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The Australian writing duo have hit the big time here and overseas with their YA science fiction books.

Troy Bramston is careful to steer a middle course in assessing the life and work of Australia's longest-serving PM.

Visiting Les Murray at his home in Bunyah proved to be revealing in surprising ways.

Former journalist and author Anne-Louise Willoughby has taken on a stubborn and difficult subject.

The protagonist of Andrea Goldmith's latest novel decides to migrate to Australia after an accidental encounter with a Melburnian on the street in St Petersburg.

Guy Rundle writes with a kind of vagabond gusto, as this collection of his writing illustrates.

W.K. Stratton claims Sam Peckinpah's blood-soaked but beautifully choreographed The Wild Bunch as the greatest western ever made.

The boxing link between David Malouf and Peter Sellers. How Christian Ryan hit a big six. And when Candice Fox met Bill Clinton and all his security guards.

SUKKUR: Armed men, believed to be activists of some radical religious group, on Thursday stormed a heatstroke centre in the city and resorted to firing into the air, forcing its operators to take to their toes.

Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that it is possible the Russians have leverage over President Donald Trump.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economy suffered a major setback with all key sectors failing to perform according to expectations resulting in just 3.3 per cent economic growth rate, significantly short of 6.2pc growth target for the year 2018-19.

ISLAMABAD: The acco­u­n­tability court of Islam­abad on Thursday adjourned proceedings against former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur in a fake accounts case without any progress since the copies of reference and other documents were not distributed among all accused persons.

KARACHI: Fishermen’s Cooperative Society (FCS) chairman Abdul Bar on Thursday said the federal government had failed to get Pakistani fishermen released from Indian prisons despite the fact that it had freed 360 Indian fishermen who were detained for violating Pakistan’s territorial waters.

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court reserved its ruling in the school fees case after a daylong hearing on Thursday, with Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa stressing the need for spending more on teachers for quality education in the country.

KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) on Thursday expressed grave concern over a ban imposed by the federal government on advertisement to the Dawn Media Group, calling it a move against freedom of expression.

ISLAMABAD: Experts from Pakistan and China on Thursday reviewed problems related to the volume of traffic and trade activities on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

LAHORE: With the death toll in Wednesday’s Data Darbar shrine blast rising to 11 on Thursday, law enforcement agencies shifted focus to three major terrorist networks of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Punjab to lay their hands on handlers/facilitators.

Chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot held a hearing in the healthcare wing of HMP Belmarsh in an unprecedented move

ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Thursday demanded resignation of Sindh Governor Imran Ismail for his remarks about division of the province while Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers defended the view, saying there was room in the Constitution for creating more administrative units in a province.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday and announced that the government had initiated 36 social welfare projects in the country.

ISLAMABAD: The foreign ministers of Pakistan and India are unlikely to have a formal bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Orga­ni­sation’s (SCO) ministerial meeting later this month, although the two could have a formal handshake.

ISLAMABAD: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari speaks to PML-N leaders who called on him on Thursday.

• Bilawal says there is ‘PTIMF’ govt in country
• 26th Constitution Amendment Bill could not be passed as opposition seeks more time

A Marine was killed and six others were injured Thursday when a vehicle rolled over during a training exercise at Camp Pendleton, according to authorities.