Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) CEO Wasim Khan has rejected circulating reports that national team captain Babar Azam is unhappy with the squad picked for next month’s T20 World Cup. On Monday, chief selector Mohammad Wasim announced the squad for the upcoming home series against New Zealand and England as well as the World Cup. The 15-man squad had raised plenty of eyebrows, …

Vaccine developer Novavax said on Wednesday it has initiated an early-stage study to test its combined flu and COVID-19 vaccine. The trial, to be conducted in Australia, will enroll 640 healthy adults between the ages of 50 and 70 years and who have either been previously infected with the coronavirus or given an authorized COVID-19 shot at least eight weeks …

Indus Motor Company Limited (IMC), the makers of Toyota vehicles in Pakistan, has announced that it would invest $100 million in the local production of hybrid electric vehicles. The amount will be invested over the period of three years, said the company in its filing to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday. “We are pleased to announce that, based …

Tech giant Microsoft is investigating reports of a code execution vulnerability that can put Windows systems at risk. The announcement was made on Microsoft’s website. “Microsoft is investigating reports of a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML that affects Microsoft Windows,” the statement read. “Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability by using specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents. …

More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to 9/11 than were killed on the actual day of the attacks on New York and Washington, according to a report published on Tuesday. The September 11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) has received more than 67,000 claims since it reopened in 2011. Nearly 3,900 of those claims were filed on …

Vietnam’s health ministry will offer the coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as a second dose option for people first inoculated with the Moderna vaccine, state media reported on Wednesday. The ministry had approved the mixed regimen, which is due to low supplies of the Moderna vaccine. Both vaccines are of the Messenger RNA (mRNA) type. Q&A about …

Michael K. Williams, best known for playing shotgun toting drug dealer Omar Little in the HBO crime drama The Wire, was remembered by his colleagues as an actor with a special talent for humanizing the characters he portrayed, bringing his own experience as a Black man growing in New York to his roles. Williams, who also won praise for his roles in …

American Olympian and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner is opening up about her California gubernatorial run and how she is seeking no help from her famous family. During an interview on California Rebel Base podcast, the 71-year-old told co-host Steve Hilton about how she has made sure to keep her political life separate from her family life. She went on …

American actor Olivia Munn is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Mulaney after he parted ways with his ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler. The news was broken by the comedian himself who announced on Late Night with Seth Meyers that the Newsroom actor was pregnant with their first child. “I packed a lot into this. … Is it September now? I went to rehab …

Meghan Markle and Prince Charles once shared a closer bond than anyone would have expected, until things went downhill. According to royal historian and author Robert Lacey, the Duchess of Sussex was angered by the multiple changes that her father-in-law has planned for when he takes over the throne after Queen Elizabeth. He wrote in his book Battle of Brothers: …