Brad Evans celebrates after finishing off the game. Photo: ICC COLOMBO: Zimbabwe beat a depleted Australia by 23 runs on Friday in Colombo to pull off the biggest shock of the T20 World Cup so far.After posting 169-2 in their 20 overs, thanks mainly to Brian Bennett’s classy 64 not out, Zimbabwe had Australia 29-4 … Read more

The England defender could provide vital creativity as the hosts look to seize top spot despite key fitness concerns Trent Alexander-Arnold has made 17 appearances for Real Madrid this season, starting 12 of those matches. Photo: AFP MADRID: Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Real Madrid career has not got off the ground yet but, fit again after injury, … Read more

Probe targets 25 suspects across eight provinces for alleged money laundering through content on banned platform ANKARA: Turkey detained 16 people and seized assets worth about 300 million lira ($6.9 million) on Friday in an investigation into alleged money laundering linked to content shared on the OnlyFans platform, prosecutors said. The probe, led by a … Read more

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck 86 kilometres northeast of Khuzdar in Balochistan on Friday, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) reported. Several districts in Sindh and Balochistan experienced earthquake tremors, according to the Seismic Monitoring Centre of the PMD. Initial tremors were recorded at a magnitude of 3.8, followed by a second quake measuring 5.8. The tremors … Read more

UN Security Council unanimously renews Taliban sanctions Monitoring Team mandate for another 12 months United Nations Security Council PHOTO: X/Permanent Representative pf Pakistan to the UN Asim Iftikhar Ahmad Pakistan on Friday reiterated its call for Afghan territory to cease being used for terrorism against neighbouring states, urging steps to prevent what it described as … Read more

ISLAMABAD: Heated scenes unfolded in the Senate on Thursday after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senators staged a protest over Imran Khan’s health, placing his photographs on their desks, prompting objections from treasury members and ultimately forcing the chair to adjourn proceedings. The confrontation followed remarks by Opposition Leader and Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) chief Allama Raja … Read more

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: A growing chorus within the legal community has voiced serious concern over what it describes as the superior judiciary’s failure to ensure the availability of basic rights to former prime minister Imran Khan during his imprisonment. Senior lawyers say the findings contained in the report submitted by … Read more

PTI founder Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan along with party leaders addresses a news conference in Islamabad. Photo: Saba ISLAMABAD: Political temperatures rose sharply on Thursday as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) expressed serious concern over the health of its incarcerated leader, Imran Khan, after a report submitted to the Supreme Court quoted him as saying … Read more

. US President Donald Trump makes an announcement at the White House. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding underpinning US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution, marking his biggest rollback of climate policy to date. The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” was paired with the … Read more

. BHUBANESWAR: An Indian health worker who contracted the deadly Nipah virus in December has died, a senior health official from the eastern state of West Bengal said on Thursday. The woman — a nurse — was one of two people in the state who were infected and was being treated at a local hospital, Reuters reported … Read more