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...
The image struck a chord with football fans around the world, as social media swiftly dubbed Murtaza “little Messi”...
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...
It was an image that touched the hearts of millions: A 5-year-old Afghan boy wearing an improvised Lionel Messi jersey made from a plastic bag...
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...
“The image the world wanted to see,” tweeted Qatar's 2022 World Cup organisers, who brought the pair together...
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...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pays homage on Saturday to his executed Islamic predecessor in an attempt to rally his conservative base on the eve of a historic runoff vote...
Erdogan’s visit to Istanbul’s Adnan Menderes mausoleum takes him back to the man he cited when he called early polls for May 14 in a bid to ease his way to an unprecedented third decade of rule
Pakistan welcomes the announcement regarding the signing of a possible deal between the United States and Afghan Taliban, the Foreign Office said on Friday...
"Pakistan has consistently supported direct negotiations between the US and Taliban...
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday "welcomed" the announcement by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief that the team will tour Pakistan next year, while also praising the international community for supporting Pakistan cricket...
The minister's statement comes in the wake of ECB chief Ian Watmore's remarks, reported by The Daily Mail, wherein he apologised for the team's withdrawal...
The winner said she wanted to combine her love of cooking with her medical career, helping people with special dietary conditions find their ideal foods...
BIRMINGHAM: Stand-in captain Ben Stokes said on Monday Saqib Mahmood’s dynamic impact with the ball for England against Pakistan will make the team’s established stars fear for their places when they return from coronavirus (Covid-19) isolation...
The 24-year-old took four for 42 and two for 21 in the first two matches against Pakistan, dismissing the world’s number one 50-over batsman Babar Azam on both occasions...
The shock announcement comes after a years-long resistance from women's rights activists, some of whom were jailed for defying the ban on female driving...
The announcement follows a dazzling gender-mixed celebration of Saudi national day at the weekend, the first of its kind, which aimed to spotlight the kingdom's reform push, analysts say, despite a backlash from religious conservatives...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed slightly higher on Friday with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 104 points, or 0...
Stocks closed higher "amid speculation on renewed foreign inflows after FTSE Global Equity Index Series Asia Pacific announcement on inclusion of PSX stocks in semi annual review," Ahsan Mehanti of Arif Habib Corporation said...
KARAK: Awami National Party-Wali (ANP-W) provincial president Fareed Tofan has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to impose ban on announcement of developmental projects during the course of local government elections in the province...
He said that the announcement of uplift projects during LG polls would have direct influence on results of the elections, adding that in such scenario LG polls could not be called transparent...