LONDON: A life-size statue of Amy Winehouse will be erected outside a North London music venue near her former home.Proposals for the bronze tribute to the late singer have been given the green light by Town Hall planners to enable it to be put up on a first floor balcony outside the Roundhouse in ...

WASHINGTON :Around 100,000 people will be chosen from several million hopefuls to get a US Green Card on Wednesday, in what could be the last year of the annual lottery, slated to vanish under proposed reforms. Each year, 50,000 permanent residency permits are allocated to people from countries ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s Bondi Beach is set for a major makeover, with concrete car parks to be replaced with grass, trees and a boardwalk in an ambitious overhaul of the world-renowned site.The draft proposal, which local authorities hope will cement Bondi’s status as a world-class ...

MetroLONDONSome people are happy to have a few gnomes or even a water feature to brighten up their front garden. But Suzanne Ellis and her partner Ben Bennett really wanted to draw attention to their home by combining their two loves - gardening and the royal family.The pair is certainly ahead of ...

For Pakistan, sub-conventional threat is a reality of present time. This, however, does not mean that the conventional threat has receded. It will be an overstatement to consider sub-conventional threat as existential. It is transient in nature and would pass by when its string pullers abdicate ...

Former legend cricketer Wasim akram said that over all performance of the team was very good in Pak-India Series but individual performances as of Hafeez and Jamshed played great role in team's convincing victory.Talking to private news channel, Former Captain said that captaincy of Misbah-ul-haq ...

This is the time of the year when those good people, who like to grow green things are at their happiest. This is a time when seedlings are popping their heads out of nutrient filled pots and fellow enthusiasts are busy planning what to plant where.I consider myself lucky to have taken up residence ...

HAFIZABAD - The Chief Minister's Green Tractor Scheme would usher in green revolution in the Punjab, declared Acting DCO Sohail Khan and MPA Asad Ullah Arian while giving away keys of Green Tractors to the winners of ballot. They said that 93 growers were declared winners in the computerised ballot ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Grammy-winning US punk band Green Day announced Monday it has canceled upcoming tour dates and postponed shows in early 2013, as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has treatment for substance abuse.The band, founded in Berkeley, California in 1987, canceled nine dates between now and ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has introduced ‘green education programme’ for its partner schools to sensitise the students about importance of green environment in schools and homes. This programme is aimed at encouraging students to play their due role against ...

MULTAN - The provincial government is learnt to have boosted Green Tractor quota for South Punjab region by 15 per cent. With the increased quota, the 13 districts of three divisions of South Punjab will receive 4,518 tractors while the remaining 23 districts of the province will get 5,482. Sources ...

MULTAN - The provincial government is learnt to have boosted Green Tractor quota for South Punjab region by 15 per cent. With the increased quota, the 13 districts of three divisions of South Punjab will receive 4,518 tractors while the remaining 23 districts of the province will get 5,482. Sources ...

LAHORE – Process of providing 10,000 tractors to farmers under Punjab Chief Minister’s Green Tractor Scheme has been completed through transparent computerised balloting, said Agriculture Minister Ahmed Ali Aulakh here on Tuesday. Talking to farmers’ delegations, the minister ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in “The Green Mile,” an adaptation of a Stephen King work, died Monday at age 54, his representatives said. Duncan “passed away peacefully today,” the manager, Dan Spilo, told AFP. ...

LOS ANGELES - “The Green Mile” actor Michael Clarke Duncan has been hospitalised in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for his reality TV star girlfriend said the other day. Priscilla Clarke, a representative for “The Apprentice” star Omarosa Stallworth, did not provide any ...

Ice caps around the world reflect back 70 percent of the solar radiation, while the oceans reflect only 30 percent and absorb the rest. However the reflected radiation cannot escape because of the thickening of the atmospheric ring around the earth because of the carbon dioxide being emitted by ...

US punk rockers Green Day are to release a trilogy of albums over a four-month period starting later this year, they announced Thursday.The records, to be called “Uno,” “Dos” and “Tre,” will go on sale in September, November and next January, and will be ...

LONG BEACH  - Engineering professor Donald Sadoway on Thursday used an old-school chalk board at the prestigious TED gathering to write the formula for a liquid battery that could one day cut the need for new power plants.“The way things stand, electricity demand must be in constant ...

Lahore :Mobilink extends congratulations to the Pakistan cricket team on its Test series win over England in the Jazz Cup 2012 being held in the UAE.  Jazz partnered with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to organise ‘The Mobilink Jazz Cup 2012’ in the United Arab Emirates as the ...

LAHORE – Senior PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi during a meeting with party leaders from Jhang said that those  members who remained loyal to the party “through thick and thin” would be given their due place in the party. He expressed these views while talking to party members ...

ISLAMABAD - Destruction of green belts across the federal capital, mostly at the hands of law enforcement agencies and other multinational organisations, is a criminal and condemnable act but what to say if some government funded-university is found involved in the same practice.Of course, such ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - Punjab Green outplayed Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa in the fifth Sona National Taekwando Championship in the final on late Saturday night here at the Sheikh Zayed Public School auditorium. Punjab Greens got 214 points while KP managed 144 points and Sindh stood third with 101 points. 200 ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain will press on with plans to expand its network of nuclear power stations, a minister said Tuesday, after a report on the Fukushima disaster found no grounds to restrict the use of reactors here. A final report on the lessons that Britains nuclear industry could learn from the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Green Hornet led the foreign box office for a second consecutive weekend on Sunday, earning just $15.7 million (9.9 million pounds) from 64 markets. The foreign total for the 3D superhero saga starring Seth Rogan stands at $61 million. Weekend highlights were No. 1 ...

BIPIN DANI Pune, (India) The families of the two Australian debutants, Usman Khawaja and Michael Beer were present on the first day's play of the Ashes Test in Sydney. This was confirmed by Peter Young, the General Manager, Public Affairs of Cricket Australia. Speaking to this paper, Peter ...

Li Xing New heroes are born every day on the major Chinese Internet portals. One of the most recent is Zhang Qingtian, 74, a farmer in mountainous Fude village, Kaixian county of Chongqing municipality. Zhang has been a farmer all his life. He is single and has never traveled outside his ...

LAHORE - Synergy Earth Global (SEG) has become the first business in Pakistan to achieve the prestigious certification of 'Green Office by WWF - Pakistan. They have achieved this status by fully implementing the Green Office environmental management system to maximize their resources and ...

LAHORE HBFC outclassed Lahore Green by nine wickets in the second league match of the second SPM Lahore Veterans Cricket League at Ali Garh Ground Model Town Lahore. Lahore Green were bundled out for 132 in 25.3 overs with Ahsan Dawood 35, skipper Ijaz Butt 20, Nadeem Butt 34 and Naveed Sufi 11. ...

LAHORE (PPI) - We have no other option but to provide education and schooling facilities to the rural masses and we have set ourselves a target of providing such opportunities to about 100,000 children across Sindh by 2020. Zahid Saeed, a leading businessman and chief executive officer of Green ...

LAHORE - The Environment Protection Department Punjab is going to launch 'Green Sticker Scheme across the province with an aim to reduce emission of smoke from vehicles in order to improve environmental conditions. In the first phase of the scheme, the Department mo-nitored New Khan, Premier ...