Britney Spears’ sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, is all set to launch her memoir titled Things I Should Have Said. In an excerpt from her book attained by TMZ, the 30-year-old star  talks about  her parents forcing an abortion after  she got pregnant at the age of 16. They “came to my room trying to convince me that having a baby at …

KERRVILLE, Texas — A driver lost control during a Texas drag racing event on an airport runway and slammed into a crowd of spectators, killing two children and injuring eight other people Saturday, authorities said. A 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy were killed in the crash Saturday afternoon at an event called “Airport Race Wars 2″ at the Kerrville-Kerr …

A project to expand the Sam Rayburn Tollway will be completed in December, according to a progress report the North Texas Tollway Authority issued this summer. The project will add an additional lane in both directions from Denton Tap Road in Coppell to U.S. 75 in McKinney. NTTA spokesman Michael Rey told Community Impact Newspaper, which first reported the progress in September, that …

HOUSTON, Texas — Fear the deer. While Bambi and her pals may look adorable, deer contribute heavily to Texas’ ranking as the No. 1 state for deaths caused by animals. A data analysis by Outforia, a website dedicated to outdoor adventures, shows Texas recorded 520 human deaths caused by animals from 1999 to 2019. That works out to 26 such …

KARACHI: Stockbrokers are holding their breath while the government locks horns with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the stalled loan programme. The benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) barely inched up in the outgoing week because of the inordinate delay in the agreement, which will lead to the release of a $1 billion tranche against promises of …

KARACHI: Politics took a toll on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Friday as an alliance of main opposition parties took to the streets against the government. As a result, the benchmark index failed to sustain its intraday high of 217 points and lost 243.04 points, or 0.53 per cent, to close at 45,578.36 points. On the corporate result front, …

KARACHI: The digital financial transactions in the country showed a robust growth during the fiscal year 2020-21, replacing the conventional banking transactions faster than expectations of the banking industry. According to the State Bank’s latest Annual Payment Systems Review (PSR) for FY21 issued on Friday, the transactions processed through the SBP’s large-value payments segment, known as Real-time Inter-Bank Settlement Mechanism …

RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday it had killed at least 92 Houthi rebels in air strikes on two districts near the strategic city of Marib. The deaths are the latest among hundreds that the coalition says have been killed in recent fighting around Marib, and come during a second week of reported intense bombing. “Operations …

MAIDAN SHAR: Teachers at an Afghan midwifery college in a Taliban stronghold have dodged bullets through their office windows and seen their last training centre blown up. But they kept working for the sake of the mothers and babies in their rural community. Now, with the hardliners in control of Afghanistan, the instructors are calling on the new government to …

MELBOURNE: Melbourne residents flocked to the city’s pubs, restaurants and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world’s most locked-down city emerged from its latest spate of restrictions designed to combat the spread of Covid-19. Australia’s second-largest city has so far endured 262 days, or nearly nine months, of restrictions during six separate lockdowns since March 2020, …