Flooding and fierce winds have pushed Madagascar’s death toll from Cyclone Gezani to 59, with more than a dozen people still unaccounted for, the country’s disaster agency said on Monday. It is the latest in a string of tropical storms to batter the southern African island in recent months, underscoring its vulnerability to increasingly extreme […]
Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the United States and Britain on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. There were more than 23,210 reports of issues with X as of 8:24am ET (1324 GMT), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. The monitor also […]
The Airport Security Force (ASF) seized a large quantity of gold from a passenger bound for Dubai during a search at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport on Monday. Speaking to The Express Tribune, an ASF official said the passenger, identified as Shahzad Ahmed, was intercepted during routine screening. During a physical search, officials recovered 18 […]
Trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened the week on a sharply negative note, as heavy selling pressure dragged equities deep into the red. In a show of extreme volatility, the benchmark KSE-100 index oscillated between an intraday high of 179,969.23 and a low of 173,574.26. Sustained selling pressure dominated the session, dragging the […]
Collin Morikawa claimed a tense victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California on Sunday, fending off a final-day charge by top-ranked Scottie Scheffler that included three eagles. Double major-winner Morikawa had not triumphed on the PGA Tour since 2023, but started the day in joint-second and birdied the final hole in blustery conditions to […]
A roadside bomb has been reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber District, killing a female passerby. Khyber Deputy Police Officer Waqar Ahmed told The Express Tribune that the explosion occurred in the Karpa area of Barda. Local police authorities reached the site and have launched an investigation, officials told this correspondent. The blast comes amid a series […]
American second seed Ben Shelton saved three match points before battling back to defeat top-seeded compatriot Taylor Fritz 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 and capture the ATP Tour’s Dallas Open on Sunday. Shelton looked to be on the brink of defeat after trailing 15-40 at 4-5 down to the big-serving Fritz in the decisive final set. But […]
South Africa qualified for the T20 World Cup Super Eights on Monday without playing as Afghanistan’s win over the United Arab Emirates was enough to send them through from Group D. Azmatullah Omarzai was the hero for Afghanistan, taking 4-15 in the UAE’s 160-9 and scoring an unbeaten 40 to steer his side to a […]
Pakistan captain Salman Agha urged perspective after a chastening defeat against India in a contest that never matched its blockbuster billing. The much-hyped showdown between the South Asian neighbours, who engaged in a military conflict that nearly snowballed into a fully-fledged war last year, failed to ignite as India racked up 175-7 and then returned […]
Sindh Rangers and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday arrested three alleged “highly wanted” facilitators linked to Fitna-e-Hindustan during a joint operation in the Chakragoth area of Korangi, officials said. Explosives and extremist material were recovered during the operation, they added. According to a spokesperson for Pakistan Rangers (Sindh), the operation was conducted on intelligence-based […]