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Stephen Hawking’s funeral set to take place in Cambridge

LONDON: Friends, family and colleagues of British scientist Stephen Hawking will gather Saturday to pay their respects at his private funeral in Cambridge, where he spent most of his extraordinary life.

Hawking, who died on March 14 at the age of 76, was famously an atheist but his children Lucy, Robert and Tim have chosen the town’s university church, St Mary the Great, to say their farewell.

“Our father’s life and work meant many things to many people, both religious and non-religious. So, the service will be both inclusive and traditional, reflecting the breadth and diversity of his life,” they have said.

Tributes poured in from around the world upon Hawking’s death, from Queen Elizabeth II to NASA, reflecting his huge impact as a physicist and an inspiration, in his refusal to give up in the face of physical disability.

But the service at St Mary church — a short distance from Gonville and Caius College where Hawking worked for more than 50 years — will only be open to those who knew him, followed by a private reception at Trinity College.

A wider audience will attend a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey in London on June 15, where Hawking’s remains will be buried near the grave of another legendary scientist, Isaac Newton.

– New photographs revealed –

Ahead of the funeral, Gonville and Caius College released new black and white photographs of Hawking taken in 1961 at a summer school for young astrophysicists at a castle in Sussex, southern England, when he was 19.

They showed him playing croquet and in a sailing dinghy, two years before he began experiencing the first symptoms of the motor neurone disease that would later leave him almost completely paralysed.

Fellow students contacted by the college recalled his left-wing views and his mischievous sense of humour, with one describing how he replaced the Royal Navy flag on the castle flagpole with the Communist hammer and sickle.

Hawking defied predictions that he would only live for a few years, although his rare condition — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — gradually robbed him of mobility.

He was confined to a wheelchair, almost completely paralysed and unable to speak except through his trademark voice synthesiser.

But the illness did nothing to dull his mind, and Hawking became one of the world’s best-known and most inspiring scientists, known for his brilliance and his wit.

His work focused on bringing together relativity — the nature of space and time — and quantum theory — how the smallest particles behave — to explain the creation of the Universe and how it is governed.

But he was also a global star — his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time” was an unlikely worldwide bestseller, and he appeared as himself in TV shows from “The Simpsons” to “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.

Born on January 8, 1942 — 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei — Hawking died in his home in Cambridge on the 139th anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein.

After taking his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, he moved to Cambridge for his doctorate and stayed there for the rest of his career.

Hawking’s family has asked six college porters, many of whom provided support for Hawking when he visited for dinners and other events, to carry his coffin.

 

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Rangers unearth buried weapons from Surjani Town house

KARACHI: Paramilitary Rangers in a raid in Surjani Town here unearthed large haul of weapons buried in an under construction house, ARY News reported on Saturday.

The illegal arms were kept underground to use in targeted killings and spreading lawlessness in the city, the Rangers said in a statement.

In an intelligence based operation, Rangers personnel recovered the weapons from an under construction house, officials said.

The paramilitary agency conducted raid in Yaroo Goth of Surjani Town on an intelligence tip-off, Rangers spokesman said.

The law enforcement personnel dug the floor of the house and recovered weapons and munitions including two sub-machine guns (SMGs), MP Five, 30 bore pistol, repeaters, shotguns and around one thousand rounds of different weapons.

The arms and munitions were kept hidden in the house by the miscreants of MQM-London, spokesman said. The weapons would likely to be used for creating lawlessness and commit targeted killings in the city.

Police Raids

Karachi Police in a crackdown on criminals arrested 13 people along with stolen motorcycles and illegal arms.

Police conducted a search operation in Manghopir’s Mushki Para and arrested 10 suspects.

In raids in Azizabad and Joharabad, police arrested three accused and recovered snatched motorbikes and illegal arms from their possession.

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Russia expels 59 diplomats from 23 countries as spy crisis escalates

MOSCOW: Russia has expelled diplomats from 23 countries in retaliation against the West in an escalating spy row, in the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory.

The Russian foreign ministry said it had summoned the heads of missions from 23 countries to tell them that some of their diplomats had to leave.

France, Germany, Canada and Poland each said that Russia was expelling four of their diplomats. Other countries including Ukraine, the Netherlands, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland, Lithuania and Norway were also told to pull their envoys.

The moves came in retaliation for the coordinated expulsion of Russian diplomats by Britain and its allies over a nerve agent attack against former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.

“This is certainly not a surprise,” Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said through a spokeswoman, referring to Moscow’s expulsion of two of the country’s diplomats.

Britain has said it is “highly likely” that Russia was responsible for the Skripal attack using the Novichok nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union, but Russia has angrily denied any involvement.

After the poisoning, Britain kicked off the global response by announcing it would expel 23 Russian diplomats, suspend high-level diplomatic contact with Moscow and not send any members of its royal family to the 2018 football World Cup hosted by Russia.

Russia then responded by closing a British consulate in Saint Petersburg and the British Council educational and cultural organisation.

In further measures against the UK, the Russian foreign ministry gave Britain a month to cut the number of diplomatic staff in Russia to the same number Russia has in Britain, a move London called “regrettable”.

“This doesn’t change the facts of the matter: the attempted assassination of two people on British soil, for which there is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian State was culpable,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Foreign Office said.

Two Australian diplomats were expelled, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull saying it was “a disappointing, although not unexpected, reaction by the Russian Government to the decision of the Australian Government to expel two Russian diplomats working as undeclared intelligence officers.”

‘Diplomatic war’ ?

In the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin presided over a meeting of the country’s Security Council which discussed the most recent retaliatory steps against Britain and its allies.

“Russia did not unleash any diplomatic war,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “Russia never initiated any exchange of sanctions.”

Moscow announced Thursday that it would expel 60 US diplomats and close the US consulate in Saint Petersburg after the expulsion of its own diplomats and the closure of one of its US consulates.

In all, more than 150 Russian diplomats have been ordered out of the US, EU members, NATO countries and other nations which are accusing Russia of being involved in the Skripal poisoning.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned Moscow’s response might “not only” be symmetrical.

 

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Overlooked ‘organ’ could play role in cancer spread

PARIS: Thanks to a laser-equipped mini-microscope developed by a French start-up, scientists have discovered a previously undetected feature of the human anatomy that could help explain why some cancers spread so quickly.

Nobody was looking for the interstitium, as the new quasi-organ is called, because no one knew it was there, at least not in complex form revealed in a study published this week.

As with many breakthroughs in medicine and science, it was — to paraphrase Louis Pasteur’s oft-quoted dictum — a case of chance favouring the prepared.

In 2015, a pair of doctors at New York’s Beth Israel Medical Center, David Carr-Locke and Petros Benias, found something unexpected while using the high-tech endoscopic probe to look for signs of cancer on a patient’s bile duct.

There on a screen, clear as day, was a lattice-like layer of liquid-filled cavities that did not match anything found in the anatomy chapters of medical school textbooks.

“These have no obvious correlate to known structures,” they noted dryly in the journal Scientific Reports.

And then the mystery deepened.

The doctors showed the images to a pathologist, Neil Theise, who used a thinly sliced fleck of tissue removed from the patient to prepare the kind of glass slides scientists have been peering at with microscopes for centuries.

But the novel layer of tissue simply wasn’t there — or at least it wasn’t visible.

Sacha Loiseau, founder and director of Mauna Kea Technologies, which made the camera-equipped probe that had revealed the phantom tissue, explained why.

“The classic microscope on a lab bench magnifies dead tissue from a biopsy that has been dehydrated and treated with chemicals,” he told AFP.

The meshwork of liquid bubbles visible in the patient’s body, in other words, had pancaked in the slides like a collapsed building, leaving hardly a trace.

– A ‘highway of fluid’ –

“This made a fluid-filled tissue type throughout the body appear solid in biopsy slides,” Theise said in a statement.

“Our research corrects for this to expand the anatomy of most tissues.”

The probe bundles some 30,000 optic fibres topped by a camera barely bigger than the head of a pin. Lasers light up the tissue, and sensors analyse the reflected pattern.

“We have reinvented the microscope so that it can be inserted into the body of a patient to observe living tissue in its natural environment,” said Loiseau.

The result is a virtual, in-vivo biopsy.

The newly found network of fluid-filled pockets — held in place by collagen proteins, which are stiff, and more flexible elastin — may act like a shock absorber preventing tissue tear as organs, muscles and vessels go through their daily motions, the researchers said.

Once they knew what to look for, the scientists found interstitium throughout the body: below the skin’s surface, lining the digestive tract, in the lungs and urinary tract, and even surrounding arteries and veins.

Layers long thought to be dense, connective tissue, it turned out, were in fact interconnected and fluid-filled compartments.

Described as a “highway of moving fluid,” the meshwork “may be important in cancer metastasis,” the study suggested.

Scientists have long known that half the fluid in the body is found within cells, and about 14 percent inside the heart, blood vessels and lymphatic system.

The remaining fluid is “interstitial”, or between the cells, and the new study argues that the interstitium should be considered as an organ in it’s own right — indeed, one of the largest in the body.

Organ or not, “this finding has potential to drive dramatic advances in medicine, including the possibility that the direct sampling of interstitial fluid may become a powerful diagnostic too,” said Theise.

 

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Man takes his life after killing five family members in Gujrat

GUJRAT: A man committed suicide after killing five members of his family in Punjab’s Gujrat district, ARY News reported on Saturday.

A man, Mubashir Butt, in Bhadar village in the vicinity of Gujrat killed himself after killing his daughter, niece, two nephews and sister-in-law in a family dispute, police officials said.

Police getting the information about the incident immediately reached to the crime scene and transferred the dead bodies to Kharian hospital.

According to police sources, the victims of the deadly incident have been identified as Muqaddis Bibi, Manahal, Zain, Fatima and Hashir.

Talking about the motive of the incident officials said that police investigating into the crime to know the real cause of the heinous crime.

According to some media reports, the man behind the crime was a labourer.

It is recalled here that on March 06, a woman had poisoned her two children and than committed suicide in Sadiqabad. The woman’s husband informed the police that he and his wife along with their children were staying at the house of his in-laws.

In another incident of same nature a woman, Reema, after domestic feud with her spouse Farhan, allegedly poisoned her two little girls and than took her life.

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Malala visits Swat Valley amid high security

SWAT VALLEY: Nobel laureate and girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot while returning from school in 2012.

State Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb and other officials accompanied Malala during the visit. A helicopter was brought in Islamabad to take Malala to Swat.

Reports say that the stringent security measures were taken and roads leading to Malala’s home in Mingora were blocked earlier in a day as part of a security plan.

The 20-year-old had asked the authorities to allow her the visit to Shangla village in Swat where a school currently operates under the Malala Fund.

Mingora’s security was tightened up after following the possibility of Malala arriving there. Malala wanted to travel to Swat to see her former schools friends and relatives.

She made a surprise visit to Pakistan with her parents under tight security overnight. Social media was crammed with messages of welcome and admiration from all around Pakistan hailing her bravery and what she represents.

Malala has become a global symbol for human rights and a strong social activist for girls’ education since a gunman boarded her school bus on October 9, 2012, asked “Who is Malala?” and shot her.

In 2013, Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin co-founded the Malala Fund to bring awareness to the social and economic impact of girls’ education worldwide.

On December 10, 2014, Yousafzai received Nobel Peace Prize with Indian children’s rights and education advocate Kailash Satyarthi.

How Malala became the world icon?

Malala Yousafzai, has been living in the UK since October 2012. She was shifted from Pakistan to a hospital in Birmingham in a precarious condition after she had sustained a bullet in her head in a targeted attack by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Swat. She was on her way home in a school van with other girls after taking an exam when the TTP men opened fire on them. Two other girls also sustained gunshot wounds.

Malala began her campaign aged just 11, when she started writing a blog — under a pseudonym — for the BBC’s Urdu service in 2009 about life under the Taliban in Swat, where they were banning girls’ education.

In 2007 the Islamist militants had taken over the area, which Malala affectionately called “My Swat”, and imposed a brutal, bloody rule.

Opponents were murdered, people were publicly flogged for supposed breaches of sharia law, women were banned from going to market, and girls were stopped from going to school.

But it was only after the shooting, and a subsequent near-miraculous recovery, that she became a truly global figure.

She opened a Twitter account on her last day of school in July 2017 and now has more than a million followers.

“I know that millions of girls around the world are out of school and may never get the opportunity to complete their education,” Malala wrote at the time.

During a recent appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the feminist campaigner urged women to “change the world” without waiting for the help of men.

“We won’t ask men to change the world, we’re going to do it ourselves,” Malala said.

“We’re going to stand up for ourselves, we’re going to raise our voices and we’re going to change the world.”

 

 

 

 

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Pakistan, India agree to ‘end’ diplomats harassment

ISLAMABAD: After weeks of allegations and counter allegations over harassment of each other’s diplomats, Pakistan and India have agreed to resolve matter in line with 1992 bilateral ‘Code of Conduct’ on treatment of diplomatic and consular staff in their respective countries.

The Foreign Office issued a terse statement on the matter, saying: “India and Pakistan have mutually agreed to resolve matters related to the treatment of diplomats and diplomatic premises, in line with the 1992 ‘Code of Conduct’ for treatment of diplomatic/consular personnel in India and Pakistan.”

Simultaneously Indian Ministry of External Affairs also issued a statement underlining the understanding of both the countries in resolving the matter mutually.

The discussions between the two countries had initiated after Pakistan recalled its High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood for consultations following a spike in incidents of harassment of Pakistani diplomats in Delhi. India also leveled counter allegations about treatment of its diplomats in Islamabad.

Pakistan said that over 50 incidents of harassment of its diplomats and their families took place between March 7 and 23 in New Delhi. A video footage also surfaced showing the children of Pakistani diplomats on way to their schools being stopped and harassed.

India claims to have sent 15 note verbales to the Foreign Office to protest over alleged maltreatment of their diplomats in Pakistan.

The discussions on addressing each other’s complaints had significantly progressed when High Commissioner Mahmood last week returned to New Delhi. His visit to Ajmer Sharif for attending the Urs of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti became possible because of the flexibility shown by the host after behind-the-scenes talks.

What is the 1992 Code of Conduct?

The 12-point 1992 Code of Conduct was signed by then foreign secretary Shaharyar Khan and his Indian counterpart J.N. Dixit for “smooth and unhindered functioning” of each other’s diplomatic missions and consular staff and to ensure that the privileges and immunities of the diplomatic and consular staff and premises were not violated.

The CoC clearly lays down that the dignity and personal inviolability of diplomatic/ consular personnel of the Sending State and their families shall be guaranteed and fully respected by the Receiving State.

It also states, according to TOI, that intrusive and aggressive surveillance and actions such as verbal and physical harassment, disconnecting of telephone lines, threatening telephone calls, pursuit in cars and unauthorised entry into residences shall not be resorted to.

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Pakistan necessitates access to ‘dual-use technologies’ for socio-economic progress

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) led by Co-Chairs from Ireland and Iceland visited Pakistan and held discussions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Pakistan side was led by Director General, Strategic Export Control Division Dr Zafar Ali,

Both sides exchanged views on export control measures and the latest political as well as technical development in this area.

This was the third consecutive MTCR outreach mission to visit Pakistan within the past couple of years. Both sides exchanged views on export control measures relevant to the MTCR and the latest political as well as technical development in this area.

The Director General briefed the delegation about full compatibility of Pakistan’s measures with the best international standards and coverage of items and technologies controlled by the MTCR.

Reaffirming Pakistan’s continuing commitment to the goals of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery means, the Pakistani side underlined that control measures should not impinge on the developing countries’ legitimate right of access to dual-use technologies for socio-economic progress.

The MTCR is an informal grouping of 35 states that seeks to prevent missile proliferation by voluntarily adhering to common export policy guidelines related to missiles and missile technologies.

 

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Eight-team Leisure Leagues Corporate Football League begins in Karachi

KARACHI: Leisure Leagues is organizing Leisure Leagues Seven-a-side Corporate League here at Olympian Iftikhar Syed Sports Academy (OISSA) from today (Saturday).

A total of eight teams, namely MS Packages, Wonder Works, Hyundai, Coca Cola, Karachi United Football Foundation (KUFF), PSO, Leisure Leagues and Hilal Foods will be seen in action during the tournament. In the opening match, Hilal Foods will take on KUFF.

The tournament will be played on single league basis – each team playing a match against one another. Each team will play a total of seven matches and the top four teams will qualify for semifinals. A total of 31 matches will be played.

The league matches will be played on Saturdays while the semifinals and final will be played on Sunday next month after top four teams are decided on points table at the end of 28 league matches.

Leisure Leagues has considerably large footprints, having organized leagues in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Leisure has also been operational in United States. Leisure Leagues set foot in Pakistan in 2016 after it brought former football super star Brazilian Ronaldinho and Friends – including former Manchester United stalwart Ryan Giggs, former England goalkeeper David James, Dutch star George Boateng, former French players Robert Pires and Nicolas Anelka and Portuguese player Luis Boa Morte.

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Three policemen martyred in DI Khan bomb attack

DI KHAN: Three police personnel were martyred while District Police Officer (DPO) Dera Ismail Khan escaped unscathed in a bomb attack that targeted convoy of the DPO here on Saturday, ARY News reported.

The convoy was targeted with a remote-controlled roadside bomb at Hathali area while it was returning after conducting an operation in Kulachi tehsil. Security forces cordoned off the area following the incident and launched a search operation.

One policeman also got injured in the attack who was right away shifted to the district hospital for medical assistance. He is said to be in critical condition.

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Earlier on a tip-off, the security forces conducted an operation against terrorists in Kot Zafar Baladasti area of Kulachi. One terrorist was killed in exchange of fire.

The slain terrorist is identified as Adnan alias Addu son of Ghulam Shabbir Rajput.

Police sources said the terrorist was wanted in murder of custodian of an Imambargah in Shaheen area, murder of Taimoor Baloch at Tank Adda and other incidents of killing.

Former president Asif Zardair and Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto condemned the blast incident and condoled with the bereaved families.

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Facebook ‘ugly truth’ memo triggers new firestorm over ethics

Was a leaked internal Facebook memo aimed at justifying the social network’s growth-at-any-cost strategy? Or simply a way to open debate on difficult questions over new technologies?

The extraordinarily blunt memo by a high-ranking executive — leaked this week and quickly repudiated by the author and by Facebook — warned that the social network’s goal of connecting the world might have negative consequences, but that these were outweighed by the positives.

“Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies,” the 2016 memo by top executive Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said. “Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”

While Bosworth and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said the memo was only a way to provoke debate, it created a new firestorm for the social network mired in controversy over the hijacking of personal data by a political consulting firm linked to Donald Trump.

David Carroll, a professor of media design at the New School Parsons, tweeted that the memo highlighted a “reckless hubristic attitude” by the world’s biggest social network.

“What is so striking is that an executive chose to have this conversation on a Facebook wall,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University professor who studies social networks.

“He showed poor judgment and poor business communication skills. It speaks to Facebook’s culture.”

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Grygiel said these kinds of issues require “thoughtful discussion” and should take place within a context of protecting users.

“When these companies build new products and services, their job is to evaluate the risks, and not just know about them, but ensure public safety.”

Bosworth, considered part of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s inner circle, wrote: “The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is ‘de facto’ good.”

On Thursday, he said he merely wanted to open a discussion and added that “I don’t agree with the post today and I didn’t agree with it even when I wrote it.”

Zuckerberg responded that he and many others at Facebook “strongly disagreed” with the points raised.

‘Offloading’ ethical questions

Jim Malazita, a professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said it was not surprising to see the memo in an industry whose work culture is highly compartmentalized.

Malazita said the memo frames the discussion with the assumption that technology and connecting people is always positive.

“By the assumptions built into that framework they are already shutting down a whole bunch of conversations,” he said.

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Malazita added that most people who learn computer science are taught to make these technologies work as well as possible, while “offloading” the question of moral responsibility.

“It’s not that they don’t care, but even when they care about the social impact, there’s a limit to how much they practise that care.”

Joshua Benton, director of Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab, said it may be too easy to blame Facebook for misuse of the platform.

“I’m rarely in a position to defend Facebook,” he said, but the view that a technology is worth spreading even though some people will use it for terrible ends “is something you could have believed about the telegraph, the telephone, email, SMS, the iPhone, etc,” Benton tweeted.

Doing the right thing

Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California Polytechnic State University, said he sees “no evidence that Facebook’s culture is unethical, though just one senior executive in the right place can poison the well.”

“I’d guess that most Facebook employees want to do the right thing and are increasingly uncomfortable with how the proverbial sausage is made,” Lin added.

Copies of internal responses at Facebook published by The Verge website showed many employees were angry or upset over the Bosworth memo but that some defended the executive.

Others said the leaks may suggest Facebook is being targeted by spies or “bad actors” trying to embarrass the company.

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Usama Durrani Flower is the nature’s most beautiful phenomenon. It delights the eyes of the viewers. An impressive exhibition of colorful flowers was organized at Jilani Park, Lahore under the auspices of PHA. The expo will continue till March 31.

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Prolonged power outages spark outcries in Karachi

The rise in protracted spans of load shedding have distressed the citizens of Karachi as the K-Electric appeared helpless to control the power crisis in the mega city amidst soaring temperatures.  Citizens took to roads in Kemari in protest against the prolonged power outages as power shortfall continues to widen. K-Electric spokesperson Sadia Dada said...

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PM Abbasi to lay foundation stone of NHA projects in DG Khan today

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will lay foundation stone of two NHA projects Northern Bypass and Rakh Gaj Bowata Section of Indus Highway in Dera Ghazi Khan today (Saturday). The bypass project will divert the heavy traffic currently passing through the heart of the city besides reducing the travel time and distance. The construction...

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Three-day festival ends in Lahore

Muhammad Qurban Three-day festival of lights came to an end in Lahore. Several vocalists including renowned Qawwal Sher Miandad lighted up the last day of the gala. The festival was held at Punjab Institute of Language Art and Culture.

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Pak-WI T20 series: Windies players to arrive in Karachi

KARACHI: Players of West Indies cricket are arriving in Karachi on Saturday for a Twenty20 series with Pakistan. Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Najam Sethi said the T20 series include three matches that will be played from Sunday to Tuesday at National Stadium Karachi. Meanwhile, all out security arrangements have been finalized to maintain law and...

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Malala arrives in Swat after six years

SWAT: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai reached Swat, her hometown, six years after being shot by Taliban gunmen. She arrived in her hometown under strict security. She was flown to Mingora on board a helicopter. Malala burst into tears as she arrived at her native house.  Her father consoled her. She will also see...

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Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz call reverse swing as ‘art’ not ‘cheating’

KARACHI: Pakistan’s masters of reverse-swinging a cricket ball have unanimously defended it as an “art” which can be achieved without the tampering that ended in shameful bans for three Australian players. Steve Smith had to step down as Australia captain and David Warner as vice captain after they orchestrated ball-tampering through batsman Cameron Bancroft in...

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Tearful Warner sorry for ball-tampering, weighing up appeal

SYDNEY: Former Australia vice-captain David Warner apologised in tears Saturday for his role in a ball-tampering scandal and said he would weigh up an appeal against his 12-month ban. An emotional Warner said he realised he may never play for his country again. But he stonewalled questions about who was aware of the ball-tampering and...

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Bairstow completes century as England post 307

CHRISTCHURCH: Jonny Bairstow completed his fifth Test century to overshadow a six-wicket haul by Tim Southee as England posted 307 in their first innings of the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch on Saturday. Bairstow was the last man out for 101 when the innings wrapped up after 41 deliveries on day two. Southee finished...

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Clashes, 16 dead as thousands of Gazans march near Israel border

GAZA CITY: Clashes erupted as tens of thousands of Gazans marched near the Israeli border in a major protest on Friday, leaving 16 Palestinians dead and hundreds more wounded in the conflict’s worst single day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war. Late in the day, Israel’s military targeted three Hamas sites in the Gaza...

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Islamic State 'Beatles' duo complain about losing UK citizenship

Two British men accused of being in the Islamic State 'Beatles' gang say they will not get a fair trial.

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Met Police chief: Social media leads children to violence

Britain's most senior police officer says social media "revs people up" and leads to stabbings and murders.

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Malala returns to home town in Pakistan for first time since shooting

The Nobel Peace Prize winner visits the Pakistani area where Taliban militants tried to kill her.

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Australia ball-tampering: David Warner 'resigned' to not playing for country again

David Warner says he is "resigned to the fact" he may never play for Australia again after his part in the ball-tampering scandal.

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Stansted Airport bus fire: Flights to resume after cancellations

Stansted Airport expects to "operate as normal" after a bus fire caused all flights to be cancelled.

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Gaza-Israel border: UN seeks investigation over protest deaths

Palestinian officials say 16 people were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers on Friday.

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Schools cutting posts amid 'funding catastrophe'

Schools are still struggling with budget cuts, despite government reassurance, it is claimed.

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Prof Stephen Hawking Cambridge funeral to take place

The private service for the visionary scientist will be held at the university church in Cambridge.

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Ray Wilkins: Ex-England captain in critical condition in London hospital

Former England and Chelsea midfielder Ray Wilkins is in a critical condition in a London hospital.

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Prince Laurent: €46,000 blow for Belgium's 'cursed prince'

Prince Laurent defended his allowance as "the price of my life, which is largely behind me now".

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The artist who gives her drawings away free to commuters

When she's on the train, Liz Atkin spends the journey sketching with charcoal. She gives her drawings away to fellow passengers for free, as a form of therapy.

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US may tie social media to visa applications

A state department proposal could require visa applicants to detail all their social media handles.

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The Papers: Russia-UK row and public sector pay gap

Saturday's front pages lead with the latest on Russia's row with the West and the public sector gender pay gap.

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Week in pictures: 24 - 30 March 2018

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

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The woman who gave birth to rabbits (and other hoaxes)

These hoaxers were bold, dedicated, and didn't wait for 1 April.

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Malala Yousafzai: 'My focus is only working for the good'

The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks to the BBC about abuse on social media, and whether she wants to enter politics.

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Flute played during brain surgery

Anna Marie Whitlock Henry played the flute while surgeons operated on her.

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San Francisco cop's close shave in barbershop gun fight

A San Francisco cop was lucky to survive a shootout in a hairdresser's that left him and four civilians wounded, and the gunman dead.

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Watch Sarah's final goodbye to the Today programme audience

Long-standing Today programme presenter is set to move to the World at One.

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Ronaldo statue: Sculptor Emanuel Santos takes another shot at bust

Emanuel Santos creates a second statue one year on to silence critics who ridiculed his work.

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James Corden's dad complains about Peter Rabbit review

Malcolm Corden was not happy with Mark Kermode calling his son "appallingly irritating".

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The country where children fear election time

Parents in Sierra Leone have been warned to take extra care of their children this election period as it's feared they could be ritually killed.

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The men who had millions of lives in their hands

How do the families of generals who sent men into battle commemorate World War One?

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Gender pay gap deadline: What to know

Britain's biggest companies have less than a week to publish their gender pay gap figures.

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Is there a north-south divide in England's schools?

The Children's Commissioner said schools in the north of England were falling behind.

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Lake Chad: Can the vanishing lake be saved?

It's been shrinking fast, but could a plan to divert water to one of Africa's largest lakes stop it disappearing?

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Met Police chief: Social media leads children to violence

Britain's most senior police officer says social media "revs people up" and leads to stabbings and murders.

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US may tie social media to visa applications

A state department proposal could require visa applicants to detail all their social media handles.

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California Today: In Oakland, a Clash of Artists vs. Big Cannabis

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The Self-Driving Car Industry’s Biggest Turning Point Yet

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Keeping Personal Appointments Private on Google Calendar

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Czechs extradite suspected Russian hacker Nikulin to US

PRAGUE: The Czech Republic has extradited Russian citizen Yevgeniy Nikulin to the United States where he is accused of hacking social networks including LinkedIn, the Czech Justice Ministry said on Friday.

The decision by Minister Robert Pelikan defied Russia, which had also asked for his extradition after Nikulin was arrested in Prague in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2016.

“We confirm extradition to the United States,” a Justice Ministry spokeswoman said in a text message after earlier reports. “He has already flown out.”

A U.S. federal grand jury in California indicted the 29-year-old Nikulin in 2016 on suspicion of hacking into the U.S.-based social media companies LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012.

LinkedIn has said the case was related to a 2012 breach at the social networking company that it previously said may have compromised the credentials of 100 million users, prompting it to launch a massive password reset operation.

ALSO READ: UK judges block US extradition of alleged hacker Lauri Love

Nikulin has in the past denied any wrongdoing in comments to Czech media. Reuters could not immediately reach his attorney on Friday.

After Nikulin’s arrest in Prague, Russia also asked for his extradition. A Moscow court issued a warrant for his arrest in November 2016 for the alleged theft of $3,450 via Webmoney in 2009, the Czech Justice Ministry said then.

Czech courts have ruled extradition to both countries was permissible, and the decision was up to Pelikan.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis has said he was in favour of extradition to the United States but Pelikan said President Milos Zeman, who often takes a pro-Russian stance, had urged extradition to Russia.

ALSO READ: Russia says hackers stole more than $17 million from its banks in 2017

Pelikan refused in 2016 to extradite two Lebanese citizens charged in the United States with an attempt to sell ground-to-air missiles, cocaine trafficking and other crimes.

Another Czech cabinet minister said at the time that this decision was connected with the return of five Czechs from a presumed kidnapping in Lebanon.

Babis needs Zeman’s support as he tries to build a new government after his minority cabinet lost a confidence vote last month. Zeman has the right to appoint prime ministers and has promised Babis another try at installing a government.

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How to Discuss American Racism

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Lindsay Lohan loses GTA V privacy case appeal

The actress fails to convince judges that a character in the game was based on her.

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US regulator approves SpaceX plan for broadband satellite services

WASHINGTON: The top U.S. telecommunications regulator on Thursday gave formal approval to a plan by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a global broadband network using satellites.

“This is the first approval of a U.S.-licensed satellite constellation to provide broadband services using a new generation of low-Earth orbit satellite technologies,” the Federal Communications Commission said in a statement.

The system proposed by privately held SpaceX, as Space Exploration Holdings is known, will use 4,425 satellites, the FCC said.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in February had endorsed the SpaceX effort, saying: “Satellite technology can help reach Americans who live in rural or hard-to-serve places where fiber optic cables and cell towers do not reach.”

ALSO READ: SpaceX launches world’s biggest rocket towards Mars after perfect launch

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday that SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on April 2 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. “The rocket will carry a communications satellite,” the FAA said.

The FCC said SpaceX has been granted authority to use frequencies in the Ka (20/30 GHz) and Ku (11/14 GHz) bands.

Musk, who is also the founder and chief executive of electric automaker Tesla Inc, said in 2015 that SpaceX planned to launch a satellite-internet business that would help fund a future city on Mars.

SpaceX wanted to create a “global communications system” that Musk compared to “rebuilding the internet in space.” It would be faster than traditional internet connections, he said.

“This is an important step toward SpaceX building a next-generation satellite network that can link the globe with reliable and affordable broadband service, especially reaching those who are not yet connected,” SpaceX spokeswoman Eva Behrend said in an email on Friday.

READ MORE: What’s next for SpaceX?

Over the past year, the FCC has approved requests by OneWeb, Space Norway and Telesat to access the U.S. market to provide broadband services using satellite technology that the FCC said “holds promise to expand internet access in remote and rural areas across the country.”

About 14 million rural Americans and 1.2 million Americans on tribal lands lack mobile broadband even at relatively slow speeds.

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, said on Thursday that the agency needs “to prepare for the proliferation of satellites in our higher altitudes.”

She highlighted the issue of orbital debris and said the FCC “must coordinate more closely with other federal actors to figure out what our national policies are for this jumble of new space activity.”

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