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Britain’s jack laugher and Chris Mears took gold in the men’s 3 metre springboard event, dethroning reigning Olympic champions China. Chinese divers had been targeting a sweep of all eight gold medals at the Rio diving competition, after winning six of out the total at the London 2012 olympics. Laugher and Mears’ medal was Britain’s third gold of the games. ...

The sikh community in california state of the united states erupted in protest after an unidentified miscreant desecrated a copy of their holy scripture in broad daylight. A vandal tore into pieces the sikh holy book, sukhmani sahib gutka, in front of members of the community. The sikh community took to the streets on wednesday and demanded immediate action in ...

Five to seven people were unaccounted for after about two dozen residents and three firefighters were injured in an explosion and fire at an apartment building north of Washington D.C. The explosion shortly before midnight rocked silver spring, Maryland, and the fire burned into the morning. Authorities were investigating the cause of the explosion as they searched for residents who ...

Russian forces say they have briefly suspended military action in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to allow in desperately needed humanitarian aid. Lt Gen Sergei Rudskoy said Russia supported the UN’s proposal to organize joint supervision of the delivery of humanitarian aid to Aleppo via the Castello road and its military experts were working on this with UN and ...

South Korea’s Jin Jong-oh shot his way back from the brink of elimination to win his third consecutive gold in the men’s 50 Metre pistol event in rio 2016. With a steadier hand in the final rounds, jin prevailed over vietnam’s xuan vinh hoang, who made history on saturday (august 6) by winning his country’s first gold medal. Having qualified ...

Foreign Office Spokesman has said involvement of foreign hand in the Quetta terrorist attack cannot be ruled out. In his weekly news briefing in Islamabad Nafees Zakarya said India has been involved in creating unrest in Pakistan. He rejected Indian claims of cross border infiltration and said that Pakistan will never allow its soil to be used for subversive activities. ...

The government has decided to establish a high level task force to monitor the progress of implementation of national action plan. The task force will comprise of senior representatives of all concerned departments and agencies of the federal government and the provinces. It was decided in a high level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to review various aspects ...

“Kidnappers, catch them, we do not need police, just kill them”, these are the slogans which residents of Multan listen today as their fellow men caught three alleged kidnappers including one woman. Residents of Farooq Pura chowk of Old Shujaabad road tortured all three suspects and when police arrived they were not ready to hand over the alleged kidnappers. They ...

The attempted robbery began just after the bank was opened around 9am on Wednesday. When two suspects armed with a shotgun entered the premises of bank. They approached the guard and one of the robbers threw powdered chilies into the eyes of guard, while the other tried to enter the bank. The guard showed courage and encountered them. According to ...

Actress Diana Penty is returning to the silver screen after a stint of 4 years. The reason for such a long wait was because she did not want to put pressure on herself and sign every film that came her way. `The break was not a conscious decision. Me not doing films has been misinterpreted. I was just playing it ...