Chinese-Canadian ex-pop star Kris Wu has been jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of rape, a Chinese court said Friday. Wu originally shot to fame as a member of the K-pop boyband EXO, before leaving in 2014 to launch a successful solo career as a singer, actor, model and variety show judge.
"Black Friday," the unofficial start of the US holiday shopping season, announced itself with the annual day-after-Thanksgiving deluge of online deals and early store openings.
Ukrainian authorities on Friday gradually restored power, aided by the reconnection of the country's four nuclear plants, but millions of people were still in the dark after the most devastating Russian air strikes of the war.
The outgoing chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) admitted on Wednesday that the body should have warned the public that Covid-19 can be transmitted through aerosols “much earlier” than it did.
An American military outpost in Syria has come under rocket fire, according to US Central Command, which condemned the yet-to-be-identified attackers for undermining the region’s “hard-earned stability” amid rising violence between Türkiye and local Kurdish factions.
Melting permafrost may pose a threat to humanity, scientists have warned after reviving an ancient 48,500 year old virus which lay frozen for tens of thousands of years.
Actor Fahad Mustafa and Tabish Hashmi awarded Feroze Khan the best actor award. He had not accepted to attend the event; his sister Humaima Malik accepted the award.
The Greek surveillance scandal is bigger than the US Watergate scandal, according to the rapporteur for the European Parliament's Inquiry Committee into Pegasus and other spyware, local media reported Thursday.
A lawmaker in Pakistan's borderlands was sipping tea with voters when his phone chirped to life -- the Taliban were calling with a demand for "donations".
He was born in 1948 in Karachi and joined the stage plays in his teens in 1964. Soon, he got noticed among his peers for his exceptional talent of mimicry.
