China to prosecute ‘cult leader’ amid religious group purge
BEIJING: The spiritual leader of a Chinese Buddhist sect is to be prosecuted for financial and sexual offences, state media said Thursday, as Beijing intensifies its crackdown on what it calls...
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Woman defrauded by married man she met on Shaadi.com
A woman was allegedly tricked out of £6,000 by a married man she met through an Indian matchmaking website, Shaadi.com. Shelley Sharma, a paediatric nurse working in Dublin for the past eight years,...
View ArticleIndia’s JSW shelves plan to buy cricket team, cites graft-hit IPL’s “negative...
MUMBAI: India’s JSW Group, an $11 billion conglomerate with interests ranging from steel to power, is shelving plans to buy a cricket team in the money-spinning Indian Premier League (IPL), citing the...
View ArticleYounus won’t retire before winning in Australia, England
KARACHI: Pakistan veteran Younus Khan has vowed to hold off retiring until he has guided his team to Test series victories in England and Australia to cap off a remarkable career. The 37-year-old...
View ArticlePakistan lodges protest with India over ‘spy drone’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday summoned Indian High Commissioner to the Foreign Office and lodged a protest over the violation of airspace and unabated ceasefire violations. A statement issued by the...
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From TV dramas to fashion: India takes inspiration from Pakistan
India has fallen in love with Pakistani dramas and celebs, no wonder they’ve grown a likeness for our fashion as well. Times of India reported that Muslims in India are taking inspiration from designs...
View ArticleFormer Saudi spy chief says Iran nuclear deal will ‘wreak havoc’
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a former head of the kingdom’s intelligence services and its veteran ambassador to Washington, has said Iran’s nuclear deal will allow it to get an...
View ArticleSpieth and Woods in the spotlight as Open starts
ST ANDREWS: Thomas Bjorn got the 144th Open Championship underway at St Andrews on Thursday, but all eyes early on were firmly on Jordan Spieth and Tiger Woods. The world number two and world number...
View ArticleVolcano shuts major Indonesian airport during Eid holiday rush
SURABAYA: Ash spewing from an erupting volcano closed the airport serving Indonesia’s second-biggest city Thursday, as millions of people were travelling across the archipelago ahead of the Muslim...
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UAE deports Australian woman for ‘writing bad words’ on Facebook
An Australian woman was deported from Abu Dhabi, UAE after being sent to jail for cyber crimes after “writing bad words on social media”. Jodi Magi, 39, had posted a photo on Facebook in February of a...
View ArticleHurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq accepts Pakistan’s Eid Milan invite
Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and senior executive member Mansoor Abbas Ansari accepted on Thursday the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi’s invitation for Eid Milan on July 21. Mirwaiz...
View ArticleDiCaprio’s foundation to donate $15 m to save planet
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has announced his foundation would donate $15 million to help save the planet. The Wolf of Wall Street actor said that the money would go to at least 27 organisations “working...
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Is it end of the line for South Asia’s ship graveyards?
ALANG, INDIA/SINGAPORE: In the world’s biggest ship recycling centre of Alang on India’s Arabian Sea coast, workers with blow torches cut segments of steel stripped from the rusting hull of a towering...
View ArticleNine believed dead in Philippine coal mine collapse: official
MANILA: Three people died and six others are believed to have also been killed when part of a coal mine collapsed on a remote central Philippine island on Friday, the provincial governor said. Nine...
View ArticleTaking ‘No home, no bathroom, no life’: grim future for Athens homeless
ATHENS: On a bench beneath a fluttering Greek flag in front of an Orthodox church, two homeless men are philosophising about the financial crisis that has devastated their country and helped push them...
View ArticleWhite House to honour Muslim woman for environmental work
A Muslim woman from Wisconsin, US is among a dozen people set to be honoured by the White House for their efforts for protecting communities from climate change. Huda Alkaff who spent over a decade...
View ArticleRogers rejoices in ‘special’ Lord’s century
LONDON: Chris Rogers was a proud man after posting his highest Test score on his adopted home ground of Lord’s as Australia dominated Thursday’s opening day of the second Ashes Test against England. At...
View ArticleAustralian jailed over 12-year-old daughter’s ‘Islamic marriage’ ceremony
SYDNEY: An Australian man who consented to an Islamic marriage ceremony between his 12-year-old daughter and a man more than twice her age was jailed on Friday for at least six years. The 63-year-old...
View ArticleInjured Serena Williams withdraws from Bastad
BASTAD: World number one and six-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams pulled out of the Swedish Open with an elbow injury on Thursday and set her sights on recovering for the US hardcourt season....
View ArticleBoko Haram militants kill a dozen villagers in Niger: sources
NIAMEY: Suspected Nigerian Boko Haram insurgents killed at least a dozen villagers and wounded several others in an attack in southeastern Niger on Wednesday night, security sources said. The attack on...
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