LOS ANGELES: US actor Steve Forrest, who was best known for a leading role on the short-lived 1970s television drama “S.W.A.T.,” has died at the age of 87 in Thousand Oaks, California, near Los Angeles, his wife Christine said. Forrest appeared in 1954’s “Prisoner of ...

PARIS: French singer and composer Georges Moustaki, whose romantic ballads including the 1958 hit “Milord” won him global fame, died on Thursday at the age of 79, his entourage said. Born on May 3, 1934 to an immigrant European Jewish couple who had settled in Egypt, Moustaki - whose ...

PARIS: France’s Henri Dutilleux, whose modernist and impressionist works ranked him among the leading composers of the 20th century, died Wednesday in Paris aged 97. The internationally renowned Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, was a composer of predominantly instrumental works ranging from ...

LONDON: Trevor Bolder, the bass guitarist in David Bowie’s Spiders From Mars band, died Wednesday at the age of 62 following a battle with cancer. He joined the British rock star’s backing group in 1971, appearing on classic albums including “Hunky Dory” and “Aladdin ...

LOS ANGELES: Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, died Monday after a long battle with cancer, his manager said. He was 74. Manzarek formed the group - whose worldwide hits included “Light My Fire” and “LA ...

A 28-year-old worker was battered to death after he fell off the rooftop of a multi-storey factory building in the Misri Shah area on Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Muhammad Saleem, was going to the washroom on the rooftop of the building in the Faiz Bagh area when he slipped suddenly and ...

COLOMBO:Sri Lanka's navy Sunday recovered the body of a sailor who drowned during a parade marking the fourth anniversary of the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, an official said. The body was found near a beach inColombowhere his small boat capsized while taking part in the victory celebrations ...

  malakand Another victim of Malakand bomb blasts died at hospital on Sunday, thus the number of deceased reached 21. According to details, at least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured in two bomb blasts at two different mosques in Malakand Agency on Friday. Levies sources said the ...

MOSCOW: Alexei Balabanov, a director who captured the essence of Russia's early post-Soviet years with cult films about crime and the war in Chechnya, has died at the age of 54 following a long illness."The films of Alexei Balabanov are a collective portrait of our country at its most dramatic time ...

NEW YORK- Former US Open champion and television broadcaster Ken Venturi, a 14-time winner on the PGA Tour, died on Friday at the age of 82 following various health complications. Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame just 11 days ago, Venturi had been in hospital for the last two months for a ...

ISLAMABAD - Senior army officer and war veteran Brigadier (Retd) Atta Muhammad has died, a press release issue here on Saturday stated. As a young army officer, Atta participated in 1965 and 1971 wars with impressive bravery, courage and loyalty to his country, the press release added. The officer ...

BUENOS AIRES : Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its "Dirty War," died in prison Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87. Videla, who ruled at the head of a military junta between 1976 and 1981, died of natural causes, C5N television ...

KATHMANDUA 50-year-old Russian climber died Wednesday attempting to scale Mount Everest in this season’s fourth death on the world’s highest peak, a government official said.Alex Bolotov was found dead on Wednesday morning at Khumbu Icefall at 5,600 metres (18,372 feet), the official ...

OREGONBBCAn American trying to dribble a football from Seattle to Brazil in time for the 2014 Brazil World Cup has died less than two weeks into his trip.Richard Swanson, 42, was hit by a truck in Lincoln City, Oregon. His football was found nearby. Swanson had set off from Seattle on 1 May aiming ...

MUZAFFARGARH - A candidate of Tehrik Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan died of cardiac arrest at Rangpur late on Thursday night during election campaign. The District Returning Officer (DRO) Muzaffargarh has sent the report regarding death of PP-254 candidate Mehr Mushtaq Ahmad Khera to the ECP for the ...

LONDON: British film director Bryan Forbes, who made the 1970s sci-fi horror classic “The Stepford Wives”, has died aged 86, a family friend said late on Wednesday. Forbes passed away at his home in Surrey, southern England, “following a long illness” and was surrounded by ...

LOS ANGELES: Jeanne Cooper, a TV legend who played a lead role on the US soap opera “The Young and the Restless” for four decades, died at the age of 84. Cooper’s acting career dated back to the early 1950s, but she was best known for her portrayal of wealthy matriarch Katherine ...

LONDON: US-born “king of stop-motion animation” and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died aged 92 in London, his family announced. Hollywood tributes flooded in for Oscar-winner Harryhausen, who is best known for his work on “Jason and the Argonauts” and “Clash ...

VIENNA: Grammy Award-winning Austrian DJ Peter Rauhofer died in New York of a brain tumour at the age of 48, his manager said on his Facebook page. Rauhofer was internationally known as “Club 69” and had lived in New York since the early 1990s. In 2000, he won one of the prestigious ...

A Pakistani prisoner who was attacked in an Indian jail died on Thursday, hospital officials said."His condition was extremely critical. He died early morning," a senior doctor at a government hospital in Chandigarh told AFP on condition of anonymity.Sanaullah Ranjay suffered massive head injuries ...

faisalabad (News desk) - An independent candidate for NA-83 Faisalabad, Amjad Rabbani has passed away due to a cardiac arrest here on Tuesday. Following the death of Amjad Rabbani, the Election Commission of Pakistan has announced postponement of the polling for NA-83 and declared that new schedule ...

LAHORE - A six-year-old girl was burnt alive when a fire broke out in her house in the Ghaziabad area on Tuesday. Resident of Tajpura Scheme, Kalsoom Javed, was sleeping when the fire broke out in the bedroom during the loadshedding, shortly after a burning candle fell on the bed. The daughter of ...

  ROME: Giulio Andreotti, a Machiavellian seven-time Italian prime minister who dominated the political scene for decades, died on Monday at the age of 94. Andreotti, a top figure in the once-dominant Christian Democratic party, died at his home inRome. He had suffered ill health in recent ...

LAHORE - A prisoner on life imprisonment died mysteriously in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Sunday. The jail officials said Haq Nawaz, 45, was found dead on Sunday. The body was shifted to morgue for autopsy.ROBBER KILLED: A robber was killed by a police officer on resistance in Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Area ...

LOS ANGELES: Rapper Chris Kelly, who shot to fame as part of the 1990s duo Kriss Kross, has been found dead at his home in Atlanta. He was 34. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Kelly’s death was being treated as a possible drug overdose. The rapper - known by fans as “Mac ...

PARIS: Deanna Durbin, a singing child movie star of the 1930s who became one of the world’s highest paid actresses before turning her back on stardom, died at the age of 91. Her son Peter said that the actress died “a few days ago”, thanking her admirers for respecting her ...

  KOLKATA   A daredevil Indian who held the Guinness World Record for the distance travelled on a zip-line while hanging by his hair has died while performing a new stunt, officials said Monday. Sailendra Nath Roy, a 49-year-old police driver, was attempting to cross the turbulent River ...

Lahore  -An official of the Elite Force was crushed to death in an accident in the Shahdara Town area. Police said that Kamran and Liaqat, riding on a motorcycle, were on their way when a recklessly-driven truck ran over their two-wheeler. As a result, both sustained injuries and were taken to ...

LAHORE - Another measles patient died on Saturday while 117 more infected children were brought to Lahore hospitals. Muhammad Ehsan, 2, a resident of Garhi Shahu, breathed his last at Lahore General Hospital. Despite tall claims of caretakers, the epidemic could not be brought under control as ...

WASHINGTON: George Jones, a country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died at the age of 81. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and “Window Up ...