ISLAMABAD — Hollywood star Angelina Jolie Tuesday visited Pakistan to draw world attention towards the plight of 21 million people affected by the country’s worst-ever floods, the UN refugee agency said. “UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie arrived in Pakistan today to meet people affected by the floods and to highlight the continued urgent need for [...]

She had stolen the spotlight from her mother, controversial Republican leader Sarah Palin with her single mother saga, and Bristol Palin has now joined the cast of the hit reality TV show ‘Dancing With The Stars’. The 19-year-old who had announced her pregnancy when Palin was the running mate of John McCain in the 2008 [...]

Reaping the benefits of her recent crowning achievement, Miss Universe Jimena Navarrete was spotted at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City on Wednesday (August 25). Looking absolutely darling, the Mexican beauty waved at photogs and fans as she readied to tend to the Top Ten list on the “Late Show with David Letterman”. [...]

LOS ANGELES: A Muslim woman is suing Disneyland, accusing the company’s California theme park of discrimination for telling her she could not serve customers if she chose to wear a headscarf. Imane Boudal, 26, asked her employers at Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel several months ago whether they would permit her to wear a headcovering while [...]

LAS VEGAS — Mexico’s Jimena Navarrete was crowned Miss Universe Monday night in an upset victory that stunned a pageant world which had predicted a winner to emerge from Ireland, Venezuela or the United States. The 22-year-old from Guadalajara, resplendent in a flowing ruby-red evening gown, has been modeling since she was 15, but nothing [...]

Pakistan’s upcoming cricket tour to New Zealand will feature fewer Tests and more One-Day Internationals to help the teams prepare for the World Cup. The tour is scheduled to begin in December. The teams were to play three Tests but will now play two, six one-day matches and three Twenty20 internationals after an agreement between [...]

More than four million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly three weeks of floods, the United Nations said on Thursday, making the critical task of securing greater amounts of aid more urgent. The U.N. had earlier said that two million people had lost their homes in the worst floods in Pakistan’s history. Aid agencies [...]