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Sahibzada Farhan, Haris Rauf get heroic welcome before Asia Cup final
DUBAI: Pakistani fans turned out in full force at the ICC Academy on Saturday to greet their team ahead of the much-anticipated Asia Cup 2025 final against India.
The atmosphere was electric, with supporters chanting patriotic slogans such as “Dil Dil Pakistan” and “Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan.”
The spotlight was firmly on opener Sahibzada Farhan and fast bowler Haris Rauf, whose arrival drew loud cheers and heartfelt admiration from the crowd.
Fans said both players had “stolen their hearts,” while the duo responded warmly, shaking hands and engaging with supporters before heading into training.
Located just 1.2 kilometres from the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the ICC Academy echoed with chants of “O Shahzada…!” and “Farhan Bhai, once again…!” Meanwhile, Pashtun fans extended their best wishes to Fakhar Zaman in Pashto, saying “Best of luck.”
With the high-stakes final just a day away, excitement among Pakistani fans in Dubai has reached fever pitch, as they eagerly await their favourite stars taking the field in Sunday’s historic showdown.
The Green Shirts set up a final against India after edging past Bangladesh by 11 runs in a Super Fours encounter on September 25. The final will be the first time the arch-rivals will face each other in the tournament’s history.
The 2016 champions have beaten every opposition on their path before swaggering into the final of the eight-team tournament.
Pakistan were defeated twice, first in the group stage and then in Super Fours, by an India team containing the world’s top-ranked batter and bowler in the T20 format in opener Abhishek Sharma and spinner Varun Chakravarthy.
The two sides will lock horns in the ultimate game as tensions remain heightened due to Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav’s controversial actions during their group match on September 14.
Pundits called his decision to skip a customary handshake at the toss and political statements in the post-match interview “unprecedented” and “detrimental to the spirit of the game.”
Following a Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) complaint, the International Cricket Council (ICC) formally reprimanded Yadav over his political remarks, advising him to refrain from such actions in the future.
Despite the charged environment, Pakistan captain Salman Agha expressed his excitement for the final against India. “The amount of pressure on both teams will be the same. We will try to give our best and win the final,” he said.
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Demi Lovato with husband Jutes suffer heartbreak on first anniversary
Love is strong… but tour schedules? Brutal.
Demi Lovato and husband Jordan Lutes (aka Jutes) are about to hit a relationship milestone – their first wedding anniversary – and unfortunately, they will be celebrating it miles apart.
Jutes, gearing up for his European tour in May and North American run in August, admitted the timing could not be worse.
“It’s one of those things where we get sad when we talk about it,” he shared. “So we’re like, ‘We won’t think about it yet.’ It’s gonna be tough, there’s no way around that.”
Romantic? Yes. Ideal? Not even close.
Still, he is not letting distance win. “We’re just gonna pretend,” he joked. “As soon as tour is over and we’re together, we’re gonna celebrate and that’ll be awesome. It’s part of the job and we’ll just have to FaceTime a ton and figure it out. We’ll get through it.”
Between shows, Jutes is riding high on his new single Disassociate and prepping what he calls his “biggest” tour yet – funded largely by fans.
“People coming to the show is by far the most important thing to me,” he said. “Nothing is going to replace showing up and a bunch of fans being there singing your songs.”
And Demi? Still his biggest fan.
“She believes in me more than I believe in myself,” he said. “We love to see each other win—seeing her win makes me feel better than seeing myself win.”
As for marriage rumours being “hard”? Jutes is no buying it: “Should we pretend to fight or something?”
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Diddy fights against ‘unfair’ trial with twisted arguments
Sean Diddy Combs filed a new appeal in the court for his immediate release with a new argument against his allegedly unfair trial.
The 56-year-old disgraced music mogul presented the argument through his legal team Alexandra Shapiro and Nicole Westmoreland in New York on Thursday, April 9.
They claimed that the Bad Boy Records founder ought to be freed under the First Amendment, according to the details obtained by Page Six.
Shapiro and Westmoreland argued that Diddy was wrongfully convicted under the Mann Act, while he was involved in the creation of independent adult tapes, which is legal under US laws for freedom of speech.
The Last Night rapper’s legal team claimed that the Judge Arun Subramanian who was in-charge of the case, used the wrong allegations against Combs to sentence him strongly.
“We made it abundantly clear. The District Court should not consider the acquitted conduct,” Shapiro said, adding that Combs’ sentence is the “highest sentence ever imposed on a Mann Act defendant under the same-based defence level.”
The attorneys demanded immediate acquittal and release of the music mogul or at least his freedom and resentencing to lesser time.
However, Assistant US Attorney Christy Slavik called the whole argument “meritless” marking the distinction between Diddy and adult filmmakers.
He also doubled down on Judge Subramanian’s “correctly applied” ruling given the “aggravated manner in which [Combs] committed his Mann Act offenses.”
Combs was was convicted of transportation for prostitution in July 2025 after his arrest in September 2024.
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NASA drops Artemis II moon mission playlist. These are the astronauts’ wake-up songs.
As the Artemis II mission crew heads back toward Earth following a history-making trip around the moon this week, NASA dropped the astronauts‘ highly anticipated morning playlist.
“You asked for it. Here it is,” NASA wrote Wednesday on social media, sharing the list via Spotify. “Each track was selected by the Moon crew, continuing a tradition that started more than 50 years ago. Stay tuned to find out which songs they’ll choose next.”
The list includes:
- “Sleepyhead” by Young & Sick
- “Green Light (feat. André 3000)” by John Legend and André 3000
- “In a Daydream” by Freddy Jones Band
- “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
- “Working Class Heroes (Work)” by CeeLo Green
- “Good Morning” by Mandisa and TobyMac
- “Tokyo Drifting” by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry
- “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie
- “Lonesome Drifter” by Charley Crockett
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen were launched into space on April 1 for their 10-day moon mission. Earlier this week, they completed a lunar flyby, becoming the first astronauts to loop around the moon in more than half a century. The crew captured stunning photos of Earth, the far side of the moon and an eclipse in space.
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The astronauts are the first humans to have seen with their own eyes large swaths of the far side of the moon in daylight, and they traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history, reaching a maximum distance from Earth of 252,756 miles.
The crew has woken up to music each day — “Under Pressure” played Wednesday and “Lonesome Drifter” on Thursday — which is a tradition held over from previous Apollo missions.
Why does NASA use music for wake-up calls?
In 2015, Colin Fries of the NASA History Division compiled a chronology of wake-up calls.
“There have always been inquiries about flown items and mission events as we all know, and those about wakeup calls and music played in space encompassed a steady stream (no pun intended)!” he wrote.
In his chronology, Fries referenced a letter from Lynn W. Heninger, then NASA’s acting assistant administrator for congressional relations, to a lawmaker in 1990 in which Heninger wrote: “Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to the occasion.”
“The common element of all these selections is that they promote a sense of camaraderie and esprit de corps among the astronauts and ground support personnel. That, in fact, is the sole reason for having wake-up music; and it is the reason that NASA management has neither attempted to dictate its content nor allowed outside interests to influence the process,” Heninger wrote to Illinois Rep. Robert H. Michel.
What are past crews’ wake-up songs?
The Apollo 10 mission crew’s wake-up songs in 1969 included “The Best Is Yet To Come” by Tony Bennett and “It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling” by Frank Sinatra, and “Come Fly With Me” when Apollo 10 woke up Mission Control.
The Apollo 15 mission in 1971 had a sense of humor, selecting the theme song from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
What song will the Artemis II crew wake up to on their final day in space?
NASA hasn’t said just yet, but in the past, several crews have woken up on their final day in space to Dean Martin’s popular song “Going Back to Houston.”
The Artemis II crew’s final day in space is Friday, when the Orion capsule is expected to splash down off the California coast near San Diego.
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