LONDON - The single biggest risk to Britain’s nascent economic recovery is continued eurozone weakness, the Bank of England’s outgoing governor Mervyn King said in a television interview on Sunday.He called for a “credible medium term plan” to get the economy back on track ...

LOS ANGELES - Sophia tops the list of names for American baby girls for the second year in a row, while King and Messiah are becoming increasingly popular names for boys, the US Social Security Administration said.Jacob has become a standby for boys’ names, topping that category for the 14th ...

PARIS: Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan is to portray King Louis XIV in a new fantasy film. The Irish actor is slated to play the French leader, opposite Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, in the movie adaptation of author Vonda McIntyre’s novel The Sun & The Moon, according to Screen Daily. ...

All the political parties are now geared up for the elections. Whether they like it or not, the game, as they say is on! Zardari the wheeler dealer extraordinaire, has shown that Machiavelli, were he alive, would have smiled, and may have asked for a lesson or two at the feet of the acknowledged ...

Overheard in a café the other day. Two guys were debating the upcoming polls. One asked the other: “Don’t you think the Lion’s girding his loins once more and will have a big time in the Punjab again - or for that matter in the whole country?”  “I do. But ...

AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands' Willem-Alexander became Europe's youngest monarch on Tuesday after his mother, queen Beatrix, abdicated and his country hailed the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive, orange-hued party.Beatrix, 75, shed a tear before signing the act of abdication at the Royal ...

The 37th death anniversary of versatile actor and comedian Munawar Zarif was observed on April 29 (Monday).Munawar Zarif was a famous Pakistani comedian and film actor. He was a versatile actor and comedian best known for his work in the Pakistani cinema of the 70s. He is widely regarded as one of ...

LONDON- Controversial Birmingham City striker Marlon King has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, British police revealed on Saturday. The 33-year-old was detained following a three-car accident in Nottinghamshire, centralEngland, on Friday that left one man with serious injuries. King ...

THE HAGUE: A Dutch-British composer who wrote a song officially chosen to celebrate the enthronement of the Netherlands' new king later this month has yanked the tune just days after its release following a storm of public criticism."Dear compatriots, after having to block yet another insult on my ...

RIYADH : Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has removed veteran deputy defence minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan from his post, state media reported on Saturday, the latest move in a reshuffle among princes holding government jobs in the US-allied kingdom.Switches of important posts between princes ...

LAHOREThe second last trials for fast bowlers in round one were held in Azad Kashmir at Mirpur Stadium AJK under the Ufone-PCB ‘King of Speed’ programme. Shezad Ahmed and Salman Irshad were the lucky participants, who were selected after tough competition in AJK (Mirpur) with top speeds ...

ISLAMABAD (PR) - Under the 'Ufone-PCB king of speed' programme the trials of fast bowlers for the round-1 were held in Abbottabad and Quetta here on Wednesday.These trials are part of the MoU signed between Ufone and PCB earlier this month to hunt and train the best raw talent in fast bowling.Ameer ...

Islamabad - President Asif Ali Zardari has lauded the decision of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia of allowing a grace period of three months to the expatriate workers including Pakistanis for correcting their labour status in accordance with the new labour laws of the KSA. The ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in cooperation with Ufone Wednesday announced the schedule of trials for ‘King of Speed’, a talent hunt which will identify the best fast bowling talent. “The ‘King of Speed’ camps will be set up in 10 cities across Pakistan ...

SEPANG  - Formula One championship leader Kimi Raikkonen put his stamp on the Malaysian Grand Prix on Friday when he outstripped the field on a rain-hit first day of free practice.The Lotus driver, world champion in 2007 and a surprise but emphatic winner at last week's season-opening ...

Defending the criticism for holding dual nationality, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also British passport holder and he took oath to remain loyal to British king and successors.In his telephonic address to MQM workers in Karachi, ...

It was the Sunday before the fog engulfed Islamabad that I parked my car in front of a well-known establishment selling traditional breakfast items. As the piping hot, golden puris and spicy bhaji was being packed, my eye rested on a tray full of mouthwatering halva, seducing me to buy a portion ...

Should we condemn PM Raja Pervez Ashraf allegedly for nominating his son-in-law as Executive Director (ED) of World Bank (WB) in Washington DC USA, or applauding Supreme Court for taking cognizance of such gross misconduct? The news that PM Raja Pervez Ashraf, using his discretionary powers, has ...

MULTAN - President of Mango Growers Association Pakistan and Mango Growers Cooperative Society Limited Multan Syed Zahid Hussain Gardezi has said that Mango grown in Pakistan is country’s pride and our national fruit. Though Pakistan has slipped down to 5th in global production ranking of ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of the Cambodian capital on Wednesday to pay their last respects to revered former king Norodom Sihanouk on his final journey home. The body of the mercurial ex-monarch, who steered his country through turbulent decades of war, ...

At last the nation has a great pastime created for it by the party that rules the roost in Islamabad. It may soon be that visitors to the ‘land of the pure’ will see Pakistanis walking by, plucking petals from large sunflowers and chanting: “Will it be written, Will it not be ...

JEDDAH – Saudi Arabia has pledged that it will help Pakistan in resolving the energy crisis and appreciated the efforts for improvement in country’s relations with neighbouring India.This came in a meeting of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on ...

ISLAMABAD - New Prime Minster Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has reshuffled at least eight federal secretaries, the most prominent being replacement of Khusnood Lashari with Muhammad Ayub Qazi as Principal Secretary to PM.It was already being expected that Raja would replace the old team of bureaucrats formed ...

KARACHI - The legendary ghazal singer and former playback singer of Lollywood, Mehdi Hasan, 84, had been laid to rest at Shah Muhammad Shah graveyard on Friday.A large number of people belonging from every segment of the society, including his fans, famous singers, politicians, social workers, ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Q, which was once known as the king’s party as it was launched before the 2002 polls to keep Gen Musharraf in power for as long as possible, is trying to get the role of a ‘kingmaker’ after the next general elections. It is preparing a strategy ...

NEW YORK  - Americans honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well as a new wave of economic injustice protests by Occupy Wall Street. On the first King holiday since the now-global Occupy movement launched in NY City in Sept, the reignited debate over ...

PARIS (AFP) - Usain Bolt is the headline act for the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, but the Jamaican sprint star has warned that more world records are not likely to be on the cards. Bolt has dominated the 100 and 200m since storming to double gold in world record times at the Beijing ...

LAHORE King of Ghazal Mehdi Hassan is gradually recovering from his ailment to a great appeasement of millions of fans all over the world. To the satisfaction of doctors and his relatives, Mehdi Hassan has regained consciousness to recall his past moments besides recognising his dear ones from ...

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's former king on Thursday accused the troubled country's political leaders of ignoring the wishes of the people, in a rare public statement. Gyanendra Shah left the sprawling royal palace in Kathmandu three years ago after a parliament dominated by Maoist former rebels voted ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Days after the death of legendary stage artist Mastana, another trend-setter artist of Punjabi stage dramas Babbu Baraal, who breathed his last on Friday night, was laid to rest at Shah Fareed Graveyard here on Saturday amidst thousands of his fans rolling tears on their ...