LOS ANGELES: Singer Robbie Williams is reportedly getting married to longtime girlfriend Ayda Field Saturday. The couple will exchange wedding vows in an intimate ceremony on an island off Los Angeles, the island of Santa Catalina, reports a website. However, Williams Take That bandmates, Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald, will not [...]

A publicist sued Australia’s poshest department store and its former head for 33 million US dollars over alleged sexual misconduct that led to the disgraced chief executive’s resignation. “I have now commenced legal proceedings,” said 25-year-old Kristy Fraser-Kirk after filing documents in the federal court claiming Mark McInnes, the former chief executive of the upmarket [...]

KARACHI: The star of an Indian Bollywood comedy that pokes fun at Osama bin Laden has appealed to Pakistan’s leaders to overturn a ban on its release over security fears and religious sensitivities. Pakistani censors banned “Tere bin Laden” (Without you, Laden) before it was due to open at cinemas nationwide last week and have [...]

Indian moviegoers are talking about a low-budget Bollywood comedy that builds its laughs on a deadly subject: al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The film, called Tere Bin Laden, has been banned in Pakistan, where authorities fear it could stir terrorist reprisals, and the production company has been threatened with violence. But Indian audiences are taking [...]

The chorus verse employed in Arif Lohar’s Coke Studio rendition of ‘Jugni’ in ‘Alif Allah Chambay di Booty’ conveys simultaneously a sense of ‘suffocation’ and ‘with every breath’ in traditional folk-speak. Something that I, and perhaps many, would never have come to know about had Rohail Hyatt not decided to introduce a platform where the [...]

Pakistani censors have banned an Indian comedy film featuring a lookalike of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, the film’s distributor said on Wednesday. The ban had been anticipated on grounds that Islamist extremists could use it as a pretext for attacks. “They have banned it in Pakistan,” Nadeem Mandviwall told Reuters. “We have moved [...]

NEW YORK: Folk artistes from the four provinces of Pakistan will be part of an ensemble at the First New York Sufi Festival and will have their first public performance at New York’s Union Square Park. The 50-member Sufi group headed by the Pakistani legend Abida Parveen will include Akhtar Channel Zehri from Balochistan, the [...]

NEW YORK: Folk artistes from the four provinces of Pakistan will be part of an ensemble at the First New York Sufi Festival and will have their first public performance at New York’s Union Square Park. The 50-member Sufi group headed by the Pakistani legend Abida Parveen will include Akhtar Channel Zehri from Balochistan, the [...]

MUMBAI: Football crazy John Abraham won’t be attending the final match between Netherlands and European champions Spain at Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday. John had all the necessary arrangements ready to fly down to Cape Town, but director Vishal Bhardwaj’s sudden call to John for some extra shooting for the film ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’ [...]

MUMBAI: Osama bin Laden is coming soon to a movie screen near you. The al Qaeda leader is the subject of a Bollywood film “Tere Bin Laden” (“Without You Laden”), the story of an imaginative young television journalist who turns an encounter with a lookalike of Laden into his ticket to fame. The journalist, played [...]