Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Robot rockers lead Lithuania’s street music day
From folk singers to an all-robot rock band, hundreds of Lithuanian music lovers flocked streets and squares Saturday to celebrate Street Music Day in dozens of cities and towns nationwide. The Baltic state of three million people has hosted the festival since 2007, also attracting followers in other European countries. On the hottest day of the...
‘Brexit’ the film Britain never wanted
For British film producers plying their wares at the Cannes festival, the prospect of Brexit represents something between a tale of suspense and an outright horror movie. There are many worried faces amongst all the razzamatazz at the glitzy festival in the south of France — namely those of British film-makers fretting over what exiting the...
Top films competing in Cannes Film Festival
From the tale of a mysterious beast to a migrant who finds he can levitate after being shot on a border fence, these are the 19 movies competing in the main competition at this week’s Cannes film festival which gets underway on May 17: – Wonderstruck – Todd Haynes in back in period mode after his huge hit “Carol” with the first of two...
Portugal wins the Eurovision for first time
KIEV: Portugal’s Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday performing a jazz-style ballad written by his sister, taking the top spot for the first time in the country’s history and celebrating with a call to “put emotion back into music”. Along with singers from Italy and Bulgaria, Sobral was a favourite going into...
Portugal wins Eurovision Song Contest for the first time
Portugal’s Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday performing a jazz-style ballad written by his sister, taking the top spot for the first time in the country’s history and celebrating with a call to “put emotion back into music”. Along with singers from Italy and Bulgaria, Sobral was a favorite going into the...
Global realtime cyber attack infects thousands of computers worldwide
LONDON/MADRID: A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting Britain’s health system and global shipper FedEx. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to...
Portugal puts Eurovision hopes in big-hearted crooner
A few weeks ago, Salvador Sobral, a 27-year-old crooner tipped as a favourite for Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest, was an unknown artist waiting for a heart transplant. But with his intimate rendering of the melancholic “Amar Pelos Dois” (For the Both of Us) written by his older sister Luisa — a success in her own right — Sobral is...
Russian hackers tried to damage Macron’s presidential campaign, says US
Hackers with connections to the Russian government played a role in an effort to damage centrist French politician Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaign by hacking and leaking emails and documents ahead of the election, according to two US intelligence officials. Separately, Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the US National Security...
Ukrainian professor delivers lecture at KU
Pakistan and Ukraine can benefit from each other’s history Ukraine’s Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University Institute of International Relations’ Professor Dr Bordilovska on Monday delivered a lecture at the Karachi University. The lecture was delivered during a seminar organised by the university’s Student Guidance and...
One more death spreads fear of Congo virus in Quetta
Quetta: Another patient suspected of hosting Congo virus passed away at Fatima Jinnah Chest Hospital this Saturday. A patient named Shah Jahan, who belonged to the Duki area of Loralai District, was admitted to the Hospital on suspicion of carrying the Congo virus and was under treatment accordingly. The doctor in-charge of the patient at Fatima...
