Authorities in Karachi say heavy rains and strong winds overnight have killed at least 15 people and injured several others.

Rescuers in Karachi, Pakistan, are searching for dozens of missing people after a massive fire at a shopping plaza.

The death toll from a massive fire at a shopping plaza in Karachi has risen to 23.

Baseball United has launched its inaugural season in Dubai, aiming to bring baseball to the Middle East.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have announced a ceasefire following days of the deadliest clashes in years that killed dozens of people on both sides of the border.

Pakistan has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India.

Pakistani officials say an inmate was killed and more than 100 escaped from a prison in the southern city of Karachi overnight after they were temporarily moved out of their cells following mild earthquake tremors.

Middle East stock markets are tumbling as they struggle with the dual hit of U.S. tariffs and a sharp decline in oil prices.

Pakistan’s upper house of parliament has passed a controversial bill that critics say threatens freedom of speech.

Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a bill with sweeping controls on social media that includes blocking platforms and sending users to prison for spreading disinformation.

A veterinarian with a global animal welfare organization says Pakistani veterinary surgeons found that a bacterial infection killed an elephant at a safari park in the city of Karachi earlier this month.

Authorities say a Pakistani guard shot and wounded two Chinese nationals working in a textile mill in the southern port city of Karachi, but the attack was not related to militant violence.

A Pakistani separatist group has claimed responsibility for a late-night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside Karachi's airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight people.

Officials say a massive explosion outside Pakistan's Karachi Airport has killed two workers from China and injured several others.

Officials say a days-long intense heat wave has disrupted normal life in Pakistan, especially in the southern city of Karachi, where doctors have treated thousands of victims of heatstroke.

Authorities in Pakistan urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods.

Pakistani authorities say a suicide bomber that targeted a van carrying five Japanese nationals in the port city of Karachi has killed one Pakistani bystander.

Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister is defending the widely criticized delay in announcing the results of last week's parliamentary election.

From Berlin to London and Limassol to Karachi, thousands of people took to the streets to mark the 100th day of Israel’s war with Hamas.

Officials say a massive fire has swept through a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan’s largest southern port city of Karachi, killing at least three people and damaging several shops.

Pakistani police say a blaze has killed at least 10 people in a shopping mall.

Major international aid agencies are warning of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans who have returned from Pakistan, where security forces are detaining and deporting undocumented or unregistered foreigners.

Thousands of supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza.

Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.

A senior Swedish official says Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following recent Quran burnings in the country and protests in the Muslim world.

India and Pakistan are bracing for the first severe cyclone this year expected to hit their coastal regions later this week.

A report says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation.

Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for two decades have been freed and reunited with their families after returning home to Pakistan.

A passenger bus has fallen off a bridge and caught fire, killing 40 people in the crash in southern Pakistan.

A British-based medical journal says Pakistan has made progress over infectious diseases but now struggles against cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer as causes of early deaths.

British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to London children age 1 to 9 after finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple regions of the city.

Pakistani authorities say the death toll from more than five weeks of monsoon rains and flash flooding across the country has reached 304.

The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement on a $6 billion bailout package for Pakistan.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases globally rose by 20% last week to more than 18 million, marking a slowdown in the surge caused by the omicron variant.

A Pakistani police officer says the death toll from a sewer gas blast in the country's largest city has jumped to 17.

A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country’s territorial waters.

A government spokesman says a massive fire broke out at a chemical factory in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, killing at least 10 workers and injuring several others.

Pakistani officials say the death toll from a grenade attack on a truck carrying women and children in Karachi has risen to 12.

A new study has calculated that more than one-third of global heat deaths can directly be attributed to human-caused climate change.

Pakistan's interior minister says an outlawed Islamist political group has freed 11 police it had held hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid clashes with security forces.

Day 13 of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is underway Wednesday, and you can watch it live right here.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off 'death row' and moved to a so-called government 'safe-house'. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house." In the government-run safe house, Sheikh will be under a 24-hour guard — often by military personnel — and will not be allowed to leave the house. AdLast week’s ruling that exonerated Sheikh also exonerated another three men accused in Pearl’s murder who had been serving life sentences. They too were ordered on Tuesday to be held in a safe house.

(AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the release of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh's acquittal filed by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government. The “Supreme Court is the court of last resort,” Murtaza Wahab, Sindh's law minister, told The Associated Press. A three-judge Supreme Court ruled 2 to 1 to uphold Sheikh’s acquittal and ordered him released, according to the Pearl family lawyer. Siddiqi, the Pearl family lawyer, had expected it would advance his case.

(AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)KARACHI – A provincial court in Pakistan ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Sheikh was acquitted earlier this year of murdering Pearl, but has been held while Pearl's family appeals the acquittal. However, Siddiqi said the Sindh provincial government is appealing the order to release Sheikh. The U.S. State Department in a series of tweets said it was “deeply concerned” by the court order. Siddiqi, the Pearl family lawyer, said he expects the appeal to be decided by the Supreme Court by the end of January.

Supporters of religious group burn a representation of a French flag during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Muslims have been calling for both protests and a boycott of French goods in response to France's stance on caricatures of Islam's most revered prophet. Crowds of Islamist activists hanged an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron from a highway overpass after pounding it furiously with their shoes. Turkey has led regional condemnation of the French president, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s verbal attacks on Macron prompting France to recall its ambassador to Turkey last weekend. Demonstrators trampled on portraits of Macron and called on Afghan leaders to shut down the French embassy, halt French imports and ban French citizens from visiting the country.

A boy uses half of a fiber tank to navigate a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Heavy monsoon rains have lashed many parts of Pakistan as well the southern port city of Karachi, leaving flooding streets, damaging homes and displacing scores of people. About 30 inches (76 centimeters) of rain have fallen in Karachi since Sunday, when monsoon rains began lashing the coastal city, forcing authorities to use boats to evacuate people trapped in flooded streets. Monsoon rains are hitting Pakistan at a time when authorities are trying to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which has caused more than 6,283 deaths since February. Every year, many cities in Pakistan struggle to cope with the annual monsoon deluge, drawing criticism about poor planning.

FILE - In this May 22, 2020 file photo, volunteers look for survivors of a Pakistan International Airlines plane that crashed in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistans state-run airline announced Thursday, June 25, 2020, it will ground 150 pilots on charges they obtained their pilot licenses by having others take exams for them. Abdullah Hafeez, a spokesman for PIA, said the decision comes after a probe into last months Pakistan International Airlines crash that killed 97 people in the city of Karachi. Abdullah Hafeez, a spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, didnt give additional details about the cheating but said a process to fire the pilots had been initiated. The move by PIA to ground the pilots comes a day after the countrys aviation minister, Ghulam Sarqar Khan, said 262 out of 860 Pakistani pilots had fake licenses.

(AP Photo/Fareed Khan)ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has reported 153 COVID-19 fatalities, a new daily record, as infections continue to spiral, pushing the overall number of confirmed cases to 171,665. Hospitals are filling up and in many cities across the country, COVID-19 patients are being turned away. The 67 cases is the largest daily increase since South Korea reported 79 cases on May 28. ___BEIJING Chinas capital has recorded a further drop in new confirmed coronavirus cases as tightened measures to contain the spread remain in place. ___SAO PAULO Brazils government says the country has surpassed more than 1 million cases confirmed coronavirus cases.

Family members of an air hostess Anam Maqsood, who was killed in Friday's plane crash, mourn for her death at their home in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 23, 2020. The plane crashed at 2:39 p.m. near Jinnah International Airport, in the poor and congested residential area known as Model Colony. Between the coronavirus pandemic and the plane crash, this year has been a catastrophe," he said. Shabaz Hussein, whose mother died in the crash, told The Associated Press he identified her body at a local hospital and was waiting to take it away for burial. The men were praying at the nearby mosque, Masjid-e-Bilal, which is 100 meters from where the plane crashed, said resident Amir Chaudhry, whose sister was injured when the airliner crashed into the neighborhood.

KARACHI A jetliner carrying 98 people crashed Friday in a crowded neighborhood near the airport in Pakistans port city of Karachi after an apparent engine failure during landing. Video on social media appeared to show the jet flying low with flames shooting from one of its engines. Sir, mayday, mayday, mayday, mayday Pakistan 8303, the pilot said before the transmission ended. Science Minister Fawad Ahmed Chaudhry said this year has been a catastrophe just survival is so difficult, with the pandemic and now the tragedy of the plane crash. Airbus said it would provide technical assistance to investigators in France and Pakistan, as well as the airline and engine manufacturers.