By Alex Rodriguez Pakistan -- A Pakistani doctor who led a phony vaccination campaign aimed at helping the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden's whereabouts was convicted of treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a decision that is likely to further fray Washington's fragile relations with Islamabad. U.S. officials have been seeking the release of Shakeel Afridi since his arrest by Pakistani author ...

 "Press TV" - -In an interview with Russia’s Channel One, Berkan Yashar, who is also a Turkish politician, said the US has not killed the al-Qaeda leader. “In September of 1992, I was in Chechnya, that’s when I first met the man whose name was Bin Laden. This meeting took place in a two-story house in the city of Grozny; on the top floor was a family of Gamsakhurdia, the Georgian president, who then was kic ...

Asserting the players will try to produce their best performance on the coming tour to Sri Lanka, a confident looking Misbah-ul-Haq said on Friday that he and newly installed T20 skipper Mohammad Hafeez enjoyed a mutual constructive working relationship. “I have been giving guidelines to Hafeez and both of us, as captains, also exchange views on matters pertaining to team affairs. In fact, I am not only enj ...

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site. The 28-year-old billionaire's wedding took place a day after Facebook's initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday. More than 280,000 people "liked" Zuckerberg's status change, which was accompanied by a photo of th ...

Blind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng has arrived in New York with his family. Shuffling in front of the cameras for his first news press conference in America he said: "I hope everybody works with me to promote justice and fairness in China." He had emerged from 17 days confined in a Beijing hospital and years under illegal house arrest and yet seemed remarkably composed and at home addressing scores of rep ...

World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the Punjab Health Department has planned to put in place a "nutrition sentinel site surveillance system (NSSS)" for 0-59-month children to assess the nutritional and related health status of the children at the selected sites. This was revealed by WHO Technical Officer Nutrition Dr Khizar Ashraf, while addressing a workshop organised by WHO in collaborat ...

Pakistan's newly appointed Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez on Thursday called for trust and a good environment in the dressing room ahead of next month's tour of Sri Lanka. The talented Pakistan team often makes headlines over rows between the players and a volatile dressing room atmosphere, but Hafeez said he would continue the good example set by Misbah-ul-Haq. Misbah, dropped from the Twenty20 squad but ...

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW Whether restarting work on a nuclear reactor or (allegedly) kidnapping Chinese fishermen, trying to launch a satellite or to import banned tap-dancing shoes from Italy, North Korea continues to draw international attention a month after Kim Jong-un was declared its new leader. China is North Korea’s closest ally. Yet for many Chinese, exasperated tolerance seems to be turning to anger ...