At least 42 people were killed when a bomb exploded at the main gate of a government-run hospital in south-western Pakistan, police said.

A suicide bomber killed at least 69 people, mostly women and children, at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, striking at the heart of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s political base of Punjab.

Inside a garage in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley filled with green dust and piles of cannabis, stand a woman and a 13-year-old boy, sifting through the twigs and buds of the recent harvest.

In Lawrence of Arabia, Omar Sharif is first seen in the distance, a speck in the swirling desert sand. As he draws closer, he emerges first as a black figure on a galloping camel, slowly transforming into a handsome, dark-eyed figure with a gap-tooth smile. It wasn’t unlike the Egyptian-born actor’s debut in Hollywood.

Legendary Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif is battling Alzheimer’s disease, his agent Steve Kenis has confirmed.

Taliban claim attack that targeted military school in Pakistan

Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school over.

The death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan has risen to 126, an official says.

A stampede at an anti-government rally in central Pakistan killed seven supporters of the country’s famous former cricketer now opposition politician Imran Khan officials said.

Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed 110 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India, officials said, as forecasters warned of more rain in the coming days and troops raced to evacuate people from deluged areas.

Pakistan’s prime minister and army chief have held marathon meetings over violent anti-government protests that could force the premier to resign.

Thousands of anti-government protesters tried to raid the official residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, sparking clashes with police that killed three people and wounded nearly 400 amid cries for the premier to step down, officials said.

Gaza gunmen have killed 18 alleged spies for Israel, including seven who were lined up behind a mosque and shot, in response to Israel’s deadly airstrikes against top Hamas leaders.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad following the arrival of convoys led by a cricket star-turned-politician and a fiery anti-Taliban cleric.

As many as 100 people have been killed in airstrikes in the northwestern tribal regions of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

Taliban militants disguised as security forces stormed Pakistan’s busiest airport on Sunday and at least 27 people were killed in a dramatic night-long battle at one of the country’s most high-profile targets.

The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman bludgeoned to death outside a courthouse murdered his first wife, he told AFP yesterday, in a gruesome twist to a story that has shocked rights activists.

A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 60 people today

A Jordanian MP has been accused of opening fire on a colleague with an automatic rifle, chasing him through parliament before being overpowered.

Afghanistan’s president has urged neighbouring Pakistan to help peace talks with the Taliban, but hopes were low in both countries that much progress would be made.

A court in Pakistan has charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army.

Pakistan’s former leader Pervez Musharraf has been charged with murder over the 2007 assassination of prime minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year to make a political comeback.

The death toll from two overnight bombings at a busy market in northern Pakistan rose to 49 today with 10 more people dying at a hospital, officials said.

Newly elected members of Pakistan’s National Assembly were sworn in today, officially marking the first transition of power between democratically elected civilian governments in the nearly 66-year history of the coup-prone country.

The final vote count from Pakistan’s national elections has confirmed a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised today to return to office with a resounding election victory – a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the country’s daunting problems, including growing power cuts, weak economic growth and shaky finances.

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif is headed for a third term in office after a resounding victory, according to initial returns.

Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls today for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent.

Pakistan is holding historic elections today, pitting former cricket star Imran Khan against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation.

Pakistani officials say a bus carrying a wedding party has veered off a narrow road and plunged into a canal in the country’s north-west, killing at least 17.

US President Barack Obama has condemned the attack on the Benghazi consulate and a safe house refuge in which the US ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed.

THE students knew they had to act quickly when they disregarded the dangers of approaching a smoking car and rushed to help lift it so a man — trapped beneath with a motorcycle just feet away in flames — could be freed.

Libya’s new rulers have dedicated a special unit of fighters to track down former leader Muammar Gaddafi, listening in on his aides’ phone calls, poring over satellite images and interviewing witnesses.

Libyan rebels say they know where former leader Muammar Gaddafi is hiding, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed.

A CORK-BASED doctor has appeared before the Irish Medical Council over his treatment of a patient with a history of cardiac problems who collapsed at home two years ago.

A US college student who did volunteer work in Afghanistan was charged with slashing a Bangladeshi taxi driver’s neck and face in New York after the driver said he was a Muslim.

Pakistan’s government should negotiate with the country’s Taliban militants to ease the relentless security crisis in the nuclear-armed, US-allied nation, the top opposition leader said.

Pakistan’s top court acquitted opposition leader Nawaz Sharif of hijacking charges stemming from the 1999 coup against his government.

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to contest elections from Lahore after the Supreme Court lifted a ban barring him from electoral politics.

Sacked Pakistani Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry was reinstated to his post following months of pressure from the opposition, it was reported today.