Suter wins Garmisch downhill in final Olympic tune-up

  GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany, Jan 29 (AFP/APP):Reigning world champion Corinne Suter boosted her morale ahead of the Olympic downhill in Beijing with victory at Garmisch-Partkenkirchen on Saturday in the weekend’s final tune-up races before the Winter games, which starts next week.   Suter thundered down the […]

Snow ‘bomb’ unleashes blizzard on eastern US

  New York, Jan 29 (AFP/APP):Blinding snow whipped up by near-hurricane force winds pummeled the eastern United States on Saturday, as one of the strongest winter storms in years triggered severe weather alerts, transport chaos and power outages across a region of some 70 million […]

Accused in blind murder case arrested

FAISALABAD, Jan 29 (APP): The police have traced out a blind murder and arrested accused within 20 days.   Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Superintendent Police (SP) Iqbal Town Tahir Maqsood that Samanabad police received complaint that unknown assailants riding on a motorcycle […]

Kazakh leader rejects international probe into deadly unrest

NurSultan, Kazakhstan, Jan 29 (AFP/APP): Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Saturday rejected calls for an international probe into a bloody crisis in the ex-Soviet country and said he had no plans to change the constitution to extend his rule. Over 200 people were killed and thousands […]