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CARACAS: Apartment buildings are reflected in the windows of another one in the middle class neighborhood of Los Palos Grandes in Caracas.-AFP
Cash is king in Venezuela real estate market
CARACAS: Apartment buildings are reflected in the windows of another one in the middle class neighborhood of Los Palos Grandes in Caracas.-AFPCARACAS: Gustavo Martinez has a stable job as an engineer at an oil company in Caracas, but he can only dream of buying an apartment because Venezuela's inflation, the highest in the world, has crippled real estate financing. With banks not offering loans, would-be homeowners are expected to pay for...
This file illustration photo shows the Apple app store logo reflected from an iPhone onto the back of an iMac in Los Angeles.-AFP
Apple takes app payment hit in Epic court fight
This file illustration photo shows the Apple app store logo reflected from an iPhone onto the back of an iMac in Los Angeles.-AFPSAN FRANCISCO: A US judge on Friday ordered Apple to loosen control over its App Store payment system, a blow to the global tech giant sparked by its anti-trust battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games.In a ruling with significant potential to alter the digital economy, Apple will no longer be allowed to force developers...
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's Lionel Messi (center) and Bolivia's Jairo Quinteros (right) vie for the ball during their South American qualification football match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires on Thursday. — AFP
South American players cleared to play for English clubs
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's Lionel Messi (center) and Bolivia's Jairo Quinteros (right) vie for the ball during their South American qualification football match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires on Thursday. — AFPPARIS: England-based South American players will be able to line up for their clubs in the weekend after their countries dropped complaints about their failure to report for international duty,...
NEW YORK: Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates after winning his 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's semifinal match against Germany's Alexander Zverev at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Friday. - AFP
Djokovic to play for Grand Slam against Medvedev in US Open final
NEW YORK: Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates after winning his 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's semifinal match against Germany's Alexander Zverev at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Friday. - AFPNEW YORK: Novak Djokovic will play Daniil Medvedev to try and complete the first men's singles calendar-year Grand Slam since 1969 after defeating Tokyo Olympic champion Alexander Zverev in Friday's US Open...
DOHA: Qatar's assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Al-Khater and FIFA President Gianni Infantino visit the Park View Villas, a Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup residence in Doha housing Afghan refugees, on September 4, 2021. -- AFP
Biennial World Cup proposal divides football world
DOHA: Qatar's assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Al-Khater and FIFA President Gianni Infantino visit the Park View Villas, a Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup residence in Doha housing Afghan refugees, on September 4, 2021. -- AFPLAUSANNE: FIFA risks plunging the world of football into a new conflict with its proposal to hold the World Cup every two years instead of four, raising the possibility of a divorce with leading clubs and the powerful European...
French actor Alain Delon arrives for the funeral ceremony for late French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo at the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris on Friday. - AFP
Alain Delon leads France's final farewell for Belmondo
French actor Alain Delon arrives for the funeral ceremony for late French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo at the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris on Friday. - AFPAn adoring French public gave actor Jean-Paul Belmondo a final farewell on Friday, with fellow film icon Alain Delon the most prominent of the celebrity funeral guests. Belmondo's burial in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church in Paris's Latin Quarter came a day after thousands turned out...
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Disney to debut rest of 2021 films in cinemas first
Disney announced Friday that all of its films slated for release by the end of the year will be exclusively screened in cinemas first, bringing relief to theaters anxious to reconnect with audiences after the coronavirus pandemic devastated their industry. The animated film "Encanto" will be released on the big screen on November 24 and will not appear on Disney's on-demand video platform until December 24, the company said in a statement.Other...
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Stocks stumble on inflation, growth worries
NEW YORK: US stocks dropped for the fourth straight day on Friday and European stocks mostly fell amid renewed fears about inflation and ebbing growth. Investor sentiment took a hit from news the UK economic recovery slowed sharply in July, growing by just 0.1 percent as rising COVID cases and supply shortages offset the end of lockdown curbs.In the United States, government data showed producer price inflation (PPI) over the latest 12 months hit...
NAIROBI: People shop in Nairobi. Kenyaís economy shrank for the first time in three decades last year as the country was battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Kenya suffers huge job losses as COVID pummels economy
NAIROBI: People shop in Nairobi. Kenyaís economy shrank for the first time in three decades last year as the country was battered by the coronavirus pandemic.NAIROBI: Kenya's economy shrank for the first time in three decades last year as the country was battered by the coronavirus pandemic, and almost 740,000 people were thrown out of work, a new government survey said. Gross domestic product in the East African powerhouse dropped by 0.3...
Giorgio Carbone, co-founder of Mars Tapes poses in his shop in Manchester, north west England on September 4, 2021. - Tucked away in a corner of the top floor of an indoor market in Manchester, northwest England, lies the last shop in Britain dedicated to selling cassettes. (Photo by PAUL ELLIS / AFP)
UK's last cassette shop reels in nostalgic music lovers
Tucked away in a corner of the top floor of an indoor market in Manchester, northwest England, is the last shop in Britain dedicated to selling cassettes. Mars Tapes crams around 1,000 cassettes, a Coca-Cola radio, boom boxes, vintage editions of the Walkman cassette player and other tape-related accessories in a compact retail unit smaller than one of the city's tram carriages.Hits by stars including Elvis Presley, Florence and the Machine, and...
A picture taken on Sept 2, 2021 shows a work of Brazilian artist Jaider Esbell during the press day ahead of the opening of the 34th Biennale of Sao Paulo at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo. — AFP photos
Sao Paulo art fest gives voice to resistance in times of darkness
A picture taken on Sept 2, 2021 shows a work of Brazilian artist Jaider Esbell during the press day ahead of the opening of the 34th Biennale of Sao Paulo at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo. — AFP photosA meteorite salvaged from a 2018 fire at Rio de Janeiro's National Museum symbolizes resistance to the destruction of culture in times of darkness - a spirit at the heart of this year's Sao Paulo Biennial of Contemporary Art. Marking its 70th...
SAN PEDRO, US: In this file photo, container trucks make their way past stacked containers at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California. —AFP
US trade gap falls as demand surge ebbs
SAN PEDRO, US: In this file photo, container trucks make their way past stacked containers at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California. —AFPWASHINGTON: The US trade deficit fell in July for the first time in three months, the Commerce Department said yesterday, as the vaccine-fueled surge in American consumer demand ebbed and exports picked up. The trade deficit was $70.1 billion in July, according to the report, 4.3 percent lower than...
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KUWAIT: A voter casts his ballot in the Municipal Council by-elections on May 18, 2024.
Kuwait holds municipal by-elections
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People walk past a housing complex under construction in Beijing on May 17, 2024. -- AFP
China offers to buy up commercial real estate to boost market
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GAZA: A man pushes a wheelchair filled with belongings past garbage piled up near tents set up by displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. - AFP
Rafah rocked by Zionist brutality