Reviewing her work in The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden described her as “a polished pop-jazz stylist of conservative temperament who is a hybrid of her father, Ella Fitzgerald and the young Aretha Franklin”...
He introduced his children to performers including Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, known to the kids as Auntie Ella and Uncle Frank...
As the inspection teams start to file out from the site, and visitors are done taking photos of the ruins, silence once again returns to Makli Hill — a silence that is welcomed, no doubt, by its original inhabitants...
BRUSSELS: Darrell Hill left it late to smash his personal best and lead a US clean-sweep of the men’s shot put at the Brussels Diamond League on Thursday...
Hill, 24, managed a best of 22...
LONDON: Jessica Ennis-Hill will take part in her first heptathlon since winning gold at the 2012 London Olympics when she competes in the biggest multi-discipline meeting of the year in Austria on May 30-31...
Ennis-Hill says she feels good enough to compete in the Combined Events Challenge meeting in Gotzis, where she will bid to gain enough points to be eligible to defend her Olympic title next year in Rio de Janeiro...
MINGORA/MANSEHRA: Tourists flocked to hill stations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Swat and Mansehra, during Eid days from across the country to enjoy cool weather and see scenic beauty...
Most hotels in the region were booked for Eid days...
The district often faces hill torrents in Kaha Sultan and Chhachhar in the west, with floods in the Indus inundating its riverine areas from the east...
A few days ago, hill torrents in Kaha Sultan and Chhachhar were recorded at 45,000 cusecs as a result of heavy rains in Balochistan and on the Sulaiman mountain range, while there was a medium-level flood in the Indus in Rajanpur district...
MUMBAI: The sleepy hill station of Dharamsala will host arch-rivals India and Pakistan at next year's cricket World Twenty20, while the final will be staged at the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, organisers said Friday...
LONDON: Around a million people are expected to attend the Notting Hill Carnival, a celebration of Caribbean culture which sees colourful floats and sound systems filling west London’s streets, from Sunday...
The Notting Hill Carnival started in the 1960s, when the area had a high population of immigrants recently arrived from the Caribbean and was notorious for its slums — a far cry from today when it is one of London’s most...
DERA GHAZI KHAN: High flood in Wador hill torrent on Sunday devastated ancient hamlet Wador in arid zone of the district while, according to flood victims, the district government did not issue any warning to residents...
The hill torrent is named after the ancient village...
MIANWALI: Hill torrents on Monday devastated Isakhel tehsil owing to torrential rains on surrounding mountains...
Various hill torrents of Isakhel tehsil locally known as ‘Barooch’, ‘Rakka’ and ‘Lunda’ have destroyed crops on thousands of acre land besides inundating residential localities of various mauzas...
The hill torrents in Isakhel tehsil washed away the inter-province road at Tarag, Qamar-Mushani and Jalalpur...
In Mianwali tehsil, the hill torrents emerging out of Salt Range devastated large areas of Namal valley in Chakrala area...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will inaugurate the Sangla Hill interchange on Pindi Bhattian-Faisalabad Motorway (M-4) on Friday (today)...
The interchange will link adjoining areas of Sangla Hill to the National Highway and motorway network for agricultural and industrial development in the area...
MIANWALI: Nothing is being done to ease the plight of residents of the Namal valley who have been affected by hill torrents ...
The bridge at Dhok Karsial had been washed away by the hill torrents...
KARACHI: Sindh minister for culture, tourism and antiquities Syed Sardar Ali Shah has announced that Gorakh hill station will be provided with solar energy in an attempt to promote the key tourist spot of Sindh...
It was decided at the meeting that the hill station’s current eight tourist huts would be provided with solar energy and so he directed the GHDA authorities to prepare a plan for establishing a solar power plant...
Meanwhile, hill torrents continued to devastate large areas, including the Eissa Khel tehsil of Mianwali district...