PARIS: The Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage this year in what organisers said Wednesday would add a competitive finale to the world’s greatest bike race. The new format of the final stage on July 27 introduces an outside possibility that the leading…
LONDON: England captain Ben Stokes, who leads his side in one-off Test against Zimbabwe on Thursday, has challenged his players to make the jump from second in the Test world rankings to first. It is now more than a decade since Andrew Strauss was the last England skipper to take the team to the summit,…
BENGALURU: Co-hosts England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will not automatically be in the 2028 European Championship finals and must go through qualifying, though two spots are reserved if they fail. The decision was taken by European governing body UEFA’s executive committee on Wednesday in Bilbao ahead of the Europa League Final. Hosts or co-hosts have…
BILBAO: Manchester United and Tottenham face off in the Europa League final in Bilbao on Wednesday with both clubs eyeing a golden ticket into the Champions League after historically poor seasons. The two teams have lost a combined 39 times in the Premier League, with 20-time champions United an embarrassing 16th in the table and…
The mother of Sean “Diddy” Combs’s ex-partner Cassie testified on Tuesday about threats and violence experienced by her daughter during her decade-long relationship with the music mogul, reported AFP. Regina Ventura took the stand after several days of gruelling testimony by her daughter Casandra Ventura, the singer known as Cassie, who detailed harrowing abuse by…
In an interview with Ahmad Ali Butt on a local show, Colonel Qasim Shah looked back on his first meeting with director Shoaib Mansoor, thanks to whom he went on to star in iconic serials like the coming-of-age show Sunehray Din and the military action serial Alpha Bravo Charlie. Qasim began by recalling that he…
Grammy-winning Pakistani-American singer Arooj Aftab is set to make her BBC Proms debut this summer in a performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The concert, scheduled for July 29, will feature orchestral arrangements of music from across Aftab’s discography, including selections from her albums Bird Under Water (2015), Vulture Prince (2021), and Night Reign (2024)….
George Wendt, the American actor best known for his role as the curmudgeonly Norm Peterson in Cheers, has died, a representative said Tuesday, as per AFP. Wendt, who was 76, was nominated for six successive Emmy awards for his role as the perennial barfly opposite Ted Danson in one of television’s most successful ever sitcoms….
In a satirical blog post published in Times of India, Indian author and former actor Twinkle Khanna questions the reign of fake news at a time when the political climate between Pakistan and India is rife with tension. Twinkle recalls listening to songs from Sanam Teri Kasam, before noticing that Mawra Hocane has been removed…
Following four years of a legal battle in the Noor Mukadam case, the Supreme Court of Pakistan upheld Zahir Jaffer’s death sentence on Tuesday. Led by Justice Hashim Kakar, three members including Justices Ishtiaq Ibrahim and Ali Baqar Najafi presided over the bench for the third hearing of Zahir’s appeal against his death sentence, which…
