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FOXBOROUGH: Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers waves to the crowd as he runs off the field after defeating the New England Patriots in the game at Gillette Stadium on Sunday in Foxborough, Massachusetts. - AFPn
Tom Brady makes NFL history
FOXBOROUGH: Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers waves to the crowd as he runs off the field after defeating the New England Patriots in the game at Gillette Stadium on Sunday in Foxborough, Massachusetts. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Tom Brady became the NFL's all-time leading passer and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squeezed past the Patriots 19-17 as New England's favorite son made an emotional return to Foxborough on Sunday night. Brady was facing his...
RENNES: Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe reacts during the French L1 football match between Rennais and PSG at the Roazhon Park in Rennes on Sunday. - AFPn
Mbappe says told PSG in July he wanted to leave
RENNES: Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe reacts during the French L1 football match between Rennais and PSG at the Roazhon Park in Rennes on Sunday. - AFPPARIS: Kylian Mbappe yesterday confirmed that he told Paris Saint-Germain in July he wanted to leave the club. "I said at the end of July that I wanted to leave," Mbappe said in an interview with RMC radio. "My position has been clear. I said I wanted to leave and I told them...
TURIN: In this file photo taken on March 10, 2020 A general view shows a boy cycling across a deserted area by the Juventus stadium in Turin. - AFPn
Euro kings Italy welcome big hitters to Nations League semis
TURIN: In this file photo taken on March 10, 2020 A general view shows a boy cycling across a deserted area by the Juventus stadium in Turin. - AFPMILAN: Italy face their first true test since winning Euro 2020 this week when Roberto Mancini's side host the Final Four of the Nations League with three of Europe's best ready to pounce. The Azzurri face Spain in the first semi-final tomorrow, with the San Siro awaiting a repeat of the Euro...
Global airlines are projected to lose money in 2021 and 2022, even because the business recovers from the worst of the pandemic.n
World airlines to lose $51.8bn in 2021, stay in red in 2022: IATA
Global airlines are projected to lose money in 2021 and 2022, even as the business recovers from the worst of the pandemic. BOSTON: Global airlines will lose an estimated $51.8 billion in 2021 and another $11.6 billion in 2022 in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an industry forecast released yesterday. The projections by trade group the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show a deeper fall than the prior forecast...
MANCHESTER, UK: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks on the second day of the annual Conservative Party Conference being held at the Manchester Central convention centre in Manchester, northwest England, yesterday.-AFPnn
UK military begins deliveries to ease fuel supply crisis
MANCHESTER, UK: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks on the second day of the annual Conservative Party Conference being held at the Manchester Central convention centre in Manchester, northwest England, yesterday.-AFPLONDON: The British military started delivering fuel to petrol stations yesterday, after a tanker driver shortage sparked two weeks of panic-buying by motorists and emptied pumps. Troops in camouflaged fatigues...
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Evergrande halts share trading in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Embattled property giant China Evergrande suspended trading in its shares in Hong Kong yesterday pending an announcement on a "major transaction", as the firm struggles in a sea of debt and faces a default. The halt came as reports said Hong Kong real estate firm Hopson Development Holdings planned to buy a 51 percent stake in Evergrande's property services arm as the troubled giant tries to offload assets to meet its obligations."At...
A woman carries a bucket along the beach as a new sea wall is constructed in Saint Louis.- AFP Photosn
Senegal's old capital on the frontline against rising sea
A woman carries a bucket along the beach as a new sea wall is constructed in Saint Louis.- AFP PhotosIn the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are ripping up the beach to lay giant blocks of basalt, in an eleventh-hour effort to keep the sea at bay. When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometers along the coastline of the West African country's former capital, famed for its colonial-era architecture. Dire...
Vendors sell flags during the celebration of 'Irreechaa', the Oromo people thanksgiving holiday, on the shore of a lake near the city of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on October 3, 2021. - AFP n
'Back to square zero': Ethiopia's Oromos rebuke Abiy at festival
Vendors sell flags during the celebration of 'Irreechaa', the Oromo people thanksgiving holiday, on the shore of a lake near the city of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on October 3, 2021. - AFPAt the first sound of gunfire, Lelise Abdissa leapt into a ditch for cover, only to be crushed by other panicked revelers as Ethiopian troops clashed with protesters during a religious festival five years ago. She awoke hours later in a hospital with a broken arm,...
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a baguette as he poses for a group picture during his visit to the International Catering, Hotel and Food Trade Fair (SIRHA - salon international de la restauration, de l'hotellerie et de l'alimentation) at the Eurexpo hall in Lyon. - AFP n
Paris baguette winner bakes up controversy
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a baguette as he poses for a group picture during his visit to the International Catering, Hotel and Food Trade Fair (SIRHA - salon international de la restauration, de l'hotellerie et de l'alimentation) at the Eurexpo hall in Lyon. - AFPThe Tunisia-born baker who won the coveted annual award for the best baguette in Paris last week is at the centre of a fermenting controversy after claims he shared...
Members of a Jordanian medical team announce having performed a rare eight-hour operation to separate two Yemeni conjoined twins during a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman, on October 3, 2021. - AFP n
Jordan hospital performs rare operation to separate conjoined twins
Members of a Jordanian medical team announce having performed a rare eight-hour operation to separate two Yemeni conjoined twins during a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman, on October 3, 2021. - AFP photosA Jordanian hospital has successfully performed the country's first operation to separate conjoined twins, seven-month-old babies from Yemen, the chief surgeon announced Sunday. It was "a rare and delicate" procedure which is "a...
Canadian model Coco Rocha poses during a photocall at the opening of the exhibition ‘CineMode par Jean-Paul’ by French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier at the French Cinematheque in Paris. - AFP n
'I've always been a feminist': Gaultier becomes curator
Canadian model Coco Rocha poses during a photocall at the opening of the exhibition ‘CineMode par Jean-Paul’ by French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier at the French Cinematheque in Paris. - AFPHaving achieved pretty much everything there was to achieve in the fashion world, Jean Paul Gaultier is opening himself up to new horizons since retiring from the business last year. The former "enfant terrible" of French fashion has curated an...
People dance and listen to music with headphones during a silent disco event at sunset in a park of Johannesburg. – AFP n
Silent disco helps South Africans beat virus blues
People dance and listen to music with headphones during a silent disco event at sunset in a park of Johannesburg. – AFPWatching the sun go down on a warm spring day while listening to soundtracks playing on headphones, dozens of people on Sunday danced in a mountain top park in South Africa's economic capital of Johannesburg. It's a budding urban craze spawned by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown which shuttered night clubs in South Africa,...