HAMBANTOTA: Pakistan fast bowler Sohail Tanvir has been retained for the ODIs in Sri Lanka and will replace the injured opening batsman Nasir Jamshed in the squad. Tanvir impressed in the two Twenty20s in Hambantota, bowling economically and taking four wickets. He also picked up the Man-of-the-Series award. On the request of team management, chief selector Iqbal Qasim in consultation with the National Sele ...

CALIFORNIA: With its Best Cast and Best Hero wins at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, the "Harry Potter" era in MTV history has come to a close. MTV has been a fan of "Harry Potter" since the beginning. Literally. It's bittersweet to have to celebrate the series for the last time with the big wins for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," so we decided to take a look back at our favorite Movie Awards me ...

MUMBAI: Grapevine is abuzz that Ghajini actor has been roped in opposite Akshay Kumar in Khiladi 786. The actress will replace Nargis Fakhri who was dropped from the film as she didn't look the part of Mithun's sister, reports Mid Day. Asin’s father who handles her work tells the tabloid: “It would be better if you ask the production house to confirm”. Asin and producers were not available for comment. Khil ...

  KUWAIT: A court sentenced a 26-year-old Kuwaiti to 10 years in prison on Monday after ruling that he had endangered state security by insulting the Prophet Mohammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on social media, his lawyer said. Shi'ite Muslim Hamad al-Naqi had pleaded innocent, saying he did not post the messages and that his Twitter account had been hacked. The sentence wa ...

  TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda replaced five cabinet ministers on Monday hoping to smooth the way to a deal with the opposition on doubling sales tax in spite of a rift in the ruling party over the plan. By removing the ministers, who the opposition has criticized for not performing properly, Noda hopes to persuade the biggest opposition party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to ba ...

  COPENHAGEN: A Danish court on Monday found four men guilty of plotting to kill a large number of people at a newspaper in revenge for its publication in 2005 of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The men, three Swedish citizens and a Tunisian, had pleaded not guilty to the charges though one of them had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of weapons. The men, who were arrested in a joint Danish-Swedi ...

  LONDON: A British soldier from 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announced early Monday morning, UK officials said. The soldier was part of a patrol to disrupt insurgent activity in the south of Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand Province, when he was killed by small arms fire. His next of kin have been informed and British Ministry of Defenc ...

  NEW DELHI: A Hindu nationalist group filed a court case on Monday seeking to ban the release of Bollywood film "Shanghai" over satirical lyrics that describe India as a land of diseases and cow dung. Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), a conservative Hindu group based in New Delhi, said it had applied for the court order on the basis that the song was "anti-national" and a "clear insult" to the country. ...

  BEIRUT: Syrian authorities have released two Lebanese farmers kidnapped last Wednesday by unidentified gunmen in Lebanon's north and taken across the border into Syria, the Lebanese army said. A statement from the army said Mohammed Yassin Merei and Mahdi Hamdan had been released on Sunday afternoon and handed to the Lebanese intelligence at the Masnaa border crossing. It gave no details on who abduc ...

  N. Ali Staff Writer KARACHI:  The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) No 1 on Friday framed charges against three accused, of the banned outfit Lashker-e-Jahngvi (LJ) involved in at least ten sectarian killing incidents including the assassination of MQM legislator Raza Haider. Police produce three activest of LJ naming Mohammad Wasim alias Baroodi and Abdullah alias Taimur alias Darzi and Hafiz Akram before ...