Unauthorized workers are paying an estimated $13 billion a year in social security taxes and only getting around $1 billion back, according to a senior government statistician. Stephen Goss, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration (SSA), told VICE News that an estimated 7 million people are currently working …

ISLAMABAD: The government is considering appointing Ali Jahangir Siddiqui, the son of a renowned businessman, as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, sources said. However, there was no official confirmation of the development. Both the Prime Minister Office and foreign ministry were tightlipped. It is also not clear whether the government …

PARIS: The Spanish flu outbreak 100 years ago is the modern world´s deadliest epidemic, its toll of more than 50 million surpassing that of World War I. Here is some background. Why ´Spanish flu´? Countries caught up in the 1914-1918 war censored information about the extent to which the flu …