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Champagne is not only delicious. It turns out that it can also have positive effects on memory. New research is showing that the bubbly drink contains phenols that counteract age-related memory problems, such as dementia. A study from the University of Reading in the UK examined champagne’s impact on memory, revealing that the drink contains phenols, which stimulate signals in ...

Activist Khurram Zaki (center) ─ Source: Khurram Zaki Facebook page KARACHI: Unknown assailants gunned down social media campaigner and civil society activist Khurram Zaki on Saturday night in Karachi. Central District SSP, Muqadas Haider told Dawn.com that four suspects riding on two motorcycles opened fire on Zaki while he was eating dinner at a restaurant in Sector-11. The activist was ...

No stranger to controversy, the one-time model claims Junaid Jamshed was instrumental in her decision The announcement is surprising given Veena Malik’s contentious relationship with the religious community in the past. In case you were wondering what Veena Malik’s been up to these days, here’s an update: she’s going to devote herself to the study of Islam under the tutelage ...

Image copyrightZahra HaiderImage captionZahra Haider’s article on sex generated thousands of comments When Pakistani writer Zahra Haider wrote about her pre-marital sexual encounters as a teenager in Islamabad for Vice magazine, social media – as you can imagine – had a lot to say. Haider, now in her 20s, moved to Canada just before her 19th birthday. She wrote that ...

“The people of FATA have suffered tremendously, their landscapes marred by the decades-old wars of others, their cultural values under constant threats, they deserve the utmost treatment under incubation” Sports is defined by UN as ” All forms of physical activity that contributes to physical fitness, mental well being and social interaction, such as play, recreation, organized or competitive and ...

AFGHANISTAN: A horrific video has emerged online which purportedly shows the execution of a woman by the Taliban militants in northern Jawzjan province. The woman was reportedly executed in Khanqa village in Aqcha district with the footage showing the woman is forced to kneel in a dessert before she is shot dead. The execution is carried out by a Taliban ...

WASHINGTON: A US congressional panel has endorsed a draft bill that seeks to block $450 million in aid to Pakistan for failing to take action against Afghanistan’s militant Haqqani Network. The National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) for 2017, approved last week by the House Armed Services Committee, questions Pakistan’s commitment to stopping militants from using its territory for conducting attacks. ...

Sadiq Khan and his wife Saadiya leave after casting their votes for the London mayoral elections at a polling station in south London Britain May 5, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS LONDON: Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, became London’s first Muslim mayor on Friday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who attempted to link him to extremism and securing a ...

BEIJING (AP): A heavily Muslim Chinese province has demanded strict adherence to a ban on religion in schools after a video circulated online in which a kindergartener recites verses from the Quran. The government in the northwestern province of Gansu reiterated the officially atheistic communist government’s rules forbidding the presence of religion in public schools at all levels, saying it ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets his supporters during an opening ceremony in Istanbul. —Reuters ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday, Turkey would not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a deal to curb migration, and declared: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. His fiery speech will be a blow to any hope in ...