Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to remove the names of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Shah from the exit control list and the report of the joint investigation team probing the fake bank accounts case.
Hearing the case, over the delay into the 2015 probe, the apex court ordered that the case be forwarded to the anti-corruption watchdog - National Accountability Bureau (NAB), according to a media report.
It also directed the NAB to wrap up its probe within two months.
A person cannot fly abroad if his name is placed on the Exit Control List (ECL).
The JIT last month submitted its report to the top court in which it named both Bilawal and Shah, apart from former president Asif Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, former president of Summit Bank Hussain Lawai and Omni Group's Anwar Majeed for laundering around Rs 22000 crore through fictitious bank accounts.
Hundreds of 'benami' accounts at some private banks were opened in ...

Pak apex court orders to remove Bilawal's name from ECL, JIT report

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He was a part of India's victorious World Cup campaign in 2011 but Virat Kohli felt "more emotional" than ever before after his team's maiden Test series win in Australia, something the captain termed as the "biggest achievement" of his career.
"By far this is my best achievement. Has to be on top of the pile," Kohli said after being the first Indian captain to lead the team to a Test series win in Australia in 71 years.
The skipper then explained that why the triumph Down Under will remain more special for him compared to World Cup triumph.
"I was a part of the 2011 World Cup team but I didn't have the emotion of not having been able to win a World Cup before, playing at home and winning it eventually. A lot of the senior players had that emotion. So, for them it was what "we have achieved". Yes, it was a great moment for me to be part of.
"But if you ask me which moment is more emotional, I would say this one because this is my third tour here and I have seen with experience and ...

This win is more emotional for me compared to 2011 World Cup triumph: Kohli

Cheteshwar Pujara has done everything right in the Test series against Australia but dance, and India skipper Virat Kohli said Monday the unassuming batsman's utter failure in shaking a leg reflected his simplicity.
Kohli, who was part of the impromptu jig in which the run-machine struggled, coined it the 'Pujara dance'.
Pujara amassed 521 runs and won the Man of the Series award in India's maiden Test series triumph in Australia, but came a cropper when it came to dancing.
"That was the Pujara dance because when he walks he doesn't move his hands," Kohli said with a smile at the post-match press conference.
"It was an extension of his walk. You'll have to ask Rishabh Pant that, he came up with that and we just went along. I don't know what he was trying to do to be honest. It just felt good, it was very easy but Pujara could not even do that. You can see how simple he is."
The young wicketkeeper-batsman led his India teammates to an impromptu dance after wrapping up the historic win .

Pujara: Can bat but can't dance

HBO has debuted new footage from the much awaited eighth and final season of epic fantasy show "Game of Thrones".
The new footage, which features three pivotal figures -- Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) -- of the series, was unveiled in a combined teaser of the network's 2019 lineup.
In the brief footage, Daenerys is seen being introduced to Sansa, who currently holds the fort at Winterfell, by Jon after their arrival from Dragonstone.
"Winterfell is yours, your grace," Sansa says to Daenerys. The two character's meet and greet is the first time they have shared the screen space together since show premiered in 2011.
The finale season is set to premiere in April this year.
The teaser also features first footage from HBO's "Watchmen" series, creator Damon Lindelof's new take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic graphic novel, which follows a group of vigilante crime fighters and superheroes as they move through a turbulent .

New HBO video teases key meeting from 'Game of Thrones'

An injunction has been filed at Bangkok's Criminal Court to prevent a Saudi woman held in Thailand's airport from being deported, a lawyer said Monday.
Eighteen-year-old Saudi Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun said she was fleeing her "abusive" family while travelling in Kuwait, and had flown to Thailand in the hopes of reaching Australia to seek asylum.
But she was stopped on Sunday when she deplaned in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport by Kuwaiti and Saudi embassy officials, she said, and has since been held in an airport hotel awaiting deportation.
Qunun told AFP she feared that she would be killed if she is repatriated to Saudi Arabia.
Human rights lawyer Nadthasiri Bergman told AFP she filed an injunction at 1:00 pm (1400 GMT) to Bangkok's criminal court to prevent Qunun's deportation.
"In the event when we suspect that someone might be illegally detained, we request for the court to call the relevant authorities (in) for questioning," said Bergman.
"For now, I just called for the immigration 

Injunction filed with Thai court to prevent Saudi woman's deportation

Fast bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile has criticised poor communication from Australia selectors following his omission from the ODI squad to face India this month, saying they have not checked his fitness status properly.
Cricket Australia selector Trevor Hohns had said Coulter-Nile was not picked due to lower back soreness but the paceman, who has a long injury history, claimed subsequent scans had cleared him.
Just a day after Australia named the ODI team on January 4, Coulter-Nile claimed 3 for 25 for Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League.
He said the back soreness that was given as the official reason should not have been enough to exclude him.
"I didn't take (the news) the best, to be honest. I think it was communicated to me really poorly," Coulter-Nile was quoted as saying by 'ABC Radio'.
"I won't go into it, but I don't think soreness is really any excuse for not playing cricket. In fairness, I hadn't had a scan yet. I had had back soreness and back history, but I hadn't had a ...

Coulter-Nile slams selectors for poor communication over omission from ODI team against India

India coach Ravi Shastri Monday used his tried and trusted ammunition to attack the critics, saying negative comments coming from miles away were blown away by the wind like, what else, but a "tracer bullet".
Moments after India's maiden Test series triumph in Australia, Shastri hit back at the critics, including the legendry Sunil Gavaskar, who had questioned selections and the training regimen of the team.
"I said in Melbourne - I think I mentioned people taking pot shots and firing blanks. I wasn't joking there, because I knew how hard this team had worked. When you fire from there, by the time it crosses the southern hemisphere, it's blown away by the wind like a tracer bullet," Shastri told reporters after the 2-1 Test series triumph over Australia, India's first in 71 years.
The former all-rounder was alluding to Gavaskar's comments made on air during the fourth day's play Sunday.
After fellow panellist Murali Karthik called the Perth defeat a wake-up call, Gavaskar had said, ...

This team doesn't fire blanks, Shastri hits back at critics

US President Donald Trump said he looks forward to speaking to the world in his annual State of the Union address later this month in which he has "a lot of great things" to say.
Newly-sworn-in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week invited President Trump to deliver the customary State of the Union (SOTU) address before a joint session of Congress on January 29.
Trump told reporters at the White House: "I will be making the State of the Union on January 29th. I look forward to it. I look forward to speaking, really, before the world. We have a lot of great things to say".
This would be Trump's first SOTU address wherein the Democrats would be in majority in the House of Representatives.
"Our country is doing better than any country in the world, right now. Our military is almost completely rebuilt.  When I took it over, it was a mess. It was depleted. Our trade deals are going great.
"We have a deal with Mexico, Canada, South Korea. We're negotiating with Europe, the European Union. ...

Have 'lot of great things' to say in SOTU address: Trump

Sheikh Hasina will be sworn in as Bangladesh's prime minister for a record fourth term on Monday after her Awami League's landslide victory in the December 30 election.
Hasina's ruling alliance won more than 90 per cent of the seats contested in the election, which was marred by accusations of ballot stuffing, voter intimidation and violence.
Hasina, 71, and her ruling Awami League party have dismissed the accusations.
On Thursday, she was chosen as the leader of the House for the fourth time.
Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is termed by many as the country's iron lady.
Bangladesh on Sunday named a council of ministers with several new faces in the 47-member Cabinet of Prime Minister Hasina.
Several veterans were dropped from the council of ministers amid speculation about the inductions as major portfolios like defence were retained by Hasina herself.
The Jatiya Party, a key partner in the Awami League-led Grand Alliance of Hasina, on ..

Sheikh Hasina to be sworn in as Bangladesh PM

At least 595 people, including Pakistani security officials, have been killed and 1,030 others injured in 262 terror attacks in the country during 2018, according to a report.
Most of the attacks were targeted at security and law enforcement agencies. Among these attacks, the most menacing were carried out on political leaders and workers.
The deadliest attacks took place in the run-up to the July 25 general elections, the Pak Institute for Peace Studies' (PIPS), an Islamabad-based think tank, said in its annual Pakistan Security Report 2018.
In July, a suicide bomber killed 128 people at an election rally in southwestern Pakistan in the second election-related attack. The bombing was the most deadly attack in Pakistan in over three years.
It stated that there was a "29 per cent decline in terrorist attacks and 27 per cent in consequent fatalities in 2018, compared to previous year".
The PIPS said that about 38 per cent of the total 595 people killed in acts of terrorism in Pakistan ..

262 terror attacks killed 595 people in Pakistan in 2018: Report

People are happier in areas where the government spends more on public goods, such as libraries, parks, natural resources and police protection, a US study has found.
According to researchers from Baylor University in the US, public goods spending makes communities more livable.
"Public goods are things you can't exclude people from using -- and one person using them doesn't stop another from doing so," said Patrick Flavin, an associate professor at Baylor.
"They're typically not profitable to produce in the private market, so if the government doesn't provide them, they will either be under-provided or not at all," Flavin said.
"If roads are completed and kept up, so that people aren't stuck in traffic, they have more time to do things they enjoy doing. Large parks are social spaces -- and one clear finding of happiness studies is that people who are more socially connected tend to be happier," he said.
Another benefit of spending money on public goods is that such amenities ...

Govt spending on libraries, parks boosts happiness: US study

China has executed a farmer who attacked several children with a knife at a kindergarten in a southern Chinese city two years ago, state media reported Monday.
Yan Pengan was executed last Friday for slashing young children at the school in the Guangxi Zhuang region, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Yan went to the kindergarten with a kitchen knife in January 2017 and attacked 12 children, seriously injuring four of them.
A teacher fended off the attack and called for help as Yan fled the scene. He later surrendered himself to local authorities.
Knife attacks targeting schoolchildren are not uncommon in China.
Last October, a knife-wielding woman injured 14 children at a Sichuan province kindergarten.
In April 2017, a man killed nine middle school students as they were returning home in one of the country's deadliest knife attacks in recent years.
The suspect in that case, who was later executed, had told police he was exacting revenge because he had been bullied when he ...

China executes kindergarten knife attacker

The Israeli army said Monday it had carried out further air raids against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket being fired over its border.
The Israeli air defence system intercepted the rocket which was fired overnigh from the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave, the army.
Planes and helicopter gunships then raided "terrorist targets at Hamas military camps" on the Gaza Strip, the statement said.
The latest raids follow strikes by the Israeli army on two Hamas posts on Sunday, after balloons carried an explosive device over the border fence.
The Gaza border has been relatively calm in recent weeks after a deal in which Israel allowed Qatar to provide millions of dollars in aid for fuel and salaries in the blockaded enclave.
Following Sunday's strikes, the Israeli army statement said: "Earlier today, an explosive device attached to multiple balloons was launched on a model airplane from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.
"In response, (Israeli) attack helicopters ...

Israel launches further Hamas strikes after Gaza rocket fired

Jim Carrey is currently dating actor Ginger Gonzaga, who starts alongside him in "Kidding".
The actor's representative confirmed to E! News that Gonzaga is Carrey's girlfriend.
Carrey's character on the Showtime series also dated Gonzaga's recurring character, Vivian.
The two made their official red carpet debut over the weekend, when they stepped out arm in arm for Showtime's Golden Globe nominees celebration.
Carrey was previously in relationships with Renee Zellweger, Jenny McCarthy and the late Cathriona White. He was first married to actress Melissa Womer, with whom he shares 31-year-old daughter Jane Carrey, and later briefly to "Dumb and Dumber" co-star Lauren Holly.

Jim Carrey dating 'Kidding' co-star Ginger Gonzaga

Highly venomous jellyfish have stung more than three thousand people on Australia's northeastern shores in just a few days, authorities said Monday, forcing the closure of several beaches.
The massive influx of Portuguese man o' war jellyfish, whose stings are notoriously painful, has been described as an "invasion" by local media in the state of Queensland.
Coastguard association Surf Life Saving said a "whopping" 3,595 people had suffered painful burns after encounters with the creatures, also known as bluebottles for their transparent bluish appearance.
At least four major beaches remained closed as the organisation warned that even more jellyfish were on their way.
"A wall of bluebottles is approaching #Rainbow beach. Lifesavers are closing the beach. Please stay out of the water," read one of several warnings from Surf Life Saving.
Bluebottle stings are a frequent occurrence and it is not uncommon to hear howls of pain from changing rooms along Australia's eastern beaches during .

Thousands stung in Australian jellyfish 'invasion'

Delegates from the US and China on Monday began the crucial face-to-face negotiations here to ease a bitter trade war between the world's two largest economies amid growing concerns about China's slowing economy and its impact on American businesses.
The US and China have been locked in an escalating trade spat since early 2018, raising import tariffs on each other's goods.
Last year, US President Donald Trump imposed tariff hikes of up to 25 per cent on USD 250 billion of Chinese goods. The move prompted China to increase tariffs on USD 110 billion of US goods.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to halt any further tariff increases for 90 days beginning January 1.
Deputy US trade representative Jeffrey Gerrish is leading the US delegation at the two-day talks with Chinese vice-ministerial counterparts.
China is facing the daunting task of presenting a credible plan to meet Trump's demands to cut down the USD 375 billion trade deficit.
Ahead of the talks, a Chinese ...

US, China hold crucial talks to ease trade war

Rachel Brosnahan gave a shout-out to the "village matriarchy" led by writer Amy Sherman-Palladino, who runs the critically-acclaimed "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel" for her second Golden Globe win.
Brosnahan, who has won both name and fame for her portrayal of Miriam 'Midge' Maisel, a 1950s housewife-turned-stand-up-comedienne in the hit series, hailed women at the helm of decision making for making projects such as the Amazon Prime Video show.
"Thank you to our incredible village that it takes to make the show. And this village is a matriarchy led by Amy Sherman-Palladino.
"We have women in so many leadership roles across this show, at Amazon. Thank you to our entire team," the actor, who won her second consecutive Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy trophy this year.
Brosnahan also weighed in on how the team was thankful that the show continued to resonate with the audience in its second season, which premiered last month.
"It's so nice that we ...

Rachel Brosnahan thanks 'village matriarchy' for second Golden Globe win

An ex-Goldman Sachs banker facing charges in the US and Malaysia over a massive financial scandal Monday had his bid to be freed on bail rejected by a Kuala Lumpur court.
Huge sums of public money were purportedly stolen from state fund 1MDB and used to buy everything from yachts to artwork in a scheme that allegedly involved former premier Najib Razak and contributed to his government's shock election defeat in May.
Goldman's role is under scrutiny as the Wall Street titan helped arrange $6.5 billion in bonds for 1MDB, with Kuala Lumpur accusing the bank and its former employees of misappropriating billions of dollars.
Ng Chong Hwa, a Malaysian former managing director at the bank, was indicted over the controversy in November in America -- investigators believe stolen cash was laundered through the US financial system -- and US authorities are seeking to extradite him.
Malaysia then filed charges against Ng last month, as well as Goldman and another of its former employees, Tim ...

Ex-Goldman banker accused over 1MDB loses bail bid

Golden Globes 2019 complete winners list
Best Motion Picture  Drama  "Bohemian Rhapsody"  Twentieth Century Fox / Regency Enterprises; Twentieth Century Fox
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture  Drama  Rami Malek, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture  Drama  Glenn Close, "The Wife"
Best Motion Picture  Musical or Comedy  "Green Book"  Participant Media / DreamWorks Pictures; Universal Pictures
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture  Musical or Comedy  Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television  "The Assassination of Gianni Versace" (FX Networks)  Fox 21 Television Studios / FX Productions
Best Television Series  Musical or Comedy  "The Kominsky Method" (Netflix)  Warner Bros. Television
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series  Musical or Comedy  Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs.

Golden Globes 2019 complete winners list

The humiliating loss to India in the Asian Cup has resulted in Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac's sacking but the Serb was effusive in his praise for the Stephen Constantine-coached side.
Rajevac, who was sacked by Football Association of Thailand hours after India's stunning 4-1 win on Monday, said his side's opponents thoroughly deserved to take all three points.
"They (India) absolutely deserved to win the match. For us, the first half was mostly okay, even though we conceded the opening goal after a corner of our own. In the second period, India were more aggressive, and they clearly wanted the victory," Rajevac said.
"We under-performed after the break. At the start of the second half we conceded an early goal which forced us to open up a little as we tried to find an equaliser. The real problem for us was that we did not have a response to India's aggressive style of play."
The Serbian, who took Ghana to the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after stints in 

Sacked after defeat to India, Thailand head coach praises Chhetri and Co.

Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the surprise winner in the Best Motion Picture  Drama category at the Golden Globes, besting front-runners "A Star Is Born", "Black Panther", "If Beale Street Could Talk" and "BlacKkKlansman".
The film had garnered mixed reviews by critics despite being named the highest earning music biopic of all time.
The film's lead star Rami Malek, who has been widely hailed for his career-best turn as Freddie Mercury, won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama over Bradley Cooper, Willem Defoe, Lucas Hedges and John David Washington.
Malek thanked "the beautiful man", the late Queen frontman, for the award.
"Thank you to Freddie Mercury for giving me the joy of a lifetime. I love you, you beautiful man. This is for and because of you, gorgeous," he said.
Malek also thanked Queen founding members Roger Taylor and Brian May, who were in the audience, for "ensuring that authenticity and inclusivity exist in the music and in the ...

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