Out of the total 27 action plan, Pakistan has submitted its progress report on 22 points before the joint group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in a fresh bid to avoid falling into the global watchdog's blacklist, it was reported on Saturday.

Under the FATF plenary review meeting held in October, Pakistan was categor

The discovery of a series of tombs of the rich and powerful from the last days of the Egyptian Empire revives the dream of finding the remains of Cleopatra and of her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony.

"I think we're getting close," Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez told Efe news on Friday.

US President Donald Trump has criticized the World Bank for loaning money to China on low-interest rates and urged the institution to stop lending to Beijing.

"Why is the World Bank loaning money to China? Can this be possible? China has plenty of money, and if they don't, they create it. Stop," Trump tweeted on Frid

More than 7,000 people have been detained for their participation in the protests that have been taking place in Iran since mid-November, according to the United Nations, which criticized a lack of transparency regarding the number of people arrested and treatment they receive.

Despite the high number of detained protesters, the a

The perpetrator of a shooting this Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in northwest Florida and three of the people he attacked have died, with the gunman slain by security forces, official sources said.

Meanwhile the Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO) specified that the shooter and two of the other victims were killed

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked member states to enhance the world body's peacekeeping operations through a variety of measures.

There is a need to support UN peacekeeping missions in the most challenging environments and to build greater capacity in UN peacekeeping forces so that they can fully implement their man

 The man, who killed two people close to London bridge last week, was on Friday buried in his ancestral village of northwestern Pakistan in a funeral service attended by around 300 mourners.

The father of Usman Khan, the attacker, and other family members were present at the funeral, held around 4 pm in the village of Kajlani

Navneet Tiwari last spoke to his younger brother Amit Tiwari early Tuesday morning - hours before the LPG tanker blast at a factory in Sudan's capital Khartoum killed 23 people including 18 Indians - little knowing that he would soon embark on an long voyage to get information about his fate.

Amit Tiwari, 24, is among the Indi

US stocks closed higher as upbeat jobs report lifted investors' sentiment.

On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 337.27 points, or 1.22 per cent, to 28,015.06. The S&P 500 increased 28.48 points, or 0.91 per cent, to 3,145.91. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 85.83 points, or 1.00 per cent, to 8,656.53, Xinhu

The United States' headline unemployment rate fell by one-tenth of a percentage point in November to 3.5 per cent, matching the lowest level in a half century, while the number of new jobs added last month - 266,000 - far exceeded economists' expectations.

Those latest figures came from the La