LONDON: The chief executive of Royal Mail, Moya Greene, who is responsible for leading a turnaround of the business, is set to receive an annual bonus worth nearly 500,000 pounds, as the company readies itself for a stock market listing this year, Sky News reported.Royal Mail’s remuneration ...

HONG KONGChina will host the Royal Trophy team event for the first time this year, organisers said on Tuesday, adding to a list of big golf tournaments in the country.The seventh edition of the tournament between Asia and Europe will be held at Dragon Lake Golf Club in the southern province of ...

Some key personalities of Saudi royal family have greeted Nawaz Sharif on his thumping victory in the May 11 elections.Sources said that Saudi personalities congratulating Nawaz Sharif have expressed their well wishes for him and prayed for his successes and prosperity of Pakistan. Afghan President ...

LONDON: British actress Helen Mirren gave a troupe of drummers a right royal telling-off when she burst out of aLondontheatre dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, swearing at them to shut up. The furious star, who won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of the British sovereign, admitted using some ...

LONDON: The nurse found hanged after falling victim to a prank radio call by two Australian DJs targeting Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine left a suicide note blaming them for her death, it was reported on Sunday.The handwritten note from Jacintha Saldanha was addressed to her managers at ...

LONDON - ES - The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, will reportedly spend six weeks at her parents' home following the birth of her first child.The Duchess of Cambridge is not planning to hire a royal maternity nurse for the child, who will become third in line to the throne, the Daily Mail ...

MADRID  - A Spanish union acting as a private plaintiff in a corruption case against Inaki Urdangarin, King Juan Carlos' son-in-law, asked a court Wednesday to order him to surrender his passport to prevent him from accepting a job offer in Qatar. Spanish media reported Monday that Urdangarin, ...

MADRID  - A Spanish court Friday delayed a corruption hearing of King Juan Carlos’ daughter Princess Cristina after prosectors lodged an appeal against her summons. Pending the result of the appeal, Judge Jose Castro agreed to postpone his summons for her to testify as a suspect on April ...

LYON (AFP) - They once faced imminent death but have now been offered princely accommodation - two French zoo elephants who had been ordered put down are moving to a ranch belonging to Monaco's ruling Grimaldi family. Baby, 42, and Nepal, 43, had faced an execution order since last year over a ...

LAHORE – The Royal Palm Annual Golf Championship will explode into action from today (Saturday) here at the par-72 Royal Palm Golf Course. Director Golf Operations Royal Palm Col (retd) Jameel Khalid said it was a 36-hole event and they anticipated a good quality of golf. “Despite the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian radio hosts who made a prank call to a London hospital treating Prince William’s wife Kate tearfully told of their heartbreak Monday at hearing that a nurse had been found dead.Mel Greig and Michael Christian from Sydney station 2Day FM have been in hiding and ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Two Australian radio presenters who made a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine were taken off the air Saturday after the nurse who took the call was found dead in a suspected suicide. Jacintha Saldanha answered the phone when presenters ...

As the country eagerly awaits the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s little boy or girl, it seems we might not have to wait as long as we thought to catch a glimpse. A forensic artist has mocked up how Prince William and Kate’s first child might look. Washington based Joe ...

THE Royal Variety Performance has marked its 100th anniversary with a show in front of The Queen at London’s Royal Albert Hall.Host David Walliams arrived on stage as James Bond, complete with jet pack. Girls Aloud, One Direction, 2012 Britain’s Got Talent winners Ashleigh Butler and ...

British Royal Mail has banned deliveries to a street after the postman was “eaten alive” by a plague of fleas. Managers have ruled the fleas a health and safety risk and families on the street in Chippenham, Wiltshire, will not receive letters or parcels until they are wiped out.  ...

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) in recognition for his contribution to cancer services. The fellowship has been awarded for his contribution through the Shaukat Khanum Memorial ...

The largest-ever photograph of the Royal Family, weighing two-ton and 330ft by 230ft in size - taken in 1977 - took nearly two days to erect above the Thames next to Blackfriars Bridge to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.–TS

LAHORE – The six-day Royal Palm Flood Lit Cricket Championship being commenced here at the Royal Palm Cricket Arena today (Tuesday) in which 16 teams will contest for top honours. The event will be played on league basis with teams divided into four pools.  Six matches will be played ...

LAHORE –  The Royal Palm Rose Show held over three days concluded at Royal Palm as a large number of flower enthusiasts from amongst the general public attended the show, looking immensely heartened by the large number of varieties, over 80 in number planted in 99 beds and totaling ...

LAHORE – The Royal Palm Team dominated the second day’s play with score of 459 in the Royal Palm Aquafrna Golf tournament here on Saturday.Royal Palm comprising Sardar Murad, Omer Salamat, M Rehman and Shoaib Bokhari consolidated their position and appear as the best team at the end of ...

LAHORE - The Aquafina 6th Royal Golf Team Championship endorsed by Pepsi will commence at the Royal Palm Golf Course from today (Friday), Captain of the Royal Palm Golf Club Lt Gen (r) M Tariq said this in a press conference held here at Royal Palm on Thursday. GM Royal Palm Omer Mir, Director Golf ...

Prince Harry has revealed that sometimes he and his brother Prince William wish that they were “normal” guys.The 27-year-old British royal, who recently took his first ever solo tour around the Caribbean and South America ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, said ...

NEW YORK  - Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto have plenty of common. They both wanted to fight Manny Pacquiao but have ended up with a dynamic "Ring Kings" showdown against each other.Undefeated American world welterweight champion Mayweather and super welterweight champion Cotto will clash ...

STOCKHOLM  - Sweden’s newest royal, second in line to the throne after her mother Crown Princess Victoria, has been named Princess Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary, King Carl XVI Gustaf announced Friday. The princess, the first child for Victoria, 34 and Prince Daniel, 38, was born early Thursday ...

LAHORE - The 2nd Tulip Flower Show will be held from 16th to 19th February 2012 at the Royal Palm Golf & Country Club and on display will be a total of 14200 tulips in 12 varieties, says a Press release. This was stated by Col (r) Jamil Khalid, Director Golf of Royal Palm, at a press conference ...

LONDON  - One of Queen Elizabeth II’s daughters-in-law was criticised Saturday for accepting jewels from the royal family of Bahrain, which has been accused of human rights abuses.Dennis MacShane, a former junior foreign minister, said the gift to Sophie, Countess of Wessex, who is ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - It is need of the hour to create awareness among our youth regarding our history, civilization and culture so that they could reflect their culture. In this regard Punjab government has evolved a comprehensive strategy for bringing the historical royal passages of Lahore ...

FOR years, their relationship has been cordial rather than close. In private, Prince Charles would say of his younger brother Prince Andrew that 'he wants to be me. While for his part Andrew would complain that Charless plans for a slimmed-down monarchy were targeted at him and his family. Now ...

LONDON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle met with Prince William and his new bride Catherine on the first day of their state visit to Britain on Tuesday. The royal newlyweds, fresh from their honeymoon in the Seychelles, greeted the Obamas in the grand 1844 room of Buckingham ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Almost 23 million American TV viewers tuned in to watch live coverage of Prince Williams marriage to Kate Middleton on Friday despite the wedding taking place before dawn in much of the United States. But according to Nielsen ratings data released on Saturday, U.S. TV ...