Andrzej Bargiel. Photo: FacebookDaredevil Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to ski down the world's second-highest mountain, the Polish national said Sunday.Bargiel whizzed down from the summit of Pakistan's 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) K2...
Climbers at base camp. Photo courtesy: Chhang Dawa SherpaThirty-one mountaineers have ascended K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous peak.According to sources on the base camp, two Pakistanis, including Muhammad Ali Sadpara, are among...
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Addisalem Hadgu celebrates being reunited with his family. Image: REUTERSASMARA: When Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war in 1998 and deported each other’s nationals en masse, Addisalem Hadgu thought he had nothing to worry about, safe in the belief...
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Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, a University of Copenhagen postdoctoral researcher in archaeobotany, and Ali Shakaiteer, a local assistant to researchers working at an archeological site in the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan, are seen collecting wheat...
Meera Nepali is one of more than two million women given access to medical services in Nepal under the Aama Surakshya, or 'protection for mothers", programme. Photo: AFPAs a teenager Meera Nepali was terrified as she went into labour with her first...
David Barber, The Queen's Swan Marker holds a cygnet as officials record and examine cygnets and swans during the annual census of the Queen's swans, known as 'Swan Upping', along the River Thames near Chertsey, Britain, July 16, 2018. Photo:...
KARACHI: India's transgender community marked another milestone in its challenging path on Saturday when Swati Bidhan Baruah was appointed as the first transgender judge in the state of Assam, Geo News reported.After taking up their new role,...
Amber Shahzada is contesting from Na-125 Lahore as an independent candidate/ Geo News screen grabIn a time when a three-time elected prime minister can be ousted on the basis of corruption allegations, a daring candidate has come forth with a...
Mario Mandzukic celebrates his winning goal for Croatia after he and his teammates fell on top of AFP photographer Yuri Cortez. Photo: AFP MOSCOW: When Croatia scored the goal that took them into the World Cup final on Wednesday, an AFP...
Vistors walk past the Buddha of Swat. Photo: AFPMINGORA: The Buddha of Swat, carved on a cliff in the seventh century, was dynamited by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in 2007. Now it has been restored, a powerful symbol of tolerance in the...
Florida native Jonathan Crenshaw stabbed a 22-year-old Chicago man twice with the scissors before running away. Photo Miami-Dade Corrections A 46-year-old homeless man with no arms was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, for stabbing another man...
Australian researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest biological colour in the Sahara desert, in a find they said Tuesday helped explain why complex lifeforms only recently emerged on earth. Photo: Online SYDNEY: Australian researchers have...
US President Donald Trump. Photo: ReutersUS President Donald Trump is by far the most followed world leader on Twitter, with the Pope trailing him by some 4.5 million followers, a study showed Tuesday.The number of Trump's followers has "more than...
Australian wildlife authorities have been hunting the monster saltwater crocodile for eight years. Photo: AFPSYDNEY: An elusive monster saltwater crocodile weighing 600 kilograms (1,328 pounds) has finally been caught after an eight-year hunt in...
Reconstruction of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Ingentia prima showing an improved avian-like respiratory system with developed cervical air sacs (green structure) in this handout image provided July 9, 2018. Photo: REUTERSBUENOS AIRES: Giant...
Vytautas Kirkliauskas of Lithuania carried his wife Neringa Kirkliauskiene as they competed during the Wife Carrying World Championships 2018 in Sonkajarvi, Finland, July 7, 2018. Photo: Reuters SONKAJARVI: Fifty-three men slung their wives or...
Geo.tv/Crowdfunder/Trump Baby project/Jason Hawkes Aerial PhotographyLONDON: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will allow protesters to fly a blimp over the parliament portraying Donald Trump as an orange, snarling baby during the US president’s...