Kim Kardashian penned down a heartfelt tribute to late father Robert Kardashian on his 77th birthday, saying she just misses him so much after filing for divorce from husband Kanye West. The US reality TV star shared an emotional birthday note for father, who would have turned 77 on Monday. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star shared a throwback family picture …

Highly-controversial Pakistani writer Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar is hitting the headlines once again after he disrespected a female journalist on live television. The Mere Paas Tum Ho writer, notorious for his misogyny and sexist remarks, walked out of a talk show while spewing sexist slurs at a female panelist, Ailia Zehra. Zehra turned to Twitter and shared the clip, narrating her ‘horrible’ experience of …

MADRID: Police found a would-be migrant hidden in a sack of toxic waste at the port in Spain’s Melilla enclave on Morocco’s northern coast last week, police said on Monday. The discovery was made on Friday when a person was found unconscious in a sealed plastic bag containing flue ash, a by-product of burning coal which is classed as toxic …

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation on Monday blasted wealthy countries for not only hogging Covid vaccines but in doing so, hindering the pathway for poorer nations to get them too. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said some rich countries’ direct deals with manufacturers had meant that previously-agreed vaccine allocations for poorer countries, via the Covax programme, were being reduced. …

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a map out of lockdown for England on Monday that would keep some businesses shuttered until the summer, saying caution was necessary to ensure there were no reversals on a “one-way road to freedom”. After imposing one of the strictest lockdowns in the western world last month to counter a highly contagious variant …

GOMA: Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was among three people killed on Monday when a UN convoy came under attack in the troubled east, DRC sources and the Italian government said. Luca Attanasio died of his wounds after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under gunfire near Goma while he was on a field trip, a …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday arrived in Sri Lanka on a two-day visit to the country on the invitation of the country’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa. This is his first visit to Sri Lanka after assuming the office of prime minister. On arrival in Colombo, the prime minister was received by his Sri Lankan counterpart and presented a guard …

NEW YORK: The United States crossed the staggering milestone of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths on Monday — just over a year since the coronavirus pandemic claimed its first known victim in Santa Clara County, California. The country had recorded more than 28 million Covid cases and 500,054 lives lost as of Monday afternoon, although daily cases and hospitalisations have fallen to …

YANGON: Hundreds of thousands of anti-coup protesters rallied across Myanmar again on Monday after a clear threat from the junta that it was prepared to use lethal force to crush what it branded as “anarchy”. The warning came after three demonstrators were shot dead over the weekend, and the funeral on Sunday for a young woman who died from bullet …

Facebook said on Tuesday it will restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms. Australia and the social media group have been locked in a standoff for more than a week after the government introduced legislation that challenged Facebook and Alphabet …