Police in The Colony are investigating after a person was found dead in an alley Sunday morning. Officers were called about 7:45 a.m. about a female who appeared to be unconscious in the alley, in the 5200 block of Strickland Avenue, Sgt. Aaron Woodard said. Paramedics with The Colony Fire Department responded and determined the person was dead. Police said her identity …

BOEING Co’s Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” landing in the New Mexico desert on Sunday, a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space Station. The 7:58am ET (1258 GMT) landing at the White Sands desert capped a turbulent 48 hours for Boeing’s botched …

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Science and Technology will meet on Tuesday to discuss amendments to a bill titled National Institute of Oceanography, 2019. The National Institute of Oceanography has faced continuous challenges to stop sea intrusion and erosion caused not just by rising sea levels, but also the phenomenon of sediment starvation — a situation when rivers …

CAIRO: Egypt will begin importing natural gas from Israel by mid-January 2020, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Israel Radio on Sunday. “(The exports) will begin in the middle of next month and perhaps even earlier,” he said. Israeli gas exports to Egypt will gradually reach 7 billion cubic metres, a senior industry source, who earlier in the day disclosed a mid-January …

KARACHI: The closure of CNG stations for a longer duration has proved to be a great burden on the pockets of consumers as rickshaw and taxi drivers are demanding exorbitant fares while peak factor on ride-hailing services has remained a constant irritant owing to lack of public transport. The current week also saw a huge rush of people at bus …

LAHORE: The Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (Drap) has asked all pharmaceutical companies to submit their expenditure data regarding promotional activities, including sampling, for the last two years (from 2017 to 2019). As per Rule 33 (related to registration, licencing and advertisement) of the Drugs Act 1976, no pharmaceutical company should spend more than five per cent of its turnover on …

LAHORE: With a sudden drop in temperature across the country, the ongoing gas crisis deepened on Sunday as the total shortfall surged to 600 million metric cubic feet a day (MMCFD) that may compel the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to curtail the supply to sectors other than domestic consumers. The shortfall has …

Kuwait’s oil minister said on Sunday he hoped Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will resolve the Neutral Zone issue by the end of 2019. The two countries halted output from the jointly-run oilfields — Khafji and Wafra — in the so-called Neutral Zone more than three years ago, cutting some 500,000 barrels per day of heavy crude or 0.5 per cent …

Pakistan’s fast bowler Naseem Shah on Monday became the youngest fast bowler to take a five-wicket haul in an innings of a Test. Shah, aged 16 year and 311 days, surpassed his countryman Mohammad Amir to become the youngest ever fast bowler. Amir had claimed a fiver against Australia at the age of 17 years 257 days in 2009 at …

RIYADH: Lazio Sunday defeated Cristiano Ronaldo´s Juventus 3-1  to win the Italian Super Cup for a fifth time. The game was played in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh.  Lazio, the only team to have defeated Juve in Serie A this season, were in front through Luis Alberto after 16 minutes. Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi said: “We did something magical …