The government of Pakistan has confirmed that of some 2,200 people killed by drone strikes in the past decade, at least 400 were civilians and an additional 200 victims were deemed "probable non-combatants," a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday.

Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, also urged the United States to release its own data on the number of civilian casualties caused by its drone strikes.


Hollywood director Michael Bay was attacked by a man wielding an air conditioning unit while shooting the latest “Transformers” film in Hong Kong, he said.

Police arrested two men in the early hours of Thursday after the attack on the “Armageddon” director, who was on the first day of location shooting in Hong Kong filming “Transformers: Age of Extinction”.

Bay recounted details of the incident on his website, while warning that “the story... being passed around is not all true!” A spokesman denied reports that the 48-year-old was injured in the assault.

An eight-year-old girl and her three-year-old brother died on Saturday after drinking poisonous milk in a locality of Punjab’s Multan city.

Our correspondent reported that the awful incident took place in Qadirpur Ran area where health of four children of a family destabilized after they drank milk in their house.

The affected kids were moved to a local hospital in serious condition, however, Rehan, 3, and his sister Anisha, 8, could not survive and breathed their last during the treatment.


A rare copy of the first ever newspaper printed in Britain is to be auctioned nearly 350 years after it came off the press.

The Oxford Gazette was published on November 7, 1665, at a time when London was in the grip of the devastating bubonic plague.

It was the first newspaper in the world to be printed in English.

The two-page first edition contained an eclectic mix of news including military and naval engagements, debates in the House of Commons and overseas dispatches.
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