civilian nuclear energy,” State Department spokesman P. J Crowley…

The US economy seems to be recovering but it is “far from being out of the woods,” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday.In prepared remarks to business people in Dallas, Bernanke said that the financial crisis, the worst one since the Great Depression…

Did Christopher Columbus actually set sail for America from the Spanish port of Cadiz as the original historical version says?A researcher with the Circulo Catalan de Historia has found information that contradicts the official historical version that said Columbus set sail on his second…

More than 400,000 students will resume classes Monday in schools across Chile after a devastating earthquake destroyed large areas of the central and southern regions of the country, a minister said.President Sebastian Pinera had set a deadline of two months within which to re-establish…

An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit the Mexican peninsula of Baja California Sunday afternoon, the US Geological Survey said.The depth of the strong quake was reported at at 10 km, Xinhua reported quoting the the USGS.The epicentre of the earthquake…

Fatima Bhutto, the niece of slain former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Sunday said politics was not the best way to bring about transformation in society and she had chosen the media and academia to work for change.Fatima, who took part in a panel…

A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived punctually at the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday, Russia’s mission control spokesman Valeri Lyndin said.The Russian Soyuz spaceship carrying American Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, 40, and her Russian colleagues Mikhail Korniyenko, 49, and Alexander Skvortsov, 43, were launched…

Anti-government protesters started donating their own blood on Tuesday as part of a plan to splatter the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.Hundreds of red-shirted demonstrators formed long lines to have their blood drawn by nurses,…

The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.The detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar -- second in the Taliban only to…

Former PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf has decided to "immediately come" to Pakistan and clear his name from the National Accountability Bureau inquiry suggesting that he was involved in embezzlement of millions of rupees."I am immediately coming to Pakistan to clear this matter and…