The head of a village council in central Pakistan has been arrested for allegedly sanctioning the rape of a teenage girl.

Paddy Barnes' team-mate Michael Conlan made it two gold medals for Northern Ireland when he outpointed England's Qais Ashfaq in an entertaining bantamweight brawl.

AIBA World No. 2 ranked bantamweight Michael Conlan is an injury doubt for Northern Ireland for today’s Commonwealth Games 56kg final in Glasgow.

Five terrorist suspects including radical preacher Abu Hamza can be extradited from the UK to America for trial, human rights judges ruled today.

A suicide car bomber targeted buildings housing police and intelligence agency offices in eastern Pakistan today, killing about 30 and wounding more than 100 in one of the deadliest such blasts in the country this year, officials said.