Beyoncé’s personal foundation recently donated over $500,000 to families struggling ahead of Christmas. The foundation announced the news of its contribution last Tuesday over on its official website. Their statement read, “When we were faced with the pandemic caused by COVID-19, BeyGOOD created a plan to make a difference. We assisted organizations across the country that were providing people with …

Following the death of Pakistan’s most beloved Turkish character Ertugrul, in historical drama Kurulus: Osman, social media has not stopped their tears. The latest episode of the drama, which looks at the life of Osman I, son of Ertugrul, showed the major character dying, leaving fans in shock. They took to social media to express their admiration and adoration of …

While Ed Sheeran is supposedly retired, he made  £70 million last year and is believed to be richer than Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards. His 2017-2019 Divide tour and music earnings, which includes his No.6 Collaborations Project featuring musicians including Eminem, 50 Cent and Justin Bieber, saw him make £70 million. According to The Sun, Ed’s documents, filed …

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone. Trump also granted pardons to two people linked to a probe into alleged collusion between his campaign …

British online fashion group Boohoo on Wednesday said it was investigating a Guardian newspaper report that its suppliers were underpaying workers in Pakistan, after facing a similar scandal in the UK. The Guardian reported that workers at two factories in Faisalabad making clothes for Boohoo were earning Rs10,000, or £47 ($62), a month. It said the monthly minimum for such work was Rs17,500. The British …

SANTIAGO: The pandemic has finally reached every continent on Earth. Chilean authorities announced that at least 58 people that were at two military bases in Antarctica or on a navy ship that went to the continent tested positive for the new coronavirus. So far no other country with a presence in Antarctica has publicly reported any other cases. Chile’s army …

PANJWAI (Afghanistan): After more than a decade fighting for the Taliban and being hounded by Afghan and US forces, Haji Lala thought there was little chance of ever returning home. Once a commander and senior district official for the militant group, he says he was captured and detained for two and a half years. When he was released, the 58-year-old …

SRINAGAR: An alliance of political parties opposed to India’s policies in Occupied Kashmir has almost won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semi-autonomous status and took direct control last year. The alliance, which is pro-India but favours self-governance in held Kashmir, won 112 out of a total of 280 seats …

PARIS: Face masks reduce the risk of spreading large Covid-linked droplets when speaking or coughing by up to 99.9 percent, according to a lab experiment with mechanical mannequins and human subjects, researchers said on Wednesday. A woman standing two metres (yards) from a coughing man without a mask will be exposed to 10,000 times more such droplets than if he …

WASHINGTON: Americans faced the prospect of a government shutdown on Wednesday as outgoing President Donald Trump, angry at his fellow Republicans in Congress, demanded dramatic changes to a $2.3 trillion government funding and coronavirus aid package. He called the package disgraceful. The package, which includes $892 billion for relief from the coronavirus crisis, passed both chambers of Congress on Monday …