CANNES: He’s played a science-fiction hero, policeman and even Hamlet. But now actor Keanu Reeves is taking on a new role - as director of a contemporary martial arts movie aimed at both Chinese and Western audiences.Reeves has stepped behind the camera to make his directorial debut with ...

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 ...

PARIS: Chinese film director Wong Kar Wai will join one of the art world's most exclusive clubs on Sunday when he is appointed a Commander of France's Order of Arts and Letters. The renowned filmmaker is to be presented with the medallion awarded to recipients of France's highest cultural honour by ...

karachi - Five members of an industrialist’s family were gunned down mysteriously in Defence Housing Authority on Tuesday.Initial investigation revealed that the major shareholder of Sanghar sugar mills first shot dead his wife and three children and later committed suicide. They were the ...

islamabad - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) here on Monday arrested a director level officer of the CDA on charges of creating new residential plots in already developed sectors of the capital in violation of the Authority’s master plan.FIA sources informed that Naveed-ul-Haq, ...

LONDON -  A humorous cartoonist who directed a Blur pop video is up against an artist who orchestrates “live encounters”, in the shortlist out Thursday for this year’s Turner Prize - one of the world’s most controversial art awards. The other two contenders are a ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate hearing to confirm the top White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan as CIA director was briefly recessed on Thursday after several protesters in the chamber staged a noisy demonstration against US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.The Chairperson of the Senate ...

During Thursday’s hearing of the case pertaining to the arrest orders issued against ex-chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqir Sadiq, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s Director Legal Muhammad Azam Khan told the Supreme Court that he had no information on ...

The Awami National Party has announced to support the Co-Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari as president of Pakistan. Talking to media in Peshawar, ANP Provincial President Afrasiyab Khatak said PPP provincial president and senior minister Rahim Dad Khan had met Chief Minister Amir ...