SAN FRANCISCO: Jeff Bezos is officially the richest person on the planet thanks to the success of Amazon — but his bold vision extends to space and even time itself. With Amazon´s share price up nearly 60 percent during the past year, the personal wealth of the company´s 54-year-old founder …

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus smart phones are available for South Koreans who took advantage of the pre-order program, with initial sales numbers presumed to be below that of its immediate predecessor. Local mobile carriers said they have started distributing the Galaxy S9 series phones …

BEIJING: WeChat’s worldwide accounts have crossed the one billion mark, according to the chief executive of its parent company Tencent. The all-in-one app is a daily necessity for most Chinese, bringing together messaging, social media, mobile payment, games, news and other services. “WeChat’s worldwide monthly active users have surpassed the …

Does Armeena Khan even need an introduction? She is an asset to Pakistan’s entertainment industry and has bagged two powerful and entirely different roles this year in ‘Sherdil’ and ‘Achilles Protocol’. With pleasure, I welcome you to Armeena’s world! Tell me one interesting fact about yourself. I don’t own cats …

New York: To amass a fortune in real estate, despite New York’s crazy housing prices: that is the challenge thrown down by singer Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez to kids from the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough. Around 50 young students from the Bronx, most of them black …

English actress and model Elizabeth Hurley’s 21-year-old nephew has been hospitalised after being stabbed repeatedly in the back. Hurley confirmed the “brutal” attack on her Twitter account, saying it is an “appalling” time for the family. Miles, a model, suffered numerous stab wounds as he was targeted by a group …

During a conversation with local media personality on ‘The Kapoor Clan: Films, Family and Feminism’, Kareena Kapoor Khan negated the existence of nepotism in Bollywood. The origin of this debate is year older, stemming from the Bollywood dive, Kangna Ranawat against the famous Director, Karan Johar. “There are many superstars …

The fashion week craziness continued on the second day of 11th edition of PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week 2018. However, one couldn’t help but notice how the red carpet was a little empty with very few known celebrities, socialites in attendance. Day 2 started with late afternoon shows where Saira Rizwan, …

WASHINGTON: A senior US diplomat has said that the United States cannot hold direct talks with the Taliban as it’s doing with North Korea because there’s no comparison between the two situations. Instead, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells urged the insurgents …

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing. The magnitude 9.0 quake — which struck under the Pacific Ocean on March 11, …