PAKISTAN

Ailing Pakistan ex-PM Sharif seeks permission to travel abroad

India strips British Modi critic of overseas citizenship

A corridor that will allow Sikhs to cross from India into Pakistan to visit one of the religion's holiest sites is set to open Saturday, with thousands expected to make a pilgrimage interrupted by decades of conflict.

More than 80 farmers have been arrested in northern India for starting fires that contributed to the recent pollution crisis in New Delhi and other cities, officials said Thursday.

Kate Middleton and Prince William’s love is visible in these photos.

Prince William and Kate Middleton became engaged in 2010 and married in April 2011.

Kate Middleton and Prince William will be making two joint engagements before the Duke of Cambridge makes his solo trip to Kuwait.

The snake is worth around $71,000 in the illegal wildlife trade market. The red sand boa snake is a protected species registered under the Wildlife Protection Act.

India's top court has ordered a complete halt to stubble burning around Delhi, a major contributor to lethal smog that on Tuesday kept the metropolis of 20 million people choking in air rated "very poor".The Supreme Court said the capital's residents were "losing precious years" of their lives, adding "people are dying, this just cannot happen in a civilised country".In a ruling following petitions filed by activists, the court's judges ordered an immediate halt to the practice of farmers burning crop stubble in the states surrounding the capital.

India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran is currently the country's top-ranked player at number 94 on the ATP list

Ali Akbar Velayati, who has been slapped with sanctions by the United States and serves an adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prays over the tomb of a Hezbollah fighter at a cemetery in Beirut's southern suburbs in May 2015

Kate Middleton has massively transformed from a commoner into a senior royal.

Distraught relatives gathered Friday for the funerals of some of the 74 people killed when fire ripped through a crowded train in Pakistan, with many of the victims residents of a single town.Sobbing family members crowded a government building in Mirpurkhas overnight as the first bodies covered in white cloth began arriving by ambulance from the scene of the disaster.After morning prayers, with women watching from nearby rooftops, more than a hundred men attended the first funeral -- of a car mechanic named Mohammad Saleem, who was in his late 40s.

Distraught relatives gathered Friday for the first funerals of some of the 74 people killed when fire ripped through a crowded train in Pakistan, with many of the victims residents of a single town.Sobbing family crowded an official building in Mirpurkhas overnight as the first bodies covered in white cloth began arriving by ambulance from the scene of the disaster.After morning prayers, with women watching from nearby rooftops, more than a hundred men attended the first funeral -- of a car mechanic named Mohammad Saleem, who was in his late 40s.

Kate Middleton reportedly wants to have another kid with Prince William because of this.

Schools in the Pakistan capital were shuttered and roads blocked by containers as an anti-government march approached

At least 74 people were killed and dozens injured after cooking gas cylinders exploded on a train packed with pilgrims in Pakistan on Thursday, some dying after leaping from carriages to escape the inferno, authorities said.Television footage showed flames pouring out of three carriages as people could be heard crying during the incident, in a rural area of central Punjab province.Some of the passengers -- many of whom were pilgrims travelling to one of Pakistan's biggest religious gatherings -- had been cooking breakfast when two of their gas cylinders exploded, Ali Nawaz, a senior Pakistan Railways official, told AFP.

A soldier stands guard ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of the first lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir union territory in Srinagar

Queen Elizabeth II’s baby photos with grandmother Queen Mary and twinning moments with Princess Margaret have resurfaced.

Prince Harry reportedly stopped his wife Meghan Markle from reaching out to the media.

For years a hardline Islamist, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has more recently cast himself as a Muslim moderate