BRATISLAVA: The Slovakia festival due to welcome Kanye West next week has called off the event following the uproar over the US rapper’s May release of a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Before the July 20 gig was cancelled, Bratislava’s Rubicon hip hop festival was set to be West’s only confirmed live performance in…
PARIS: The original bag custom-made for actress Jane Birkin – which went on to inspire one of the most iconic accessories in modern fashion history – sold for a record 8.6 million ($10.04 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in Paris on Thursday. According to fashion lore, the first Birkin bag was created after the Franco-British…
Renowned Urdu scholar, author and translator CM Naim died at age 89 on Wednesday in Chicago, his family has told the press. Naim’s love for Urdu literature was evident in the nearly 60 years he dedicated to painstakingly restore the language he feared was falling out of favour for good in the subcontinent. Born in…
Actor and television host Ahsan Khan spoke about the importance of raising daughters with strength and independence. In an interview with FUCHSIA Magazine, Khan shared his perspective as a father and reflected on the different challenges that sons and daughters face while growing up, especially in Pakistan’s cultural context. He began by observing that “many…
Actor Mariyam Nafees recently opened up about her journey through pregnancy and early motherhood on a local channel’s morning show, appearing alongside her husband, filmmaker Amaan Ahmed. “When I told my mother [I was expecting], the first thing she urged me to do was to not treat it like an illness and just carry on…
MONACO: Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles makes his European season debut in the 200m at the Diamond League meet in Monaco on Friday, back from a tendon injury with a body he says is “ready to run fast”. The American’s much-anticipated return to elite competition comes at a timely moment as athletes continue to fine-tune…
PARIS: Defending champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) is back in the yellow jersey after the Slovenian fought off Dane Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) to win stage seven of the Tour de France on Friday. Pogacar, three-times winner, claimed his second stage of this year’s Tour at the end of a 197km ride from…
NEW YORK: Paris St Germain (PSG) will face Chelsea in the final of FIFA’s revamped 32-team Club World Cup on Sunday, capping off a month-long tournament in the United States that, while sparking debates about the weather and calendar, has delivered drama akin to a nations’ World Cup. The French and English sides, two of…
Listen to article WASHINGTON/OTTAWA: US President Donald Trump ramped up his tariff assault on Canada on Thursday, saying the US would impose a 35% tariff on imports next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trading partners. In a letter released on his social media platform, Trump told Canadian Prime…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: With a strong emphasis on institutional reform, employee welfare, and service modernisation, the 35th Board of Directors meeting of the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) convened in Islamabad under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Khalid Hussain Magsi. The high-level session brought together key stakeholders to chart a…
