Violin that played as Titanic sank sells for $1.5 million

LONDON: A violin that was being played as the Titanic went down was sold for 900,000 pounds at auction on Saturday, a record price for memorabilia from the doomed ocean liner.

Band leader Wallace Hartley played the instrument, trying to calm passengers as the ship slipped into the frozen waters of the North Atlantic in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

Hartley's band played the hymn "Nearer, My God, To Thee" as passengers climbed into lifeboats. Hartley and his seven fellow band members all died after choosing to play on. More than 1,500 people died.

TV Host Sanam Baloch Weds Abdullah Farhatullah

Sanam Baloch, a charming and popular Samaa TV’s morning show host, wedded her equally charming and handsome colleague Abdullah Farhatullah on Saturday.

The wedding ceremony was held in Karachi.

The ceremony was kept simple but gracious on the request of the couple, Sanam’s elder sister told Samaa TV.

Sanam Baloch, Pakistan’s famous celebrity, is the host of Samaa TV’s popular morning show ‘Subah Savery Samaa Ke Saath.’

'Transformers' Movie director attacked on set in Hong Kong

Hollywood director Michael Bay was attacked by a man wielding an air conditioning unit while shooting the latest “Transformers” film in Hong Kong, he said.

Police arrested two men in the early hours of Thursday after the attack on the “Armageddon” director, who was on the first day of location shooting in Hong Kong filming “Transformers: Age of Extinction”.

Bay recounted details of the incident on his website, while warning that “the story... being passed around is not all true!” A spokesman denied reports that the 48-year-old was injured in the assault.