QUETTA: An explosion struck a railway track in the Dasht area of Mastung district in Balochistan on Tuesday, targeting the Jaffar Express traveling from Peshawar to Quetta and wounding a dozen passengers. Officials said the device was an improvised explosive planted near the track, which detonated as the train passed. The blast caused four bogies…
Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that between 2001 and 2015, a wave of urbanisation helped reduce the national poverty rate from 64% to 22% by 2019, as rural workers moved…
Disney is bringing back Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show, but a notable chunk of ABC affiliates won’t air the new episodes. Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting — which control about one quarter of local ABC stations, according to Deadline — announced that they will continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! and air different programming in that…
Dozens of Western nations called on Monday for the reopening of the medical corridor between Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, offering to provide financial aid, medical staff and equipment to treat Gaza’s patients in the West Bank. “We strongly appeal to Israel to restore the medical corridor to the occupied West Bank, including East…
Meta announced on Monday that it’s bringing an AI assistant to Facebook Dating. This chatbot is intended to help users find matches who are more closely tailored to what they are looking for. For example, Meta might suggest users ask it to find “a Brooklyn girl in tech” or a user could ask the AI…
NFL NationSep 23, 2025, 06:45 AM ET Close NFL Nation is made up of 32 team-specific reporters who cover the NFL year-round across ESPN.com, ESPN television shows, ESPN Radio, ESPN+ and social media platforms. It was established ahead of the 2013 season. Week 3 brought even more excitement to this NFL season, with special teams…
R.L. Stine‘s Pumpkinhead is ready to face off against the Halloween competition. The Tubi Original feature is set to debut on the free streaming service Oct. 17, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The cast includes Bean Reid, Adeline Lo, Kevin McNulty, Bob Frazer, Matty Finochio and Seth Isaac Johnson. R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead centers on…
Pakistan restricted Sri Lanka to 133-8 thanks to their pacers led by Shaheen Afridi and Hussain Talat in the Asia Cup 2025 Super Four stage match at Abu Dhabi Stadium on Tuesday night. Pakistan won the toss and skipper Salman Ali Agha chose to field first as the Greenshirts fight for their place in the…
There can now be little doubt that the world leader who is most pleased that Donald Trump is in the White House again, apart from Trump himself, is President Xi Jinping. Certainly he did nothing to hide his happiness at therecent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjinand then at his own military parade…
The drone incursion that stopped flights at Copenhagen airport on Monday night was “the most severe attack on Danish infrastructure so far”, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. Kastrup airport in Copenhagen was forced to shut for several hours from around 20:30 (18:30 GMT) on Monday following the sighting of a number of drones. “It…
