Facebook boosts ad transparency as it braces for US elections

AFP | Facebook announced new steps Thursday to let people see who is behind ads and other content on the leading social network as it...

PTI’s Fawad Chaudhry allowed to contest elections from Jhelum

News Analysis | Lahore High Court (LHC) has allowed Fawad Chauhdary to contest election from his native constituency while nullifying the decision of rejection of...

Human lifespan may not have peaked after all: study

News Desk | Has the maximum lifespan for a human already been reached? Maybe not, said a study of Italian centenarians published Thursday that found...

Irfan Wahab, CEO Telenor, becomes President of OICCI & pledges to increase FDI in Pakistan

News Analysis | Established in 1860, Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI), is the largest Chamber of Commerce in Pakistan based on economic...

Crows ‘reverse engineer’ tools from memory: study

AFP | New Caledonian crows use mental pictures to twist twigs into hooks and make other tools, according to a provocative study that suggests the...

Why Imran Khan is not a cheat?

Waqas Shabbir | Let’s loath him, condemn him, crush him, and ridicule him for being a master of U-turn. Pakistan will continue its journey, even...

China refuses to budge on South China Sea in talks with US

AFP | Chinese President Xi Jinping stiffly defended his country's claim to disputed islands in the South China Sea after US Defense Secretary James Mattis...

Saudis probe woman TV presenter over ‘indecent’ dress

News Desk | Saudi authorities have launched a probe after a female TV presenter wore "indecent" clothes while reporting on the end of a decades-long...

Apple and Samsung settle lengthy iPhone patent battle

News Desk | Apple and Samsung have ended a years-long patent battle over copied iPhone design with an undisclosed settlement, according to a US court...

What will a ‘Trumped-up’ Supreme Court mean for America’s future

AFP | President Donald Trump on Wednesday secured a historic chance to shift the US Supreme Court decisively to the right as Justice Anthony Kennedy,...

Michael Jackson’s artistic legacy on display in London

News Desk | Michael Jackson's legacy as a pop-culture and artistic icon is explored in a new exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery opening Thursday. The...

Pentagon chief seeks to reassure S. Korea, Japan on North Korea

News Desk | US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in Seoul Thursday and was heading for Tokyo later to reassure Washington's key East Asian allies after...