LONDON: A British charity promoting homeopathy that was founded by Prince Charles says it is shutting down, days after police arrested a former official for alleged fraud and money laundering.
The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health said in a statement Friday the fraud investigation speeded up a closure that had been planned for many months.
Police arrested [...]
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Younus Khan has told an appeals judge he wants the country’s cricket board to make public the evidence that led to them to impose an indefinite ban on him last month.
“Younus not only wants an early resolution to his appeal against the ban but also asked the appeals judge, Irfan Qadir, [...]
ROME: Fernando Verdasco extended his impressive form on clay with a gruelling 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4 win over Novak Djokovic in the Rome Masters quarterfinals on Friday.
The first set alone lasted nearly an hour and a half and the sixth-seeded Verdasco closed out the match with an ace down the middle after 3 hours and [...]
SHANGHAI: Shanghai officially opened its multi-billion-dollar Expo Friday with a dazzling display of fireworks, lasers and dancing fountains, amid tight security and the virtual shutdown of its main Pudong financial district.
After a rather low-key performance by singers and dancers in an indoor arena, the ceremony moved outside, with fireworks exploding off bridges and fountains shooting [...]
ISLAMABAD: Former CCPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz on Friday reappeared before the fact-finding commission constituted by the prime minister to look into the hosing down of the site of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
In his appearance before the committee yesterday, former city police chief had admitted that he himself took the decision to have the site of Benazir [...]
