Johnny Depp no longer has the option of being physically absent from court during his $50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard, and has been called on for an appearance, despite being swamped with shooting obligations. The order was issued by the Fairfax County VA Circuit Court and has been signed off on by Chief Judge Bruce White. According to …

Ellen DeGeneres reportedly has no intention of giving up her show and is already doing everything possible to salvage its viewership ratings to the best of her capabilities. A source shared an overview about Ellen’s current action plan during their interview with Star and even claimed that the TV show host is refusing to give up. The source was quoted …

NEW YORK: Protests erupted overnight in Philadelphia after police shot dead a 27-year-old black man holding a knife in the latest police killing to spark anger in the United States, just a week before the election. Local media reported that two officers shot the man on Monday afternoon after he refused to drop the knife as his mother tried to …

LONDON: Ethnic minorities in Britain are paying with their lives after years of government neglect left them uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report on Tuesday by a racial justice campaigner whose son was murdered in a hate crime. Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people are more likely to suffer from obesity, heart disease and diabetes. …

KHOST: An hours-long attack on a base of Afghan police special force involving car bombs and an intense firefight killed five policemen and wounded dozens of people, officials said on Tuesday, as violence continued to surge in the war-weary country. Three suicide bombers detonated their explosives-laden vehicles targeting the base in Khost near the Pakistan border, Khost police chief Ghulam …

LONDON: Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the British population during the summer, a study found on Tuesday, suggesting protection after infection may not be long lasting and raising the prospect of waning immunity in the community. Scientists at Imperial College London have tracked antibody levels in the British population following the first wave of Covid-19 infections in March and …

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday in the biggest anti-France rally since President Emmanuel Macron defended publication of sketches depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Muslims across the world have reacted furiously to Macron’s defence of the right to mock religion following the murder of a French schoolteacher who had shown his …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday repeated its fears about regional strategic stability being disturbed by the advanced military hardware and technologies shared with India by the West as Washington signed a major pact with Delhi allowing sharing of top-secret satellite data. The agreement called Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) was signed at the third edition of India-US 2+2 talks held in Delhi. …

KARACHI: Saudi Arabia plans to cancel a foreign worker sponsorship system, known as kafala, and replace it with a new form of contract between employers and employees, a Reuters report said on Tuesday. Quoting Maaal, the Arabic language online economic newspaper, the report said that the kafala system — that generally binds an expatriate worker to one employer — had been in place for …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday appreciated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “concrete” stance on rising Islamophobia in a call with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu. In their wide-ranging telephonic discussion, the two foreign ministers talked about bilateral relations and matters of mutual interest, according to a statement from the Foreign Office. Qureshi offered felicitations to Cavusoglu on Turkey’s 97th Republic …