Federal cabinet allowed the construction of high-rise buildings in Islamabad last week

Britain’s Parliament sought a way out of the country’s Brexit morass on Monday, holding a series of votes that could soften or reverse the U.K.’s departure from the European Union — if a majority of lawmakers can agree. With just 12 days until the U.K. must come up with a new plan or crash out […]

Years before Tottenham Hotspur Stadium started rising like a spaceship in north London, planning on how to finance the structure was underway nearly 3,500 miles away. In a glass tower near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, Greg Carey and his team at Goldman Sachs worked with Tottenham to finance $828 million (637 million […]

An 8-meter (26-foot) sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of plastic in its belly, prompting the World Wildlife Foundation to sound an alarm Monday over the dangers of plastic waste in the Mediterranean Sea. The environmental group said the garbage recovered from the sperm whale’s stomach included a corrugated […]

A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them. Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider on April Fools’ Day: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to teach machines what’s funny, the results […]

Says Taimur Ali Khan is Saif’s source of joy

The chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto on Monday giving the reply of Maulana Fazalur Rehman advice, in which he said Zardari should put Bilawal in his mentorship, said that he was respecting him but in politics, he should become under his guidance. Addressing a ceremony in Larkana, Bilawal warned that Benazir Support Program […]

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has extended the date of filing of income tax statements for the tax year 2018 till April 30, a press release announced on Monday. The date of filing of returns for companies, individuals and association of persons is also extended to April 30. According to the FBR, the decision […]

Thirty firefighters have died while tackling a huge forest fire in south-western China, officials say. Fire crews had been battling the blaze in the mountains of Sichuan province on Sunday when a change in wind direction caused “a huge fireball”, trapping them, the emergency ministry said. Contact with 30 firefighters was lost. All were confirmed […]