Massive fires have gutted factories in Pakistan’s two largest cities, killing hundreds of people and prompting calls for an overhaul of industrial safety standards.
The girl, believed to be 14, was arrested last month for allegedly burning pages of the Koran. An imam was later accused of having planted the pages in the girl’s bag.
A cleric who accused a Christian girl of blasphemy has been remanded in custody after police arrested him on suspicion of evidence-tampering and desecrating the Quran.
Yousuf Raza Gilani was convicted of contempt for refusing to ask authorities to reopen corruption cases. This bars him from being an MP, a law which the country’s Supreme Court today enforced.
Seemingly backtracking on his statements from a few years ago, the Republican presidential candidate says he would have given the order to kill Osama bin Laden.
The architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was killed by US Navy SEALs in the early hours of 2 May 2011 – here, we take a look back at the events that unfolded in the wake of his death.
THERE HAS BEEN heightened scrutiny on short-term lets, with providers like Airbnb coming under the microscope more often amid Ireland’s significant housing crisis.
“Very shortly we’ll have a further announcements in relation to the short-term lets and how we’re going to regulate and manage that better, so we can get more properties that should not be let on a short-term basis, back into the long term rental market,” O’Brien said yesterday.
In particular, cities in other countries have taken to introducing controls on short-term letting providers, including in Barcelona and Paris.
With that in mind, we want to know: Do you think there should be further regulation of short-term lets?
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