BERLIN: A Vega rocket bearing a European prototype satellite blasted into space early on Thursday on a mission to search for ripples in space and across time, a phenomenon predicted but never proven by physicist Albert Einstein 100 years ago...
The launch lit up the night sky at the launch site in French Guiana, just north of the Equator in South America, before the rocket disappeared into the clouds, the European Space Agency (ESA)...
It takes a lot of nerve to try and do it all in one go, but that has not deterred Ahmed Khan, a veteran of Pakistan’s e-commerce circuit...
Cheetay was launched in 2015 when Ahmed realised two critical challenges faced by industry in Pakistan: payment systems and logistics...
AT any time of the night, in any season, when the sky is free from pollution, mist droplets or city lights — or glow of any other kind (even the lunar) one can see around three thousand stars of variant brightness...
This of course does not include those multitudinous stars that lie embedded in that arm of the Milky Way, our own parent galaxy that passes far overhead from the north of the sky and snakes across the southerly...
LONDON: Britain on Tuesday said it may widen its probe into the planned takeover of pan-European satellite TV giant Sky by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox entertainment group...
While the blockbuster deal has already raised concerns about the influence of the Australian-born US tycoon over Britain’s media landscape, industry observers are also worried that the controversial reporting style of Murdoch’s Fox News channel could be...
Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on Friday...
THE crime rate in my town is now beyond description...
The life of the people has become miserable due to crimes like car snatching, robbing money on gunpoint, etc
This government should not make the same mistake as it did back in the 1990s in the name of ‘open sky’...
On Sunday, BMC Racing clocked 32 minutes 15 seconds to beat Sky by one second and Froome now leads American Tejay van Garderen by 12 seconds overall and Belgian rider Greg Van Avermaet — another BMC rider — by 27 seconds...
The battle between BMC and Sky was neck-and-neck for 20km with the two level at the first time check and then Sky ahead by 1sec at the second...
LONDON: Britain’s two-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has extended his contract with Team Sky until 2018, the British team said on Tuesday...
“Team Sky have been fundamental to my success to date, so it was a very easy decision to commit to the team until the end of 2018,” Froome said...
Mah-i-Mir has been tipped as a movie with a great deal of intellectual content...
Why? Because at the heart of its story is the master Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir
RAHIM YAR KHAN: On Wednesday when the temperature soared to 47 degrees Celsius, children as young as five to eight years old were found studying under the open sky in Maktab School, Nazirabad village of Liaquatpur tehsil, 86km from the district headquarters...
I’ve also been touring Pakistan and India...
“Naina da Nasha offers a fusion of cultures by bringing Pakistan and India closer together through music...
The design is meant to be a 21st Century take on the Victorian pleasure piers that characterise British seaside towns: this time, a vertical pier in the sky, according to project chiefs...
SEOUL: Global concerns over North Korea's latest nuclear test and long-range rocket launch have shone a spotlight on the perennial, high-tech game of hide-and-seek played around Pyongyang's advanced weapons programmes...
On the seeking side are analysts using high-resolution images from a circling constellation of commercial satellites to pick up whatever data they can on the North's fast-developing nuclear and ballistic missile...
CAPE CANAVERAL: The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it’s undoubtedly blue...
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto’s blue sky during the historic flyby of the icy dwarf planet in July...