A recently constructed road bridge collapsed in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi today, killing at least four people and injuring others, officials said.

A Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane crashed soon after take-off on a domestic flight Monday in eastern Pakistan, and many of the 45 people on board were feared dead.

THE community from which the London bombers sprang were quiet yesterday as Britain remembered the bomb victims and as community leaders appealed for unity.

The United Nations last week temporarily grounded all helicopters involved in earthquake relief work in northern Pakistan due to growing anger over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in Western media, an official said today.

A POWERFUL car bomb exploded outside a KFC restaurant in southern Pakistan yesterday, setting off a massive fireball that overturned cars and shattered steel and glass. Three people were killed and 22 injured.

A man sentenced to death for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl was executed in eastern Pakistan after the president turned down his plea for clemency.