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A 58-year-old American woman travelled to Pakistan, embraced Islam and married a 34-year-old Pakistani man after their relationship, which began on social media, developed into a romantic partnership. According to media reports, Rosanna Marina married Adil Shehzad after the two first connected on Facebook around three years ago. Adil said their initial online friendship gradually grew closer and eventually turned into a serious relationship, leading to their marriage in Pakistan. During a statement before the court, Marina said she had travelled to Pakistan of her own free will and married Adil willingly. The unusual marriage has attracted considerable attention on…

Eighteen years after his last record, singer Atif Aslam celebrated his new album Subah Aye Na with a star-studded gathering featuring Fahad Mustafa, Asim Azhar, Talha Anjum and Hania Aamir. The event attracted attention because the celebrities come from different parts of Pakistan’s entertainment industry. Mustafa, Azhar and Anjum were seen with Aslam during the night, with videos showing them singing together on stage. Subah Aye Na is Aslam’s fourth studio album and was released on July 31. It is his first full-length project since 2008’s Meri Kahani. The eight-track album marks his return to making a complete album after…

Social media platforms have increasingly emerged as a new channel for diplomatic communication, with governments, foreign ministries and world leaders using digital platforms to announce foreign-policy positions, respond to international developments and communicate directly with global audiences. The growing practice, known as digital diplomacy or social-media diplomacy, is changing the way states communicate. While diplomatic letters, confidential cables, official notes, ambassadorial meetings and formal statements remain important, social media has introduced a faster and more public method of delivering diplomatic messages. The recent US-Iran conflict provided a prominent example of the growing role of digital diplomacy. Following the start of…

New Zealand’s conservative coalition government will introduce a ​bill in Parliament on Monday ‌that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, ​and proposes fines of ​up to 10% of a platform’s ⁠global revenue for non-compliance. The ​bill would require social media ​platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users’ ages, including by using existing ​account information, facial technology ​and digital identity documents. “We simply cannot accept ‌the ⁠harm being done to a generation of New Zealand children,” Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said ​in a ​statement. “Social ⁠media is exposing them to harmful content, addictive ​technology and pressures…

For social media platforms, keeping children off services they are too young to use is increasingly difficult when signing up can be as simple as entering a different date of birth. TikTok says it is trying to close that gap through a mix of technology, user reports and other signals, helping it identify and remove about 25 million accounts globally in the first quarter of 2026 that it suspected belonged to children under 13. TikTok does not currently share its user data with the media. However, the platform had 79.9 million users aged 18 and above in Pakistan in late…

A humanoid robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor ran 100 meters in 9.32 seconds, China’s state broadcaster reported on Saturday, beating the human world record held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt. The robot, dubbed Lightning, reached a peak speed of 14.5 meters per second during a preparatory test event for the second World Humanoid Robot Games, which opened in Beijing on Saturday. The performance surpassed the 9.58-second men’s 100-metre world record set by Bolt at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. China has been promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, with policymakers and companies…

Donald Trump’s olive branch to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the expense of a long-standing ally comes at a pivotal moment for U.S. security ties in Asia, as partners from Japan to India reassess how much they ​can rely on Washington. The U.S. president’s abrupt decision to cut back military exercises with South Korea last week, which he described as hostile to Pyongyang, has reinforced fears that Trump’s unpredictability could ‌strain alliances that have long maintained peace in the region, government officials and security experts said. Japan worries it too could find itself in Trump’s cross-hairs as it embarks…

Two Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza ​Strip on Sunday killed at least two people, including a four-year-old boy, and wounded seven others, Palestinian health officials said, as ‌Israel warned it would intensify strikes after what it said were launches of balloons, drones and kites from Gaza toward Israel. One of the strikes hit a building in Zawayda town in the centre of the enclave and followed a warning by the Israeli army for the owners of the property to leave the area, residents said. Medics said flying ​debris and shrapnel that spread for dozens of metres around had wounded at…

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will visit Ukraine on Monday on his first overseas trip since taking office, and will announce British support to ​help Kyiv improve its domestic production of long-range missiles. Burnham will be ‌in Ukraine to co-chair a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, a group of countries backing Ukraine, on Monday when he is also due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He is ​set to announce that Britain has agreed to allow European missile manufacturer ​MBDA to release classified information on British-made components used in the SCALP ⁠long-range cruise missile, according to his…

Syria and Israel held high-level, U.S.-mediated talks in Jordan on Sunday aimed at easing tensions following recent Israeli strikes on Syrian territory, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported, citing a diplomatic source ​at the foreign ministry. The talks focused on practical mechanisms to halt Israeli strikes, arrests and targeted operations, ​and on reviving negotiations towards a security agreement that could lay the groundwork for a ⁠broader future accord, SANA said. The two sides also discussed efforts to ease tensions between Israel and Turkey and to ​prevent their rivalry from spilling onto Syrian territory. Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told Reuters…