We’re one week into the 2025 MLB playoffs, with two games having now been played in all four division series matchups. In the small-sample-size world of October baseball, it might seem like that means we’ve seen enough to know a lot. But the reality for a sport that combines 162-game seasons with the chaos of…
One Battle After Another is, as the refrain goes on social media, “the movie of the year.” Paul Thomas Anderson’s propulsive, nearly three-hour loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland starring Leonardo DiCaprio has been the rare grown-up drama that’s drawn enormous critical praise, high audience scores, and solid box office – crossing the $100 million…
Five NATO countries neighboring Russia or its ally, Belarus, have announced that they are to opt out of the Ottawa treaty of 1997. This treaty bans the use by signatories of anti-personnel (AP) landmines. These states – Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia – now have plans to create a 2,000-mile stretch of mined areas…
KARACHI: The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) leadership to expedite the settlement of long-pending income and sales tax refund claims amounting to Rs96.6 billion, citing adverse effects on the financial liquidity and investment outlook of foreign investors in Pakistan. In a letter addressed to…
The SEC is eating up half the spots in the latest College Football Playoff top 12 projection — and Texas isn’t even taking up one of them. The Longhorns are out following their loss to Florida in the Swamp. Penn State is out following an embarrassing loss at once-winless UCLA. Florida State is out after…
Delivery firm DPD could face disruption to its services after some of its drivers began three days of action in a dispute over payments. The drivers involved are refusing to work for three days after DPD said it was cutting the amount it pays for deliveries of small parcels by 65p. One driver told the…
October Prime Day 2025 has arrived and it has brought a slew of discounts across the entirety of Amazon’s online storefront. As expected, Amazon’s site is pretty overwhelming at the moment and will continue to be throughout the duration of the two-day event. Even if you came prepared with a wishlist of items you hope…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday welcomed Bloomberg’s recent positive report on Pakistan’s economy, saying that the notable decrease in the price of Pakistan’s Credit Default Swap (CDS) reflected a consistent increase in global investors’ confidence in the country’s economic outlook. According to the report, there has been a significant reduction of 2,200…
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again raised the issue of imposing additional taxes on fertiliser and introducing an excise duty on the use of pesticides to partly offset a shortfall in the annual tax target, which the government has requested to defer until next year. The global lender has asked the government…
Alistair Petrie is no stranger to villains. The British star has played some of television’s most notorious, especially as the stone-faced, unfeeling headteacher Mr. Groff in smash hit series Sex Education, which saw his icy glare pierce through screens in over 55 million households worldwide across its four seasons. But as hardcore fans of Netflix’s…
