Pakistan captain Fatima Sana insists her team will remain unfazed by the political undertones surrounding their Women’s World Cup clash against India in Colombo on Sunday, saying their focus will stay firmly on cricket. The high-voltage fixture comes barely a week after the men’s Asia Cup, where Indian players reportedly refused to shake hands with…
MILWAUKEE — After becoming the first player to have three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio left Saturday’s NL Division Series opener against the Chicago Cubs with a hamstring injury. Chourio hit a bases-loaded grounder up the third-base line in the second. He beat the throw…
Nearly three years after OpenAI kickstarted an arms race with the public debut of its hallucinatory text generator ChatGPT, the Sam Altman-run firm launched a new frenzy with the release of its Sora 2, a video app that allows users to scan their face and place themselves in hyperrealistic clips. But major studio executives and…
China set aside 200 million yuan (US$28 million) in recovery aid for Guangdong and Hainan provinces as Typhoon Matmo made landfall on Sunday afternoon. Earlier on Sunday, authorities in Guangdong relocated more than 150,000 residents and Hainan suspended rail services across the island province. By late Sunday afternoon, transport in Haikou, Hainan’s capital, was gradually…
Seven al-Shabab militants who attacked a high-security prison in Somalia’s capital have all been killed, the country’s government has said. A huge explosion and gunfire were heard coming from Godka Jilicow – a detention centre that holds al-Shabab militants – in Mogadishu on Saturday evening. In a statement, al-Shabab said it released “all the Muslim…
INDONESIA: Newly crowned world champion Marc Marquez and polesitter Marco Bezzecchi crashed out at high speed after colliding in the opening lap as Spanish rookie Fermin Aldeguer won a chaotic Indonesia MotoGP on Sunday. Spanish great Marquez “suffered an injury to his right collarbone” and will fly to Madrid for medical tests, his Ducati team…
COLOMBO: India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her Pakistan counterpart Fatima Sana did not shake hands at the toss of Sunday’s Women’s World Cup cricket match, mirroring the actions of their men’s teams. Sana won the toss and chose to field at Colombo’s R. Premadasa Stadium, where there were also no formal greetings between the players…
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif left for Kuala Lumpur on Sunday for a three-day official visit on the invitation of Malaysian Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim. The high-level delegation includes Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar, and the Prime Minister’s Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi. Read: PM Shehbaz…
About two years ago, I tried a facial treatment in Singapore that had left me feeling refreshed and my skin smooth and taut. I found out it was called an “aqua peel” and started investigating how I could replicate the experience at home in the United States. Back then, the available options were either too…
SINDH/ KARACHI: Karachi, as well as the rest of Sindh, has been plagued by dengue and malaria season, which descends every year post-monsoon season, and yet minimal action has been taken to combat this. For the past several years, no spraying has been carried out in Karachi. Only 18 employees are assigned for spraying the…
