Nato reels from harsh Trump reality show
But hopes that post-election Trump would use his first visit to Brussels to show his full commitment were dashed with a series of awkward incidents and harsh statements...
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SportAnaconda bites Shane Warne in a reality TV show
SYDNEY: Retired Australia spin bowling great Shane Warne has suffered a snakebite after dipping his head into a box full of the reptiles for a reality show...
A promo clip for the Network Ten show “I'm A Celebrity...
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SportDjokovic to star in reality show
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic reached the US Open final Friday and marked the occasion by announcing he will be the subject of a documentary series about his life...
The world number one, and the only man to win more than $100 million in prize money, agreed to allow the cameras to follow him on and off court -
BusinessVirtual Reality arrives at Tokyo Game Show, counted on to revive industry
CHIBA: Virtual reality (VR) has arrived for real at the Tokyo Game Show, one of the world's biggest exhibitions for the latest in fun and games...
The show, which gave a preview to reporters Thursday ahead of its opening to the public over the weekend, features 614 companies demonstrating more than 1,500 game software titles...
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ArchiveKSF creates history with launch of cricket reality show
KARACHI: Cricket undertook a new nomenclature on Thursday with the launching of ‘Kriket Superstar’, a coaching-cum-TV reality programme, initiated by Karachi Sports Foundation which has invited four prominent ex-Test cricketers — Andy Roberts, Jonty Rhodes, Damien Martyn and Danny Morrison — as judges to oversee the final phase of a coaching camp here...
Under the scheme, 24 cricketers, who were picked after open trials were held by a...
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ArchiveBlackwood fights back for West Indies
NORTH SOUND: Jermaine Blackwood led some dogged West Indies resistance on the third day of the first Test against England as the hosts reached lunch on 234 for six, still 165 runs behind England’s first innings total here at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Wednesday...
The right-hander reached his fourth half-century in six Tests and was 69 not out as England’s bowlers kept a tight grip on proceedings -
ArchiveShapovalov fights back to advance
Defending champion Marin Cilic is seeded second as the Croatian fights for a place in the ATP Finals at London next month...
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World3 suspected militants, Indian commando killed during gun fights in held Kashmir
Also read: Kashmir talks: reality and mythIn another operation in the neighbouring Kupwara area, a special forces soldier was killed in a continuing gunbattle, police said...
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the militants, a claim which Pakistan denies...
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ArchiveNiger army fights Boko Haram for Lake Chad island
NIAMEY: Niger’s army is fighting to recapture an island in Lake Chad after it was seized by hundreds of Boko Haram militants aboard motorised canoes, army sources said on Sunday...
Boko Haram, hardline Islamists who want to establish a caliphate in the region, attacked the island of Karamga at dawn on Saturday, their second attempt to capture it since February, army and government sources said -
PakistanJawad Ahmad's comeback track 'Bhola' fights for a classless society
Ahmad, who gained popularity with songs like ‘Dosti’, ‘Mehendi’ and ‘Uchayan Majajan Wali,’ has been quite active with respect to labour laws in Pakistan and is involved with an organisation called ‘International Youth and Workers Movement’ (IYWM)...
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MagazinesREVIEW: The face behind the face: Worthy Fights by Leon Panetta
In his memoir Worthy Fights the Italian-American who went on to become a Democratic Congressman for California, speaks frankly about how he ran afoul of the conservative Nixon administration for championing the cause of minority desegregation...
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and PeaceBy Leon Panetta with Jim NewtonPenguin, New YorkISBN 978-1594205965512pp...
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PakistanRape victim fights for life at Mayo
LAHORE: A 12-year-old girl was abducted and raped by unidentified person(s), police said on Friday...
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WorldSaudi Arabia fights extremism with '5-star' rehab centre
With its indoor swimming pool, sun-splashed patios and liveried staff, the Saudi complex has the trappings of a five-star resort, but it is actually a rehab centre — for violent militants...
Riyadh's Mohammed bin Nayef Counselling and Care Centre, a cushy halfway house between prison and freedom, spotlights a controversial Saudi strategy for tackling homegrown extremists -
ArchiveFormer owner of Hitler’s birthplace fights expropriation in court
VIENNA: The expropriation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace by Austria’s government is unconstitutional and is not the only way to stop it being an attraction for neo-Nazis, a lawyer for its former owner told a court on Thursday...
Gerlinde Pommer-Angloher filed a legal challenge to the constitutional court in January, seeking annulment of a law which allowed the state to seize the three-storey house in Braunau am Inn on Austria’s border with... -
ArchiveIS fights fiercely in shrinking Iraqi and Syrian strongholds
MOSUL: Western-backed forces edged into the final redoubts of the two capitals of IS self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, hampered by fierce resistance from the militants and the presence of human shields...
Iraqi commanders have predicted final victory in Mosul this week after a grinding eight-month assault on the once two-million-strong city pushed IS into a rectangle no more than 300 by 500 metres beside the River...
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