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ISLAMABAD: Government on Monday announced that foreign carmakers seeking to enter the market could import machinery for their plants duty-free, in an attempt to boost competition and cut prices for local drivers.

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee has said that after the failure of all conspiracies aimed at eliminating the party, efforts are now being made to split it into different factions, ARY News reported.

AMMAN: In the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, children are outside playing and many people are going to the shops safely for the first time in months thanks to a partial halt to the war that is providing relief even if most doubt that peace will take hold.

NEW YORK: Paleontologists say a 201-million-year-old dinosaur fossil found two years ago on a Welsh beach could offer vital clues to understanding the evolution from the late Triassic to the early Jurassic Period.

SHANGHAI: China has pledged to reward people who report online "terrorist" content up to 100,000 yuan (10,471 pounds) for each tip off, after giving out 2 million yuan worth of rewards last year, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s director general military operations on Thursday called his Indian counter and offered help for rescue of Indian soldiers who came under snow avalanche in Siachen.

LAHORE: Following Indian refusal to provide accommodation to a Pakistani family visiting Mumbai, a Pakistani entrepreneur has decided to mend relations between the two neighbors in a unique way.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) offered to pay $3.5 billion to become the sole owner of Youku Tudou Inc (YOKU.N), known as China's YouTube, in a move that would give the e-commerce giant access to more than half a billion online video users.

ANKARA/NEW YORK:  Iran is pushing what it portrays as a new compromise proposal in nuclear talks, but Western negotiators say it offers no viable concessions, underscoring how far apart the two sides are as they enter crunch time before a Nov. 24 deadline.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying agreed on Friday to open talks with pro-democracy protesters but he and his Chinese government backers made clear that they would not back down in the face of the city's worst unrest in decades.

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered Nepal $1 billion in concessional loans to help build power plants and roads during a visit on Sunday aimed at shoring up support in a region where China is making inroads.

LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to 30 million pounds ($51 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in...