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Disruption from the ‘highly sophisticated and targeted cyber attack’, first reported around Easter weekend, continues.British retailer Marks & Spencer estimates that a cyberattack that stopped it from processing online orders and left store shelves empty will cost it about 300 million pounds ($403m). The company said in a business update (PDF) on Wednesday that disruption from the “highly sophisticated and targeted cyber attack,” which was first reported around the Easter weekend, is expected to continue until July. Online sales of food, home and beauty products have been “heavily impacted” because the company, popularly known as M&S, had to pause online shopping. The…
The Emirates Media Council announced the signing of a contract with the UAE, the world leading globally in the huge data analyzes.
Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Islamabad, Natalie A Baker, addresses an event in Islamabad. — Screengrab via [email protected]/ FileThe US Embassy in Islamabad strongly condemned the deadly attack on a school bus in Khuzdar, Balochistan, which martyred six people, including four students, and injured dozens more.Terrorists targeted the school bus as it was heading towards the educational institute with more than 40 students on board. Natalie A Baker, Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy, in an X post said, “We join Pakistan’s leaders in condemning the brutal, unconscionable attack on a school bus in Khuzdar, Balochistan.”She described the murder…
Security personnel stand outside the gate of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, India, May 8, 2025. — Reuters Charge d’Affaires issued demarche to this effect. Envoy asked to ensure no officials misuse privileges: ministry.Development comes amid heightened tensions between nations. NEW DELHI: The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday declared an official of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi as “persona non grata”, ordering the diplomat to leave the country within 24 hours.“Charge d’Affaires Pakistan High Commission was issued a demarche to this effect today. He was asked to strictly ensure that none of the Pakistani diplomats or…
Representational image of a woman experiencing toothache. — UnsplashPARIS: Ever wondered why our teeth are so sensitive to pain or even just cold drinks? It might be because they first evolved for a very different purpose than chewing half a billion years ago, a study suggested Wednesday.The exact origin of teeth — and what they were for — has long proved elusive to scientists. Their evolutionary precursors are thought to be hard structures called odontodes which first appeared not in mouths but on the external armour of the earliest fish around 500 million years ago.Even today, sharks, stingrays and catfish…
Quetta Gladiators’ Avishka Fernando plays a shot during the PSL 10 Qualifier against Islamabad United at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on May 21, 2025. — X/@thePSLt20After deciding to bat first, Quetta Gladiators set a 210-run target for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 10 Qualifier being played at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday. This is a developing story and is being updated with more details.
Tom Cruise’s next film to be ‘wild and insane’Tom Cruise’s next movie after Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning will be quite different.In a surprising turn for the actor, Cruise will next be seen in a dark comedy, but he’s brought the same level of “wild” to the comedy that he brings to his action flicks. The film’s director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman and The Revenant) has teased the film, which is tentatively titled Judy, for its “brutal, wild comedy.”At the Cannes Film Festival, Alejandro G. Iñárritu told The Hollywood Reporter, “All I can say is it is a brutal, wild…
Polio workers give polio vaccine drops to a child as police stand guard during a vaccination campaign in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.— Reuters/FileOf total, five cases are from KP, four from Sindh, and one from Punjab.No vaccination drive carried out in parts of KP since Oct 2023.Third nationwide polio campaign of 2025 is set to begin on May 26. Pakistan’s total confirmed polio cases for 2025 have risen to 10 after the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed two new cases of wild poliovirus in Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts…
Armenia has long relied on Russian weapons in its bitter dispute with neighbouring Azerbaijan.Russia’s top diplomat has blamed the war in Ukraine for affecting the supply of arms to Armenia, and has expressed concern that Moscow’s longstanding ally would now look to the West for military support instead. Speaking in Yerevan on the second day of a two-day visit to Armenia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that some of Russia’s weapons contracts with the former Soviet republic had been delayed or reassigned due to the pressures created by the war in Ukraine. Armenia has long relied on Russian weapons in…
Dubai Police Police Council, in cooperation with the Al -Barsha Police Station, Dubai Sports Council and Dubai National School, Al Barsha Branch, organized the football championship for private schools, targeting born 2007 and 2009 and participated in it teams from 12 schools. The championship activities were attended by Abdul Rahman Marwan Al Ghurair, Vice -Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dubai National Schools, Osama Ajoul, Director General, Souad Abu Harb, Director of the Dubai National School in Al Barsha, Fatima Bouhajir, Chairman of the Positive Spirit Board and Ali Omar, representative of the Dubai Sports Council. In the 2007…