July 4, 2013
NEW YORK: Encouraging news about the US jobs market trumped higher oil prices and worrying developments in Europe's debt crisis on Wednesday.
Oil climbed above $102 a barrel for the first time in more than a year as the political turmoil in Egypt intensified, raising the risk of supply disruptions in the Suez Canal. In Europe, traders dumped Portuguese stocks and bonds as the country's government teetered on the edge of collapse.
July 3, 2013
KARACHI: Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi has said that the national team needs to adopt and play in the same positive manner as the Indian team is doing currently.
Talking to reporters in Lahore, where he is training at the National Cricket Academy, the former Pakistan skipper said there was a time when the Indians were derided for not playing positive cricket.
July 3, 2013
NEW DELHI: Indicating its intentions to fly abroad very soon, proposed airline AirAsia India today trashed the "bizarre" policy of allowing carriers to operate international flights only after five years of domestic operations.
July 3, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Wednesday promised to protest US snooping of its Washington embassy, in a significant backtracking of the remarks of foreign minister Salman Khurshid, who dismissed such concerns in Brunei on Tuesday.
Salman Khurshid earlier virtually defended the US’s vast surveillance programme.
July 3, 2013
WASHINGTON: In a major concession to business groups, the Obama administration on Tuesday unexpectedly announced a one-year delay, until after the 2014 elections, in a central requirement of the new health care law that many companies provide coverage for their workers or face fines.
July 2, 2013
WASHINGTON: Scientists have discovered that there are 60 billion potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way alone, twice the number previously thought.
These planets in the habitable zone of a parent star may have the ability to sustain liquid water on their surface, researchers say.
July 2, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US government has announced that married same-sex couples may now apply for "green card" residency permits just as heterosexual married couples can, in the latest move to end discrimination against gay unions.
July 2, 2013
LONDON: Almost one-in-five pupils in primary education in the UK do not have English as their mother tongue following a sharp hike in the number of foreign-born pupils, according to official figures.
July 2, 2013
LONDON/MOSCOW: Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow over a week ago, blasting the Obama administration and saying he remains free to make new disclosures about US spying activity.
July 1, 2013
LONDON: Sabine Lisicki ended Serena Williams' reign as Wimbledon champion as the German 23rd seed clinched a stunning 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 victory over the world number one in the fourth round on Monday.
