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DOHA: Kuwait's forward and captain Bader al-Mutawa walks on the pitch with his captain's badge after the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup qualifier match between Bahrain and Kuwait at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, on Friday. - AFP n

Kuwait's Mutawa becomes world's most capped player

DOHA: Kuwait's forward and captain Bader Al-Mutawa walks on the pitch with his captain's badge after the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup qualifier match between Bahrain and Kuwait at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, on Friday. - AFPDOHA: Veteran Kuwaiti footballer Bader Al-Mutawa became the world's most capped international player when he ran out against Bahrain in an Arab Cup qualifier in Doha on Friday. Kuwait failed to qualify to the Arab tournament...

MILWAUKEE: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks goes up for a shot against Clint Capela #15 of the Atlanta Hawks during the second half in game two of the Eastern Conference Finals at Fiserv Forum on Friday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. - AFPn

Bucks dominate game two to even East final series

MILWAUKEE: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks goes up for a shot against Clint Capela #15 of the Atlanta Hawks during the second half in game two of the Eastern Conference Finals at Fiserv Forum on Friday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 points and Jrue Holiday delivered 22 as the third-seeded Milwaukee Bucks crushed the Atlanta Hawks 125-91 to level their Eastern Conference final series at...

LONDON: In this file photo taken on August 08, 2017 Qatar's Abdalelah Haroun reacts after coming third in the final of the men's 400m athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London. – AFPn

Qatari world 400m medalist Abdalelah Haroun dies aged 24

LONDON: In this file photo taken on August 08, 2017 Qatar's Abdalelah Haroun reacts after coming third in the final of the men's 400m athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London. – AFPDOHA: Qatari runner Abdalelah Haroun, who won a bronze medal at the 2017 world championships, died yesterday in a traffic incident, according to the Qatar Athletics Federation. He was 24. "Haroun died in a car accident in...

SPIELBERG: Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen crosses the finish line to take the first place and claim the pole position after the qualifying session at the Red Bull Ring race track in Spielberg, Austria, yesterday, ahead of the Formula One Styrian Grand Prix. – AFPnn

Red Bull's Verstappen takes pole position for Styrian GP

SPIELBERG: Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen crosses the finish line to take the first place and claim the pole position after the qualifying session at the Red Bull Ring race track in Spielberg, Austria, yesterday, ahead of the Formula One Styrian Grand Prix. – AFPSPIELBERG: World Championship leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull produced the quickest lap in qualifying yesterday to claim pole position for the Styrian Grand Prix. Mercedes'...

HERZOGENAURACH: Germany's midfielder Jamal Musiala and forward Thomas Mueller (right) attend an autograph-signing session with supporters after their training at the team base camp in Herzogenaurach yesterday during the UEFA EURO 2020 football competition. - AFPnn

Germany's Mueller declares himself fit for England showdown

HERZOGENAURACH: Germany's midfielder Jamal Musiala and forward Thomas Mueller (right) attend an autograph-signing session with supporters after their training at the team base camp in Herzogenaurach yesterday during the UEFA Euro 2020 football competition. - AFPHERZOGENAURACH: Germany forward Thomas Mueller insists his knee injury will not stop him facing England in Tuesday's blockbuster Euro 2020 last 16 clash at Wembley. "If I it was a...

Czech Republic's players take part in a training session on June 25, 2021 in Prague, during the UEFA EURO 2020 football competition. - AFP

Czechs miss training in Budapest over bizarre plane defect

Czech Republic's players take part in a training session on June 25, 2021 in Prague, during the UEFA Euro 2020 football competition. - AFPPRAGUE: A plane door defect involving an inflated evacuation slide stopped the Czech Republic on their way to a Euro 2020 knockout game against the Netherlands in Budapest, the team said yesterday. The Czechs, who qualified as the third best team in Group D, are facing Group C winners the Netherlands at the...

This photo shows model maker Maggie Chan of Toma Miniatures working at her studio in Hong Kong. — AFP photosn

Hong Kong artists revive city's bygone era with miniatures

This photo shows model maker Maggie Chan of Toma Miniatures working at her studio in Hong Kong. — AFP photosIn a packed metropolis where old buildings are frequently replaced by gleaming skyscrapers, two Hong Kong model makers are trying to preserve the city's architectural past-in painstakingly detailed miniature form. Stepping into Tony Lai and Maggie Chan's studio is like walking into a time machine, if that time machine also shrunk...

Romanian seasonal worker Constantin Anghel picks strawberries at Hugh Lowe Farms, near Maidstone, Kent. — AFP photosn

Strawberries are the only fruit for Wimbledon spectators

Romanian seasonal worker Constantin Anghel picks strawberries at Hugh Lowe Farms, near Maidstone, Kent. — AFP photosThe players who dominated Wimbledon over the past three decades may have changed, from Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf to Roger Federer and Serena Williams, but one feature has remained constant-the supplier of its trademark strawberries. Hugh Lowe Farms, situated near Maidstone in Kent, the county known as 'The Garden of England',...

WASHINGTON, DC: US President Joe Biden points to staff members from the South Lawn as he departs the White House Friday in Washington, DC. – AFPn

Business group urges Biden to lift travel ban on Europe

WASHINGTON, DC: US President Joe Biden points to staff members from the South Lawn as he departs the White House Friday in Washington, DC. – AFPWASHINGTON: The Biden administration is under pressure from a major business group and diplomats to scrap a travel ban on Europeans, as investment from the continent in the United States plunged by nearly a third last year. While countries in the European Union have reopened their borders to Americans...

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NZ suspends travel bubble with Australia

WELLINGTON: New Zealand announced a three-day suspension of its quarantine-free travel arrangement with Australia yesterday, with Wellington citing "multiple" outbreaks of COVID-19 in the neighboring country. The announcement comes as a two-week lockdown begins in Sydney to contain a rapidly spreading outbreak of the Delta coronavirus variant.More than 80 cases have been reported so far in Australia's largest city, while a handful of community...

TOKYO: A staff (left) guides shareholders to attend Toshiba annual general meeting of its shareholders in Tokyo Friday. – AFPn

Toshiba shareholders vote to oust board chair

TOKYO: A staff (left) guides shareholders to attend Toshiba annual general meeting of its shareholders in Tokyo Friday. – AFPTOKYO: Toshiba shareholders voted to oust the board's chairman on Friday, in the latest twist for the company after scandals and losses, and a rare victory for activist investors in corporate Japan. CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa said shareholders had voted down a bid to reappoint Osamu Nagayama and a member of the firm's audit...

A handout photo shows a reconstruction of Dragon Man in his habitat. - AFPn

'Dragon Man': Scientists say new human species is our closest ancestor

A handout photo shows a reconstruction of Dragon Man in his habitat. - AFPA skull preserved almost perfectly for more than 140,000 years in northeastern China represents a new species of ancient people more closely related to us than even Neanderthals-and could fundamentally alter our understanding of human evolution, scientists announced Friday. It belonged to a large-brained male in his 50s with deep set eyes and thick brow ridges.Though his...

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