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Christie’s art sale highest in auction history
New YorkBBCA contemporary art sale at Christie’s in New York has made $495m (£325m), the highest total in auction history. The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The sale established 16 new world auction records, with nine works selling ...
History will judge me 'fairly': Mubarak to Egypt daily
CAIRO - Ex-president Hosni Mubarak, on trial for the death of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled him, said future generations would judge him "fairly" in an interview published on Sunday. "I have said in the past that history would bear witness and judge, and I am still ...
Ye makes history but struggles in the wind
BEIJING China's 12-year-old Ye Wocheng became the European Tour's youngest ever player when he teed off at the Volvo China Open Thursday, but struggled in the stiff wind. However Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen made light of the conditions to shoot a six-under-par 66 and take a ...
Calvin makes chart history
LONDON: Calvin Harris has made history by becoming the first musician to have eight top 10 hits from one album. The Scottish DJ/producer’s latest song I Need Your Love featuring Ellie Goulding, taken from the album 18 Months, jumped to seven in the UK singles chart. He tweeted: ...
Journalist Panel makes history in LPC polls
Journalist Penal made clean sweep, winning all the 13 seats in the Lahore Press Club elections held on Sunday. Arshad Ansari was elected president and Shahbaz Mian general secretary. As many as 1,476 media people exercised their right to vote. It was the highest number of votes cast in the history ...
Gayle hits the fastest-ever ton in T20 cricket history against Pune
RCB's Chris Gayle scored the fastest ever hundred in T20 cricket history against Pune Warriors at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore today. He made 175 runs off 66 balls with 13 fours and 17 sixes in the innings. Chris Gayle hitting off to a quick start as the match resumed at Bangalore. Earlier, the ...
Lahorites to make new history giving mandate to PTI on May 11: Imran
Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), Imran Khan has said that citizens of Lahore would be making new history on 11th May by giving mandate for change.He expressed this while starting election campaign of PTI from Upper Mall which is his constituency NA 122.The PTI chief said the masses will ...
Beit Daras and a buried history of massacres
Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, which claimed the lives of over 100 innocent Palestinians. Attempts at covering up the massacre have been dwarfed by grim details revealed ...
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Influential Khattaks in field to conquer Nowshera
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
Badam Zari makes history in Fata
PESHAWAR - For the very first time in FATA’s history, a female candidate Badam Zari from Bajaur Agency on Sunday submitted her nomination papers to participate in the general elections being held on May 11.Hailing from Aran village of Bajaur Agency, Badam Zari, 38, will contest as an ...
History to expose alliances against PPP: Memon
KARACHI - Pakistan Peoples Party Central Deputy Secretary Information and Provincial Information Minister, Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that those who are trying to make a grand alliance against PPP have admitted that they are unable to face the PPP alone. Talking to a group of journalists ...
History in the making, says Imran
ISLAMABAD - Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan, Saturday, said that the intra-party elections of the PTI would uproot the prevailing rotten political culture and introduce real democracy in Pakistan.He expressed these views in his statement issued here by the party’s office ...
History will not forgive us if education not provided to children: President
President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said that the history would never forgive us if we do not made children’s education compulsory.The President launched 'Waseela-e-Taleem" scheme under Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) aimed at providing free education to the children of the poor ...
In history’s annals, Sharifs’ hands clean, PPP’s dirty
LAHORE - Denying any wrongdoing by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership, PML-N central leader Ahsan Iqbal has said the Pakistan People’s Party has stooped to maligning the Sharifs to fend off public wrath, due for its corruption, in the upcoming election. “The hands of PML-N ...
History’s secrets
The black, sinister-looking Soviet SS-4 intermediate-ranged missile on display at Havana’s La Cabana fortress looks old, roughly finished, and rather primitive. But this missile, and 41 others (including some long-ranged SS-5s), terrified the US during the October 1962 missile crisis - 13 ...
History is not all about the truth
A quote by Henry Adams says: “The historian must not try to know what is truth if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.”This quotation was, however, never introduced to the class of 30-odd eighth-graders, who struggled to keep the ...
History of the European Championship 1960-2008
LONDON - This year’s European Championship in Poland and Ukraine is the 14th staging of the event, with the finals first held as a four team tournament in France in 1960 when it was known as the European Nations Cup. Following is a brief history of the tournament: 1960 in France It took more ...
Zardari to make history on 17th: Gilani
LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that President Asif Ali Zardari will make history by addressing the joint session of the Parliament as an elected President for the fifth time on March 17th.He was talking to media persons outside the residence of State Minister for ...
Book burning: When history repeats itself
Book burning seems to be making history once again. The inadvertent and partial incineration of some Qurans by a US-Afghan labour detail at Bagram ignited a web of action, from Kabul to the media circuits of the Republican Party presidential primaries.Many lives were entangled, and some were taken, ...
Medics make history by removing 21-kg tumour
LAHORE – Doctors at Jinnah Hospital on Thursday successfully removed 21-kg tumour after conducting five and a half hour long surgery of a female patient admitted at the Surgical Unit-IV a few days ago. The medical experts termed the surgery as a big success in the medical profession and said ...
History proves Iranian leaders aren’t irrational
“We are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor,” said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on CNN on Sunday. That sounds right to me, but his comment raises a tricky question: How much pressure will it take to get this “rational” ...
Iran attack: History does not repeat itself too often
On April 10, 2002, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons, “Saddam Hussein’s regime is… developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked.”A year later, Blair, enthusiastically joined a US-led coalition that ...
History keeps repeating itself – as do clichés
Same Old Story. Journalists shouldn’t use the phrase, but what else can I say when I prowl through press reports? Take the following. “It is slowly dawning... that the Americans are really going home, that there will be a ceasefire in this country soon, and then a march to the US... ...
A new history created
Haroon SiddiquiPakistan team became the first team after 1907 for scoring less than 100 runs in their first innings and scoring 366 runs in their second innings to set 324 runs tough victory target to England but the Englishmen fell 71 runs short of the target that helped Pakistan complete the 3-0 ...
England need second-highest run chase in Test history for unlikely win over Pak
England at last saw the back of Azhar Ali, but still need to pull off the second-highest run chase in their Test history to avoid a 3-0 whitewash against Pakistan.Azhar's painstaking career-best 157 spanned six sessions and almost nine hours, before the number three was ninth out in Pakistan's 365 ...
Evolution and human history
President Asif Ali Zardari during an interview with Journalist Hamid Mir remarked that the system in Pakistan has been evolving and every institution is finding its limits to operate. While generally evolution in biological realm proceeds by struggle for existence and survival of the fittest yet ...
War with Iran? Consult history
WALTER RODGERSIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that wars do not always end in the fashion that those who launch them expect.The leaders of Israel and the United States urgently need to factor this historical reality into their plans on whether to risk war over Tehran’s suspected ...
ANC centenary history celebrated
BLOEMFONTEIN - A bull bellowed in sacrifice Saturday as South Africa's ruling ANC paid tribute to its ancestors and founding leaders, who 100 years ago paved the way for Nelson Mandela's rainbow nation. President Jacob Zuma led the slaughter of a black bull in a ceremony on the second day of the ...
Gloria Estefan makes Latin chart history
Singer Gloria Estefan has become the first female artist in the history of the US Latin singles rundown to enter at number one. The 54-year-old star topped the Billboard chart with Hotel Nacional, the second song from Miss Little Havana, her first album in four years.Only male singers including ...
Moeen wheels travel history to make a mark for Pakistan
LAHORE – A colorful reception at Expo Center greeted Moin Khan, a young motorcyclist and student of San Francisco University, who traveled from the United States to Lahore, covering a distance of over 20,000 miles in six months.The courageous young man was welcomed by Chief Minister Shahbaz ...
