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NEWCASTLE: A pedestrian passes a Newcastle United football club-themed mural in Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England on October 8, 2021. – AFPnn

Saudi-owned Newcastle begin bold bid for 'superpower' status

NEWCASTLE: A pedestrian passes a Newcastle United football club-themed mural in Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England on October 8, 2021. – AFPNEWCASTLE: A new era beckons for Newcastle today when a packed St James' Park will witness the Magpies' first match since a takeover led by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund took control of the club. Amanda Staveley, one of Newcastle's new directors, says the consortium's ambition is to turn the...

NIAMEY: Coach Aziz Ousseini Doka (left) is seen while he's training one of his student during a training session in the municipal stadium of Niamey on September 25, 2021. - AFPnn

Retired boxing champ works to inspire Niger street kids

NIAMEY: Coach Aziz Ousseini Doka (left) is seen while he's training one of his student during a training session in the municipal stadium of Niamey on September 25, 2021. - AFPNIAMEY: From the ringside, Niger's ex-heavyweight boxing champion Abdoul Aziz Ousseini, aka "Aziz", gives guidance to his young trainees at the boxing club in the capital Niamey. Some 10 youths drawn from the city streets pull on their gloves and warm up. Close by, other...

SYDNEY: Nature Strip (left), ridden by jockey James McDonald, takes a lead to win the Everest 2021 horse race at the Royal Randwick race course in Sydney yesterday. - AFPn

Nature Strip wins turf's biggest prize 'The Everest'

SYDNEY: Nature Strip (left), ridden by jockey James McDonald, takes a lead to win the Everest 2021 horse race at the Royal Randwick race course in Sydney yesterday. - AFPSYDNEY: Star sprinter Nature Strip, ridden by James McDonald, lived up to his billing as favorite to win the world's richest turf race, The Everest, in front of thousands of cheering punters in Sydney yesterday. The seven-year-old gelding, trained by Chris Waller, led all the...

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Zain showcased its 5G success story at Huawei's MBBF in Dubai

Al Gharabally showcasing Zain's 5G deployment success story at MBBF.KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, showcased its 5G deployment success story and the company's leadership as the first operator to commercially launch this revolutionary technology in the Kuwaiti market, as well as launching the region's largest 5G network in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The company participated in a keynote as part of the 12th edition of...

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Bitcoin tops $60,000 on US fund approval hopes

ISTANBUL: This illustration photograph shows a physical banknote and coin imitations of the Bitcoin crypto currency. – AFPNEW YORK: Bitcoin breached the $60,000 mark for the first time since April on growing optimism that American regulators will greenlight the first US futures exchange-traded fund for the cryptocurrency. The digital currency was up more than 40 percent from a month ago, reaching $62,253 at 2050 GMT, according to Bloomberg...

Italy's ITA takes to skies from the ashes of Alitalia

FIUMICINO: An Airbus A320 passenger airplane of new Italian airline company ITA, bearing the Alitalia livery after ITA retained Alitalia brand for 90 million euros, takes off from Rome’s Fiumicimo airport on October 15, 2021. – AFPMILAN: Italy's new national carrier ITA Airways took its debut flight Friday, closing a turbulent chapter that witnessed the decline of the country's storied but ill-fated Alitalia after 74 eventful years. ITA has...

This photograph shows artist Tran Thanh Thuc posing amidst her artworks made from fabrics in her home studio in Hanoi.—AFP photosn

'Just me and the fabric': Vietnam artist finds success with cloth creations

This photograph shows artist Tran Thanh Thuc posing amidst her artworks made from fabrics in her home studio in Hanoi.—AFP photosIn a hot and stuffy room in Hanoi, Tran Thanh Thuc holds up a delicate silk scarf and begins snipping it into tiny pieces, ready to paste onto her works of art. For four decades, Thuc has been recreating Vietnamese landscapes using vibrant shades of fabric cut from scarves, traditional ao dai (a long split tunic) --...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's clothes to go on sale in Mexico

Gabriel Garcia MarquezLovers of literature and fashion, take note: 400 articles of clothing and accessories from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's wardrobe will go on sale in Mexico next week, the family of the Nobel Prize-winning writer said Friday. Titled "The Wardrobe of Garcia Marquez," the event will mark the opening of a cultural center in Marquez's residence in southern Mexico where the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" lived and wrote for...

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Version of Banksy 'Girl with Balloon' sells for £3.1 million

In this file photo A gallery employee poses with an artwork entitled 'Girl and Balloon' (Diptych) by Banksy, during a photocall at Christie's auction house in central London.—AFPA version of Banksy's celebrated "Girl with Balloon", set on two canvasses, sold at auction on Friday for £3.1 million ($4.3 million, 3.7 million euros), a day after another of the artist's works fetched a record price. The 2005 diptych, which shows a small girl...

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Golden Globes to go ahead despite TV blackout over diversity row

The Golden Globes will go ahead despite NBC's decision not to broadcast the Hollywood award ceremony over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency, organizers said Friday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association-which votes on the Globes and has been under fire due to allegations of racism, sexism, bullying and corruption-said winners of the annual film and television awards will be announced on January 9.No details were given of...

In this file photo US actor Bill Cosby arrives at court in Norristown, Pennsylvania to face sentencing for sexual assault.—AFP n

Bill Cosby sued in New Jersey over alleged rape

In this file photo US actor Bill Cosby arrives at court in Norristown, Pennsylvania to face sentencing for sexual assault.—AFPAn actress has sued Bill Cosby alleging that the disgraced comedian drugged and raped her in New Jersey 31 years ago, US court documents show. Lili Bernard said Cosby lured her to the Trump Taj Mahal casino resort in Atlantic City around August 1990 on the pretext of meeting a producer he said could help advance her...

27-year-old Su Yeon Kim from South Korea, one of the finalists of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, performs during a rehearsal at the Warsaw Music University in Warsaw, Poland.—AFP photosn

Young pianists vie for glory in Poland's Chopin competition

27-year-old Su Yeon Kim from South Korea, one of the finalists of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, performs during a rehearsal at the Warsaw Music University in Warsaw, Poland.—AFP photosFor South Korean pianist Su Yeon Kim, the music of Frederic Chopin is a way of life and competing in the world's most prestigious event bearing the French-Polish composer's name is a dream come true. She says the first piece by the 19th-century...

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