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Lionel Messi fan who had the player's name tattooed across his forehead following Argentina's World Cup triumph admits he REGRETS it after he was trolled for being 'stupid'

A Lionel Messi fan who had the footballer's name tattooed on his face after Argentina's World Cup triumph says he regrets what he did.

Colombian influencer Mike Jambs inked the word Messi on his forehead, three stars on one of his cheeks for each of the World Cups Argentina has won and D10S on the other which is a combination of the Spanish word for God with the player's famous number 10 shirt.

He initially defended his decision against attacks from critics who branded him stupid after he posted footage of him having his bizarre tattoo done on his Instagram site, insisting: 'I'm not harming anyone, I'm not doing anything illegal.'

Covid In China: UK based health experts estimated that the country is is likely registering 9,000 deaths a day- double of what it had estimated last week.

As China opened up, removing Covid restrictions, a surge in infections has been witnessed in the country although no clear data has come out of China. UK based health experts estimated that the country is is likely registering 9,000 deaths a day- double of what it had estimated last week.

Cumulative Covid-related deaths in China since December 1 likely reached 100,000, while infections totaled 18.6 million, UK-based health data firm Airfinity said in a statement.

The health firm further estimated that China’s Covid infections will reach their first peak on January 13 when 3.7 million cases will be registered in a day adding that the daily death toll will peak on January 23 with about 25,000 a day. The cumulative deaths could reach 584,000, the firm warned.

After a substantial decline in the value of his shares in the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla this year, Elon Musk is no longer the richest man in the world.

According to Forbes and Bloomberg, Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury goods company LVMH, has surpassed Elon Musk for the top slot.

Arnault's substantial investment in Christian Dior SE, the holding company that owns 41.2% of LVMH, is where the majority of his fortune originates from. He owns shares in Christian Dior SE and 6.2% of LVMH through Groupe Familial Arnault, his family's holding firm.

Musk is Tesla's CEO and the company's top shareholder, with an estimated 14% stake. In October, he finished a $44 billion takeover of the social media site Twitter after which reports of Tesla board members being worried spread. Musk reportedly even hired engineers from Tesla to work on Twitter, worrying shareholders even more.

Forbes estimates that Musk is currently worth around $178 billion (£152 billion). Bernard Arnault, on the other hand, is worth $188 billion.

After months of legal fighting, Musk's Twitter purchase was finally finalised. Some have attributed Tesla's share price decline to the distraction brought by the microblogging platform.

After investing in Twitter at the beginning of the year, Musk made his $44 billion offer in April, which many people thought was excessively costly.

He backed out of the agreement in July, citing worries about the volume of fake and bot accounts on the network. In the end, Twitter officials filed a lawsuit to enforce the billionaire's offer.

According to Wedbush Securities investor Dan Ives, the "circus" surrounding the Twitter transaction has lowered the value of Tesla's stock.

"Musk has gone from a superhero to Tesla's stock, to a villain in the eyes of the Street, as the overhang grows with each tweet," he told the BBC.

"The Twitter circus show has damaged Musk's reputation and is a significant risk to Tesla's shares. Tesla and Musk are one and the same."

In order to finance his purchase, the Twitter boss sold shares of Tesla for billions of dollars, which aided in the share price decline.

The demand for the company's electric cars could slow down if the economy weakens, increased financing prices discourage consumers, and other companies raise their electric vehicle offers. This is yet another thing that worries investors.

Recalls and government inquiries into crashes and its autopilot system have hurt Tesla too.

Perennial underdogs New Zealand find their route to the final blocked by a plucky Pakistan side.

Who: Pakistan vs New Zealand
When: November 9, 08:00 GMT
Where: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia

The first semi-final of the T20 World Cup is between two teams who, for differing reasons, not many expected to see at this stage of the tournament.

New Zealand’s underdogs tag at every World Cup is as perennial as it is perplexing. The Black Caps have reached at least the semi-finals of every World Cup since 2015 and have been losing finalists in 2019 (50 overs) and 2021 (20 overs).

pected them to make it out of the group that also featured England and hosts Australia, never mind topping it.

Pakistan, meanwhile, evoked the spirit of their 1992 World Cup triumph where they qualified for the semi-finals despite winning just one of their first five games and went on to lift the cup.

To say their tournament so far has been a rollercoaster ride would be an understatement. Eulogies for their World Cup campaign began pouring in after their loss to Zimbabwe but wins in their remaining three group games and a helping hand from Netherlands who defeated South Africa, saw them seal a semi-final berth.

LAHORE:
The three-day celebrations marking the 553rd birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak concluded at Gurudwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib on Tuesday.

Addressing the ceremony, Planning Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal extended felicitations to the Sikhs on the birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak, saying, “Baba Guru Nanak's teachings reflect tolerance, dignity of people, equal rights, interfaith harmony and help to the needy. Baba Guru Nanak taught and propagated a society free of discrimination.”

The minister expressed his commitment to provide best facilities to Sikh pilgrims coming from across the world and said the government would link Kartarpur with Nankana Sahib via motorway.

He disclosed that a road network would be laid to create a link from Nankana Sahib to facilitate the Sikh pilgrims.

Ahsan Iqbal appreciated the district administration and police officers to put in place effective and comprehensive measures, particularly security, to protect the Sikh pilgrims and avoid any unfortunate incident.

Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from Pakistan, India, Canada and European countries participated in the ceremony. Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Habibur Rehman Gilani said that work was in progress for the establishment of a library and a museum in Nankana Sahib to protect the Sikh heritage, adding that ETPB provided the best facilities to the community participating in the celebrations.

He said that special attention had been paid to the maintenance and renovation of Gurdwaras of the Sikh community.

Sikh delegation's leader Pardhan Sardar Ameer Singh and Sardar Gopal Singh expressed gratitude to the Pakistan government and the district administration for the hospitality extended to the Sikh yatrees.

Other Sikh leaders including Parmeet Singh, Diljeet Singh, Manjeet Singh, Partab Singh also attended the ceremony.

The UN Population Division estimates that the number of humans on Earth will grow to eight billion on November 15, more than three times higher than the 2.5 billion global headcount in 1950.

The United Nations estimates that the global human population will reach eight billion by mid-November, and will continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace and with regional disparities, in the decades to come.

Wednesday shall be observed as public holiday throughout the country, reads notification

The federal government on Tuesday announced November 9 as a public holiday, in connection with the birth anniversary of the country’s national poet and philosopher Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal.

A notification issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said, “The Prime Minister has been pleased to desire that 9th November (Iqbal Day) shall henceforth be observed as a public holiday”.

Following this, the Cabinet Division in a notification issued said, “In continuation of the Cabinet Division’s circular No. 10-01/2021-Min-II dated 17th December 2021, it is for general information that the Prime Minister is pleased to restore the public holiday on occasion of Allama Iqbal, i.e. 9th November. Therefore, Wednesday 9th November 2022 shall be observed as public holiday throughout the country”.

The 49-year-old investigative journalist was killed when his car was shot at in what police have called a case of ‘mistaken identity’.

gret over killing Pakistani investigative journalist Arshad Sharif, saying it was a case of “mistaken identity” during a search for a similar car involved in a child abduction case.

According to local media reports, the 49-year-old journalist was killed on Sunday night when the car he was travelling in was fired upon by police after it failed to stop at a checkpoint outside the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. He was accompanied by another Pakistani Khurram Ahmed, who was wounded in the incident.

Sharif was critical of Pakistan’s powerful military, which has ruled the country for more than half of its 75 years since independence. He left his country in August after sedition charges were filed over an interview with an opposition politician during which comments deemed offensive to the military were made.

Defence secretary Ben Wallace flies to Washington to discuss dangerous new phase in invasion of Ukraine

Iran has deepened its commitment to supplying arms for Russia’s assault on Ukraine by agreeing to provide a batch of medium-range missiles, as well as large numbers of cheap but effective drones, according to US and Iranian security officials.

The surface-to-surface missiles are designed to supplement the severely run-down stock of Russian missiles, as part of a bid to systematically destroy Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure ahead of a brutal winter.

The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, flew to Washington at short notice to discuss the dangerous new phase in the war, share intelligence on Iran’s involvement and discuss what package of new air defence can be provided to Ukraine to help the nation stave off the attacks.

The Iranian sale of missiles to Russia took place following a series of meetings including one in Moscow on 18 September and another on 6 October when Iran’s first vice-president, Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow.

Reuters cited an Iranian official briefed on the October trip saying: “The Russians had asked for more drones and those Iranian ballistic missiles with improved accuracy, particularly the Fateh and Zolfaghar missiles family.”

The two short-range missiles are capable of striking targets at distances of 300km (185 miles) and 700km (435 miles) respectively.

Iran on Tuesday repeated its denial of selling drones to Russia, and called for talks with Ukraine to “resolve” the accusations. But Tehran at the same time asserts it is fully entitled to sell arms abroad since the restrictions on arms sales contained in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal expired in 2020. The US, France and the UK say missile sales would be in breach of the nuclear deal.

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Tuesday that he had advised that his nation break off all diplomatic ties with Iran, saying Ukraine would not tolerate Iran’s “meanness and lies” on the issue.

The White House has straightforwardly accused Iran of lying about the drone sales, but has been more circumspect about the missile sales. Western officials say hundreds of drones have been supplied, and were in the short term being used to destroy Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure.

KARACHI: Gold shined bright on Monday after the price rose by Rs950 per tola as the rupee’s technical correction boosted its safe-haven appeal.

Data released by the All Pakistan Sarafa Gems and Jewellers Association (APSGJA) showed that the gold price settled at Rs148,300 per tola. The price rose by Rs814 per 10 grams to settle at Rs127,143.

Cumulatively, the precious commodity gained Rs3,550 per tola during the week that ended October 15.

Gold prices seem to be consolidating. There is a pause in the market ahead of major event risks, with uncertainty regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) review due in November coupled with inflation numbers.

The precious commodity is considered an inflation hedge but rising interest rates reduce the non-yielding bullion’s appeal.

Pakistan meets almost all its gold demand through imports, and traders follow its international price in setting rates in the country. Jewellers import the metal against the US dollar and UAE dirham before converting its price into rupees.

In the international market, the price of yellow metal rose by $13 per ounce helped by a slight pullback in the US dollar and treasury yields, even as fears lingered about more hefty Federal Reserve rate hikes to tame soaring inflation. The price settled at $1,657.

Gold rates in Pakistan are around Rs2,600 below the cost compared to the rate in the Dubai market.

Meanwhile, silver prices in the domestic market remained unchanged at Rs1,560 per tola and Rs1,337.44 per 10 grams.

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Researchers are close to completing the world’s largest digital camera that will take pictures of the night sky, situated high on an Andes mountaintop observatory in Chile.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) project will use a 3.2 gigapixel camera capable of seeing a particle of dust on the moon, according to New Scientist. The camera with a five-foot-wide lens is being built by researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University.

When testing is complete in California, the camera will be flown via a jumbo jet to Santiago, Chile, and moved onto a train. From there, it will travel to the base of Cerro Pachon, a nearly 9,000-foot mountain in the Andes, with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory at the summit.

Once in place, the camera will be used to capture and index around 20 billion galaxies over ten years, according to New Scientist.

The nearly $1 billion project is expected to reveal more information about our universe and any threats.

“We’ll be able to look at the origins and history of our solar system and also potentially to find objects that could threaten the Earth eventually, so that’s interesting in its own right,” Steven Ritz, a physics professor at UC Santa Cruz told KNTV.

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez says he will walk away from his post if he feels he cannot help the team improve.