Eidul Azha likely on Sept 1, 2017 says Met ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Meteorological Department has predicted that the Zilhaj moon is likely to be sighted on Tuesday August 22, and Eidul Azha will, therefore, be celebrated across Pakistan on Friday, September 1, 2017. A Met Office official told that weather was expected to be clear […]

13 years old girl is thrown from Theme Park ride and dies in China A 13-year-old girl has died after being flung out of a fast-turning ride at an amusement park in China. China’s product safety regulator said an initial investigation showed her seat-belt had broken and a passenger safety bar did not fit tightly […]

Turkish Gunman Kills Russian Ambassador Syria summit goes ahead despite Russian ambassador death Russia’s foreign minister insists the shooting will not “derail the process of normalising Russia-Turkey ties”. Russian and Turkish foreign ministers will meet to discuss the situation in Syria later, a day on from the murder of Moscow’s ambassador to Turkey.   Andrey […]

Plane Slides off runway as a snowstorm sweeps across US Midwest Snow and icy rain ground flights, forces schools to shut and cause hazardous travel conditions for thousands of commuters. A winter storm moving across the US Midwest and Great Lakes region has sparked severe weather warnings – forcing a plane to slide off a […]

Southern Rail Strike: Commuters face travel chaos as drivers walk out All of Southern’s services will be halted – causing the worst disruption since a strike by signal workers in the mid-1990s. Hundreds of thousands of commuters are facing the worst rail disruption in decades this morning as three days of strikes begin on Southern […]

Qatar Airways Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at the Lajes Air Base due to heavy turbulence A Qatar Airways jet made an an emergency landing at a Portuguese military base in the Azores islands Sunday after heavy turbulence injured passengers. The Boeing 777, bound from Washington to Doha, was re-routed during a storm to […]

Junaid Jamshed plane crash Star’s ID card ‘found at scene of tragedy’ Belongings owned bytragic singer-songwriter Junaid Jamshed and his wife have reportedly been found at the scene of the plane crash believed to have killed the couple. Their national identity cards were said to have been discovered amid the rubble of the Pakistan International […]