Britney Spears is said to have secretly have gotten married for the third time to her agent Jason Trawick in 2011. The couple had only announced their engagement in 2011 but fans are under the impression that they got married and divorced the following year for multiple reasons. According to newly unearthed paperwork filed to a court in California, a …

THE HAGUE: Louis van Gaal says his ambition is to become a World Cup winner with the Netherlands after taking over the national team coaching job for a third time, he told a news conference on Tuesday. The 70-year-old said he had not taken the job to chase his own dreams but to help Dutch football out of a quandary …

ROME: Cristiano Ronaldo on Tuesday blasted reports that he was trying for a return to Real Madrid, hours after coach Carlo Ancelotti also said he was not going to take the Juventus forward back to Spain. In an Instagram post, Ronaldo said that his “story at Real Madrid has been written”, although he did not explicitly say that he was …

MUZAFFARABAD: Shahid Afridi is extremely happy after his Rawlakot Hawks won the inaugural title of the Kashmir Premier League Wednesday. “So proud of my players and staff, one of the most memorable wins for me!” the former Pakistan captain said on Twitter. Afridi said that the KPL was a wonderfully organised event and it has great potential and added, “I’m …

LONDON: England will not pressure talismanic all-rounder Ben Stokes to cut short his mental health break and help them try and get back on level terms with India in their ongoing Test series said head coach Chris Silverwood on Tuesday. Stokes announced at the end of July he was taking ’an indefinite break from all cricket with immediate effect’ because …

KINGSTON: Pakistan bowling coach Waqar Younis on Tuesday praised his team’s bowling attack despite the heartbreaking one-wicket defeat in the first Test against West Indies at Sabina Park in Jamaica. The home side won the match in a thrilling finish, with three dropped catches contributing to Pakistan’s failure to wrap up the tail as Kemar Roach and last man Jayden …

DUBAI: Pakistan skipper Babar Azam wants to re-establish the team’s ‘superiority’ in the shortest format of the game by winning the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup. Pakistan, the T20 World Cup champions in 2009, will open their campaign in the 2021 event against India at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Oct 24. “All the players are excited, motivated and …

KARACHI: Stocks staged a strong rebound on Tuesday after a steep selloff a day ago. The KSE-100 index recouped all points lost on Monday as it recorded gains of 346 points, or 0.74 per cent, to close at 47,258. The bloodless transfer of power to the Taliban in Afghanistan without the government putting up any resistance was heartening for the …

LAHORE: Punjab has sown the sugarcane crop on 2.148 million acres for kharif 2021-22 exceeding the official target of 1.880m acres by over 14 per cent as more and more farmers being consistently hit by the failure of cotton are fast turning to alternative crops, reveals Crop Reporting Service (CRS) data. CRS Director Dr Abdul Qayyum says sugarcane plantation target …

ISLAMABAD: In a late-night development, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Tuesday allowed an increase of 14 per cent or Rs87 per unit, and 7pc or Rs55 per unit on the average prescribed price of natural gas for Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Ltd (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd (SSGCL) to meet their revenue shortfalls during the …