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...
KABUL: The five-year-old Afghan boy who won the Internet's heart when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag as an improvised Lionel Messi jersey is still eager to meet the Argentine football superstar, he told AFP Friday...
Murtaza Ahmadi travelled with his family to Kabul this week to receive two jerseys autographed by Messi and presented to the young fan by UNICEF
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...
Idol Tama Himeno, who has performed on stage since the age of 16, says the men attending her shows worship the performers and crave communication with young girls that they cannot get elsewhere...
The episode highlights what opposition supporters — many of them liberal secularists who live in big cities such as Istanbul and Izmir — have been saying for years...
KARACHI: Expressing displeasure with Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar with regard to the Oct 24 protest by residents of Pakistan Quarters during a police action to vacate government houses from them, Chief Justice of Pakistan Main Saqib Nisar on Friday observed that ethnic issues in Karachi must now come to an end...
The mayor was present in the courtroom when the CJP asked him why he did not bring the issue of Pakistan Quarters into his...
According to the FO spokesperson, Pakistan's ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmad Khan arrived in Islamabad on Sunday evening...
The development comes as Afghanistan on Sunday called back its ambassador and senior diplomats from Pakistan over the alleged abduction of the Afghan envoy’s daughter...
Pakistan on Thursday denounced the remarks by the spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) regarding the alleged brief abduction of the Afghan ambassador's daughter in Islamabad last week, terming them "gratuitous and unwarranted"...
However, the Pakistani government has said the evidence collected by police did not support the allegation of abduction and torture levelled by the Alikhil family, while Interior...
LAHORE: The PML-N says what was done to Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal at the accountability court in Islamabad is nothing new as during the last four years this ministry has faced similar situations many times but avoided raising its voice against those behind such incidents...
Explore: 'Whose orders is Rangers following?' Ahsan Iqbal lashes out at force for blocking entry to courtIt says the difference between today’s incident in which...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif may not name those who in his view had ill-advised his elder brother to confront the military and judiciary but he and the like-minded group in the PML-N do want ousted premier Nawaz Sharif to revisit the policy in keeping with the demand of the day...
According to a party insider, Shahbaz’s outburst against some ‘advisers’ to Nawaz has come in the backdrop of Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal’s strong...
PESHAWAR: With a local court granting bail to Provincial Minister Ali Amin Ghandapur in a case of election-related violence, a report by the district police of Dera Ismail Khan surfaced giving graphic details of the episode which had landed him in prison...
ISLAMABAD: The ongoing episode of Axact allegedly awarding fake degrees echoed in the Supreme Court on Monday during the hearing of challenges to the 18th and 21st amendments...
Also read: Pakistan seeks FBI assistance to probe Axact scamThe full court had taken up petitions against the 18th and 21st amendments in the Constitution that assails the appointment procedure of superior court judges and the setting up of military courts to...