A buyer was sent a brick instead of a PlayStation 5 console after paying $878 (£640) which on sale on eBay by a scammer. A man in Utah was scammed by a seller who sent a concrete brick by placing it in a PS5 box for which the buyer paid almost double the retail price. It emerged that many cunning …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 89 deaths and 2,885 new cases due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. In the past 24 hours, 89 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 8,487. 13,932 patients have recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours and 2,486 patients are in critical condition. The total count of …

Air pollution is a long-standing problem in Pakistan, but every October and November contaminates in the air in Punjab shoot up as farmers burn rice stalks left behind after harvesting to clear their fields to plant wheat. During these cooler months, Lahore, which is surrounded by rice-growing districts, is covered with thick smog. “It is a health emergency the air …

WASHINGTON: Cyber­crime is expected to cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year, up more than 50 percent since 2018, a research report said on Monday. The report by McAfee Corp, in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), concluded that the cost of online criminal activity was more than one percent of global economic …

The announcement of the death of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman was the most shared on Twitter worldwide in 2020, and got the most “likes” of any Tweet ever, the social media platform said on Monday. The Aug. 28 post by Boseman’s family saying the actor had died of colon cancer at age 43 was “liked” more than 7.5 million times, Twitter …

SYDNEY: With a mounting injury toll and all the momentum with India, Australia may press more Test players into duty for the day-night tour match against Virat Kohli’s team, head coach Justin Langer said. Australia slumped to a six-wicket defeat in the second Twenty20 International against India on Sunday, surrendering the three-match series with a game to spare and notching …

THE Athletes Commission of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) primarily works on the development of athletes’ skills and their adaptation to sporting characteristics. The Commission recently organised the first ‘National Athletes Forum’ in Lahore, the central idea of which was to educate athletes regarding sports injuries, remedial solutions, doping, etc and to provide guidance and knowledge to them for a better …

LONDON: Manchester United will travel to RB Leipzig for Tuesday’s Champions League match confident they can reach the knockout stages but knowing they have made life unnecessarily hard for themselves. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team looked certain to ease out of the group phase after an impressive win at Paris Saint-Germain followed by a 5-0 hammering of RB Leipzig at home. …

KARACHI: The new domestic season has crossed the half way stage but the competing players who signed the contracts with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are still waiting their monthly payments under fresh contracts which commenced three months ago. A number of players in regional outfits, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to this correspondent that they had not been paid …

It’s Amir (king) Khan’s birthday today and unlike the usual, where we’d get a dose of fun-filled pictures from a grand celebration, this year is a little different. The boxer, who makes headlines both based on his professional achivements as well as his personal life, turned 34 today. Here are some lesser known facts you might have not known about …