LAHORE - The first match of the seven-match series of Pakistan Junior Golf Tour 2013 concluded here on Tuesday at par 72 Royal Palm Golf and Country Club Golf Course amidst ample display of impressive competitive golfing by the participating juniors. In the age categories ranging from 10-21 years, ...

KARACHI (PR): Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has cemented its position as a leading global player in air cargo industry by winning the ‘Cargo Airline of the Year 2013’ award at the Air Cargo Week World Air Cargo Awards.Emirates SkyCargo received the accolade at a ...

DERBYSHIRE, UK: Toe wrestler Alan ‘Nasty’ Nash has been crowned world champion - for the 10th time.The 53-year-old retained his title at the World Toe Wrestling Championships in Ashbourne after seeing off 20 other competitors. Alan, of Westonfields, Weston Coyney, trains at the gym ...

RISOUL - British rider Chris Froome reinforced his status as favourite for this year’s Tour de France on Sunday when he won the testing warm-up race, the Criterium du Dauphine. The 28-year-old, second behind Team Sky team-mate Bradley Wiggins in last year’s Tour de France, claimed ...

LONDON - BBC - Shadow dancers Attraction have won Britain's Got Talent, after a final in which a woman threw eggs at the judges.The Hungarian group beat teenage comedian Jack Carroll and Welsh singing brothers Richard and Adam Johnson.Simon Cowell said: "It just shows that this country welcomes ...

ISLAMABAD- Muttahida Qaumi Movement candidate Waqar Hussain Shah defeated Muttahida Deeni Mahaz’s Aurangzeb Farooqui following the re-poll on six polling stations of the provincial constituency PS-128. According to unofficial results, MQM’s Waqar Hussain stayed victorious with scoring ...

ISLAMABAD(PR): ICI Pakistan Limited once again clinched the ‘Best Sustainability Report’ award at the 2012 ACCA-WWF Pakistan Environmental Reporting Awards held inIslamabad. On the occasion, ICI Pakistan Chief Executive Asif Jooma reiterated the commitment of ICI Pakistan towards ...

CARACAS:Puerto Rican novelist Eduardo Lalo has won one of the Spanish speaking world’s top literary awards for an urban love story with a mystery entwined in it. “Simone” triumphed in the 23rd edition of the Romulo Gallegos Prize, named afterVenezuela’s greatest 20th century ...

LAHORE : The Holmes Report honored Action Global Communications which has been successively operating in Pakistan with two key awards at this year’s EMEA SABRE Awards ceremony that took place in Barcelona.  Agency founder Tony Christodoulou received the SABRE Award for Outstanding ...

LONDON (BBC): AM Homes has beaten Hilary Mantel to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel May We Be Forgiven, a dark satire of contemporary America. Homes, the fifth American writer in a row to win the £30,000 annual prize, said she was “thrilled” to receive ...

GALLOWAY - Karrie Webb got off to a hot start by going three-under through the first three holes en route to a three-under 68 for a two-shot victory at the LPGA Tour’s ShopRite Classic. The Australian Hall-of-Famer finished at four-under 209 in the $1.5 million, 54-hole event to post her ...

Colombo -Pakistan won 2 prestigious awards at 2013 Saarc Film Festival awards ceremony held at the National Films Corporation in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Pakistan won awards in the categories of best actress and best feature films in the 3rd edition of the annual film festival, which was held from 26th ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's No 1 tennis player Aqeel Khan lifted the 2nd Islamabad Tennis Complex Professional Tennis League title after defeating Ahmed Chaudhry in the final here at Islamabad Tennis Complex on Saturday. Top national players participated in the professional league including Aqeel Khan, ...

EUGENE - World record long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele led an Ethiopian sweep in the 10,000 metres of the 2013 Prefontaine Classic, edging out Imane Merga on Friday at Hayward Field stadium. Bekele finished in 27 minutes, 12.08 seconds to beat out Merga (27:12.37) and Abera Kuma who finished ...

CANNES: A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival.“L’Image Manquante” (The Missing ...

ISLAMABAD - Ahmed Chudhry of ITC won the First Islamabad Tennis Complex Professional League Championship after defeating Imran Shoukat in the final on Sunday. As many as 20 players participated in the two-day championship, including eight top professionals and two foreigners. The league was played ...

CANNES -  An audacious homosexual love story, “Blue is the Warmest Colour” by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, won the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival in a watershed year for gay rights.An all-star jury at cinema’s top showcase led this year by ...

BRENTWOOD (UPI): - A New York state dockworker said one of his first acts as a $26.5 million lottery jackpot winner was to quit his job. Fidencio Argueta, 60, of Brentwood, said he does not regularly play the lotto, but he decided to buy a ticket for the April 10 drawing with Quick-Pick numbers on ...

CANNESUPIAn Iranian student who studied at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute won the Cannes Film Festival short film competition. Anahita Ghazvinizadeh won $19,500 for her work on the 21-minute movie “Needle,” about a sixth-grade girl torn between her divorcing parents, the ...

MADRID (BBC): - US photographer Annie Leibovitz has won the prestigious Prince of Asturias award for humanities in Madrid. One of the world’s top portrait photographers, the jury hailed her as a “driving force” in photojournalism. Leibovitz will be presented with the 50,000 euro ...

SINGAPORE: British boy band One Direction has swept the inaugural awards recognising the most popular people in social media globally, coming top in four out of 10 categories at a star-studded ceremony in Singapore.One Direction was named most popular music group, most popular UK musicians, most ...

CANNES - A white poodle that plays the part of a blind pet owned by Liberace in the flamboyant biopic “Behind the Candelabra” scooped glory on Friday by winning the Palm Dog for canine talent at the Cannes Film Festival.The pedigree pooch plays Baby Boy, whose sight problems bring a ...

ISLAMABAD (PR): Bahria Town is one of the world’s largest real estate developers. Second year in a row, Bahria Town’s futuristic portfolio has once again been bestowed with the honor of 5 new accolades by the Asia Pacific International Property Awards 2013-14 held in Kuala Lumpur, ...

LONDON: US writer Lydia Davis, best known for her unconventionally short stories, claimed the prestigious Man Booker International Prize at a London ceremony.The New York based author beat off competition from the nine other authors who made the shortlist to win the award, which honours ...

LAHORE – Faisal Sayid clinched the Royal Palm Summer Match Play Golf trophy here at the Royal Palm Golf Course. Faisal never relented in any of the five tough matches that he played on his way to the final. He managed to hold his dominance over such skilled match play experts like Kamran ...

NEW YORK: US Country singer Kellie Pickler won the 16th season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday night, winning over judges and TV audiences with her graceful style and high-jumping jives with partner and professional dancer Derek Hough. Pickler, who first grabbed ...

LAHORE (PR): McDonald’s Pakistan has recently scored yet another achievement by winning “Press on Award” for the third year in a row. The prestigious award was presented to Asif Ghaffar, Assistant Director Supply Chain & Quality Assurance, McDonald’s Pakistan in the ...

MOBILE - American Jennifer Johnson fired a seven-under par 65 on Sunday to seize her first LPGA title, posting a one-shot victory over PornanongPhatlum and Jessica Korda in the Mobile Bay Classic.Johnson had eight birdies and just one bogey on the par-72 Crossings course at Magnolia Grove for a ...

SEOUL - Australian Matthew Griffin won his second OneAsia title in less than a year on Sunday when the final round of the SK Telecom Open was called off without a shot being played because of thick fog. Griffin can credit a spectacular 40-foot putt from off the back of the 18th green Saturday for ...

SAN JOSE- American BMC rider Tejay van Garderen strengthened his grip on the overall lead in the Tour of California with a victory in the individual time trial sixth stage. The 24-year-old was the only rider to break 49 minutes on the 31.6-kilometre course, winning in 48:52 to extend his lead in ...