Prince William on Saturday was given a new royal title by Queen Elizabeth II  of the Lord High Commissioner to the general Assembly of the Church of Scotland after Prince Harry’s exit from the family with wife Meghan Markle. According to a Royal U.K., “The Lord High Commissioner’s role is to maintain the relationship between the State and the Church, and …

A striking sight, the Royal Standard flaps against the dark skies and unrelenting rains of Vancouver, Canada’s Pacific coast metropolis. Monarchist Raymond Greenwood raised the Queen’s banner atop his house just days ago to welcome Prince Harry and his wife Meghan after learning that the royal runaways were considering moving to his oceanside Kitsilano neighborhood here. Locals surveyed by AFP are …

KARACHI: The five most likely long-term risks to the global economy are all environment and climate-related, said participants in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risks Perception Survey 2019-20. The participants — global shapers — identified that extre­­me heat waves, destruction of ecosystems, health impacted by pollution, water crisis and uncontrollable fires as the top risks faced by the global …

YANGON: Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority. Maung Kyaw Zan, a national member of parliament for Buthidaung township in northern Rakhine state, said shells fired …

ELAZIG CITY (Turkey): Rescue workers raced against time on Saturday to find survivors under the rubble after a powerful earthquake claimed at least 29 lives and left more than 1,200 injured in eastern Turkey. The magnitude 6.8 quake struck on Friday evening, with its epicentre in the small lakeside town of Sivrice in Elazig province, and was felt across neighbouring …

WASHINGTON: White House lawyers began presenting their defence of Donald Trump at his historic Senate impeachment trial on Saturday, saying the president had done nothing wrong in his dealings with Ukraine and accusing Democrats of seeking to overturn the results of the 2016 election. White House counsel Pat Cipollone took the floor for opening arguments at a rare weekend session …

More than 2,000 people globally have been infected with a new coronavirus, the vast majority of them in China, where 56 people have died from the disease, according to figures released on Sunday. President Xi Jinping said during a politburo meeting on Saturday that China was facing a “grave situation”, as health authorities around the world scrambled to prevent a …

“Fashion should be exciting,” Maheen Khan tells me. Yes, it should I concur. “We are at the cusp of a new decade. We just can’t continue plodding about in complacency,” she adds. But right now, fashion in Pakistan isn’t exciting and no one knows this better than Maheen herself. As a pioneer in the industry, Maheen lay some of the …

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench will hear on Jan 29 the petitions of Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz, seeking bails in Ramzan Sugar Mills and illegal assets/money laundering cases. The bench comprises Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz. In the sugar mills case, the petition argued that the National …

ISLAMABAD: Four more cases of polio, two each for the years 2019 and 2020, have surfaced in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, pushing the tally for 2019 to 139 and cases for 2020 to four. “Both cases for the year 2019 have been reported from the province of Sindh. An eight-year-old male child, resident of district and Kambar tehsil, Kambar III …