LONDON: Blink and you could easily miss it. Wedged between a doctor’s surgery and a hairdressing salon, London’s thinnest house is only identified by a streak of dark blue paint. But the five-floor house in Shepherd’s Bush — which is just 5ft 6ins (1.6 metres) at its narrowest point — is currently on the market for 950,000 ($1.3 million, 1.1 …

NEW DELHI: India has approved the shipment of Covid-19 vaccine to Cambodia and plans to supply Mongolia and Pacific Island states, officials said on Sunday, as supplies arrived in Afghanistan — all part of the country’s widening vaccine diplomacy. Seeking to steal a march over rival Asian giant China, which has also promised to deliver shots, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s …

A group of budding young writers is about to publish a book with some help from Maine’s most famous writer. Stephen King’s foundation covered the $6,500 cost of publishing a 290-page manuscript by students participating in Farwell Elementary School’s Author Studies Programme. The students started with “Fletcher McKenzie and the Passage to Whole,” a story about a Maine boy by …

LAHORE: Former adviser to the Obama administration, Dr Barnett R Rubin, sees a ‘reborn’ role for Pakistan in US President Biden’s review of the US-Afghan deal. “Given Biden’s call to review, a time has come when Pakistan is supposed to play its anchoring role in the US-Afghan Taliban peace deal with the support of other regional powers by re-collaborating the …

WASHINGTON: Former US secretary of state George Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, died on Saturday. He was 100. Schultz died at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where …

Myanmar’s generals issued a stern warning on Monday against further protests as an uprising against their coup gathered pace, with hundreds of thousands on the streets demanding the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta has so far refrained from using deadly force to quell the demonstrations sweeping most of the country, but with pressure building, riot police fired …

NEW DELHI: At least 200 people were missing in northern India after a piece of Himalayan glacier fell into a river, causing a torrent that buried two power plants and swept away roads and bridges, police said on Sunday. Three bodies were found and a desperate operation was launched to rescue about 17 people trapped in a tunnel, the Uttarakhand …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday will appoint an administrator for running the affairs of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI), which is going to complete its five-year term on Feb 15. The cabinet, which is slated to meet on Tuesday (tomorrow), will give approval for the appointment of the administrator for the MCI and its 50 union councils. During its …

ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), which sits on the opposition benches but not as part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), on Sunday submitted separate resolutions to both the houses of parliament seeking disapproval of the controversial presidential ordinance on open Senate vote promulgated by the government on Saturday. The resolution in the Senate Secretariat was submitted by JI emir Sirajul …

ISLAMABAD: As majority of the frontline healthcare workers in the federal capital have adopted a ‘wait and see’ approach to get themselves vaccinated against Covid-19, only 34 so far received the vaccine since campaign was launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Feb 2. However, District Health Officer Dr Zaeem Zia expressed the hope that a large number of healthcare …