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'Blizzard' hits SoftBank with loss on sinking investments
TOKYO: Pedestrians walk past a SoftBank mobile shop in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Japan's SoftBank Group yesterday suffered its first quarterly net loss in 18 months as a China tech crackdown and other investment losses hit its Vision Fund portfolio. The telecoms firm-turned-investment giant also announced a share buyback worth one trillion yen ($8.8 billion), reportedly under pressure from shareholders frustrated by its sinking stock...
Climate on track to devastate world's poorest economies
GLASGOW: An inflatable 'Big Baby', unveiled by the protest group 'Population Matters' to draw attention to increasing population numbers is pictured in Glasgow yesterday during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - AFPGLASGOW: The 65 most vulnerable nations will see GDP drop 20 percent on average by 2050 and 64 percent by 2100 if the world heats up 2.9 degrees Celsius, according to a report released Monday at the COP26 climate talks in...
Australia vows to sell coal 'for decades'
SYDNEY: People wear caricatures of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce (right) during a rally as part of a global day of action on climate change in Sydney as world leaders attend the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. - AFPSYDNEY: Australia said yesterday it will sell coal for "decades into the future" after spurning a pact to phase out the polluting fossil fuel to halt...
Huawei shares how to tackle climate change with technology innovation at COP26
Dr Fang Liangzhou, vice president and CMO of Huawei Digital Power, speaking at COP26KUWAIT: Dr Fang Liangzhou, vice president and CMO of Huawei Digital Power, recently spoke at COP26. At the session "System Change and Climate Innovation in the Technology Industry" hosted by the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, Fang virtually delivered a keynote address on "Building a Low-Carbon Smart Society." Fang described how Huawei Digital Power integrates...
Xavi unveiled as Barcelona coach to fans at Camp Nou
BARCELONA: Newly-appointed FC Barcelona's Spanish coach Xavi Hernandez (right), flanked by FC Barcelona's Spanish president Joan Laporta, poses with his jersey during the presentation ceremony at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona yesterday. - AFPMADRID: Xavi Hernandez was unveiled as Barcelona's new coach yesterday as thousands of fans welcomed the debt-ridden club's legendary former midfielder back to Camp Nou. Xavi walked out to chants of...
Djokovic wraps up year's end world number one spot
PARIS: Serbia's Novak Djokovic poses with the trophy after winning the ATP Paris Masters at The AccorHotels Arena in Paris on Sunday. – AFPPARIS: Novak Djokovic has wrapped up the end-of-year number one ranking after winning the Paris Masters tournament. The Serb, who won three of the year's four Grand Slam tournaments, finishes the year top for the seventh time, overtaking Pete Sampras who achieved the feat six times. Djokovic is more than...
'Far superior' Verstappen outpaces Hamilton to win Mexico Grand Prix
MEXICO CITY: Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen (left) races ahead of Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton (right) and Red Bull's Mexican driver Sergio Perez during the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City on Sunday. – AFPMEXICO CITY: Max Verstappen cruised to victory at the Mexico Grand Prix on Sunday leaving defending champion Lewis Hamilton to admit the Red Bull car "is far superior"....
New York's in-person art auctions return with world's most expensive collection
A painting by Pablo Picasso entitled 'Mousquetaire à la pipe II' is displayed at Christie's auction house in New York.—AFP photosAfter more than a year, in-person auctions return to New York this week with the sale of the Macklowe collection-the world's most expensive to hit the market. At auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, the message is the same: the art market is thriving. With sales starting November 15 estimated to bring in more...
Chile's desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
Women search for used clothes amid tons discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile.—AFP photosA mountain of discarded clothing including Christmas sweaters and ski boots cuts a strange sight in Chile's Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion. The social impact of rampant consumerism in the clothing industry-such as child labor in factories or...
Rappers Travis Scott, Drake sued over deadly Texas concert crush
This combination of file pictures shows (left) US rapper Travis Scott arriving for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center and (right) US rapper Drake attending the Los Angeles premiere of the new HBO series “Euphoria”.—AFPRappers Travis Scott and Drake have been sued for having "incited mayhem" after eight people were killed and dozens injured in a crush during a Texas concert, the law firm confirmed on Sunday. Texas firm...
Film festival offers Tunisian inmates rare escape
For the first time, three prison inmates in Tunisia were allowed a brief taste of freedom for the sake of art. The prestigious Carthage Film Festival offered the prisoners the chance to briefly escape confinement-under police supervision-to help make a documentary about the festival. "To be free, even for a while-nothing is more beautiful," said one of the inmates, who gave his name as Nemss.The trio were chosen due to their "good behavior, but...
Marvel's 'Eternals' tops N America box office despite mixed reviews
Marvel's new superhero film "Eternals" took in an estimated $71 million this weekend to top the North American box office, a strong pandemic-era opening if a bit below expectations, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday. Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, fresh off her best-director Oscar win for "Nomadland," the film faced some of the worst reviews of any Marvel film-the only one to draw a "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes-but has...
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