Tag: Rivals

Vampires proved more popular than wizards as Robert Pattinson and co-stars took home the coveted Best Movie award, beating Harry Potter and the Deathly...

South Sudan’s vice president flew to Khartoum on Saturday on a mission to “ease tensions” over Abyei, one week after northern troops overran the...

Unfashionable Cerezo Osaka stunned city rivals and 2008 winners Gamba with a dramatic late winner on Tuesday to reach the AFC Champions League quarter-finals...

Rizwan, Shan and their accomplices killed their rival’s driver and a hitchhiker and injured his father. According to details, Omar, a resident of Chak...

Eurozone growth topped US and pre-crisis levels in powerhouse Germany, EU figures showed Friday, but divergences between accelerating northern output and the debt-laden southern...

Having conquered the e-reader market with the Kindle, Amazon is now about to unveil a tablet to rival Apple's iPad. The e-commerce giant has...

The leader of a rival gang was killed inside the office of Faisalabad senior superintendent of police (SSP) in the presence of dozens of...

DHAKA - Six weeks of World Cup action gets under way on Saturday with the 2011 tournament tipped to be the most open in history. Four years ago in the Caribbean, Australia marched relentlessly towards a historic third successive title while others were playing catch-up. But how times have changed.
Former Australia captain Ian Chappell says India, Sri Lanka, Ashes-winning England, South Africa and Australia are strong contenders this time. "Unlike the 2007 tournament where it was

FAISALABAD - A long-running family vendetta took one life when attackers came in the uniform of Elite Force and shot dead a 22-year-old married woman in her house. Reportedly, a group of men wearing police uniform shot down Saima Sahi of Chak No 186 RB Dhilam near Chak Jhumra, in her house and escaped. The victim family had an old enmity with another group of the area and several men from both the sides have been murdered in the blood feud.
The victim Saima Sahi's two brothers

KABUL - In a park where men are banned, surrounded by walls topped with barbed wire in a country embroiled in war, a group of Afghan women play a controversial game -- cricket.
Afghanistan's first national women's cricket team -- whose existence would be inconceivable under the hardline Taliban Islamists fighting to regain power -- are practising for their international debut.
The team, many of whom play in headscarves, will compete against other female sides from across

LAHORE - Pakistan Today clinched the Khayaban-e-Amin Media Cup Cricket Tournament in style here on Monday. The team was in-form and literally obliterated every team in the event, especially the tournament favourites Nawa-i-Waqt in the semi-final.
No team in the entire tournament was able to put up even the semblance of a challenge against the talented Pakistan Today outfit. Buoyed by their comprehensive win against title-favourites Nawa-i-Waqt in the semi-final earlier in the

LAHORE - Asfar Jutt and Mahmood Khan were declared Mr and Junior Mr Lahore after a close contest here at jam-packed Alhamra Hall on Sunday. Organised by the Lahore Bodybuilding Association and sponsored by Anti-Narcotics Department, the 59th Mr and Junior Mr Lahore Competition was contested by over 150 musclemen from over 300 clubs of the city.
Jan Mohammad, secretary LBA organized the competitions while president and former Mr Asia Yahya Butt performed the duties of judge along

PANAMA CITY - Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli tried to bully the US Drug Enforcement Administration to turn its wiretapping program on political rivals, a State Department cable released by WikiLeaks said.
Martinelli, a supermarket tycoon elected last year, sent a "cryptic" message to the US ambassador in Panama which said, "I need help with tapping phones," according to the cable from August 2009 published by Spanish newspaper El Pais.
"He made reference to

LAHORE: Muhammad Leghari of Royal Palm surprised everyone at the Lahore Gymkhana's golf course by winning the 27th Millat Governor's Cup Golf Tournament here on Sunday.
The concluding moments of the final day of this three-day championship at the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course produced exciting moments as till the last putt on the 18th hole, the winner of the title was not clear.
At the end of 54 holes, Muhammad Leghari of Royal Palm had an aggregate score of 213, net

In a study, men who were played recordings of a range of women's voices judged those with higher-pitched tones the most attractive - especially when asked to choose who they would favour for a one-night stand.
When women listened to the same range of voices, they accurately predicted which would be the most appealing to the men.
The researchers, at Pennsylvania State University, believe that higher voices in women may have evolved to sound youthful, flirty and attractive