Netflix’s latest original series The Four Seasons offers a contemporary reimagining of the 1981 film of the same name, blending comedy and drama in a reflective look at long-standing friendships and evolving relationships. Created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, the eight-episode miniseries debuted on 1 May and is now streaming. The story […]
Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter best known for her 1995 hit I Kissed a Girl, died on Thursday in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota. She was 66. The news was confirmed by her publicist, David Elkin, in an email. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. “Jill Sobule was a force of nature […]
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to cut off funding to PBS and NPR, accusing the public broadcasters of spreading “radical, woke propaganda” under the guise of news. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and other federal entities to halt all direct and indirect funding […]
Microsoft has announced a significant global price increase for its Xbox consoles, citing “market conditions” and rising development costs. The hikes come as US tariffs on Chinese-made electronics fuel uncertainty across the gaming industry. The Xbox Series S will now cost £299.99 in the UK, up £50, while in the US., the console will jump […]
US Vice President JD Vance said that Washington hopes India’s response to the recent attack in Indian Illegally Ocuppied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) does not trigger a broader regional conflict. “Our hope here is that India responds to this attack in a way that doesn’t lead to a broader regional conflict,” Vance said in an […]
About 300 Arab Israelis gathered Thursday in the ruins of a village that Palestinians fled during the 1948 war that led to the creation of Israel, to commemorate what Palestinians call the “Nakba”, or catastrophe. As Israel celebrated Independence Day on Thursday, the demonstrators — men, women, and children — marched through the ruins chanting, “Your independence […]
Amid relentless brinkmanship from New Delhi following the Pahalgam incident, Army chief General Syed Asim Munir has given an unequivocal warning to warmongers across the border: any aggression from India will receive a “swift, resolute, and notch-up response” from Pakistan’s military. The army chief’s stern warning came days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly […]
Amid seething tensions exasperated by angry rhetoric from the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Pakistan on Thursday went into a diplomatic overdrive in an attempt to prevent military escalation with India. In a flurry of diplomatic activity, the country’s top leadership and diplomats in key Western capitals contacted leaders and envoys to brief them on fallacies in […]
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have voiced deep concerns over India’s belligerent attitude and provocative statements of its leaders which, they said, imperil regional peace and stability. They reaffirmed that Pakistan would never compromise on its territorial integrity and sovereignty, and would respond to any act of aggression in a befitting […]
Buoyed by his party’s stance with regard to the six canals project, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has vowed to protect River Indus from the Indian aggression. “We can see that terrorism is just an excuse. The real target is our Sindhu river,” he told a public meeting in Mirpurkhas on Thursday. […]