Meghan Markle seems to be gearing up for more exciting projects now that she is free from her royal duties after the exit with Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex, according to the latest intel, could now be trying her hand at writing a novel which would either be a work of fiction for children or adults, as report by …

MOSCOW: George Blake, a famous “mole” in British intelligence who spied for the Soviet KGB during the 1950s before fleeing across the Iron Curtain, has died aged 98, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday. “The legendary intelligence officer George Blake has passed away today,” the spokesman for Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service Sergei Ivanov told the TASS state news agency. “He sincerely …

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden warned on Saturday of “devastating consequences” if President Donald Trump continues to delay signing a Covid-19 economic relief bill passed by Congress. Trump threw a long-awaited pandemic aid package into doubt last week as millions of Americans prepared to lose benefits and face eviction — demanding lawmakers more than triple the $600 direct payments to …

GAZA CITY: Hamas on Saturday denounced as “barbaric” overnight strikes it said damaged a Gaza children’s hospital, while Israel’s army claimed it was responding to rocket fire from the enclave. Gaza’s ruling Hamas group said in a statement a “barbaric” Israeli strike had damaged a children’s hospital and a centre for people with special needs. Medical sources in Gaza said …

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi film director has been arrested and charged after a scene depicting police harshly interrogating a rape victim and highlighting attitudes towards violence against women in the conservative nation sparked the ire of the force. The first half of Nabab LLB, a fictional courtroom drama about rape and the treatment of victims starring megastar Shakib Khan, was released …

KABUL: A series of explosions hit the Afghan capital on Saturday morning, killing at least four people including two police officers, officials said. The deaths were caused by a sticky bomb attached to a police vehicle detonated in western Kabul, police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. The explosion wounded two civilians. Two other police officers were wounded when a bomb attached …

PARIS: Countries around Europe were on Saturday preparing to roll out their first coronavirus vaccines even as a reputedly more contagious variant spreads around the world, forcing some nations back into lockdown. The impending inoculation campaigns have boosted hopes that 2021 could bring a respite from the pandemic, which has killed more than 1.7 million people since emerging in China …

LONDON: China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries from the Covid-19 pandemic, a think tank said. “For some time, an overarching theme of global economics has been the economic and soft power struggle between the United States and …

LAHORE: With dense fog continuing to blanket most plain areas of Punjab and upper Sindh on Saturday, the Met Office forecast rain in upper and central Punjab, Islamabad and Kashmir and snowfall in Murree, Nathia Gali, Gilgit-Baltistan and upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday (today). On the other hand, the chilly weather coupled with dense fog starting around 6pm in the …

ISLAMABAD: Covid-19 is proving lethal for people in the age group of 80 and above while the highest number of positive cases were being reported among those in the age bracket of 50-59. According to officials of the capital administration, coronavirus has claimed more lives of people who are aged 80 and above with the ratio recorded at 14.31pc. The …