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Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan has climbed to second place in the latest ICC T20 International batting rankings, overtaking India’s Abhishek Sharma following the release of the updated rankings. The latest rankings were issued after India completed a 3-0 clean sweep over Zimbabwe in their three-match T20I series, bringing several notable changes across the batting and bowling charts. Farhan moved up to second place with 848 rating points, while Abhishek Sharma slipped to third with 819 points. India’s Ishan Kishan retained the top position with 910 rating points. Among other Pakistan batters, young opener Saim Ayub remained 41st with 560 points,…

Pakistan’s Muhammad Saqib and Muhammad Jawad have qualified for the finals of the Asian MMA Championship after impressive semifinal victories. Saqib secured his place in the under-18 final by defeating a strong opponent from Kazakhstan, while Jawad advanced to the under-16 title bout after overcoming a competitor from Kyrgyzstan. Both Pakistani fighters will now face opponents from Kazakhstan in their respective championship matches. Saqib enters the final with an impressive record, having won the gold medal at the 2024 GAMMA World MMA Championship. Pakistan Mixed Martial Arts Federation President Zulfiqar Ali praised the outstanding performances of the national fighters and…

Australia’s internet regulator said on Thursday it had begun legal action against messaging platform Telegram over alleged failings to tackle pro-terror posts. The office of the eSafety Commissioner said it had begun action after Telegram failed to remove videos of terrorist executions and mass shootings. “This case concerns content linked to some of the most notorious acts of known extremist violence in recent history, including material associated with the Christchurch and Buffalo terror attacks,” eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman ⁠Grant said in a statement. “We allege that this content remained accessible on the service long after Telegram had been put on…

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it expects chip shortages to worsen and extend into 2028, after it posted a more than 250-fold jump in chip profit, countering investor concerns that feverish AI spending by major technology firms may slow and curb growth. Shares in the world’s top memory chipmaker surged as much as 8% before trading down 1.1% on Thursday. “The supply shortage in 2027 is expected to worsen compared to this year, and it is expected to continue in 2028,” Jaejune Kim, executive vice president of Samsung’s memory business, told analysts on a call. He said Samsung has signed…

Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Wednesday said it expects to keep generating cash through its just-started fiscal 2027 and gave a ​capital expenditure forecast below Wall Street estimates after an accounting change for data center leases. The company also forecast sales and cloud growth that beat expectations for its current ‌fiscal first quarter, after it also topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly cloud revenue growth in its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30. All told, the metrics were a sign Microsoft’s massive AI spending bets were paying off, easing investor concerns that one of tech’s biggest cash generators was spending heavily in…

Senior Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone has demanded documents and answers from Elon Musk regarding the environmental and public health impact of xAI’s Colossus artificial intelligence data centre operations in Tennessee and Mississippi. Pallone, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Musk requesting information on the turbines used at the Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 facilities, emissions data, permitting records and communications with government officials. He also sought analyses related to the facilities’ emissions, electricity consumption and water usage, and requested a visit to the sites with committee staff. The New Jersey congressman said…

The US military completed a “heavy wave of strikes” against Iran on Thursday in retaliation for Tehran targeting American bases in Jordan, as fighting intensified in the Middle East war after a nearly week-long pause. The reignited hostilities appear to have dashed hopes of a quick return to negotiations between the foes. US President Donald Trump had vowed to hit Iran “hard” after Tehran launched missiles at Jordan, its first regional strike in days. American forces “successfully completed a heavy wave of strikes against Iran”, and struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard targets including military command centres, US Central Command…

French authorities gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by a monster wildfire to go back to their homes in southwest France, the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning a corner in their battle against the flames that have burned an area four times the size of Paris. Europe is enduring one of its hottest summers on record, with wildfires breaking out in areas stretching from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean and hundreds of thousands of people ordered to evacuate from homes and vacation destinations. Firefighters fanned out to battle infernos in places like England,…

A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least eight civilians, including children, and wounded more than 50 others, officials said. The blitz expanded Russia’s almost daily bombardment of Ukrainian cities as Moscow apparently looked to exploit Kyiv’s critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defenses. NATO member Poland, meanwhile, was looking into Ukrainian reports that a Russian cruise missile entered its airspace during the onslaught in an incident that could deepen tensions between the Western military alliance and Moscow. European countries, mistrustful of the Kremlin’s wider ambitions, fear that the war in Ukraine could…

Pakistan’s continued closure of its airspace in 2025 has dealt a significant blow to India’s aviation sector, with Air India attributing a major portion of its financial losses to the restrictions. According to international aviation publication FlightGlobal, Air India recorded a loss of nearly $2.3 billion during the financial year ending March 31. The airline said the closure of Pakistan’s airspace following the Pakistan-India conflict forced it to reroute flights operating on western routes, leading to a substantial increase in operational costs. Air India also cited rising fuel prices triggered by the US-Iran conflict and broader economic volatility as additional…