Parenthood linked to longer life: study
By age 80, men who fathered children had a remaining life expectancy of seven years and eight months, compared to seven years for childless men.
Pakistan will not transfer WMDs to states or non-state actors: Aziz
Delivering a keynote address on the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1540 in Islamabad, Aziz said as a responsible nuclear state, Pakistan will continue to partner with international community…
Verizon sought $925m discount for Yahoo merger, got $350m
The closing of the deal, which Verizon first announced in July for a purchase price of $4.83 billion, had been delayed as the companies assessed the fallout from two data…
Turkey suspends top-level ties with Netherlands in escalating crisis
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of "supporting terrorists," as acrimony flared between Turkey and EU states -- a standoff that risks affecting Ankara's entire relationship…
Social media linked to feelings of isolation in real life
Compared with people who spend no more than a half hour on social media each day, people who devoted at least two hours daily to these platforms were roughly twice…
Ed Sheeran storms US Billboard charts
The British singer-songwriter sold an overwhelming 451,000 units of "Divide" in its debut week, giving him the biggest US sales week for any album so far this year.
Trump gives CIA authority to conduct drone strikes
The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama's administration of limiting the CIA's paramilitary role.
Pakistan’s first population census in 19 years to begin tomorrow
The services of 84,000 enumerators would be utilised in collecting the data from about 168,120 census blocks across the country.
Blizzard rolls into northeast US; flights cancelled, schools shut
The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of eight states including New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut, with forecasts calling for up to 2 feet (60 cm)…
PM orders blocking of all ‘blasphemous’ content on social media
Sharif directed authorities to take effective measures to remove all blasphemous content from social media and prevent any such content from circulating on the digital space in future.