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PARIS: Referees at this year’s Club World Cup will be equipped with body cameras and instructed to implement new rules to cut down on time-wasting by goalkeepers, FIFA announced on Tuesday. The use of the cameras will be on a trial basis after they were approved last month by IFAB, the sport’s lawmakers. “We think that it is a good chance to offer the viewers a new experience, in terms of images taken from a perspective, from an angle of vision which was never offered before,” said Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA referees committee. “It’s a combination of new…

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is often grouped together with risk assets like growth stocks in the minds of careful investors. Under that logic, if there’s a bear market for stocks, and the sentiment causes major players to flip to being risk-off from risk-on, Bitcoin is more likely to tumble than hold steady, just like other assets that are purchased for their upside potential rather than for their sturdiness. So does that mean you shouldn’t buy Bitcoin if there’s trouble in the stock market? Far from it. In fact, you might want to buy even more, so let’s look into why. To…

ISLAMABAD: Pakis­tan players Nadir Mirza, Amir Mazari, and Abuba­kar Talha moved into the boys’ singles quarter-finals of the ITF Pakistan Zainab Ali Naqvi Mem­orial World Juniors Tennis Championship here at the PTF Complex on Tuesday. Nadir outclassed China’s Yupei Liang 6-1, 6-0, Abubakar defeated Artem Khusanov of Uzbekistan 7-6(3), 6-2 while Amir overcame compatriot Shehryar Anees 6-1, 6-3 in their respective second-round matches. A total of 38 boys and 21 girls from Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Turkey, Japan, China, Austria, Uzbekistan, UK, Canada, Russia, Sweden, South Korea and Sri Lanka are participating in the championships. Results (second round): Boys’ singles: Abubakar…

LAHORE: Pakistan ‘A’ batter Gull Rukh plays a shot during the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier warm-up against Bangladesh at the Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Bangladesh won the match by 167 runs.—courtesy PCB LAHORE: Hosts Pakistan take on Ireland in the opening match of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday. Both the teams look almost equal in strength with 10th and 11th ranking on the ICC table, respectively. West Indies, Bangladesh, Scotland and Thailand are the other participating teams in the event. In head-to-head ODI record, Pakistan have held a clear edge over…

(Bloomberg) — Second-ranked cryptocurrency Ether (ETH-USD) led a fresh wave of selling in digital assets as US President Donald Trump insisted on pushing ahead with 104% tariffs on many Chinese goods, dimming hopes that a brutal trade war might be avoided. Ether fell more than 6% on Wednesday to hit its lowest intra-day level since March 2023 before trimming losses to trade at $1,432 at 9.51 a.m. in Singapore. Bitcoin (BTC-USD), the largest cryptocurrency, dropped more than 3% before regaining some ground. Trump and top administration officials on Tuesday signaled the US was open to dealmaking that could reduce or…

KARACHI: Noor Zaman kept Pakistan’s medal hopes alive as he breezed through to the semi-finals while compatriot Hamza Khan was ousted from a podium finish at the Under-23 World Squ­ash Championships on Tuesday. The 21-year-old put on a show for the home crowd in Creek Club’s sole glass court with an easy 11-7 win in the first game against France’s Melvil Scianimanico. The Frenchman — who finished runner-up in last year’s European Junior Championship and reached the semis of the 2023 World Junior Championship — almost won the second game but Noor snatched it from his grasp 11-9. Home favourite…

The value of Bitcoin held by the U.S. government has declined by $2 billion since Apr. 2, dubbed “Liberation Day” by President Donald Trump when he announced global “reciprocal tariffs.” As per the on-chain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, the U.S. government holds 198,012 BTC the value of which stood at $17.24 billion on Apr. 2. As the king coin’s price declined from $87,106 on Apr. 2 to $76,830.22 on Apr. 8, the value of the U.S. government’s Bitcoin holdings has dipped to $15.21 billion. In short, the government has seen a loss of nearly 12% in its Bitcoin holdings since “Liberation…

There is an intriguing relationship between Bitcoin and the U.S. President Donald Trump. Once dismissive of the crypto assets, Trump referred to Bitcoin as a “scam” in an interview in June 2021. However, he came to embrace crypto in the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections. “I will ensure that the future of crypto and the future of Bitcoin will be made in the USA, not driven overseas,” Trump said in a speech to his supporters at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington D.C. on May 25, 2024. When Trump won the presidential election on Nov. 5, 2024, Bitcoin was…

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is heading lower again in Tuesday’s trading. The cryptocurrency’s token price was down 4% as of 5:30 p.m. ET. At the same point in time, Bitcoin was down 2.6% over the last day, and Ethereum had fallen 6.1%. Dogecoin’s valuation is falling as investors respond to new tariffs that are set to go into effect after midnight tonight. In particular, investors are worried about the fallout from tariffs on China. The Trump administration confirmed today that tariffs on products imported from China will be set at 104% — by far the highest level of any country. The…

A Bitcoin user accidentally paid nearly 0.75 BTC in transaction fees, worth around $60,000, after making a panic-driven error on April 8, 2025. This mistake occurred when the user tried to use the replace-by-fee (RBF) feature to adjust an unconfirmed transaction. The user’s initial transaction featured a conservative fee, but after realizing the first transaction was unlikely to be processed in time, they attempted to replace it with a higher fee. However, in their rush, they ended up setting the fee much too high, leading to the overpayment. The second RBF transaction sent out a total of 0.75 BTC, which…