Arrested Indian fishermen sit at a police station in Karachi on Sunday. Pakistan maritime security agency (PMSA) arrested 22 Indian fishermen on January 28 and seized their 4 boats for illegally fishing in Pakistan’s territorial waters. (Rizwan Tabassum | AFP)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities have arrested 22 Indian fishermen and seized four boats for allegedly violating the country’s maritime boundary, an official spokesman said Sunday.
Photograph taken on Sunday shows an aerial view of the quake-hit Tabanli village in the eastern province of Van, Turkey. AFP
ANKARA: About 1,000 people may have died in the 7.3-magnitude quake which hit Turkey’s southeastern province of Van on Sunday, an official said.
Libyans wave their new national flag as they celebrate in the streets of Tripoli following news of Muammar Gaddafi’s death. (AFP)
TRIPOLI: Celebratory gunfire and cries of ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ rang out across Tripoli as the news of Gaddafi’s death spread. Gun-totting rebel fighters went around the streets firing into the sky. People hugged and kissed each other and sang the national anthem.
The US President, Mr Barack Obama (right), his wife Ms Michelle Obama (second right), Former US president, Mr George W Bush (second left) and his wife Ms Laura Bush (left) observe a moment of silence during the 10th anniversary commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the lower Manhattan site of the WTC on Sunday in New York.
NEW YORK: The US President, Mr Barack Obama and his wife Ms Michelle Obama along with former president, Mr George Bush and his wife Ms Laura Bush led the world in mourning the loss of nearly 3,000 people, who lost their lives exactly 10 years ago in the most fearful terror attack that changed the way we live.
People celebrate the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden, at the White House in Washington DC
on Monday.
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: World’s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden was shot dead Monday in a pre-dawn helicopter-borne secret US operation in a house just yards away from Pakistan’s Military Academy in Abbottabad, raising questions whether the establishment knowingly harboured him.
A nun dances with a pilgrim near St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on the eve of the beatification of Pope John Paul II. (Roberto Salomone)
VATICAN CITY: Tens of thousands of people from around the world descended on Rome on Saturday for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, six years after his death.
An aerial view shows the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Japanese town of Futaba, Fukushima prefecture. (AFP)
TOKYO: An explosion at a nuclear power plant in Japan destroyed the building housing the reactor Saturday triggering radiation leaks under the impact of the massive quake and the tsunami it spawned which has left at least 1,700 people dead or unaccounted for.
Aerial shot shows houses in flames after being hit by a tsunami at Natori city in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Friday. A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake shook Japan, unleashing a powerful tsunami that sent ships crashing into the shore and carried cars through the streets of coastal towns. (Yomiuri Shimbun)
TOKYO: A massive tsunami triggered by Japan’s most powerful earthquake in nearly a century Friday wrought devastation in northeast coastal Japan, sweeping away houses, ships and cars and setting ablaze several buildings, killing over 360 people.
Egyptian volunteers and protestors clean the entrance to Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil bridge from graffiti on Saturday, a day after Mr Hosni Mubarak’s ouster from 30 years in power.
CAIRO: Egypt’s military leadership Saturday vowed to oversee a "peaceful transition" to democracy and pledged its commitment to all international treaties, a day after Mr Hosni Mubarak bowed out as President in the wake of an unprecedented uprising against his 30-year rule.
Myanmar’s opposition leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi (second right) walks towards the gate of her house to meet supporters after her release in Yangon on Saturday. (AFP)
YANGON: Myanmar’s military government freed its archrival, democracy leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, on Saturday after her latest term of detention expired. Several thousand jubilant supporters streamed to her residence.
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