MELBOURNE (AFP) - Kylie Minogue, Boy George and Russell Crowe were among the star names tweeting their support Friday for Australian music industry legend Molly Meldrum, who was fighting for his life after a fall. Meldrum, a popular music critic, journalist, record producer and entrepreneur, has ...

Steve Jobss authorised biography has topped Amazons bestsellers chart for 2011. Walter Isaacsons book claimed first place at the expense of Tina Feys Bossypants despite launching as late as October. Amazon did not reveal specific sales figures, but its senior editor of books Chris Schluep described ...

MADRID (AFP) - Chile's 97-year-old poet Nicanor Parra has won the Cervantes Prize, the culture ministry said Thursday, the oldest person to win the leading literary award for works in Spanish. The prize honours a writer's life work and it carries with it a cash award of 125,000 euros ($170,000). It ...

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Ahmad Khosa on Wednesday called on Editor-in-Chief of TheNation and Managing Director of the Nawa-i-Waqt Group, Majid Nizami, here. They exchanged views on different issues, especially the new political situation in the country. The governor requested Majid ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Casey Anthony, the Florida mom acquitted in July of killing her child, has been voted the No 2 creepiest celebrity, closely following shock rocker Marilyn Manson, according to a poll released on Thursday. Anthony, 25, was voted 57 percent 'creepy to Mansons 69 percent in a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British rap star Dappy hit the top of the UK single pop charts on Sunday with his debut solo single, the Official Charts Company said. The 24-year-old rapper, who has previously tasted chart fame with grime/hip-hop/R&B outfit N-Dubz, sold over 95,000 copies of No Regrets to ...

A dog has been spotted apparently alive and well at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. It was seen by a tourist at Uhuru peak, the mountains highest summit between 5,730 and 5,895 metres above sea level where temperatures range from -4 to -15C. Antoine le Galloudec, a French tourist who was climbing the ...

OOPS, she did it again Britney Spears leads Billboards Dance/Club Play Songs chart and this weeks 411 Playlist. The pop divas hit I Wanna Go off her Femme Fatale album takes her straight to the top. Spears will be honoured at an award show that she is no stranger to, the MTV Video Music Awards. She ...

LONDON (AFP) - World number one Wang Shixian's hopes of adding the world title to the All-England title she captured five months ago, ended colourfully in the quarter-finals at Wembley on Friday. Wang was beaten 21-16, 21-17 by Cheng Shao Chieh, a blonde-dyed, punk-cut Taiwanese player who sports a ...

MONTREAL (AFP) - Croatian Ivan Dodig stunned second seed Rafael Nadal Wednesday, beating the Spaniard in his opening match at the Montreal Masters 1-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/5). After dropping the first set, the 41st-ranked Dodig worked to turn things around and completed his comeback after just over ...

What has long been rued by all and sundry as a trust deficit between the United States and Pakistan - supposedly allies in the war on terror - now threatens to bring down the whole edifice of the cooperation that the civil and military leaders of the two countries have painstakingly built and tried ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police arrested a top lieutenant of the Zetas drug cartel who was linked to the murder of a US immigration agent in February, Mexico's security ministry said on Monday. Police captured Jesus "El Mamito" Rejon in a Mexico City suburb on Sunday," the ministry said in a ...

LAHORE The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited on Thursday elected 13 new directors in an extraordinary general meeting held at the company head office. SNGPL Chairman Mian Misbaur Rehman, Managing Director Arif Hameed, Secretary Uzma Adil Khan and retired and newly-elected directors attended the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to Provincial Secretary Finance Punjab, Secretary Schools and Secretary Local Government for appearance on June 15 on a contempt of court petition. The petition was filed by a teacher aggrieving that the court verdict earlier ...

LAHORE - East Zone Blues and West Zone Blues won their fourth round matches of the Senior Inter District Cricket Tournament of Lahore Region played here at various venues. At LCCA cricket ground, East Zone Blues beat North Zone Blues by nine wickets. North Zone Blues scored 148 runs in their first ...

LAHORE In what appears to be a new idea, Federal Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh on Friday announced a step which, if approved by parliament, will replace the conveyance policy for officials in grades 20-22. The minister said the transport policy for the officials working in these grades is ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Miki Ando credited new-found maturity on her success as she returned to the top of World Figure Skating Championships this weekend by capturing a second world title. The world championships had been billed as a battle between titleholder Mao Asada of Japan and Olympic champion Kim ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Fortescue Metals Andrew Twiggy Forrest has bumped News Corps Rupert Murdoch down to second place in this years list of the 200 richest Australian executives released Wednesday. Forrests wealth jumped more than a third to Aus$6.2 billion ($6.2 billion) due to soaring iron ore ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A top MI5 officer said on Monday the security services could not have stopped the 2005 suicide attacks on London's transport system and that to suggest the agency failed to act properly was "nonsensical and offensive." "Witness G," who is chief of staff to MI5 director general ...

LAHORE Inspector General of Police Punjab Javed Iqbal has said accountability process should be expedited to end corruption in the police department so as to provide speedy justice to the public and to bring out a better police image. He further said the police should pay special attention on ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD - In a major reshuffle in bureaucracy, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Ms Nargis Sethi has been appointed as Secretary Cabinet Division while Secretary Establishment Division Khushnood Ali Lashari has stepped in her boots as new Principal Secretary to the PM. Ms Nargis Sethi ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The death toll from floods and landslides that devastated a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro rose to 250 on Thursday, according to authorities in the three worst-affected Brazilian towns. Heavy rains earlier in the week killed 13 people in Sao Paulo state, raising ...

FACEBOOK was Americas most visited in 2010, overtaking search engine giant Google for the first time. The social network site edged out Google.com with 8.9 per cent of all US visits between January and November 2010, while the search engine ranked second with about 7.2 per cent of all visits, ...

MEL GIBSON, Lindsay Lohan, George Michael and Charlie Sheen are just a few of the spectacular celebrity meltdowns 2010 has seen - when celebrities go bad, they dont do it in half measures. We take a look at this years worst cases. Chief among them must be Mad Max actor Mel Gibson. He kicked off ...

HUA HIN (Thailand) (AFP) - Teenage star Noh Seung-Yul of South Korea has been officially crowned the youngest Asian Tour Order of Merit champion and named the Players Player of the Year. Following the final event of the 2010 Asian Tour season at the Black Mountain Masters in Thailand on Sunday, Noh ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Toy Story 3 and Inception, two of the years biggest box office hits, secured spots on the list of the American Film Institutes 10 top movies of 2010, organizers said on Sunday. The film-promotion bodys other top picks, in alphabetical order, were Black Swan, The Fighter, The ...

TALLINN (AFP) - Roman Polanskis political thriller The Ghost Writer could steal the show at this years edition of the European Film Awards, the continents version of the Oscars. The movie garnered seven nominations for Saturdays gala ceremony in Tallinn, capital of the Baltic state of Estonia, ...

TEHRAN (AFP) Twin blasts in Irans capital killed a top nuclear scientist and wounded another Monday, with Tehran swiftly blaming the CIA and Mossad for the attacks apparently carried out by men on motorcycles. Slain scientist Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived the attack, ...

ISLAMABAD Kalar Sydan team bagged first position in a Lawyers Cricket Tournament held here on Sunday while the team of Chakwal Bar Association was the runner up. According to details, the tournament was organised at the Margazar Ground by Supreme Court Lawyer Sheikh Ilyas. More then 1,000 ...