Bad Bunny anchors a transformative Latin Grammys night as new voices rise beside established giants Bad Bunny accepts the award for Best Urban Song for ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ from presenters Daisy Fuentes and Richard Marx at the 26th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. Photo: Reuters LAS VEGAS: …
MULTAN: In the narrow streets of Multan, once alive with the laughter of little girls playing with dolls dressed in hand-stitched frocks, a quiet transformation has taken hold. The familiar scene of daughters combing their dolls’ hair or arranging miniature weddings has nearly vanished, replaced by the blue glow of …
One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in 1912 by German archaeologists, her 3,300-year-old stucco-coated limestone bust went on display in …
As the European Union unveiled a billion-euro push to build homegrown artificial intelligence and reduce reliance on foreign technologies, a parallel battle is unfolding in India, where Hollywood and Bollywood studios are lobbying for tougher copyright safeguards to prevent AI companies from feeding on their creative content. Both moves — though …
A historic Paris Fashion Week has concluded after 10 days of Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear shows, featuring many new faces and hailed by critics as marking a "return to elegance." This season in Paris, which ran through October 7, felt especially electric due to a significant creative shake-up across the sector, …
KARACHI: When a video of veteran humanitarian Ramzan Chhipa went viral this July, the internet didn’t know whether to laugh, cringe, or applaud. In the now-famous clip, Chhipa surprises a young boy with a birthday cake at a shop. With a film director’s precision and an unmistakable performative flair, he …
KARACHI: A few days ago, veteran actor Naumaan Ijaz decided to weigh in on a viral video of YouTuber Maaz Safdar gifting his wife a truck-sized bouquet. Most people online found the gesture amusing or sweet. Ijaz, however, turned it into a lecture, as he commented, “Dear sisters, please don’t …
KARACHI: For too long, the literary gaze on South Asia’s summers, especially through diaspora pens writing for white audiences, has leaned on sepia tropes: mangoes and melas, the year-long appeal of chai, ceiling fans whirring above midday siestas, and monsoon promises murmured by young lovers over sticks of kulfi. That …
By all accounts, the recent Piers Morgan episode on India-Pakistan relations should not have been watched, let alone dissected. And yet, here we are, post-morteming a panel discussion featuring former Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Indian journalist Barkha Dutt, and — why not — two podcasters: Pakistan's Shehzad Ghias Shaikh and …
KARACHI: “If I weren’t a rapper, I would have been a criminal or dead by now” were some of the first words I heard Asif Balli say. Son of a scrap collector and a housemaid, Asif was born and grew up in the Buffer Zone area. He also collected scrap …