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A British boy kidnapped in Pakistan two weeks ago has been reunited with his family.
Five-year-old Sahil Saeed has returned to Britain after being held captive for 13 days.
A ransom of $182,000 was paid, and the boy was found wandering in a field near where he was kidnapped.
The boy has been reunited with his father; the [...]

Amritsar (Punjab), Mar 20 (ANI): Custom officials seized over Rs 45,000 in fake currency from a Pakistani woman at the Attari railway station.
Begum Mehtab was nabbed after disembarking from the Samjhauta Express on Thursday night. She is being interrogated.
Custom officials said Mehtab revealed during her interrogation that her Lahore-based cousin had given her the fake [...]

London, March 19 (ANI): Kristen Stewart is set to don a new avatar – the Twilight actress, 19, will now star in her own comic book.
The mag will hit bookstores in the US this June.
“For Twilight fans, Kristen Stewart is a woman who fans long to be, and love to hate. But Kristen has been [...]

Shimla, March 16 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee for the election to the Rajya Sabha seat from Himachal Pradesh, falling vacant next month, filed nomination papers Tuesday.
‘Vimla Kashyap today (Tuesday) filed her papers for the Rajya Sabha election,’ state BJP chief Khimi Ram told reporters.
Kashyap, 68, is the first women the BJP has [...]

Melbourne, Mar 16 (ANI): A bookstore in Melbourne is said to have sparked outrage after it was found to be selling a “control a woman” remote and that too on International Women’s Day.
According to ABC Radio, Borders was forced to defend the 15 dollars novelty product after a woman told of her anger at seeing [...]

A 43-year-old Broome woman has appeared in court over the weekend, charged over the stabbing of a 36-year-old man.
Police say the incident happened on Streeter Avenue about 9:00pm (AWST) on Friday.
They allege that Gidget Frances Paewhenua stabbed the victim in the thigh area, injuring his femoral artery.
The man was taken to Broome Hospital and is [...]

A woman, 42, has been killed and a man has suffered severe burns in an explosion at an Adelaide home unit.
Police and fire authorities were called to the premises in Peter Place at Campbelltown about 3:20am (ACDT).
Intense flames and thick smoke blocked their entry.
The injured man, 33, was outside and the woman’s body was found [...]

The Northern Territory Opposition says it supports culling camp dogs in remote Aboriginal communities.
The renewed push for the culling of potentially-dangerous dogs follows concerns raised by a woman in Maningrida, who said she feared for her life after packs of dogs stalked her.
The Opposition Leader, Terry Mills, says the Territory Government needs to look at [...]

HICKORY, N.C. — A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with raping a woman and carving the word “Mine” on her stomach.
Multiple media outlets reported the Hickory woman was attacked early Saturday.
Forty-one-year-old Keith Alan Campbell of Hickory is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault on [...]

A woman was killed and two men injured in a shooting in Monday in Las Vegas that was sparked by a domestic dispute, according to local media reports.
Police Capt. Randy Montandon told the Las Vegas Sun that a man shot three people, including the woman, before police responded and shot the gunman in the parking [...]

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A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s [...]

London, Sep 19 (ANI): Locals of a North Carolina community, where Patrick Swayze’s film ‘Dirty Dancing’ was shot, are planning a memorial service for the late star.

The ‘Ghost’ star died on Monday evening after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The town of Lake Lure will pay homage to the 57-year-old during a memorial service on [...]

London, Sep. 19 (ANI): Even before South African star athlete Caster Semenya’s gender was questioned at the World Championships in Berlin, Athletics South Africa (ASA) had found out and withheld the fact that she had internal testes, an e-mail exchange has revealed.

According to the e-mail exchanges published in the Mail and Guardian newspaper, ASA officials [...]

Lahore, Sep.17 (ANI): A Pakistani woman has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking Pakistani citizenship for her Indian husband.

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar admitted the petition filed by one Shazia Zia, and referred the matter to the High Court [...]

Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): The Turkish man crowned as the world’s tallest man suffers from a pituitary tumour which has resulted in his gigantic height.

Sultan Kosen stands eight-foot-one-inch tall and was unveiled as the tallest man in the world by the Guinness World Records.osen’s height is a result of a tumour in his [...]

Melbourne, September 17 (ANI): Lisa Neville, Australian Community Services Minister, has come under fire after huge number of bungling in the child protection services emerged, including a sex horror case of a man accused of fathering four children with his daughter.

Neville is expected [...]

New Delhi, Sept 17 (ANI): British actress Kate Winslet has been named the best dresser on red carpet in People magazine’s 10 best-dressed women of 2009, while America’s first lady Michelle Obama has bagged the spot for “best accessible glamour.”

Winslet, 33, has been named as the woman with the finest dress on the red carpet, [...]

Washington, Sep 16 (ANI): South African actress Charlize Theron has turned down a role in a new movie about the first person to undergo a sex-change operation.

Theron, 34, was to play as Gerda Wegener, the wife of artist Einar Wegener opposite Nicole Kidman, 42, in ‘The Danish Girl’, but she recently turned down the role. [...]

New Delhi, Sept 16 (ANI): In a strange case of heart surgery, three sewing needles were removed from the heart of a woman after 23 years.

Doctors in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, were successful in taking out the 4-cm-long needles that were stuck in Jiang’s heart, reports the China Daily.

The 44-year-old Jiang, who is fond [...]

London, September 16 (ANI): Women who have their first baby at an advanced maternal age may be more at risk of complications, says a recent UK study.

The team at the University of Cambridge found women who started menstruation early, from the age of 12 onwards, were more likely to require medical assistance during childbirth such [...]