England’s top seed Curtis Malik (L) trains ahead of the Venus ABC Open Squash Championship, which begins at DHA Creek Club on Wednesday. Photo: Express Tribune KARACHI: Pakistan’s experienced squash player Nasir Iqbal will begin his title quest against Canada’s Salah Eltorgman in the men’s singles preliminary round of the Venus ABC Open 2026, which…
Cohere AI has released Rerank 5, a new reranker family in Pro and Fast tiers. Cohere Rerank 5 is a retrieval model that reorders search results before they reach an LLM. It adds 2 developer features: Context Focus, which returns relevant passages inside each document, and calibrated relevance scores. For RAG and agent builders, the…
Female Polio worker administering polio drops to children at Warsak road during anti-polio vaccination campaign in Peshawar on September 9, 2024. — APP 17-month-old infected with virus: NEOC. KP remains most-affected province. NEOC claims polio cases reduced by 99.8%. Pakistan has reported its fifth polio case of 2026, with the latest infection identified in Khyber…
A physician at Lions Gate Hospital says he is seriously considering resigning from the hospital as he has hit a breaking point with the health-care system. Dr. Kevin McLeod posted on social media on Thursday, raising concerns about the current system and calling on the next government to make people in highly paid positions accountable….
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma struck a career-best 179 to lead a determined recovery before the hosts declared their first innings at 425-9 on the third day of the second Test against Australia at Saint George’s Park on Tuesday. Bavuma recorded his fifth Test century in a patient 226-ball knock, while Marco Jansen scored 85…
During Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, the company revealed its board had approved a new class of non-voting stock, called Class C common stock. The shares give the holder an ownership stake but no vote on company decisions. This class takes effect in January. Meta says it will use the stock for capital raising, employee…
British-Pakistani consultant gynaecologist and robotic surgeon Dr Amer Raza (left) and the da Vinci Surgical System. — Reporter LONDON: British-Pakistani consultant gynaecologist and robotic surgeon Dr Amer Raza has set a new record in Britain after pioneering single-port robotic gynaecological surgery and leading a programme that has now successfully performed more than 400 procedures using…
The operator of a speed boat who caused a deadly boat crash off Woodbine Beach six years ago will not go to jail. Superior Court Justice Brees Davies said in handing down her sentence in a downtown courtroom Thursday that while Thamilagan Olivernicholas engaged in risky behavior by driving his boat at a high rate…
Promising girl lifts 5000m race walk title as National Athletics Championship explodes into action Sindh’s Mahnoor Fatima on Thursday was crowned champion of the women’s 5,000 metres race walk event of the 54th National Athletics Championship which exploded into action at the NED University of Engineering and Technology on Thursday. Mahnoor clocked 32 minutes and…
Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Andruil’s Palmer Luckey had an idea to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and other emergency response teams. That idea, on Thursday, announced its emergence from stealth as Warhound, armed with $200 million in funding from investors including In-Q-Tel, Sequoia, and 8VC. The round values the…
