ISLAMABAD: Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason and Thomas Stimmel captured the hearts and imaginations of their audience on Thursday night when they performed at the Liederabend – or German song recital – hosted by German Ambassador Ina Lepel...
The Liederabend – or song recital – dates back to the 1800s, when musicians and music lovers would gather to perform the songs of composers of the day...
WELLINGTON: Flamboyant New Zealand umpire Billy Bowden may have stood in his last international match after being dropped from New Zealand Cricket's international panel...
He was dropped from the International Cricket Council's elite panel in 2013, returned in 2014 but was omitted again after umpiring the Test between the West Indies and England in Barbados in May, 2015...
NEW YORK: US pop legend Billy Joel married longtime girlfriend Alexis Roderick in a surprise wedding on Saturday, popping their nuptials on unsuspecting guests at a July 4 holiday party, the singer’s publicist said...
The wedding, which took place on Joel’s Long Island estate, was officiated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo...
Britain boxer of Pakistan-origin Amir Khan secured a knockout win against Australia's Billy Dib to claim WBC international welterweight title at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia late Friday...
KIEV: Ukrainian heavyweight weightlifter Leonid Zhabotinsky, an idol of Arnold Schwarzenegger who won two Olympic gold medals and set multiple world records while competing for the Soviet Union, died on Thursday at the age of 77...
I like him,” he told AFP Friday, proudly dribbling his new ball across a dusty field in Kabul while swimming in one of his new jerseys, which was much too big for him...
BETHLEHEM: Hundreds of Palestinians celebrated in Bethlehem after a young singer from the occupied West Bank city became the second Palestinian to win the Arab Idol television song contest...
He became the second Palestinian to win the contest after Mohammed Assaf, who was raised in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, won Arab Idol against all odds aged 23 in 2013...
MANILA: They told her she couldn’t make it in Vietnam Idol, a popular singing tilt...
On Friday night, Buco wowed even her fiercest detractors and was adjudged the winner of the seventh season of Vietnam Idol...
Now, nearly a year later, Murtaza Ahmadi has finally met his idol...
An Afghan boy who became an internet sensation after pictures of him wearing an improvised Lionel Messi football shirt went viral finally got to meet his superstar idol on Tuesday...
She is a so-called “idol” singer, common in Japan, where rights groups have complained that society's sometimes permissive view of the sexualisation of young girls puts minors at risk...
It was only in 2015 that possessing child pornography was criminalised and authorities are struggling to bring the country into line with other advanced nations on the issue...
All of us complain about the education system in the country and say we want things to change but so we see enough of that sentiment in pop culture?Addressing that issue, musical campaign Gao Suno Badlo released ‘Taleem Ki Chutti,’ a satirical song about the current education system...
Titled 'Raunaqein', this new song, also sung by Shiraz Uppal, is a fantastic follow-up to the title track '3 Bahadur'...
The song looks and sounds as joyous as the proverbial month of May — and there's little doubt that we can all use a solid dose of positivity...
MINGORA: A large number of youth and writers attended the launching ceremony of the Zulfan music band’s new song titled ‘Wafa’ here on Saturday...
Shahaab Shaheen, the singer of the new song, said that he preferred selective work as his band focussed only on positive themes with a lesson for the society...
A civil court in Lahore on Friday asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and singer Ali Zafar to submit their written responses to a petition seeking to stop the release of Zafar's new song...
In his plea, Rizwan Nawab, a resident of Lahore, said that the release of what he termed was a new song for the ongoing Pakistan Super League "will damage the rating and popularity of PSL edition five"...