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Staff watch chef Saransh Goila (right) marinating chicken with spices in the kitchen of the Goila Butter Chicken restaurant in Mumbai. - AFP photosn
The young Indian chef taking the 'world's best butter chicken' global
Staff watch chef Saransh Goila (right) marinating chicken with spices in the kitchen of the Goila Butter Chicken restaurant in Mumbai. - AFP photosThe coal-fired tandoor oven sends a mouth-watering scent wafting through the Mumbai kitchen as celebrity chef Saransh Goila, maker of the world's "best butter chicken" according to MasterChef Australia, takes a break from COVID-19 relief efforts and resumes work. Although the pandemic has done little...
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Samuel L Jackson, Danny Glover among those to receive honorary Oscars
In this file photo US actor Samuel L. Jackson arrives for the premiere of Netflix's "Dolemite Is My Name" at Village Theatre in Westwood, California. - AFPActors Samuel L Jackson and Danny Glover, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann and actress-director Elaine May will receive honorary Oscars ahead of the main 2022 gala, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Jackson, May and Ullmann will be given honorary statuettes, while Glover will...
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Invasive Japanese seaweed threatens French Mediterranean coast
This picture taken in Marseille, southern France, shows an invasive algae "rugulopteryx okamurae" from Japan proliferating all along the calanques of Marseille. - AFPA potentially toxic seaweed originally found off Japan has colonized a stretch of the Mediterranean coast near Marseille that is home to one of France's most popular natural attractions. The green algae, rugulopteryx okamurae, poses a health risk because once it washes up on rocks...
KUWAIT: Two traditional ships displayed at the Kuwait Maritime Museum in Kuwait City. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
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KUWAIT: Two traditional ships displayed at the Kuwait Maritime Museum in Kuwait City. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh 
MOSCOW: Passengers sit in the subway, in Moscow yesterday amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP
Moscow posts record daily COVID deaths
MOSCOW: Passengers sit in the subway, in Moscow yesterday amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. - AFPMOSCOW: Moscow yesterday recorded the worst daily coronavirus death toll so far for a Russian city, as countries across the Asia-Pacific region extended or reimposed restrictions to tackle fresh waves of infections. The pandemic has now killed close to four million people across the world but vaccination drives have brought down infection numbers...
WELLINGTON, United States: Former US President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign-style rally in Wellington, Ohio, Saturday. - AFPn
With Ohio rally, Trump kicks off big MAGA campaign slog
WELLINGTON, United States: Former US President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign-style rally in Wellington, Ohio, Saturday. - AFPWELLINGTON: Donald Trump held his first big campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, giving a vintage, rambling speech Saturday to an adoring audience as he launched a series of appearances ahead of next year's midterm elections. The former president, who has been booted from social media platforms and...
MUNSHIGANJ, Bangladesh: People board a ferry as authorities ordered a new lockdown to contain the spread of the COVID-19 in Munshiganj, yesterday. - AFPn
Migrant workers flee Dhaka as Bangladesh tightens lockdown
MUNSHIGANJ, Bangladesh: People board a ferry as authorities ordered a new lockdown to contain the spread of the COVID-19 in Munshiganj, yesterday. - AFPSREENAGAR, Bangladesh: Tens of thousands of migrant workers fled Bangladesh's capital yesterday on the eve of a tightened lockdown that will curtail most economic activity and confine people to their homes as coronavirus infections soar. Restrictions on activities and movement have been in place...
BEIRUT: Demonstrators burn tires to block the Martyrs' Square in the center of Lebanon's capital Beirut as they protest against dire living conditions amidst the ongoing economic and political crisis. - AFPn
Lebanon protests leave nearly 20 wounded
BEIRUT: Demonstrators burn tires to block the Martyrs' Square in the center of Lebanon's capital Beirut as they protest against dire living conditions amidst the ongoing economic and political crisis. - AFPBEIRUT: Nearly twenty people were wounded in overnight scuffles in northern Lebanon between security forces and protesters angered by a spiraling economic crisis, a medical association said Sunday. The protests in the city of Tripoli came as...
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Woman charged over deadly Paris e-scooter accident
PARIS: Paris prosecutors have charged a young woman with aggravated manslaughter over the death of an Italian on the Seine river embankment in Paris earlier this month in a collision with an electronic scooter. The woman, who is a nurse, is suspected of driving the scooter that hit the 32-year-old Italian woman, said a source close to the investigation yesterday, asking not to be named.The incident revived debate over the safety risks in allowing...
LE TOUQUET, France: French President Emmanuel Macron talks with a friend as he arrives at a polling station in Le Touquet, for the second round of the French regional elections yesterday. - AFPnn
Macron, Le Pen face new test in French vote
LE TOUQUET, France: French President Emmanuel Macron talks with a friend as he arrives at a polling station in Le Touquet, for the second round of the French regional elections yesterday. - AFPPARIS: France was voting in the second round of regional elections yesterday Sunday after a first round that saw a drubbing for President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party, disappointment for Marine Le Pen's far-right and record low turnout. For some...
COPENHAGEN: A combination of file pictures shows Spain's forward Alvaro Morata (left) and Croatia's midfielder Luka Modric. - AFPnn
Spain's Euro rejuvenation put to the test by Modric's Croatia
COPENHAGEN: A combination of file pictures shows Spain's forward Alvaro Morata (left) and Croatia's midfielder Luka Modric. - AFPCOPENHAGEN: The good news for Spain came all at once, their five-goal rout of Slovakia on Wednesday steering them clear of an early exit and restoring hope they could even win Euro 2020. Luis Enrique said he would have taken any position in Group E as long as Spain got through and yet from desperation came elation, a...
AMSTERDAM: Denmark fans celebrate at the end of the UEFA Euro 2020 round of 16 football match between Wales and Denmark at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam on Saturday. - AFPnn
Dolberg and Danes begin to believe in Euro 2020 destiny
AMSTERDAM: Denmark fans celebrate at the end of the UEFA Euro 2020 round of 16 football match between Wales and Denmark at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam on Saturday. - AFPAMSTERDAM: Could a tournament that started so awfully end in unlikely glory for Denmark? That romantic notion is beginning to look like a genuine possibility after Kasper Hjulmand's team tore apart Wales 4-0 on Saturday to reach the quarter-finals of Euro 2020.Football...