MOBILE   Jessica Korda had seven birdies in her seven-under par 65 on Friday to seize a one-shot second-round lead over surging Hall of Famer Karrie Webb in the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic. Korda built a 36-hole total of 13-under 131, while Australia's Webb climbed up the leaderboard ...

IRVING- Keegan Bradley fired 10 birdies and an eagle in a course-record 60 Thursday to seize a three-shot lead after the first round of the US PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson Championship. Bradley’s sizzling 10-under par came despite two bogeys on the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, where he ...

QUETTAIn a major breakthrough for government making efforts in Balochistan, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), Pashtunkhwa Mili Awami Party (PkMAP) and National Party (NP) announced formation of government in the province on Friday night.PML-N Balochistan President Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, NP ...

WASHINGTON A noted American expert on Pakistan has said that President Asif Ali Zardari has failed both as president and leader of Pakistan People’s Party, which he said had been reduced to a Sindhi regional party.Daniel Markey, a former State Department official and currently Senior Fellow ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH - In a star-studded field, unheralded Roberto Castro matched the course record with a nine-under par 63 on Thursday to seize the first-round lead at the Players Championship.Castro, making his debut in the US PGA Tour's $9.5 million flagship event, equalled the record set by Fred ...

SEOUL - Korea's Kim Hyung-Sung fired a five-under-par 67 to take a one shot lead after the second round at the OneAsia GS Caltex Maekyung Open near Seoul on Friday. Kim had six birdies and a bogey around the hilly 6,349 metre (6,943 yard) course at the Namseoul Country Club to stand at 10 under for ...

ROME: Oscar-winning Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci will lead this year’s Venice film festival jury, organisers said on Thursday, defining the filmmaker as “one of the most influential in cinema history”. Bertolucci, 72, the author of “The Conformist”, “Last ...

CHARLOTTE- Phil Mickelson fired a five-under par 67 Friday to seize a two-stroke lead after the second round of the US PGA Wells Fargo Championship. Mickelson, who opened with a 14-foot birdie putt on his way to back-to-back birdies, stood on nine-under 135 after 36 holes. "I got off to a good ...

KARACHI - Pakistan People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto will not be present in Pakistan on election day due to security concerns.He has already left the country and would not be addressing any party rallies or meetings due to security threats to his life, his party sources were quoted as saying ...

TCHARLOTTE - World number two Rory McIlroy, back at the scene of his first PGA Tour win, fired a five-under 67 at Quail Hollow on Thursday for a seven-way share of the first-round lead in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Northern Irishman was joined atop the ...

NEW YORK - The musical “Kinky Boots,” with the score by pop star Cyndi Lauper, on Tuesday earned 13 nominations for the Tony Awards, leading the field for Broadway’s highest honor and closely followed by British import “Matilda,” which received 12. Both shows were ...

LONDON:- Yorkshire batsman Joe Root has been selected to captain the England Lions in their tour match against New Zealand next month, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Monday. The 23-year-old right-hander is expected to feature for the senior England side in the Test series ...

lahore - After a lukewarm performance last week, the Karachi Stock Exchange bounced back this week, led by a spate of corporate earnings announcements and the long-awaited official acknowledgement that an agreement with the IMF could be forthcoming, experts said. The week started on a tepid note ...

islamabad - The four-member Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team posed plethora of questions to former President Pervez Musharraf in Benazir Bhutto murder case, which may lead FIA team to involve some other important personalities in the probe on the basis of replies, it has been learnt ...

NEW ORLEANSLucas Glover fired a five-under par 67 on Friday to hold a one-shot lead over Boo Weekley after two rounds of the US PGA Tour's $6.6 million Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Glover, a former US Open champion who is seeking his first win since the 2011 Wells Fargo Championship, had a ...

ICHEON - Alexander Noren ofSwedentook a one-stroke lead after three rounds at the Ballantine's Championship here on Saturday. Noren shot a three-under 69 to reach nine-under 207 for the $2.8 million tournament at the par-72 Blackstone Golf Club. Despite finding only half of the 14 fairways in the ...

  IRVING   Germany's Caroline Masson endured a tough finish but still held on to the lead at the inaugural North Texas LPGA Shootout on Friday at the halfway stage. Masson, a rookie on the US women's tour, followed up a bogey-free first-round 64 with an even par 71 for a seven-under total ...

KARACHI - PPP Parliamentarians Chief Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said that the party will not hold public gatherings for election campaign as we are not ready to take more dead bodies of leaders and people. He said Bilawal Bhutto would not lead election campaign. Addressing a press conference at local ...

KAPOLEIAFPSuzann Pettersen fired a four-under 68 to maintain her slim one-shot lead after the third round of the LPGA Tour's LOTTE Championship on Friday.The 32-year-old Norwegian Pettersen reached 14-under-par 202 to break Ai Miyazato's 54-hole scoring mark of 206 which was set last year at the ...

LONDONMOTom Hiddleston may be flying from super villain to superhero, as “The Avengers” star is in early discussions to play Eric Draven in Relativity Media’s reimagining of “The Crow,” individuals close to the project have told TheWrap.Based on the James O’Barr ...

KAPOLEIThai teenager AriyaJutanugarn struck an eagle and seven birdies in an eight-under par 64 on Wednesday to grab a one-shot lead after the first round of the LPGA Lotte Championship.Ariya hit six birdies in her first nine holes, her only miscue of the day a bogey at the par-four 10th. But she ...

AUGUSTA - Brandt Snedeker of the United States and Angel Cabrera of Argentina shared the lead at seven-under par 209 after the third round of the Masters on Saturday. Snedeker opened on four under, two back from 36-hole leader Jason Day of Australia, and he parred the first 12 holes before ...

In Pakistan there is no dearth of ignorant people who think that the polio vaccines provided by the World Health Organisation is not for the benefit of Pakistani children and can only be harmful to them. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Such people have been misled by some of our religious ...

LAHORE – M Nazir of Islamabad took the lead after second round of the Punjab Open Golf Championship being contested at the Gujranwala Golf and Country Club Golf Course on Saturday. After playing a solid first round of 66 on the opening day, Nazir carded a round of 68 to take a one stroke lead ...

AUGUSTA - Australia's Marc Leishman and Sergio Garcia of Spain shared the lead at the 77th Masters on Thursday after both shot six-under 66s in the first round at Augusta National.Leishman had set the early pace, sparked by four birdies in a row from the 13th, but Garcia matched him late in the day ...

LAHORE (PR) - The Chairman of Nawaz Lovers Youth Wing Talish Butt has said that he entered into politics with the kind help of councilor Enayat Butt, at a time when Nawaz Sharif was the provincial Minister of Finance. He claimed that he has always been loyal to Nawaz Sharif and fulfilled all duties ...

ISLAMABAD - ABRAR SAEED - The secretive demeanour of Pakistan People’s Party about its electoral campaign plans is the main reason behind the galvanising of news about the differences between the Bilawal Bhutto Zardari with his father and aunt, whereas the tiff between them did exist but was ...

RANCHO MIRAGE  - South Korea's Inbee Park extended her lead to three shots after shooting her second consecutive five-under 67 in the third round of the LPGA Tour's Kraft Nabisco Championship on Saturday.The 24-year-old Park finished just shy of the tournament's 54-hole scoring record as she ...

RANCHO MIRAGE - Na Yeon Choi, Suzann Pettersen and Jodi Ewart Shadoff fired four-under par 68s Thursday to share the first round lead at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco, the first major of the season.Both South Korea's Choi and Norway's Pettersen had four birdies with no bogeys on the par-72 Dinah Shore ...

ACTION film GI Joe: Retaliation fought off competitors over the weekend to top the US box office. The sequel to GI Joe: Rise of Cobra was postponed last year to convert the film to 3D, but made $41.2m according to studio estimates. Last week’s top earner The Croods fell to second with $26.5m. ...