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LAHORE: Hours after pulling out of Pakistan’s touring party to New Zealand, newly-appointed batting coach Moha­mmad Yousuf said he will be travelling with the squad. The Pakistan Cricket Board had announced that Yousuf had opted out due to his daughter’s illness with a new-look Pakistan team scheduled to leave for New Zealand in the wee hours of Wednesday to play five Twenty20 Internationals and three One-day Internationals against the Black Caps. Three hours after the initial notification of his withdrawal, the PCB issued another statement announcing the batting great will be on the flight after his daughter’s health had improved.…

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says administration will work with the US Congress to abolish department.The United States Department of Education has announced it will lay off almost half of its employees as President Donald Trump moves to fulfil his campaign promise to dismantle the agency. The department said on Tuesday that it would reduce the size of its workforce to roughly 2,183 employees by placing staff on administrative leave from March 21. It said it would continue to provide “all statutory programs” falling under its purview, including student loans and funding for special needs students. The cuts follow…

Anthropic, a San Francisco startup often cast as an independent player in the AI race, has deeper ties to Google than previously known. Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal that Google owns a 14% stake in the company and is set to pour another $750 million into it this year through a convertible debt deal. In total, Google’s investment in Anthropic now exceeds $3 billion. Despite having no voting rights, board seats, or direct control over the company, Google’s backing raises questions about how independent Anthropic really is. As AI startups increasingly rely on funding from…

Voting was extended at some polling stations amid high turnout in an election dominated by Trump’s promise to control the strategic Arctic island.Unofficial results in Greenland’s election are expected to emerge shortly after polling closed in a vote that will determine which leaders confront United States President Donald Trump’s pledge to take control of the strategically placed Arctic country. Voting was extended by half an hour past a 22:00 GMT deadline on Tuesday amid high voter turnout at several of the 72 polling stations across the mineral-rich island, where 40,500 people were eligible to cast their ballot. There were no…

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities: civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, perhaps; student loans to Treasury or Commerce; oversight of student disability rights to Health and Human Services.Less clear is what could happen with a more lofty part of its mission — promoting equal access for students in an American education system that is fundamentally unequal.The department has cut its workforce in half, including a layoff of 1,300 people announced Tuesday. President Donald Trump pledged during his campaign to eliminate the department entirely,…

NEW YORK (AP) — When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges.The international-affairs graduate student was a fixture in and around the protest encampment on Columbia’s Manhattan campus, serving as a spokesperson and negotiator for demonstrators who deplored Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and pressed the Ivy League school to cut financial ties with Israel and companies that supported the war.“We want to be visible,” Khalil said last April.Now that visibility has helped make him the…

Conan O’Brien gets a golden Doom Hammer Image Credits:SXSW / YouTube Johanna Faries, president of Blizzard Entertainment, and Conan O’Brien nerded out over the world of gaming at SXSW on Tuesday. O’Brien, the iconic comedian, is a self-proclaimed “clueless gamer” who has been known to dabble (badly, by his own account) with World of Warcraft and Diablo. (Side note: O’Brien said he’d like to be “a demon, maybe a necromancer” in the next Diablo game.)  The two noted that SXSW’s inclusion of a gaming talk was overdue recognition of the importance of the industry, which is increasingly influencing even film…

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says that, despite the Trump administration’s attacks on globalism, global trade isn’t dead. In fact, he thinks that the U.S.’s key to growth will be embracing an international exchange of goods. “So, I actually am a firm believer — I think it goes all the way back to the economists who studied global trade in the 1800s — and I think their perspective was, every 10% increase in global trade leads to a 1% increase in local GDP,” Krishna said during an onstage interview at SXSW on Tuesday. “So, if we want to really optimize even…

Apple on Tuesday released iOS 18.3.2 and iPadOS 18.3.2 with an urgent fix for a WebKit flaw that’s already been exploited on older versions of the mobile operating system. The zero-day, tagged as CVE-2025-24201, allows attackers to break out of the Web Content sandbox and Cupertino warns that it “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 17.2.” “This is a supplementary fix for an attack that was blocked in iOS 17.2,” the company said in a barebones bulletin. “For our customers’ protection, Apple doesn’t disclose, discuss, or confirm…

PARIS (AP) — Saint Laurent closed Paris Fashion Week in dramatic fashion Tuesday night, with the Eiffel Tower glowing against the night sky and a vast black onyx stage polished to a mirror-like sheen. Designer Anthony Vaccarello ’s fall collection refined the house’s codes into pure, striking silhouettes — where sharp tailoring and commanding shoulders set the tone. Models moved with quiet authority across the onyx stage, their looks defined by bold proportions, rich textures, and a stripped-back sense of power.“Chanel gave women freedom. Yves Saint Laurent gave them power.” The famous words of Saint Laurent’s partner Pierre Bergé, echoed…